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25 sapphic books + summary <3
1. She Gets the Girl - Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick
Alex and Molly don’t belong on the same planet, let alone the same college campus. But when Alex, fresh off a bad (but hopefully not permanent) breakup, discovers Molly’s hidden crush as their paths cross the night before classes start, they realize they might have a common interest after all.
2. Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo
Lily comes across an ad for the titular Telegraph Club in the newspaper and then discovers that one of her classmates, Kath, has been to the nightclub
3. The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon
Queen Sabran the Ninth's power in Inys is tenuous; she has yet to produce an heir to the throne and the Nameless One threatens to awaken again. Ead Duryan is an outsider from the South who acts as a lady-in-waiting and protector to Sabran, but is loyal to the secret mage society of the Priory, which has its own view of the history of Cleolind, the Mother, and Sir Galian, the Deceiver. Meanwhile, Lord Arteloth Beck, close friend of Sabran, is banished from Inys on a futile quest by those who seek to weaken the queen.
4. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
An old Hollywood actor Evelyn Hugo is determined to secure an A-List spot in the industry by doing whatever it takes to get there. While attempting to complete her rise to stardom, she marries seven husbands and outlives them all.
5. This is How You Lose The Time War - Max Gladstone
Red and Blue are change agents who work for rival time traveling agencies–Blue for the Garden, a vast organic consciousness. Red works for the Agency, a Technotopia. While traveling to different “strands” of history and time to change history, they start to write each other letters…
6. I Kissed Shara Wheeler - Casey McQuiston
High school senior Chloe Green seeks to uncover why Shara Wheeler, the most popular girl in school, vanished on prom night soon after kissing Chloe.
7. We Are Okay - Nina Lacour
Marin lost her mother when she was 3 in a surfing accident. Her grandfather raised her and she grew up near that same beach in San Francisco. After her grandfather dies, Marin leaves for New York without talking to anyone or retrieving any of their possessions from their house. For months, she refuses to respond to or contact anyone from California. When Mabel comes for a visit after 4 months of silence, it’s time for them to reconnect with each other again.
8. One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston
For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can’t imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And there’s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures. But then, there’s this gorgeous girl on the train.
9. The Falling in Love Montage - Ciara Smyth
A chance encounter at an end-of-term house party will change Saoirse's life in more ways than she could have ever imagined.
10. She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan
Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate.
11. Cinderella is Dead - Kalynn Bayron
Set in the town Mersailles, where every girl lives in fear of the day she is chosen by the King to attend the ball, it follows a girl who is determined to destroy the cruel rules she's been forced to follow called Sophia.
12. This Poison Heart - Kalynn Bayron
A teenager explores her magical connections to greenery and gods. Briseis Greene is a Black high schooler with magical powers that she hides from most people save her adoptive mothers, Thandie and Angie. She has an innate connection to plants and is even able to grow them from seeds using just her mind and hands.
13. Everything Leads to You - Nina Lacour
Finding an old letter written by a recently deceased movie star, Emi and Charlotte become swept up in the mystery of his life. The letter leads them to Ava, who lives in a shelter for teens. Emi is drawn to this talented and beautiful girl who could help Emi get over her ex-girlfriend and first true love.
14. Late to the Party - Kelly Quindlen
A girl who can capture someone's essence in a painting struggles with finding her own. Atlanta senior Codi and her friends, Maritza and JaKory, are restless and feel like they've missed out on the full teenage experience—living boldly and taking risks.
15. She Drives Me Crazy - Kelly Quindlen
After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer.
16. Something To Talk About - Meryl Wilsner
A showrunner and her assistant give the world something to talk about when they accidentally fuel a ridiculous rumor in this debut romance. Hollywood powerhouse Jo is photographed making her assistant Emma laugh on the red carpet, and just like that, the tabloids declare them a couple.
17. Who I Was With Her - Nita Tynda
17-year old Corinne her girlfriend, Maggie, suddenly dies in a car accident. But because both girls were still in the closet, nobody knew that they were in a relationship. We follow Corinne as she tries to deal with this loss while nobody knows what Maggie meant to her.
18. Sweet and Bitter Magic - Adrienne Tooley
A witch cursed to never love meets a girl hiding her own dangerous magic, and the two strike a dangerous bargain to save their queendom.
19. Crier’s War - Nina Varela
Ayla is a human servant of the Automae—a race of artificial humans that have become the ruling class. After her family is murdered by Automae, Ayla plans to kill the sovereign's daughter, Lady Crier.
20. Malice - Heather Walter
Alyce is a Grace, a group of magical girls who create potions and charms for all paying customers of the kingdom. But she is not like the other Graces. They call her the Dark Grace and she is feared for her dark magic. Princess Aurora is kind, gracious, and pure, and she is destined to be the future queen of Briar. When Alyce and Aurora meet, the unlikeliest of relationships begins to flourish.
21. Written in The Stars - Alexandria Bellefleur
After a disastrous blind date, Darcy Lowell is desperate to stop her well-meaning brother from playing matchmaker ever again. Love—and the inevitable heartbreak—is the last thing she wants. So she fibs and says her latest set up was a success. Darcy doesn’t expect her lie to bite her in the ass…
22. Mistakes Were Made - Meryl Wilsner
Cassie Klein and Erin Bennett meet at a bar and have a casual one-night stand. It's fine until the next morning when Cassie goes to breakfast with her best friend, Parker, only to realize they're meeting Parker's mom, Erin, the same Erin from the previous night.
23. Just Might Work - Katia Rose
As a self-proclaimed ‘cosmically guided matchmaker,’ she’s played every card in the deck trying to set Dane up with the perfect match she’s found. The problem? The ‘perfect’ match is Evangeline Hudson. Dane and Evangeline rent rooms in Dane’s eccentric aunt’s house, but that’s where their similarities end. Dane is a drifter who freewheels from one odd job to the next, and Evangeline is an overachieving undergrad with a ten year plan so detailed it reads like an autobiography.
24. Some Girls Do - Jennifer Dugan
Morgan, an elite track athlete, is forced to transfer high schools late in her senior year after it turns out being queer is against her private Catholic school's code of conduct. There, she meets Ruby, who has two hobbies: tinkering with her baby blue 1970 Ford Torino and competing in local beauty pageants, the latter to live out the dreams of her overbearing mother.
25. Read Between The Lines - Rachel Lacey
Rosie Taft is living her best life. She owns and operates her late mother’s independent bookstore in New York. Books are her life, and one of her true joys is finding just the right book for each of her patrons. She’s created quite a little community revolving around book clubs and author signings. The only thing missing from her life is a partner who will sweep her off her feet like the ones in the romance novels she loves reading.
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Isaacs reading list in Heartstopper
Season 1
Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
Naruto vol. 72 - Masashi Kishimoto
Quantum Mechanics - Leonard Susskind & Art Friedman
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson
Proud - Gareth Thomas
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Radio Silence - Alice Oseman
Gender Explorers - Juno Roche
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
There is no Planet B - Mike Berners-Lee
Season 2
Ace of Spades - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays - Oscar Wilde
Booklovers - Emily Henry
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We Are Okay - Nina Lacour
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Birthday - Meredith Russo
The Awakening - Kate Choppin
Crush - Richard Siken
Boy Erased - Garrard Conley
The Swimming Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
I Love This Part - Tillie Walden
We Have Always Been Here - Samra Habib
Summer Bird Blue - Akemi Dawn Bowman
Ace - Angela Chen
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BOOK REVIEW: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
This book was definitely something.
First I want to warn that this book may be triggering to some people, as it contains bits of (sexual) abuse and drug use.
The book was written in the perspective of an introverted and observant child named Charlie, who writes letters to his friend, which by ‘friend’ I think he means us readers. The whole book consists of letters written by the main character Charlie, where he writes about his high school experience as a freshman, his first love, first sexual experiences, loss, pain, and feeling isolated.
I am a big introvert, and reading this gave me a new kind of comfort. I relate to him on so many levels and it is just crazy to me how well he can describe certain feelings in this book, like how it feels like to have finally friends, and feeling infinite.
There is a small bit of queer representation by the side characters, but mostly angst, knowing that it takes place in the early 1990’s.
I haven’t watched the film yet, but I definitely would watch that movie.
So, I definitely recommend this book for introverts who sometimes thinks too much at once.
“We accept the love we think we deserve”
Rating:
Worldbuilding: 9/10
Characters: 8.9/10
Writing: 8.5/10
Plot: 7/10
Enjoyment: 8/10
overall: 8.2/10
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“He is half of my soul, as the poets say”
-Achilles, The Song of Achilles
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NEWS FOR ALL A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER FANS
It is official: BBC is developing a series based on the good girls guide to murder book series from Holly Jackson.
Holly Jackson: “I am beyond thrilled that A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder has found its perfect home with Moonage Pictures and the BBC. It is a privilege to be working alongside such a talented and creative team who are as invested in the characters and story as I am.
I can’t wait to introduce Pip and Ravi to a whole new audience, and to welcome back readers who have missed our partners in crime.”
With:
Emma Myers as Pippa Fitz-Amobi
Zain Iqbal as Ravi Singh
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My TBR list
The Perks of Being a Wallflower -Stephen Chbosky
The Fault in our Stars -John Green
Turtles All the Way Down -John Green
Dead Poets Society -Nancy H Kleinbaum
Girl in Pieces -Kathleen Glasgow
Circe -Madeline Miller
The Picture of Dorian Gray -Oscar Wilde
The Sun and the Star -Rick Riordan
The Collector -John Fowles
Ugly Love -Colleen Hoover
Reminders of Him -Colleen Hoover
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo -Taylor Jenkins
The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
A Single man -Christopher Isherwood
Things We Never Got Over - Lucy Score
Throttled (diai 1) - Lauren Asher
Collided (diai 2) - Lauren Asher
Wrecked (diai 3) - Lauren Asher
Redeemed (diai 4) - Lauren Asher
Seven Days in June - Tia Williams
Ex Talk - Rachel Lynn Solomon
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
The Cruel Prince (tfota 1) - Holly Black
The Wicked King (tfota 2) - Holly Black
The Queen of Nothing (tfota 3) - Holly Black
The King of Elfhame (tfota 4) - Holly Black
The Lost Sisters (tfota 5) - Holly Black
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
One of Us is Lying (oouil 1) - Karen M McManus
One of Us is Next (oouil 2) - Karen M McManus
One of Us is Back (oouil 3) - Karen M McManus
Two Can Keep a Secret - Karen M McManus
Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo
Six of Crows (soc 1) - Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom - (soc 2) - Leigh Bardugo
Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
Shatter Me - Tahereh Mafi
The Cousins - Karen M McManus
The Fine Print - Lauren Asher
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
She Gets the Girl - Rachael Lippincott
The Summer I Turned Pretty (tsitp 1) - Jenny Han
It’s Not Summer Without You (tsitp 2) - Jenny Han
We’ll Always Have Summer (tsitp 3) - Jenny Han
Something To Talk About - Meryl Wilsner
One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston
Mistakes Were Made - Meryl Wilsner
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BOOK REVIEW: The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon
I have never read a book from Samantha Shannon before, but it have been on my tbr list for AGES.
I am really proud that I finally finished this book, because I am not a fast reader, but this book took longer than it should have. I had a pretty hard time really getting in the story and understanding the different perspectives, and the last 100 pages were a bit tiring.
But, it is beautifully written. There’s a lot of effort and detail in this fictional world, with the different kingdoms and religions. The way that this story weaves its way through the book, with the different main characters crossing their paths, really fascinates me.
I also like that there are feminine warriors, knights and rulers in this story, as well as a good queer representation. I LOVE Sabran and Ead together, and also Niclays and Jannart, though they definitely deserved more ‘screentime’.
It’s nice that it doesn’t end with a huge cliffhanger, so you don’t necessarily need to read the second book.
So, I love the way this book is written, the worldbuilding is very good, but the story was a bit too long and complicated for me, as a slow reader. I do really recommend this book for everyone who loves queer fantasy.
Rating:
Worldbuilding: 9/10
Characters: 8.8/10
Writing: 9/10
Plot: 8/10
Enjoyment: 7.5/10
overall: 8.5/10
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About me :)
Name: Cecile
Age: 15y
Birthday: 17th of May (Taurus)
MBTI type: INFJ
Hobbies: watching movies, reading, writing, crocheting and going on walks.
FAVOURITES:
Color: coral pink, olive green and royal blue
Singer-songwriter: Girl in Red
Book: The Song of Achilles
Season: Summer or Autumn
Holiday: Christmas
Food: Sushi and Mexican food
Drink: Cherry Cola, Ice coffee and Tea
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