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some aspec books coming out in 2024. netgalley, I am in your walls
#well not quite all of these are on NG. but the ones that are are not available in my country 😡#shall i reblog this and add specific details#dear wendy#don't let the forest in#fallen thorns#so let them burn#the loudest silence#asking for a friend#moth to a flame#the final curse of ophelia cray#asexual books#aroace books
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Dear Wendy, my debut young adult novel about two aromantic asexual college students giving love advice to their peers, releases on April 16, 2024!
Preorder: bit.ly/dearwendy
Preorder campaign (for the two art prints designed by maiahee_): bit.ly/dearwendypreorder
Events (including virtual and in-person): annzhao.com/events
Full description below the cut!
Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual college students, engage in an online feud while unknowingly becoming friends in real life, in this dual POV Young Adult contemporary debut from Ann Zhao
Sophie Chi is in her first year of college (though her parents wish she'd attend a “real” university rather than a liberal arts school) and has long accepted her aroace (aromantic and asexual) identity. She knows she’ll never fall in love, but she enjoys running an Instagram account that offers relationship advice to students at her school. No one except her roommate can know that she’s behind the incredibly popular “Dear Wendy” account.
When Joanna “Jo” Ephron (also a first-year aroace college student) created their “Sincerely Wanda” account, it wasn’t at all meant to take off or be taken seriously—not like Wendy’s. But now they might have a rivalry of sorts with Wendy’s account? Oops. As if Jo’s not busy enough having existential crises over gender identity, whether she’ll ever truly be loved, and the possibility of her few friends finding The One then forgetting her!
While tensions are rising online, Sophie and Jo grow closer in real life, especially once they realize their shared aroace identity and start a campus organization for other a-spec students. Will their friendship survive if they learn just who’s behind the Wendy and Wanda accounts?
Exploring a-spec identities, college life, and more, while perfect for fans of Alice Oseman’s Loveless, this is ultimately a love story about two people who are not—and will not—be in love!
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Happy (Upcoming) International Asexuality Day 2024!
April 6 marks International Asexuality Day, and we’re celebrating by championing books all over the ace spectrum. For even more recs, check past years’ International Asexuality Day/Ace Week posts!
To Read Now
Middle Grade
Just Lizzie by Karen Wilfrid
There’s the part of me that doesn’t understand kissing or cuteness or attraction, and then there’s the part of me that feels so lonely. How do I…
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#Ace#Ace-Spec#Ann Zhao#Asexual#Christine Calella#Dear Wendy#Demi#demisexual#Easy Does It#Ivy Fairbanks#Just Lizzie#K.M. Neuhold#Kamilah Cole#Karen Wilfrid#Morbidly Yours#So Let Them Burn#The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray#Upside Down
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Debut YA novelist, Wellesley College alum, fellow tumblrer and all around wonderful person @annzhao was here to sign more copies of DEAR WENDY for us. We were proud to be one of her pre-order stores.
“Reading Dear Wendy felt like sitting down with a friend you’ve known your whole life. Ann Zhao’s voice is so witty, warm, and effortlessly charming in this pitch-perfect coming-of-age story and love letter to friendship—I’m an instant fan.” —Ann Liang, author of If You Could See the Sun
#debut novel#ann zhao#ya#read ya#feiwel and friends#autographed copies#college students#rom com#aromantic#friendship#dear wendy
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Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao
Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an online feud while unknowingly becoming friends in real life, in this dual POV Young Adult contemporary debut from Ann Zhao
Sophie Chi is in her first year at Wellesley College (despite her parents' pleas that she attend a "real" university, rather than a liberal arts school) and has long accepted her aromantic and asexual (aroace) identities. She knows she'll never fall in love herself, but she enjoys running an Instagram account that offers relationship advice to students at Wellesley. No one except her roommate can know that she's behind the incredibly popular "Dear Wendy" account.
When Joanna "Jo" Ephron (also a first-year aroace student at Wellesley) created their "Sincerely Wanda" account, it wasn't at all meant to take off or be taken seriously-not like Wendy's. But now they might have a rivalry of sorts with Wendy's account? Oops. As if Jo's not busy enough having existential crises over gender, if she'll ever truly be loved, and whether her few friends will find The One and forget her!
While tensions are rising online, Sophie and Jo grow closer in real life, especially once they realize their shared aroace identity and start a campus organization for other a-spec students. Will their friendship survive if they learn just who's behind the Wendy and Wanda accounts?
Exploring a-spec identities, college life, and more, this platonic comedy, perfect for fans of Alice Osman's Loveless, is ultimately a love story about two people who are not-and will not-be in love!
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New Releases of April 2024!
I’ve been really excited for Dear Wendy for so long! Can’t wait for it to come out :) I have no clue how I’m going to find time to read everything coming out this month tho 😅
#book recs#dear wendy#Song of the six realms#Sheine lende#darker by four#The final curse of Ophelia cray#Court of wanderers#Saint-seducing gold#The forge & fracture saga#that self same metal#Reaper#silver under nightfall#elatsoe#Ann Zhao#Judy I. Lin#darcie little badger#june cl tan#Christine calella#Rin chupeco#Brittany N. Williams#new releases#The black girl survives in this one#Hearts still beating#brooke archer#Saraciea J. Fennell#Desiree S. Evans
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Young adult contemporary coming-of-age story (releases 4/16, I read an early copy from Netgalley)
Follows two first-year students at Wellesley College who run dueling anonymous advice columns and befriend each other in real life as they bonded over both being aroace, unaware of the other's internet identity
Platonic love story
Explores themes like aroace identity, finding community, being the queer child of immigrants, and trying to find your place in the world as a young adult looking towards the future
Love letter to platonic/familial love and finding community
Aromantic asexual Chinese American protagonist; aromantic asexual gender-questioning/nonbinary (she/they) protagonist; lots of QPOC side characters
#i got an arc of this and read in basically one day while on a road trip!#i found it very engaging/easy to read#the feud between the main characters is very petty but they're both still quite likable#sophie is very relatable to me as someone who until recently was also a type-a student at a liberal arts college#i think the characters balance each other out very well also#like sophie is very organized and jo is a bit more of a mess#but jo is also less confident in her identity#this talks a lot about aroace identity and i hope that will make a lot of people feel seen#personally i really loved seeing a college coming-of-age story about friendship#because the friendships i formed in college were personally wayyy more important to me than dating#so even though i don't identify as aroace part of me still felt very seen#(that and i knew a lot of aspec people in college)#their feud is kind of petty and terminally online but that's kind of the point in the end#okay i do have to say though#jo's music taste as a dj is SO basic#also this comped to loveless and the half of it so it did amuse me that those are name-dropped in the story#actually there are some aro/ace books that are mentioned though not by name#i think i caught a reference to elatsoe and another one to fire becomes her?#that was cute ngl#dear wendy#ann zhao#2023 reads#lulu speaks#lulu reads#lulu reads dear wendy#books
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EVERYONE GO READ DEAR WENDY I HAVE NEVER FELT SO INCREDIBLY SEEN
YESSSS
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I will not be "growing out" of being aroace.
dear wendy by ann zhao
#dear wendy#ann zhao#bookedit#yalitedit#aroace#i love this novel soooo much i finished it in one sitting then read it again today#i have never felt more seen reading a book#asian american aroace rep lets fucking gooo!!!!!#my edit
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aro & ace books with a university setting!
Ace of Hearts - m/f marriage of convenience romance, sex-repulsed ace MC
Dear Wendy - two aroace MCs, friendship/anonymous rivalry
Loveless - aroace coming-of-age/coming out
Is Love The Answer - aroace coming-of-age/coming out
Tears In The Water - identity questioning & sports romance, with an acespec MC, demi LI, and aroace side characater
The Society for Soulless Girls - witchy thriller, one MC is maybe ace/demi (though it doesn't really solidify if she is or not)
Let's Talk About Love - m/f romance with a biace MC
Create My Own Perfection - fantasy short story with an aroace MC
Fallen Thorns - paranormal coming of age with an aroace MC
#aspec books / aspec database
#aspec books#'university setting' in part. not necessarily like for the whole thing significantly#ace of hearts#loveless#is love the answer#fallen thorns#let's talks about love#dear wendy
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DEAR WENDY is out now!!!!!!! in hardcover! ebook! audiobook! paperback if you’re willing to wait 364 days! check it out if you’re interested in a book about aroace teens giving love advice
buy: bit.ly/dearwendy
events: annzhao.com/events
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Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week 2024!
Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! Running from February 18-24, 2024, this week we’re celebrating aromantic rep, so check out these titles! (Representation is included/highlighted with each title, where I know it.) As usual, all links are affiliate and earn a percentage of income for the site, so please use them if you can!
Please note this roundup only features titles that were not…
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#Ann Zhao#aroace#aromantic#Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week#Dear Wendy#demiromantic#Quinton Li#Tell Me How it Ends
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Ok promise not to laugh at me, but I started this book thinking it seemed great for people younger than me that were still trying to figure themselves out, and finished it thinking I might also be aromantic. I have NEVER resonated so much with a character before.
There is so much love and friendship and finding people who understand you, this is one of the best books I've read in a long while
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/111672538
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Joanna “Jo” Ephron from Dear Wendy is aromantic asexual!
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