Category: Stand Alones
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson
I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren’t there. Summary You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided b... Read More
In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner
“You’ll never regret a decision more than the one you make out of fear. Fear tells you to make your life small. Fear tells you to think small. Fear tells you to be small-hearted. Fear seeks to pre... Read More
Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell and Katie Cotugno
“It’s like now that I’m looking for inequality, I’m seeing it everywhere, categorizing a thousand great and small unfairnesses everywhere I go. Why didn’t I really see this before?” Summar... Read More
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
“If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should sound much less pretty.” Summary You go through life thinking there’s so much yo... Read More
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
“A great doctor must have a huge heart and a distended aorta through which pumps a vast lake of compassion and human kindness.” Summary (From Goodreads) Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-... Read More
Piper Perish by Kayla Cagan
“I love painting. I love drawing. I’m never let down, even when the picture isn’t exactly what I want. I can keep working on it. Paintings speak back. They argue. But it’s just because they st... Read More
When We Collided by Emery Lord
“Even the constellations can see us now: we are seventeen and shattered and still dancing. We have messy, throbbing hearts, and we are stronger than anyone could ever know.” Summary Jonah never th... Read More
Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
“If you could read my mind, you wouldn’t be smiling.” Summary Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and ... Read More