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Books like The Prince and the Dressmaker

Jen Wang · 2018 · US · graphic novel · young adult
★ 4.33 Hardcover · 345 ratings

In nineteenth-century Paris, Frances, a dressmaker with daring ideas, is hired by a secretive client who turns out to be Prince Sebastian, who wears her gowns at night as the glamorous Lady Crystallia while his parents look for his bride.

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12 books for readers of The Prince and the Dressmaker

Heartstopper: Volume One

Alice Oseman · 2018 · UK 94% match ★ 4.40 Goodreads · 937,316 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Heartstopper
shares: graphic novel, young adult, queer · easy read, plain prose

At an English boys' grammar school, shy Charlie Spring, who was outed the year before, is seated next to Nick Nelson, a cheerful rugby player, and the two become friends, though Charlie soon falls for Nick.

Boy Meets Boy

David Levithan · 2003 · US 94% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 76,712 ratings
shares: warm, young adult, queer, romance · easy read, hopeful

Paul, a sophomore in a town where the quarterback is also the homecoming queen and no one blinks at a gay teenager, meets Noah at a bookstore, falls for him at once, and then makes a mess of it.

A Lady for a Duke

Alexis Hall · 2022 · UK 94% match ★ 4.03 Goodreads · 18,283 ratings
shares: gender, queer, friendship, romance · easy read, warm

Presumed dead at Waterloo, Viola Caroll took the chance to live as herself, at the cost of everyone she loved, until she meets again her dearest friend, Justin de Vere, now Duke of Gracewood, who is wasting away in grief for her.

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Becky Albertalli · 2015 · US 93% match ★ 4.12 Goodreads · 474,868 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Creekwood
shares: young adult, queer, friendship · easy read, plain prose

Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier is not ready to come out, but when a classmate finds his emails to Blue, an anonymous boy at school he has fallen for, Simon is blackmailed into helping the classmate win over one of his friends.

Anna and the French Kiss

Stephanie Perkins · 2010 · US 92% match ★ 3.95 Goodreads · 467,787 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Anna and the French Kiss
shares: Paris, young adult, friendship · easy read, hopeful

Anna Oliphant is sent from Atlanta to spend her senior year at an American boarding school in Paris, where she knows no one and speaks no French, and where she meets Étienne St. Clair, who is charming, beautiful and taken.

The Well of Loneliness

Radclyffe Hall · 1928 · UK 88% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 20,654 ratings
shares: Paris, gender, queer · earnest, easy read

Stephen Gordon, named by a father who wanted a son, grows up at Morton Hall in Worcestershire knowing she loves women, and looks for a place for herself as a writer, an ambulance driver in the war and in the lesbian salons of Paris.

Annie on My Mind

Nancy Garden · 1982 · US 88% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 57,202 ratings
shares: young adult, queer, romance · easy read, earnest

Liza Winthrop, a senior at a private school in Brooklyn Heights, meets Annie Kenyon at the Metropolitan Museum, and the friendship that follows becomes a love neither of them has a name for at first.

Every Day

David Levithan · 2012 · US 87% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 246,878 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Every Day
shares: gender, identity, young adult · easy read, plain prose

A wakes up every morning in a different body, living one day of a different sixteen-year-old's life, and has learned not to get attached, until A falls for Rhiannon, the girlfriend of one of those bodies.

The Great Believers

Rebecca Makkai · 2018 · US 86% match ★ 4.29 Goodreads · 184,347 ratings
shares: Paris, queer, friendship · easy read, wrenching

In 1980s Chicago, art gallery director Yale Tishman watches the AIDS epidemic take his friends, and in 2015 Fiona, the sister of one of them, searches Paris for her estranged daughter.

The Summer I Turned Pretty

Jenny Han · 2009 · US 86% match ★ 3.73 Goodreads · 1,210,592 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Summer I Turned Pretty
shares: young adult, friendship, romance · easy read, earnest

Every summer Belly goes with her mother and brother to the beach house of her mother's best friend and her two sons, Conrad and Jeremiah, and the summer she turns sixteen, everything between them changes.

Cemetery Boys

Aiden Thomas · 2020 · US 86% match ★ 4.23 Goodreads · 113,278 ratings
shares: identity, young adult, queer, romance · easy read, warm

Yadriel, a trans boy from a family of brujos in East Los Angeles, performs the ritual to summon a ghost to prove he is a real brujo, and ends up with the wrong one: Julian Diaz, his school's resident bad boy, who will not leave until he finds out how he died.

They Both Die at the End

Adam Silvera · 2017 · US 86% match ★ 3.77 Hardcover · 893 ratings
shares: young adult, queer, friendship · easy read, earnest

In a New York where a service called Death-Cast phones people on the day they will die, Mateo and Rufus, two teenagers who get the call just after midnight, meet through an app called Last Friend and spend their last day together.