We can’t go back to high school (thank god) but thankfully we have books for that!

~ Not Here To Be Liked

Eliza Quan wants to become the editor in chief of her school paper but her easy path gets complicated when Len DiMartile decides to run against her. She’s frustrated at this development but won’t back down without a fight. What starts with a little animosity turns into a huge feminist movement when Eliza’s secret essay counting her frustration ends up being not-so-secret, challenging both love and life.

A Quote to Convince You To Pick Up This Book – Because everyone loves a girlboss until she tries to tell you what to do.

~ This Time It’s Real

Eliza Lin’s essay has gone viral but here’s a catch – the viral essay about love, it’s all made up and now she must keep it a secret. Enters Caz Song, who helps her keep the secret under covers by fake dating her. But when the difference between what’s fake and what’s real seems too difficult to point, life shows her how messy but worth it love can be.

A Quote to Convince You To Pick Up This Book – I guess my point is that I do believe in love. Really, I’m just not convinced that kind of love could ever happen to me

~ I Hope This Doesn’t Find You

Sadie Wen is perfect but she has a secret. When tired or angry or frustrated, she writes hate emails, but never sends them to anyone. It’s just sitting in her drafts, a lot like a digital diary. But one day when her emails are out in the world, hurting everyone’s feelings, Sadie gets to working. In the midst of this chaos, she finds herself growing to like the only person she’s sworn to hate – Julius, aka the guy who’s recieved some of the worst letters written by her.

A Quote to Convince You To Pick Up This Book – For ten years I thought I was preparing to destroy you, when really I was preparing to love you.

~ TJ Powar Has Something To Prove

TJ Powar is a popular debater and never the one to back down. When a meme featuring her and her cousin goes viral, Powar decides to ditch her razors and wax to prove that she can be hairy and still be beautiful. However, this is not just a ten minute debate she can win, get the trophy, and go home. In this real life debate, she will take back seat and life will show her how debates can sometimes be never ending.

A Quote to Convince You To Pick Up This Book – You can’t spend your life being afraid no one will love you if you are yourself. If you cannot be yourself with someone, that is not love. That is settling.

~ Today Tonight Tomorrow

Rowan Roth and Neil McNair are what we call academic rivals, clashing everywhere possible. So when high school comes to end, giving them one last competition to participate in, they are fighting against each other as anyone would expect. However, when love enters the scene out of syllabus, will they back down and let love win?

A Quote to Convince You To Pick Up This Book – But if this were an essay, here’s the thesis statement: I’m in love with you, Rowan Roth.

~ Better Than The Movies

Liz Buxbaum wants her crush to notice her so badly that she’ll do anything. Even befriend the annoying next door neighbour who has only been a pain in her ass. Wes Bennet decides to help Liz but life seems to have different plans for these fools in love.

A Quote to Convince You To Pick Up This Book – “A girl will never forget the first boy she likes.” —He’s Just Not That into You “But she’ll also never forget the first boy she hates.” —Liz Buxbaum

~ Heartstopper

Charlie and Nick meet one fine day and quickly become friends. But life isn’t all that simple. Charlie is gay and Nick is, well straight, until he meets Charlie and realises that he’s not what he used to think he is. Figuring out life is tough as it is but it’s so much more confusing as a teenager, thankfully we always have friends around us and don’t have to know it all at once.

A Quote to Convince You To Pick Up This Book – I like Charlie Spring! In a romantic way not just a friend way!

~ The Sticky Note Manifesto of Aisha Agarwal

Aisha Agarwal is the perfect little girl, with one goal in her mind – Stanford, a college her Mom almost graduated from. But after the college essay challenges her and demands she get out of her comfort zone, and she gets inside a stranger’s car, her life starts blooming. A series of unfortunate events later, Aisha discovers what the real meaning of comfort zone is and what life is all about.

A Quote to Convince You To Pick Up This Book – I’ve always thought of our annual puja as a ritual to be hidden and Christmas as a holiday to be celebrated. But when I think about it, It’s strange to leave cookies out for a fictional old man too. I guess humans are universally strange.

~ The Distance Between Us

Caymen Meyers knows she shouldn’t trust the rich. When Xander Spence tries to charm her, she’s smart enough to know this won’t last. However, as she slowly starts letting him in, she discovers just how much wealth can affect their relationship.

A Quote to Convince You To Pick Up This Book – “I love you,” I whisper.
“What was that? I didn’t hear you.”
“Don’t push me.”
“I love you, too,” he says.

~ On The Fence

Charlotte Reynolds is better than every boy she knows but when it comes to being a girl, she fails at it miserably. Living with boys will do that to you. Faking her way through a new reality, Charlie finds comfort in her backyard, with Braden. But when she begins falling for him, it’s more than her heart that’s at risk.

A Quote to Convince You To Pick Up This Book – We can’t let boys define how we feel about ourselves. You have to know who you are before you should let any boy worth anything in.