by Kelly Quindlen
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appears in Lesbian, LGBTQ, and Teen.
Seventeen is nothing like Codi Teller imagined.She?s never crashed a party, never stayed out too late. She?s never even been kissed. And it?s not just because she?s gay. It?s because she and her two best friends, Maritza and JaKory, spend more time in her basement watching Netflix than engaging with the outside world.So when Maritza and JaKory sugg...
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appears in Lesbian, LGBTQ, and Teen.
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Consider Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. Recommended by 3 sources.
“Sharp, intimate prose and a confined Paris setting produce a small, intense novel that tracks a young man's struggle between desire and social expectation. Its useful part is the sustained, inward pressure: long passages of reflection that make moral hesitation feel palpable and the prose often luminous. The main limitation is narrow scope—the plot is compact and frequently inward, so secondary figures stay sketchy and the mood can feel claustrophobic; readers seeking momentum or wider context may find it slow.”
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