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Adriana's Book Club recommends books from Sumner's library to everyone!
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Adriana's Star Rating: 5/5
Genre: Coming of age stories, LGBTQIA+ Fiction
Series: One of two books in the Ari and Dante storyline!
Digital Maine Library Description: Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
First sentence of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe: "One summer night I fell asleep, hoping the world would be different when I woke."
Books Like Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas
Adriana's Star Rating: 4/5
Genre: LGBTQIA+ Fiction, Paranormal Fiction
Series: Stand alone novel
Digital Maine Library Description: Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.
First sentence of Cemetery Boys: "Yadriel wasn't technically trespassing because he'd lived in the cemetery his whole life."
Books like Cemetery Boys
Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury
The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
The Witch King by H.E Edgmon
Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao
Adriana's Star Rating: 5/5
Genre: Fantasy Fiction
Series: Stand alone novel
Digital Maine Library Description: After her sister is killed in an air battle versus aliens, young Zetian avenges her death and becomes an Iron Widow, a much-feared kind of female pilot.
First sentece of Iron Widow: "The Hunduns were coming"
Books like Iron Widow
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood
Hirohiko Araki
Adriana's Star Rating: 3/5
Genre: Action, Adventure, Supernatural fiction
Series: 131 volumes
Book Description: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a manga series by Hirohiko Araki. This multigenerational adventure about the Joestar family, is full of adventure, action and friendship.
First sentence of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood: "The blood of this fair maiden fills the many fine cracks in this stone mask."
Circe
Madeline Miller
Adriana's Star Rating: 4/5
Genre: Greek Mythology, Mythological Fiction
Series: Stand alone novel
Digital Maine Library Description: Follows the banished witch daughter of Titans as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
First sentence of Circe: “When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist.”
Books Like Circe
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Lore by Alexandra Bracken
Fruits Basket
Natsuki Takaya
Adriana's Star Rating: 5/5
Genre: Slice of life, romance, mythological fiction
Series: 23 volumes
Book Description: After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, plucky high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out.... into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan, and it isn't long before the owners discover her secret. But, as Tohru quickly finds out when the family offers to take her in, the Sohmas have a secret of their own--when touched by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac!
First sentence of Fruits Basket: "Let's get this party started."
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