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- Content warnings: Homophobia, Lesbiphobia, Religious bigotry, Bullying
Annie on My Mind
by Nancy Garden
The lesbian YA romance that got publicly burned in 1982 and still reads as tender, hopeful, and quietly radical - the book a generation of queer teens found themselves in first.
goodreads 4.02/5 56,592 ratings
storykind_community 5/5 1 rating
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Length234 pages
Story statusStandalone
Spice1/5 · Closed door / fade to black
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Forbidden love
- F/F
- Slow burn
- Low
- Closed door / fade to black
- Expanded empathy
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- Artist/musician
- Mutual pining
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- Earned hope
- Secretly soft
- Star-crossed
- First time / discovery
- Core memory unlocked
- Intellectual connection
- Tension / anticipation
- Beautiful grief
- Friends to lovers
- Longing glances
- Cathartic release
- Touch starvation
- Anticipation
Fantasy promise
- Ya contemporary
- Academy / campus
- Contemporary
- First love
- Secret relationship
Reading experience
- First person
- Medium
- Bittersweet
- Earnest
- Heavy
- Bookworm/scholar
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- Sapphic
- Romantic
- Introspective
- Artist/creative
- Queer
- Yearning
- Emotional
- Gay
- Reflective
- Hopeful
- Warm
- Star-crossed lovers
- Will make you cry
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Book details
- Length
- 234 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book