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Hot to Go: Pairing YA Books with Chappell Roan's Music

Check out this Chappell Roan inspired young adult booklist to enrich your listening experience. Each song is a perfect pairing for all the book loving Midwest princesses out there. Don't forget you can stream "The Rise and Fall Of The Midwest Princess" on hoopla!

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  • Song: FEMININOMENON High school students embark on a crash course of friendship, female empowerment, and women's health issues. Good friends help you go with the flow. Best friends help you start a revolution.
    Graphic NovelNew York : First Second, 2020 — KIDS GRAPHIC NOVEL GO WITH THE FLOW
  • Song: RED WINE SUPERNOVA In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned…
    BookMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017] — FICTION MACHADO
  • Song: AFTER MIDNIGHT Seventeen-year-old Deedee longs to escape the stifling world her Filipino mom has created since her husband died, so when Jay, the boy next door, offers to teach her to drive it seems like a way out—but both of them…
    BookLos Angeles : Hyperion, 2024 — YA FICTION OSONGCO
  • Song: COFFEE In four connected tales, lovers and family members take turns sitting in the chair that allows a person to travel back in time for only as long as it takes a single cup of coffee to cool.
    Book[Toronto, Ontario, Canada] : Hanover Square Press, 2020 — FICTION KAWAGUCHI
  • Song: CASUAL Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other…
    BookNew York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015] — YA FICTION MURPHY
  • Song: SUPER GRAPHIC ULTRA MODERN GIRL Based on the podcast of the same name and set in the fictional city of Fairhaven, follow the human Morgan as she grows her occasional recreational killing of Imps into a full-time job within her…
    Graphic NovelNew York : First Second, [2021] — GRAPHIC NOVEL MORRIS
  • Song: HOT TO GO! Alex Blackwood is really good at getting the girl she wants, but coming from a broken home with an alcoholic mother she finds commitment difficult, even when she thinks she is in love; impossibly awkward Molly Parker has a…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2022 — YA FICTION LIPPINCOTT
  • Song: MY KINK IS KARMA Almost a decade after Emmy Harlow fled small-town Thistle Grove with a broken heart, she returns home. Once a generation, the four magical families of Thistle Grove gather for a tournament to decide the strongest…
    BookNew York : Jove, 2021 — ROMANCE FICTION HARPER
  • Song: PICTURE YOU Tiffy and Leon share an apartment. Tiffy and Leon have never met. After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. Tiffy and Leon start writing each other notes — first about what day is garbage…
    BookNew York : Flatiron Books, 2019 — FICTION OLEARY
  • Song: KALEIDOSCOPE “Today, she hates him. Tonight, she puts up with him. Tomorrow…maybe she’s already fallen for him.” Throughout the years both Rowan and Neil have been at competition with one another on everything from who has the best…
    BookNew York : Simon Pulse, 2020 — YA FICTION SOLOMON
  • Song: PINK PONY CLUB A book about found family, Belén Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left…
    BookNew York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — YA FICTION IXTA
  • Song: NAKED IN MANHATTAN (this book has no nudity) Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she's pretty sure she's cursed — no one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with…
    Graphic NovelNew York : First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, 2024 — YA GRAPHIC NOVEL LUNAR NEW YEAR LOVE STORY
  • Song: CALIFORNIA Former best friends fake-date to further both their ambitions in this warm sapphic holiday romance. Arden James hasn't been in touch with her best friend Caroline Beckett since Arden left their Christmas-obsessed hometown…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2024 — YA FICTION LIPPINCOTT
  • Song: GUILTY PLEASURE Katarina Shaw has always known that she was destined to become an Olympic skater. When she meets Heath Rocha, a lonely kid stuck in the foster care system, their instant connection makes them a formidable duo on the…
    BookRandom House Inc 2025
  • Bonus Track: GOOD LUCK BABE! Katie Daniels is a perfection-seeking 28-year-old lawyer living the New York dream. She's engaged to charming art curator Paul Michael, has successfully made her way up the ladder at a multinational law firm,…
    BookNew York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2018] — FICTION PERRI