{"id":42452,"date":"2023-02-06T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=42452"},"modified":"2023-01-26T10:26:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T16:26:57","slug":"no-romo-books-featuring-aromantic-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/no-romo-books-featuring-aromantic-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"No Romo – Books Featuring Aromantic Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So in the last year I finally read The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (see my love letter to Mackenzi Lee here<\/a><\/strong>). Aside from being an exciting adventure and a story of feminism and determination, it’s also a remarkable book because of the main character’s complete lack of interest in romantic relationships. She’s focused instead on her ambitions, her family, and her desire for true friends.<\/p>\n

What that captures (that most other books don’t) is something called ‘aromanticism’, which is the lack of romantic attraction to anyone. It’s not extremely common, but it does exist, and is often lumped in with asexuality, the lack of sexual attraction to anyone. For a nonfiction treatment of this broader topic, try the excellent book Ace<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>by Angela Chen.<\/p>\n

There are some really great books featuring asexuality, including Let’s Talk About Love<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, Tash Hearts Tolstoy<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, and Beyond the Black Door<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, but in all these cases the main character still experiences romantic attraction. For similar characters who don’t have romantic attractions and\/or don’t pursue romance, you’ll want to try these titles:<\/p>\n

Before I Let Go<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Marieke Nijkamp<\/p>\n

Tarnished Are The Stars<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Rosiee Thor<\/p>\n

Not Your Sidekick<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by C.B. Lee<\/p>\n

Summer Bird Blue<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Akemi Dawn Bowman<\/p>\n

Hazel’s Theory of Evolution<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Lisa Jenn Bigelow<\/p>\n

Also check out our Libguide of similar books: No Romo: Great Books Without Romance<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So in the last year I finally read The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (see my love letter to Mackenzi Lee here). Aside from being an exciting adventure and a story of feminism and determination, it’s also a remarkable book because of the main character’s complete lack of interest[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,5,1,8],"tags":[1835,5541,4494,2989,774,5424],"class_list":["post-42452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-read-a-likes","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-adventure-stories","tag-asexuality","tag-contemporary","tag-lgbtq","tag-science-fiction","tag-young-adult-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-b2I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42452"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46607,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42452\/revisions\/46607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}