Love ‘Heartstopper’? You’ll Love These Books, Too.

Break out the heart eyes and rugby kits: The much-anticipated third season of the gushingly earnest teen romantic dramedy “Heartstopper” arrives on Netflix on Oct. 3. The show, based on the best-selling graphic novel series by Alice Oseman, follows Nick Nelson, a golden retriever of a rugby player, and Charlie Spring, a sensitive drummer, who meet-cute one day in homeroom . They and their friends cover every stripe of the L.G.B.T.Q. rainbow . They’re also goofy and anxious and smart and exuberant, all of the things teenagers are as they discover love and attraction for the first time. The show deals frequently with difficult issues — bullying, eating disorders, gender dysphoria, housing insecurity — while also painting an effervescent picture of adolescence that, in a homage to the comics, is sprinkled with hearts and fireworks. Love in Three DimensionsAlice Oseman on bringing her viral webcomic, “Heartstopper,” to life. There are five volumes of “Heartstopper” — plus two spinoff novellas and a stand-alone novel, “Solitaire,” about Charlie’s prickly, fan-favorite older sister — available to read while you wait for a sixth book (and a potential fourth season). But if you’ve already blown through Oseman’s oeuvre and are craving more young adult love stories that grapple with darker themes, these books are for you. I’d like a grounded, heartfelt love story Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe By Benjamin Alire Sáenz When we first meet Aristotle Mendoza, he is 15, bored and miserable, staring down another summer in El Paso. Then he meets Dante Quintana, who teaches Ari how to swim at the community pool. Their friendship blooms from there, growing out of comic books, bus rides and heated debates about the literary merits of Joseph Conrad. Sáenz brings immense empathy to his depiction of Ari and Dante’s evolving relationship, and to the book’s exploration of issues such as Mexican American identity, PTSD, homophobia and transphobia in the late 1980s. As much as this is a love story, it’s also a story about the transformative kismet of finding your best friend. For more Dante and Ari, read “ […]

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