*INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER* *INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER* Casey McQuiston's beloved #1 New York Times bestselling romantic comedy, now in paperback with an all new Shara-POV chapter! Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she’s spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and the puritanical administration of Willowgrove Christian Academy. The thing that’s kept her going: winning valedictorian. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principal’s perfect progeny. But a month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe and vanishes. On a furious hunt for answers, Chloe discovers she’s not the only one Shara kissed. There’s also Smith, Shara’s longtime quarterback sweetheart, and Rory, Shara’s bad boy neighbor with a crush. The three have nothing in common except Shara and the annoyingly cryptic notes she left behind, but together they must untangle Shara’s trail of clues and find her. It’ll be worth it, if Chloe can drag Shara back before graduation to beat her fair and square. Thrown into an unlikely alliance, chasing a ghost through parties, break-ins, puzzles, and secrets revealed on monogrammed stationery, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to this small town than she thought. And maybe―probably not, but maybe―more to Shara, too. Fierce, funny, and frank, Casey McQuiston's I Kissed Shara Wheeler is about breaking the rules, getting messy, and finding love in unexpected places. "An unfettered joy to read." - The New York Times "McQuiston has done it again." - USA Today "You won't want to miss." - Good Housekeeping Praise for I Kissed Shara Wheeler : *INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER* *INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER* A Stonewall Young Adult Honor Book A SIBA 2023 Southern Book Prize Finalist The #1 Spring 2022 Kids’ Indie Next Pick One of YALSA's 2023 Best Fiction for Young Adults A Rainbow Book List Pick One of Publishers Weekly' s Best Books of the Summer One of People Magazine' s Best Books of the Summer Good Housekeeping's May Book Club Pick Now & Gen's May Book Club Pick One of USA Today 's Best Rom Coms of 2022 One of Indigo's Best Teen Books of 2022 One of Publishers Weekly 's Best YA of 2022 One of BookPage' s Best YA of 2022 A Top Ten 2023 Texas Tayshas Reading List Pick A Most Anticipated Book of the Year for– Marie Claire * Parade * Seventeen * The Washington Post * The Nerd Daily * Buzzfeed * PopSugar * Book Riot * She Reads * Bookish * Bustle * Insider * Goodreads * Epic Reads * and more! “ I Kissed Shara Wheeler is an unfettered joy to read. It’s a love story starring two brilliant, ruthless queer girls who fight for what they want, and woe to any unjust authorities that stand in their way." - The New York Times "McQuiston has done it again… A YA novel with a swoon-worthy romance readers have come to expect from their first two triumphant works.” - USA Today (4/4 stars) "This one has it all: rivals who share a shocking kiss, a mysterious disappearance, an unexpected alliance and the kind of page-turning drama that makes McQuiston one of the best in the game. You won't want to miss this one." - Good Housekeeping "Casey McQuiston has become the go-to author for all-the-feels queer summer romance." - Entertainment Weekly, " 12 sizzling summer reads to heat up your beach days" "[A] charming queer romance...Like Dua Lipa once sang, one kiss is all it takes." - E! News "Funny and compassionate." - Time "An absolute must-read." - Book Riot , "10 Queer Romcoms That Will Make You Swoon" "Get me to a beach because I'm ready to pick this book up and not put it down." - Genevieve Padalecki " I Kissed Shara Wheeler is a love letter to all of us queer kids who were high schoolers in the ’90s. Especially those of us who lived in small towns and whose social scenes revolved around Friday night football games and church on Sunday. [An] unexpected mystery and love story all in one." - Bust "McQuiston says that love is indomitable, and when I’m lost in their worlds, I really believe it." - Autostraddle "Chosen family and LGBTQIA+ elders are given weight to the central romantic story lines in this thoughtful meditation on LGBTQIA+ identity, pride, popularity, academic success, jealousy, and idolization." - Booklist (starred review) " I Kissed Shara Wheeler assures readers that although hurt is real, love is complicated and friends can let you down, the world is wide and nothing is impossible." - BookPage (starred review) "Brimming with classic YA plotlines, crisp writing, humorous asides, and fully fleshed characters and relationships―many queer―keep things fresh, leading to a genuinely hopeful ending that centers themes of authenticity and autonomy. " - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "The most impressive accomplishment in McQuiston’s first YA book is compli