* For a Good Time, Call by Anne Tenino & EJ Russell Hello World by Tiffany Rose and Alexandra Tauber The Executive Office series by Tal Bauer Other books with ace-spectrum characters: * How To Be A Normal Person by TJ Klune

(*asterisk denotes a book I haven't personally read)īooks with an asexual relationship where sex wasn't required: (Self-published books are excluded from this list, in part for the reason I mentioned above. I've tried to include books, with a romance plot/subplot, in which either a POV protagonist or the POV protagonist's love interest is asexual. This is obviously not meant to be a completely comprehensive list, because I haven't read every book with an asexual leading character, nor am I always able to find out the details of ace rep in books. Every other romance that I've read/seen with an ace-spectrum character (as a leading character, not a minor character) was about a demisexual, gray-ace, or sex-positive asexual. I can count on one hand the number of books I've read/am aware of that featured an asexual who managed to find a happy romantic relationship where sex wasn't required.

I also feel like there's a misconception that among the tiny pool of asexual representation, sex-repulsed aces are well-represented, which is why there's often a push to represent demisexuals, gray-aces, and sex-positive asexuals. Personally, I don't feel like a completely sex-repulsed heteroromantic ace is 'more palatable' to a Straight person than a gay demisexual or gray-ace. I mean, maybe that's true vis-à-vis aro-aces-though, technically, any alloromantic ace is going to be 'more palatable to Straight people' than an aro-ace-but I don't know if that's really true in general. I saw someone on Twitter basically say that a certain character from a book, who was aro-ace only by Word of God, had been 'straightwashed' because 'cis heteroromantic aces are more palatable to Straight people.'

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