Lollapalooza is just around the corner! It's time to start planning your schedule, outfits and which after-shows you will try to attend (hopefully with more luck than I had trying to see Chappell Roan). This book playlist matches the vibes and themes of some of this year's headliners to young adult books, ensuring the summer fun continues even after the festival!
Hozier's Unreal Unearth includes themes of human connection, love heartbreak, mythology, and mortality. If you like the album for those reasons, you'll love the book Medusa. In a retelling of the Greek myth, Medusa is exiled to an isolated island with her sister where she's destined to live out her life alone. One day a handsome boy named Perseus lands on their island and her lonely life is suddenly full of love, desire and betrayal like she's never known.
Fans of Stray Kids' Rock-star and other groups in the K-Pop genre, ASAP is for you. Sori's ex-boyfriend Nathaniel is one of the world's biggest K-Pop stars in the world, and she is forbidden from dating him. When he is entrenched in scandal, she offers him a hideaway that puts them in close quarters. Sori has to grapple with the decision to follow her heart or her parents' expectations.
Megan Thee Stallion was a recent exciting addition to this year's lineup. Fans of her unapologetic and empowering album Traumazine will enjoy On the Come up. Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to honor her father and make it as an underground hip-hop artist under the name Lil Law. She pours all her anger and frustration into a song that becomes an overnight viral sensation and puts her in the middle of a controversy. Now she must defend herself and her music as she follows her dreams to "make it."
Who are you most excited to see at this year's Lollapalooza?
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