The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
Fiction
What it’s about: Stella’s a star at work, but her parents are starting to pressure her to get married. Because she’s on the autism spectrum, she finds relationships to be daunting. So she hires a male escort to help her practice romance and sex, and she falls in love with him.
Why you should read it: This book has had a lot of buzz this summer. It’s a fun, steamy romance in which two people who might never have met otherwise discover how much they have in common. The author discovered she herself was on the autism spectrum after her daughter was diagnosed.