Black Love - Young Adult Fiction

Books from the young adult collection that highlight the spectrum of black love.

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Book cover for "Ain't burned all the bright"
Star rating for Ain't burned all the bright
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
"A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it means to not be able to breathe, and how the people and things you love most are actually the oxygen you most need"--
Book cover for "Blackout"
Star rating for Blackout
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Notes:
This is an anthology of short stories. MC rep: black gay male x black gay male
Description:
"Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark"--
Book cover for "Charming as a verb"
Star rating for Charming as a verb
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"Henri 'Halti' Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. He is a star debater and popular student at the prestigious FATE academy, the dutiful first-generation Haitian son, and the trusted dog walker for his wealthy New York City neighbors. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri's charms: his 'intense' classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy. When...
Book cover for "Clap when you land"
Star rating for Clap when you land
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Notes:
MC Rep: Afro-Dominican female, Afro-Dominican American lesbian female; Black wIw LI
Description:
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
Book cover for "Confessions of an alleged good girl"
Star rating for Confessions of an alleged good girl
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
As a preacher's daughter, Monique is expected to be an example at church although she hates its restrictive rules. When she discovers she physically cannot have sex, and after her boyfriend breaks up with her for that reason, two unexpected teens from church become her main supports as she desperately tries to break the rules against all the odds.
Book cover for "The Davenports"
Star rating for The Davenports
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in 1910 Chicago, and the two daughters, Olivia and Helen, are finding their way and finding love--even where they are not supposed to.
Book cover for "Excuse me while I ugly cry"
Star rating for Excuse me while I ugly cry
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"Quinn keeps lists of everything--from the days she's ugly cried, to 'Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud' and all the boys she'd like to kiss. Her lists keep her sane. By writing her fears on paper, she never has to face them in real life. That is, until her journal goes missing . . . Then an anonymous account posts one of her lists on Instagram for the whole school to see and blackmails her into facing seven of her greatest fears, or else her...
Book cover for "Felix ever after"
Star rating for Felix ever after
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Notes:
MC Rep: Black queer trans questioning demiboy; Black Bengali queer male LI
Description:
Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend.
Book cover for "Happily ever afters"
Star rating for Happily ever afters
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
"Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She's rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she's a true leading lady is in her own writing--in the swoony love stories she shares only with Caroline, her best friend and #1 devoted reader. When Tessa is accepted into the creative writing program of a prestigious art school, she's excited to finally let her stories...
Book cover for "If it makes you happy"
Star rating for If it makes you happy
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Notes:
MC Rep: fat Black polyamorous queer female with a severe gluten intolerance; the mc is also in a queer-platonic relationship with her (white?) female best friend who is aromantic and asexual; straight Black male romantic LI
Description:
"When Winnie is crowned Summer Queen in the small town of Misty Haven, she has to balance her new responsibilities with her friendships, a new romance, and her job at her granny's diner..."--
Book cover for "Love radio"
Star rating for Love radio
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Prince Jones, a self-professed teen love doctor known for his radio segment on the local hip-hop station, believes he can get the bookish, anti-romance Dani Ford to fall in love with him in three dates.
Book cover for "My week with him"
Star rating for My week with him
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Nikki can't wait to leave Texas and follow her dreams of a music career . . . After a painful betrayal by her sister and a heated argument with their mother, Nikki is kicked out and finds herself homeless. She decides to go to California to pursue her singing career. When her best friend, Malachai, discovers her plan to flee Texas, he begs her to spend the remainder of spring break with him. He believes that over the course of a week, he can convince...
Book cover for "Now that I've found you"
Star rating for Now that I've found you
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Following in the footsteps of her überfamous grandma, eighteen-year-old Evie Jones is poised to be Hollywood's next big star. That is until a close friend's betrayal leads to her being blacklisted. Fortunately, Evie knows just the thing to save her floundering career: a public appearance with America's most beloved actress--her grandma Gigi, aka the Evelyn Conaway. The only problem? Gigi is a recluse who's been out of the limelight for almost twenty...
Book cover for "One of the good ones"
Star rating for One of the good ones
Average Rating:
4 stars
Notes:
MC Rep: Black straight female; Black lesbian female; Black (straight?) female
Description:
"When teen social activist and history buff Kezi Smith is killed under mysterious circumstances after attending a social justice rally, her devastated sister Happi and their family are left reeling in the aftermath. As Kezi becomes another immortalized victim in the fight against police brutality, Happi begins to question the idealized way her sister is remembered. Perfect. Angelic. One of the good ones. Even as the phrase rings wrong in her mind--why...
Book cover for "One true loves"
Star rating for One true loves
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
While on a post-graduation Mediterranean cruise with her family, Lenore Bennett meets a hopeless romantic with a ten-year plan who helps her find something she's been looking for--love.
Book cover for "Opposite of always"
Star rating for Opposite of always
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
After falling for Kate, her unexpected death sends Jack back in time to the moment they first met, but he soon learns that his actions have consequences when someone else close to him dies.
Book cover for "Reggie and Delilah's year of falling"
Star rating for Reggie and Delilah's year of falling
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"From the NAACP Image Award-nominated author of Happily Ever Afters comes a dual POV rom-com about Reggie and Delilah, who fall in love through missed connections and chance meetings on holidays over the course of a year. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han, with crossover appeal for readers of Jasmine Guillory and Talia Hibbert romances. Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. She...
Book cover for "Rise to the sun"
Star rating for Rise to the sun
Average Rating:
4 stars
Notes:
MC Rep: Black bisexual female x Black lesbian female
Description:
Three days. Two girls. One life-changing music festival. Toni is reeling in the wake of the loss of her roadie father and desperate to figure out where her life will go from here -- so she's heading back to the festival that taught her to love music in a last ditch effort to rediscover her passion. Olivia is a hopeless romantic whose heart has just taken a beating (again), and is beginning to believe that someone like her may never find "the one"...

19. Swing

Book cover for "Swing"
Star rating for Swing
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Noah and his best friend Walt want to become cool, make the baseball team, and win over Sam, the girl Noah has loved for years. When Noah finds old love letters, Walt hatches a plan to woo Sam. But as Noah's love life and Walt's baseball career begin, the letters alter everything.
Book cover for "This wicked fate"
Star rating for This wicked fate
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"Briseis races to save her family even as she discovers more about their ties to ancient goddesses and deadly curses"--