LGBTQ YA Books

Young Adult books featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or trans, queer, questioning, asexual, nonbinary, genderfluid, genderqueer, pansexual, two spirit, demisexual, or other romantic and sexual orientations and gender identities. Not exhaustive or complete.

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Book cover for "Ace of spades"
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Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Notes:
bi mc; gay mc
Description:
At Niveus Private Academy, Devon and Chiamaka are the only students chosen to be Senior Prefects who are also black, which makes them targets for a series of anonymous texts revealing their secrets to the entire student body. Both students were on track toward valedictorian and bright college futures, but this prank quickly turns into a very dangerous game and they are at more than one disadvantage as it looks like things could turn deadly.
Book cover for "The alchemy of moonlight"
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Notes:
gay mc, gay li's
Description:
"Trapped in a world of straight expectations, queer marquis Emile longs for independence. So, when his aunt declares he must marry to produce an heir or be disowned, he runs away disguised as a servant until he can come of age and reclaim his inheritance. All Emile needs to do is keep his head down and bide his time, but he quickly stumbles into a mystery beyond his imagination. While working in the service of the intimidating Count Montoni and his...
Book cover for "All that it ever meant"
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agender / genderfluid sc
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Reeling from the death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Mati's family leaves England to visit their native Zimbabwe, where Mati finds comfort in Meticais, a gender-neutral spirit or ghost who only she can see, and who helps her navigate her mercurial interpersonal relationships and feelings of grief.
Book cover for "All the truth I can stand"
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"A gay teenager in 1990s Wyoming must contend with the violent loss of a loved one."--Provided by Publisher.
Book cover for "All the yellow suns"
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lesbian mc, sapphic
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Sixteen-year-old queer Indian American, Maya, who falls for her white, wealthy, and complicated female classmate, Juneau, is asked to join a secret society of artists, vandals, and mischief-makers who fight for justice at their school.
Book cover for "All these sunken souls"
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several queer stories
Description:
"We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren't sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele, Lovecraft Country, and Horror Noire will get a little bit of everything they love--and a lot of what they fear--through a twisted blend of horror lenses, from the thoughtful to the terrifying. From haunted,...
Book cover for "Alondra"
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bi mc
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From award-winning playwright Gina Femia comes a modern, raw coming-of-age story of friendship and romance about a bisexual teen girl and her friends wrestling their way through the summer. Sixteen-year-old Alonda loves professional wrestling. So when she meets a group of teens with aspirations of wrestling fame in her Coney Island neighborhood, she couldn't be happier. So as the ragtag team works to put on a show to remember, Alonda sheds her old...
Book cover for "Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe"
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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This is, honestly, one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. Ari is a bit of a loner with growing anger issues, trying to understand his place in the world. Dante is sure of himself and outgoing, even if he is an oddball. Their friendship (turned romance) is like two trees grafted together, growing into a more beautiful whole. This story is honest, vulnerable, and inspiring. I am moved to tears every time I read it. This is a book that makes you feel seen and, once seen, tenderly accepted.
Description:
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
Book cover for "As long as we're together"
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Sixteen-year-old Novah feels like her life has been put on hold, taking care of her four younger siblings while her older sister Ariana gets to play volleyball and hang out--but when their parents are killed in a car crash Ariana and Novah will have to learn to cooperate.
Book cover for "As the crow flies"
Star rating for As the crow flies
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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This is a coming-of-age story, beautifully rendered in colored pencil, about a black, queer girl trying to understand her connection to her faith at a feminist, Christian sleepaway camp. The ordeal is physically and emotionally grueling, as Charlie deals with awful counselors and oblivious cishet, white camp mates. Together with her new closeted trans friend, Charlie pushes back against the group's accepted norms and the insidiousness of White Feminism, and discovers herself among the sweeping vistas of the mountains.
Description:
A queer, black teenager finds herself stranded in a dangerous and unfamiliar place: an all-white Christian youth backpacking camp.
Book cover for "As you walk on by"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
After a disastrous promposal at a party, seventeen-year-old Theo has an existential crisis in an empty bedroom, but as the night progresses, various classmates also seek refuge from the party, and Theo finds he is not as alone as he thinks he is.
Book cover for "At the end of the River Styx"
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"Before he can be reborn, Zan has spent 499 years bound in a 500-year curse to process souls for the monstrous Ferryman--and if he fails he dies. In Portland, Bastian is grieving. He survived a car accident that took his mother and impulse-purchased a crumbling bookstore with the life insurance money. But in sleep, death's mark keeps dragging Bastian into Zan's office. It shouldn't be a problem to log his soul and forget he ever existed. But when...
Book cover for "The Avant-Guards"
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Avant-Guards volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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When Charlie transfers to the Georgia O'Keeffe College of Arts and Subtle Dramatics, she struggles to find her feet, but winds up exactly where she belongs...in the schools (terrible) basketball team. When Charlie transfers to the Georgia O'Keeffe College of Arts and Subtle Dramatics, she struggles to find her feet, but winds up exactly where she belongs...in the schools (terrible) basketball team.
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"Fourteen-year-old Azar Rossi sets out to find her voice and win her local Battle of the Bands contest"--
Book cover for "The ballad of Dinah Caldwell"
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"Dinah Caldwell has been filling her father's role since he abandoned their family four years ago. She and her grief-stricken mom run their subsistence farm deep in the Ozarks, making sure her younger brother never has to worry. Until the day Gabriel Gates, who owns everyone in Charlotte County, kills her mother to steal her family's well. Homeless, heartbroken, and alone, Dinah only has a single razor-sharp goal: revenge. And now that Gates has put...
Book cover for "Banned together"
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"A multi-genre, young adult anthology that spotlights the transformative power of books while equipping teens to fight for the freedom to read, featuring the voices of 15 diverse, award-winning authors and illustrators"--
Book cover for "Beetle & the Hollowbones"
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Beetle books volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Twelve-year-old goblin and witch-in-training Beetle enlists her former best friend, Kat Hollowbones, to help stop Kat's sorceress aunt from demolishing the mall where Beetle's friend Blob Ghost is trapped.
Book cover for "Being ace"
Star rating for Being ace
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
gay, sapphic, aro, ace, nonbinary, poly, bi, agender, aroace
Description:
"Discover the infinite realms of asexual love across sci-fi, fantasy, and contemporary stories. From a wheelchair user racing to save her kidnapped girlfriend and a little mermaid who loves her sisters more than suitors, to a slayer whose virgin blood keeps attracting monsters, the stories of this anthology are anything but conventional. Whether adventuring through space, outsmarting a vengeful water spirit, or surviving haunted cemeteries, no two...
Book cover for "Beyond the black door"
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"Everyone has a soul. Some are beautiful gardens, others are frightening dungeons. Soulwalkers--like Kamai and her mother--can journey into other people's souls while they sleep. But no matter where Kamai visits, she sees the black door. It follows her into every soul, and her mother has told her to never ever open it. When Kamai touches the door, it is warm and beating, like it has a pulse. When she puts her ear to it, she hears her own name whispered...
Book cover for "Bianca Torre is afraid of everything"
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"Nonbinary teen birder Bianca Torre must face their large list of fears to solve a murder they witnessed or they might be next"--