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 hearts"
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"Everyone around Alvin seems to be obsessed with one thing--sex. Alvin finds it uncomfortable to think and talk about it and he knows he isn't ready. His friends, however, think that all Alvin needs is to hook up with the right guy, so they start a plan to set Alvin up with three different guys. First there's Allistair, a boy with strong ambitions. Second is Rowan, a trans boy. Third is Jesse, the popular heartbreaker. But the closer Alvin gets to...
Book cover for "Aetherbound"
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5 stars
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trans mc
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After escaping her abusive family's interstellar merchant ship, seventeen-year-old Pendt lands on a remote space station run by the Brannick twins, and together they make plans to thwart the destinies they never wanted.
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Golden boys volume 2.
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gay mc's
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After a summer of life changing, Gabriel, Reese, Sal, and Heath are finally ready for senior year, but as graduation nears and the boys prepare to enter the real world, it is clear their friendship will never be the same.
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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.
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2.7 stars
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A chance encounter sends runaway Bea on a journey through West Texas with Lou, who Bea must trust as she is driven to confront buried truths about loss and heartbreak.

7. Ash

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3.8 stars
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This fantastical, lesbian retelling of Cinderella is at once a heady romance and a coming-of-age story. Not only does Lo change up the love interest to be the prince's female huntress, she also substitutes the beloved fairy godmother for a tricky, untrustworthy fairy man. Readers interested in (fractured) fairy tales will love this Cinderella narrative turned on its head. It is a dark and enthralling look into how far a person may go to win love, and how great the cost may be.
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In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
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...
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"From Ryan La Sala, author of the tantalizingly twisted The Honeys and riotously imaginative Reverie, comes a chilling new contemporary fable about art, aesthetic obsession, and the gaze that peers back at us from behind our reflections."--
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 "Beyond the ruby veil"
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4 stars
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"After Emanuela Ragno kills the one person in Occhia who can create water, she must find a way to save her city from dying of thirst"--
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"When a teenage smuggler finds a bleeding mage aboard their truck of illegal artefacts, she'll be asked to take on the heist of a lifetime, infiltrate the headquarters of the magic-hating Huntsmen to retrieve the mage's imprisoned mother."--
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4.5 stars
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"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"--
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4.5 stars
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"Set in the haunted town of Blackwater, Maine, two boys fall for each other as they dig for clues to a paranormal mystery. Tony Price is a popular high school track star and occasional delinquent aching for his dad's attention and approval. Eli Hirsch is a quiet boy with a chronic autoimmune disorder that has ravaged his health and social life. What happens when these two become unlikely friends (and a whole lot more...) in the spooky town of Blackwater,...
Book cover for "Boyfriends with girlfriends"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
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When Lance begins to date Sergio, who's bisexual, he's not sure that it'll work out, and when his best friend Allie, who has a boyfriend, meets Sergio's lesbian friend, she has unexpected feelings which she struggles to understand.
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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gay mc
Book cover for "Brewed with love"
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Teen witch Sage teams up with her former best friend and first crush, Ximena, to prevent her family's apothecary from falling to the
Book cover for "Camila Núñez's year of disasters"
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"Cuban American Camila Núñez has always been afraid of the future. She's been working hard to keep her anxieties in check, but with so many new experiences--her first queer love, trouble with her dog walking job, her mother's judgments about her body, learning to drive, her father being too busy with work--there's just so much to worry about. So when Camila's best friend gives her a tarot card reading for her sixteenth birthday, she believes it...
Book cover for "Caught in a bad fauxmance"
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bi mc, pan li
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Devin Baez is ready for a relaxing winter break at Lake Andreas. That is, until he runs into his obnoxious next-door neighbors the Seo-Cookes, undefeated champions of the lake's annual Winter Games. In the hope of finally taking down these long-time rivals, the Baezes offer up their beloved cabin in a bet. Reckless? Definitely. So when annoyingly handsome Julian Seo-Cooke finds himself in need of a fake boyfriend, Devin sees an opportunity to get...
Book cover for "Color outside the lines"
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An anthology of short stories exploring interracial and other relationships, in which differences are front and center, but may or may not matter.