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 "The infinite noise"
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Series:
Bright sessions volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Caleb Michaels is a sixteen-year-old champion running back. Other than that his life is pretty normal. But when Caleb starts experiencing mood swings that are out of the ordinary for even a teenager, his life moves beyond "typical." Caleb is an Atypical, an individual with enhanced abilities. Which sounds pretty cool except Caleb's ability is extreme empathy--he feels the emotions of everyone around him. Being an empath in high school would be hard...
Book cover for "Infinity son"
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Series:
Infinity cycle volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
"In a world where some people are born with powers and some people take them, brothers Emil and Brighton Rey get swept up in a supernatural turf war generations in the making"--
Book cover for "Jane, unlimited"
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Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
Recently orphaned Jane accepts an unexpected invitation from an old acquaintance to an island mansion where she will face five choices that could ultimately determine the course of her newly untethered life.
Book cover for "Keep this to yourself"
Star rating for Keep this to yourself
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
After high school graduation, Mac focuses on finding the serial killer who murdered his best friend the previous summer, while working through his own feelings for the deceased.
Book cover for "Labyrinth lost"
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Series:
Brooklyn brujas volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland, to get her family back.
Book cover for "The lady's guide to petticoats and piracy"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to achieve her dreams of becoming a doctor--even if she has to scheme her way across Europe to do it"--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "The last bookstore on Earth"
Star rating for The last bookstore on Earth
Average Rating:
1 stars
Description:
In a dystopian world devastated by The Storm, seventeen-year-old Liz finds refuge in her old bookstore, but when Maeve breaks in seeking shelter from another impending storm, the two confront their secrets and inner demons as they fight for their lives.
Book cover for "The last love song"
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Notes:
bi mc; sapphic mc's
Description:
"After graduating high school, Mia Peters isn't ready for goodbyes, especially to Britt. When Mia finds letters addressed to her from her estranged mother, she knows she's almost out of time before Britt leaves"--
Book cover for "Late to the party"
Star rating for Late to the party
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
Description:
"Seventeen is nothing like Codi Teller imagined. She's never crashed a party, never stayed out too late. She's never even been kissed. And it's not just because she's gay. So when her two best friends suggest crashing a party, Codi is highly skeptical. Those parties aren't for kids like them. They're for cool kids. Straight kids. But then Codi stumbles upon one of those cool kids, Ricky, kissing another boy in the dark, and an unexpected friendship...
Book cover for "Leah on the offbeat"
Star rating for Leah on the offbeat
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
In this book, we follow Simon's BFF Leah as she grapples with changing friendships, first love, and senior year angst.
Book cover for "Let's call it a doomsday"
Star rating for Let's call it a doomsday
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Ellis Kimball, sixteen, whose anxiety disorder causes her to prepare for the imminent end of the world, meets Hannah, who claims to know when it will happen.
Book cover for "Like a love story"
Star rating for Like a love story
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Notes:
This is a book about found family, first loves, and finding community. It paints a realistic, but not overly tragic, picture of late '80s queer life in New York City, the epicenter of the AIDS crisis in America. This historical fiction novel is a great entree for teens who want to understand queer history, especially LGBTQ+ teens who are trying to find roots and community.
Description:
The acclaimed author of "The Authentics" pens a big-hearted, epic love letter to the LGBTQ community about three friends falling in love and finding their voices as activists during the height of the AIDS crisis.
Book cover for "A line in the dark"
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Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
When Chinese American teenager Jess Wong's best friend Angie falls in love with a girl from the nearby boarding school, Jess expects heartbreak. But when everybody's secrets start to be revealed, the stakes quickly elevate from love or loneliness to life or death.
Book cover for "Little & Lion"
Star rating for Little & Lion
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
Description:
"Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her [stepbrother] Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons"--
Book cover for "Little thieves"
Star rating for Little thieves
Series:
Little thieves volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back--by stealing Gisele's life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess...
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Danny didn't know what she was looking for when she and her mother spread out a map of the United States and Danny put her finger down on Tempest, California. What she finds are the Grays: a group of friends who throw around terms like queer and witch like they're ordinary and everyday, though they feel like an earthquake to Danny. But Danny didn't just find the Grays. They cast a spell that calls her halfway across the country, because she has something...
Book cover for "The love & lies of Rukhsana Ali"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali is looking forward to going to Caltech and getting away from her conservative Muslim parents' expectation that she will marry, especially since she is in love with her girlfriend Ariana--but when her parents catch her kissing Ariana, they whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh and a world of tradition and arranged marriages, and she must find the courage to fight for the right to choose her own path.
Book cover for "The mermaid, the witch, and the sea"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"In a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial lady find a connection on the high seas. The pirate Florian, born Flora, has always done whatever it takes to survive--including sailing under false flag on the Dove as a marauder, thief, and worse. Lady Evelyn Hasegawa, a highborn Imperial daughter, is on board as well--accompanied by her own casket. But Evelyn's one-way voyage to...
Book cover for "Mismatched"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Seventeen-year-old Evan Horowitz learns the dangers of playing matchmaker in this modern graphic retelling of Jane Austen's Emma."--
Book cover for "Most ardently"
Star rating for Most ardently
Series:
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
trans mc, gay mc
Description:
"Oliver Bennet, trapped by societal expectations to live as female, discovers the possibility of love and freedom when he forms a connection with Darcy, but is faced with the choice of living a secure but inauthentic life or risking everything for true self-expression and love."--Provided by publisher.