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 "Crown of feathers"
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4.6 stars
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Veronyka, sixteen, leaves her controlling sister and disguises herself as a boy to join a secret group of warriors who ride phoenixes into battle.
Book cover for "Cupid's revenge"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
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"Unlike her friend Teddy, sixteen-year-old Tilly is not looking for a girlfriend, but when Teddy forms a crush on Katherine Cooper-Bunting, his co-star in their community theater production, Tilly finds herself also swooning over her"--
Book cover for "Cut both ways"
Star rating for Cut both ways
Average Rating:
3 stars
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"Senior Will Caynes must face unsettling feelings for his best friend Angus after they share a drunken kiss, while also embarking on his first real relationship with sophomore Brandy--all as the burden of home-life troubles weigh heavily"--
Book cover for "The dangerous art of blending in"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Seventeen-year-old Evan Panos doesn't know where he fits in. His strict immigrant Greek mother refuses to see him as anything but a disappointment. His quiet, workaholic father is a staunch believer in avoiding any kind of conflict. And his best friend Henry has somehow become distractingly attractive over the summer... And yes, he kissed one guy over the summer. But it's Henry who's now proving to be irresistible. Henry, who suddenly seems interested...
Book cover for "Darius the Great is not okay"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
Book cover for "Dark and deepest red"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
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"Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Olivas feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fevers history...
Book cover for "A dark and hollow star"
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3.3 stars
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"A queer cast of characters-a half-fae teenager, a temperamental ex-Fury, a fae prince, and his brooding guardian-must track down a serial killer whose disturbing murders are threatening to expose the hidden faerie courts to the human world"--
Book cover for "The dark becomes her"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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bi mc
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When a ghost from the spirit world transforms her sister, Ruby Chen confronts the dark upheaval in Vancouver's Chinatown as she enters into an ancient battle over the gateway to the underworld as she attempts to save her sister and her community.
Book cover for "Dark heir"
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5 stars
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"A new threat from the past is rising, and only a handful of heroes remain to fight. Pursued by dark forces, Will and his allies must leave the safety of the Hall and travel to the heart of the ancient world, making new and dangerous alliances, and revealing the shocking secrets of the past. But Will is carrying a dark secret of his own--his true identity. Drawn to the beautiful and deadly James St. Clair, Will is pulled ever deeper into the web of...
Book cover for "The darkest part of the forest"
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4.4 stars
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In the town of Fairfold, where humans and fae exist side by side, a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives awakes after generations of sleep in a glass coffin in the woods, causing Hazel to be swept up in new love, shift her loyalties, feel the fresh sting of betrayal, and to make a secret sacrifice to the faerie king.
Book cover for "Darkhearts"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Seventeen-year-old David missed his shot at fame after quitting his band, while his former best friends, Chance and Eli, became pop stars, but when Eli commits suicide, David and Chance reconnect and trade their frenemy status for a confusing, tentative romance.
Book cover for "DC pride 2021"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"DC celebrates Pride with this ... collection starring fan-favorite LGBTQIA+ characters Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Midnighter, Extraño, Batwoman, Aqualad, Alan Scott, Obsidian, Future State Flash, Renee Montoya, Pied Piper, and many more. [Includes] a pinup gallery with art by Travis Moore, Kris Anka, Kevin Wada, Sophie Campbell, Nick Robles, and more--not to mention six ... new profiles of DCTV's LGBTQIA+ characters and the actors who play them"--...
Book cover for "The dead and the dark"
Star rating for The dead and the dark
Average Rating:
5 stars
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sapphic; bi li; gay sc's
Description:
When Logan, the adopted daugther of reality television ghosthunters, teams up with Ashley to search for missing teens in Snakebite, Oregon, they find themselves falling for each other as they uncover a hidden evil.
Book cover for "DeadEndia"
Star rating for DeadEndia
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DeadEndia volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
trans mc
Description:
Barney needs a job and a place to live. Luckily, he finds both in Dead End, a theme park haunted house! Unfortunately, Dead End also serves as a portal to hell. Along with his best friend Norma and talking dog Pugsley, he must battle demonic party poopers, undead country singers and scariest of all: his love life.
Book cover for "Deathless divide"
Star rating for Deathless divide
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Dread nation volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
"After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother. But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodemus has Jane questioning everything she thought she knew about surviving in 1880s America. What's more, this safe haven is not what it appears...
Book cover for "The deep dark"
Star rating for The deep dark
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
lesbian mc; trans li; trans sc
Description:
High school senior Magdalena Herrera has adult responsibilities and a deadly secret hidden in the dark of the basement, one that drains her of energy and leaves her bleeding--until the return of her childhood friend Nessa forces her to face her secrets.
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Series:
Sheets volume 2.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
"Marjorie Glatt's life hasn't been the same ever since she discovered a group of ghosts hiding in her family's laundromat. Wendell, who died young and now must wander Earth as a ghost with nothing more than a sheet for a body, soon became one of Marjorie's only friends. But when Marjorie finally gets accepted by the popular kids at school, she begins to worry that if anyone learns about her secret ghost friends, she'll be labeled as a freak who sees...
Book cover for "Desert echoes"
Star rating for Desert echoes
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Fifteen-year-old Kam is head over heels for Ash, the boy who swept him off his feet. But his family and best friend, Bodie, are worried. Something seems off about Ash. He also has a habit of disappearing, at times for days. When Ash asks Kam to join him on a trip to Joshua Tree, the two of them walk off into the sunset . . . but only Kam returns. Two years later, Kam is still left with a hole in his heart and too many unanswered questions. So it...
Book cover for "The devouring gray"
Star rating for The devouring gray
Series:
Devouring gray volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Four teenagers have the power to protect their town from a monster, but only if their families' secrets do not destroy them first.
Book cover for "The disasters"
Star rating for The disasters
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Nax and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots after the school is hijacked by terrorists, but in order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist.