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 "6 times we almost kissed (and one time we did)"
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4.5 stars
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bi mc's, sapphic
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Penny and Tate have often clashed, despite their mothers' epic friendship; but now that they are living in the same house, beset by medical crises and Penny's problems dealing with the trauma of her father's death, they have to come to terms with their true feelings for each other.
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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.
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"A gay teenager in 1990s Wyoming must contend with the violent loss of a loved one"--Provided by Publisher.
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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.
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 "Ashes to Asheville"
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3.7 stars
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This book will, as one reviewer put it, "make you feel hugged, and sucker-punched, and breathless all at once." This deeply emotional novel explores Fella's grief over not only losing her mom to cancer, but also losing her other mom and her sister in a custody battle that took her away from the family she knew and loved into her grandmother's home. What results is a wild, runaway adventure to scatter her mother's ashes and find a way back to a sense of home.
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Twelve-year-old Fella is swept away on a wild road trip by her older sister Zany to fulfill their late mother's dying wish.
Book cover for "The beauty that remains"
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3.6 stars
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Autumn, Shay, and Logan, whose lives intersect in complicated ways, each lose someone close to them and must work through their grief.
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gay mc
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"Reeling from a family tragedy, seventeen-year-old Mark finds his escape in a purple, sequenced, puff-sleeved princess dress, which becomes an unexcepted outlet for his grief as well as a path towards love and self-expression"--
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"Eighteen-year-old Rory Quinn-Morelli doesn't want to die; she wants refuge from reality for even a minute: the reality where she survived the car crash eight months ago, and her best friend, Liv, didn't. Yet her exasperating mother won't believe the Xanax incident was an accident, and her therapist is making it increasingly hard to maintain the detached, impenetrable "cold girl" façade she adopted from Liv. After she unintentionally reconnects...

10. Emmett

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Seventeen-year-old self-absorbed Emmett navigates love and relationships in this queer retelling of Emma.
Book cover for "The first to die at the end"
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Death-Cast volume Prequel.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
It's the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there's one question on everyone's mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he's going to die. He has a serious heart condition, and he signed up for Death-Cast so he could know what's coming. Valentino Prince is restarting his life in New York. He has a long and promising future ahead and he...
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queer mc; nonbinary li
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"Everything has felt wrong since Caleb's brother died, so when he sees a black cat that seems off, he doesn't think anything of it. But when he looks closer, the cat doesn't appear to have a clear face. It looks like it's been smudged out. And he keeps following Caleb around. Haunting him. So Caleb calls him Ghost. Caleb is trying to return to a normal life, but he can't stop feeling distant and numb. Even being assigned to work on a school project...
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"Everything happens for a reason. At least that's what everyone keeps telling Liam Cooper after his older brother Ethan is killed suddenly in a hit-and-run. Feeling more alone and isolated than ever, Liam has to not only learn to face the world without one of the people he loved the most, but also face the fading relationships of his two best friends in the process. Soon, Liam finds themself spending time with Ethan's best friend, Marcus, who might...
Book cover for "Girls like girls"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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lesbian mc, questioning li, sapphic
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"Seventeen-year-old Coley is still grieving her mother's death when she moves to rural Oregon and feels more alone than ever, but when she meets Sonya, Coley considers risking it all and opening up her heart to love again."--
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4.5 stars
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"Teenaged Quinn, an aspiring screenwriter, copes with his sister's death while his best friend forces him back out into the world to face his reality"--
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4.8 stars
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Sixteen-year-old Biz sees her father every day, though he died when she was seven. When he suddenly disappears, she tumbles into a disaster-land of grief and depression from which she must find her way back.
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Overachiver Chase struggles to confront the details surrounding the mysterious death of her best friend turned girlfriend, Lia.
Book cover for "I'll give you the sun"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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At thirteen, Jude and her twin brother, Noah, were incredibly close. At sixteen, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways. Then Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they...
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Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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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.
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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Rising high school senior Emily felt lucky until her mother's death, but now, with childhood friend Blake, she sets out to accomplish every exciting, scary, and intimidating task on her mother's bucket list.