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 Extraordinaries"
Star rating for The Extraordinaries
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Series:
Extraordinaries volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
"Nick Bell? Not extraordinary. But being the most popular fanfiction writer in the Extraordinaries fandom is a superpower, right? After a chance encounter with Shadow Star, Nova City's mightiest hero (and Nick's biggest crush), Nick sets out to make himself extraordinary. And he'll do it with or without the reluctant help of Seth Gray, Nick's best friend (and maybe the love of his life)."--
Book cover for "The gentleman's guide to vice and virtue"
Star rating for The gentleman's guide to vice and virtue
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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This book is a delightful mix of historical fiction and adventure, with a dash of fantasy thrown in. It features a bisexual disaster, his too-good-for-him best friend, and his oddball sister who gets her own story in the sequel. The character growth, the emotional development and payoff, in the midst of danger, and the complexity of the supporting cast make this novel too good to put down.
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Vowing to make his yearlong escapade across Europe his last hurrah before taking over the family estate, Henry "Monty" Montague and his best friend Percy find themselves in the middle of a dangerous manhunt involving pirates and highwaymen.
Book cover for "Going bicoastal"
Star rating for Going bicoastal
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Told in alternating timelines, Jewish seventeen-year-old Natalya spends one summer in New York with her dad, trying to muster the courage to talk to her girl crush, and the other in Los Angeles with her estranged mom, going for a guy she never saw coming.
Book cover for "Grasshopper jungle"
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Austin Szerba narrates the end of humanity as he and his best friend Robby accidentally unleash an army of giant, unstoppable bugs and uncover the secrets of a decades-old experiment gone terribly wrong.
Book cover for "Highly suspicious and unfairly cute"
Star rating for Highly suspicious and unfairly cute
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
Notes:
bi
Description:
"From the New York Times bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud story about a quirky content creator and a clean-cut athlete testing their abilities to survive the great outdoors--and each other. Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect. He's a star football player, manages his OCD well (enough), and comes out on top in all his classes . . . except the ones he shares with his ex-best friend, Celine. Celine Bangura is...
Book cover for "Imogen, obviously"
Star rating for Imogen, obviously
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Notes:
questioning / bi mc, sapphic li
Description:
"Imogen Scott may be hopelessly heterosexual, but shes got the Worlds Greatest Ally title locked down. She's never missed a Pride Alliance meeting. She knows more about queer media discourse than her very queer little sister. She even has two queer best friends. There's Gretchen, a fellow high school senior, who helps keep Imogen's biases in check. And then there's Lili--newly out and newly thriving with a cool new squad of queer college friends....
Book cover for "Let's call it a doomsday"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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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 "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...
Book cover for "Never ever getting back together"
Star rating for Never ever getting back together
Average Rating:
3.2 stars
Description:
"Eighteen-year-old Maya Bailey enters a reality dating competition to get revenge on her cheating, royal-adjacent ex-boyfriend, and she ends up falling for another girl on the show--in fact, the girl he cheated on her with"--
Book cover for "Perfect on Paper"
Star rating for Perfect on Paper
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:

"Perfectly wonderful." —Becky Albertalli, New York Times–bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
"An electrifying love story." —Booklist

FROM NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY-BESTSELLING AND INDIE NEXT PICK AUTHOR Sophie Gonzales comes Perfect on Paper:
Leah on the Offbeat meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before in this YA romcom, where a bisexual

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Book cover for "She drives me crazy"
Star rating for She drives me crazy
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
"After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, Irene Abraham, head cheerleader for the Fighting Reindeer. Irene is as mean as she is beautiful, so Scottie makes a point to keep her distance. When the accident sends Irene's car to the shop for weeks' worth of repairs and the girls are forced to carpool,...
Book cover for "You should see me in a crown"
Star rating for You should see me in a crown
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
Description:
Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...