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 buried and the bound"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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bi mc, gay mc
Description:
"Seventeen-year-old Aziza El-Amin, the only hedgewitch in Blackthorn, Massachusetts, teams up with a cursed boy looking for answers and a young necromancer in order to eradicate a new threat in the woods and take back her hometown."--
Book cover for "Carry on"
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Series:
Simon Snow volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Notes:
bi mc, gay li
Description:
Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right. Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all...
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"Hana Ozawa is the newest face at the Gourmand Academy of Culinary Combat, a school that will teach her how to fight monsters and how to turn them into delicious meals. Hana is a natural but so are her classmates, and she struggles to keep up. Shes gotta stand out, especially if she wants to impress the warrior chef who saved her life as a child. Throw in a crush on a formidable lady rival and a dash of multicultural cuisine, and this unique and...
Book cover for "The deep dark"
Star rating for The deep dark
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
lesbian mc; trans li; trans sc
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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.
Book cover for "The devouring gray"
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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 "Don't let the forest in"
Star rating for Don't let the forest in
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Average Rating:
2 stars
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ace mc; achillean
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"Two teen boys attempt to stop terrifying creatures that seem to be coming to life from macabre drawings."--
Book cover for "The glass scientists"
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"Dr. Henry Jekyll believes mad scientists would do well to fix their public image, so he starts the Society for Arcane Sciences, but when a mysterious stranger aims to take the Society in a radical new direction, Jekyll's life starts to spiral out of control, threatening to expose his darkest secret."--
Book cover for "Hell followed with us"
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Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
"Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him--the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately...
Book cover for "I feed her to the beast and the beast is me"
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"Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood. The primordial power Laure gains promises influence and adoration, everything she's dreamed of and worked...
Book cover for "M is for monster"
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A scientist attempts to bring her younger sister back to life with unexpected results in this Frankenstein-inspired graphic novel about ghosts, identity, and family When Doctor Frances Ai's younger sister Maura died in a tragic accident six months ago, Frances swore she would bring her back to life. However, the creature that rises from the slab is clearly not Maura. This girl, who chooses the name M, doesn't remember anything about Maura's life and...
Book cover for "The memory eater"
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Seventeen-year-old Alana Harlow must save her town from a memory-devouring monster.
Book cover for "Mooncakes"
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
"Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothers bookshop, where she helps them loan out spell books and investigate any supernatural occurrences in their New England town. One fateful night, she follows reports of a white wolf into the woods, and she comes across the unexpected: her childhood crush, Tam Lang, battling a horse demon in the woods. As a werewolf, Tam has been wandering from place to place...
Book cover for "Old wounds"
Star rating for Old wounds
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trans mc
Description:
"Two transgender teens end up in a small, isolated town, where they must escape the locals who plan to sacrifice one of them to an ancient monster that only eats girls. A pulse-pounding thriller perfect for fans of Midsommar and Hell Followed with Us! Erin and Max are two transgender teens trying to get to California. Max is desperate to finally transition, and Erin is longing to understand why she's on this trip to begin with. The last she spoke...

14. Pet

Book cover for "Pet"
Star rating for Pet
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.
Book cover for "This monster wants to eat me"
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sapphic
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"Hinako, a high school student with a dark past, lives alone in a town by the sea. Haunted by a constant sensation of drowning, she can barely go through the motions of her tedious life...until the day a monster tries to eat her! After passing out in the struggle, she awakens to find she's been rescued by a beautiful mermaid. However, salvation comes at a cost--the mermaid's protection will last only until Hinako has matured into the perfect meal!...
Book cover for "To kill a shadow"
Star rating for To kill a shadow
Series:
Mistlands volume 1.
Description:
"Jude Maddox knows nothing of love or even light. He knows only his grim duty as the Hand of Death, to lead the Knights of the Eternal Star into a land filled with nightmares and certain demise. It's only when he sees her--a young woman with wild, amber eyes who's as fierce, defiant, and swift as the shadow beasts themselves--that he feels the warmth of life in his blood. The other Knights may fear their lethal commander, with his hard, merciless...
Book cover for "We mostly come out at night"
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queer anthology, various rep
Description:
"A YA anthology of short stories ranging in genres from horror to romance, featuring classic and original monsters and creatures, and highlighting authors from the LGBTQIA+ community, including Claire Kann, Kalynn Bayron, Jonathan Lenore Kastin, and H.E. Edgmon"--
Book cover for "The well"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Known to friends and family as Lizzy, she takes care of her grandfather and their goats, she flirts with the woman who helps row the ferry, and she stays away from the fog that comes in the night -- and the monsters hiding within it. But Lizzy's life comes apart when she steals a handful of coins from a sacred well to cover a debt. The well requires repayment, but it doesn't deal in coins. It needs wishes, and its minions will drown Lizzy in its...
Book cover for "What the woods took"
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After being enrolled in an experimental wilderness therapy program without their consent, a group of troubled teens must work together to escape the woods and survive the shapeshifting monsters lurking among them.