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 "Don't let the forest in"
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3 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."--

22. Drama

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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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It's another one for the theater nerds, especially the techies! "Drama" is an immensely popular graphic novel that is cheerful and affirming and normalizes queer representation. It may be of particular interest to middle-schoolers who are experiencing the same drama and transitions as Telgemeier's characters.
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Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.
Book cover for "Drew Leclair gets a clue"
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4 stars
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When a cyberbully posts embarrassing rumors about other students at school, Drew, to protect her own secret, puts her sleuthing skills to good use to find the culprit, who just might be one of her closest friends.
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"In Prohibition-era Washington, three best friends investigate their beloved headmistress's murder as dark secrets and new feelings start to arise among them"--
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Seventeen-year-old Shade learns that friendship can be toxic after she joins the cheerleading team over her best friend's objections.
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Fat Angie volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Angie overeats to cope with the taunts of the ultra-mean girls, her attempted suicide in front of a packed gym, and the status of her captured war-hero sister, until KC Romance comes to town and sees Angie for who she really is.
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Thirteen-year-old Felix Yz chronicles the final month before an experimental procedure meant to separate him from the fourth-dimensional creature, Zyx, with whom he was accidentally fused as a young child.
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intersex mc
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"After her sister goes missing, Isla Soler re-enrolls at the opulent Alarie House, intent on finding out what happened to her"--
Book cover for "The forest demands its due"
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"When the murder of his classmate at an elite boarding school seems to go unnoticed, and the classmate suddenly forgotten, seventeen-year-old Douglas must confront centuries of secrets in the school's past and a vengeful creature in the forest surrounding the campus."--
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4 stars
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Told from three viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Brendan, a wrestler, struggles to come to terms with his place on the transgender spectrum while Vanessa, the girl he loves, and Angel, a transgender acquaintance, try to help.
Book cover for "The Grimrose girls"
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Grimrose girls volume 1.
Average Rating:
1.5 stars
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While investigating the apparent suicide of their best friend, four students at an elite boarding school uncover a series of past murders connected to ancient fairy tale curses, and they fear that their own fates are tied to the stories, dooming them to gruesome deaths unless they can forge their own paths.
Book cover for "Heartstopper"
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Heartstopper volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance. But Nick is struggling with feelings of his own, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high school, they come to understand the surprising and delightful ways in which love works."--
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Series:
Royals volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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An American girl goes to an exclusive Scottish boarding school where she becomes the roommate, best friend, and girlfriend of a royal princess.
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3.5 stars
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"Amber McCloud's dream is to become cheer captain at the end of the year, but after the football team's quarterback dies in an accident and is replaced by a girl, Amber knows she should work against this unliked Jaclyn to keep her cheer status but the two fall for each other"--Publisher's description.
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sapphic
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"Thirteen-year-old Tara skips eighth grade to go directly to high school and struggles with adjusting, until she meets her classmate Libby"--
Book cover for "How (not) to ask a boy to prom"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
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Nolan Grant is sixteen, gay, and very, very single. He's never had a boyfriend, or even been kissed. It's not like Penn Valley is exactly brimming with prospects. Nolan plans to ride out the rest of his junior year drawing narwhals, working at the greenhouse, and avoiding anything that involves an ounce of school spirit. Unfortunately for him, his adoptive big sister has other ideas. Ideas that involve too-tight pants, a baggie full of purple glitter,...
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Series:
Broken tower volume 1.
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While at school, teenage nonbinary Rat Evans, heir to a powerful magical bloodline, discovers secret portals no one else can see, and is pulled into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that leads them through the passages.
Book cover for "I kissed Shara Wheeler"
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4.3 stars
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After seventeen-year-olds Chole and Shara, Chole's rival for valedictorian, kiss, Shara vanishes leaving Chole and two boys, who are also enamored with Shara, to follow the trail of clues she left behind, but during the search, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to Shara and her small Alabama town than she thought.
Book cover for "I wish you all the best"
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4.5 stars
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After coming out as nonbinary, Ben must leave home and goes to live with a sister and her husband to finish the last year of high school.
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Seventeen-year-old Gael, a trans boy, learns to let his walls down while finding community, discovering his sexuality, falling in love, and navigating difficult family situations.