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 dangerous art of blending in"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
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 "Freakboy"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
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 "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 "The key to you and me"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Two very different girls navigate the bumpy road to love"--
Book cover for "Kiss number 8"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Mads is pretty happy with her life. She goes to church with her family, and minor league baseball games with her dad. She goofs off with her best friend Cat, and has thus far managed to avoid getting kissed by Adam, the boy next door. It's everything she hoped high school would be, until all of a sudden, it's not. Her dad is hiding something big--so big it could tear her family apart. And that's just the beginning of her problems: Mads is starting...
Book cover for "Let's talk about love"
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Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Notes:
This book is compassionate, engaging, and adorable. It delves into the differences between romantic and sexual attraction and explores some facets of the broad range of asexuality. It provides much-needed, quality representation for both bi and asexual people, and queer people of color.
Description:
In this young adult novel, Alice, afraid of explaining her asexuality, has given up on finding love until love finds her.
Book cover for "The many half-lived lives of Sam Sylvester"
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"Sam Sylvester is an 18-year-old white nonbinary autistic person who just moved with their dad to a small Oregon town after experiencing a hate crime in Montana that almost killed them. Sam, who was in foster care as a child, has never really felt a connection with anyone but their black adoptive father before, but as soon as they move to Astoria, things start to change. They meet other queer kids, like Shep, a brown Latina who's bisexual and who...
Book cover for "Ophelia after all"
Star rating for Ophelia after all
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Seventeen-year-old Ophelia Rojas, well known for her rose garden and her dramatic crushes on every boy in sight, begins to question her sexuality and sense of self when she starts to fall for cute, quiet Talia Sanchez in the weeks leading up to their high school prom and graduation.
Book cover for "A quick & easy guide to asexuality"
Star rating for A quick & easy guide to asexuality
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Asexuality is often called The Invisible Orientation. You don't learn about it in school, you don't hear "ace" on television. So, it's kinda hard to be ace in a society so steeped in sex that no one knows you exist. Too many young people grow up believing that their lack of sexual desire means they are broken - so writer Molly Muldoon and cartoonist Will Hernandez, both in the ace community, are here to shed light on society's misconceptions of asexuality...
Book cover for "Surrender your sons"
Star rating for Surrender your sons
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Connor Major and other queer teens trapped at a conversion therapy camp work together to escape--and expose the camp's horrible truths"--