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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4 stars
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bi mc
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Every generation, seven families select a champion to compete in a tournament to the death for control of high magick--the most powerful resource in the world--but this year, a salacious tell-all book draws reporters, tourists, and government agents to Ilvernath to watch the bloody curse unfold and some of the champions are determined to thwart their destinies and rewrite their stories.
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gay mc; bi mc
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Putting their trust in one another, two boys, Andrew and Jamie, search for civilization in a world ravaged by a deadly pathogen, but their secrets could cost them everything as they try to find the courage to fght for the future, together.
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4.9 stars
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When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
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A collection of fifteen horror stories centering on Black girls who battle monsters--both human and supernatural--face down death, and survive.
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sapphic
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Seventeen-year-old Devon, her twin sister, and her friends face a demonic force who seemingly follows horror movie tropes, propelling the group to flip the script and use their horror movie knowledge in order to survive.
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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.
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Happyhead volume 1.
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"Seb has been selected for a new experimental mental health center called HappyHead, designed to solve the national crisis of teenage unhappiness. There he and fellow participants will complete in a series of assessments meant to test them, so they can better face the challenges of the real world. Seb is determined to win so he can change how people see him and make his parents proud. But then Seb meets a mysterious participant named Finn who has...
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bi mc, pan mc; sapphic
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Two teen girls, Mara and Rory, navigate a complex web of love, infection, and survival as they reunite in an experimental resettlement program, grappling with their pasts and the looming threat of the virus that once transformed Mara into a monster.
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Scholarly and soft-spoken, seventeen-year-old Thea escapes from her mother's pirate ship and into the arms of a charming sailor whose betrayal forces Thea to reconsider her mother's lessons about surviving in a man's world.
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"In 2199, 17-year-old Jessica Mathers wakes up on a desolate, post-extinction planet 14 light years from Earth and must make sense of the bloody destruction around her, as well as the questionable intentions of a familiar stranger"--
Book cover for "The taking of Jake Livingston"
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3.8 stars
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"When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game"--
Book cover for "The temperature of me and you"
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3 stars
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"Sixteen-year-old Dylan Highmark thought his winter was going to be full of boring shifts at the Dairy Queen, until he finds himself in love with a boy who's literally too hot to handle."--
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!...
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"Two boys fall in love in a deadly world, but it's the secrets they keep that might kill them. Seventeen-year-old Zach was visiting his uncle in a small Montana town when a mysterious illness ripped through the world. Most died, but those who survived the Infection became mindless killers, spreading the disease with a single scratch. Now, a year later, civilization lies in ruins, and Zach is the town's sole survivor. Desperately lonely, he longs to...
Book cover for "War girls"
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War girls volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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In 2172, when much of the world is unlivable, sisters Onyii and Ify dream of escaping war-torn Nigeria and finding a better future together but are, instead, torn apart.
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In eighteenth century France, sixteen-year-old Joséphine and her best friend Clara use a mysterious beast conveniently blamed for the villagers' crimes to protect young girls from abusive men in power.
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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.
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"What starts as a simple rescue mission for a crew of teen aliens to recover one of their own soon becomes an interstellar encounter no one will forget. Captain Iona is organizing an impromptu retrieval for her brother, an undercover alien posing as a movie star. But her efforts go awry when a technical malfunction turns her heroic rescue into an unintentional invasion. With tales of disguised extraterrestrials stuck in theme parks, starship engineers...
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3.9 stars
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Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island.