Queer / LGBTQ Books I Have Read


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Book cover for "Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe"
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
Book cover for "Aristotle and Dante dive into the waters of the world"
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Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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"Aristotle and Dante continue their journey to manhood in this achingly romantic, tender tale set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s America. In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys fell in love. Now they must learn what it means to stay in love-and to build their relationship in a world that doesn't seem to want them to exist. In their senior year at two different schools, the boys find ways to spend...
Book cover for "Check, please!"
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Check please! volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Eric Bittle ('Bitty') may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It is nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia. First of all? There's checking (anything that hinders the player with possession of the puck, ranging from a stick check all the way to a physical sweep). And then there is Jack--his...
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Check please! volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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"Eric Bittle is heading into his junior year at Samwell University, and not only does he have new teammates - he has a brand new boyfriend! Bitty and Jack must navigate their new, secret, long-distance relationship, and decide how to reveal their relationship to friends and teammates. And on top of that, Bitty's time at Samwell is quickly coming to an end...It's two full hockey seasons packed with big wins and high stakes!"--Provided by publisher....
Book cover for "The darkest part of the forest"
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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In the town of Fairfold, where humans and fae exist side by side, a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives awakes after generations of sleep in a glass coffin in the woods, causing Hazel to be swept up in new love, shift her loyalties, feel the fresh sting of betrayal, and to make a secret sacrifice to the faerie king.
Book cover for "Felix ever after"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend.
Book cover for "The first to die at the end"
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Death-Cast volume Prequel.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
It's the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there's one question on everyone's mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he's going to die. He has a serious heart condition, and he signed up for Death-Cast so he could know what's coming. Valentino Prince is restarting his life in New York. He has a long and promising future ahead and he...
Book cover for "Here's to us"
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What if it's us volume 2.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera reunite to continue the story of Arthur and Ben, the boys readers first fell for in the [...] rom-com What If It's Us. Ben survived freshman year of college, but he's feeling more stuck than ever. His classes are a slog, his part-time job working with his father is even worse, and his best friend Dylan's been acting weird for weeks. Ben's only real bright spot is his writing partner Mario, who's been giving him a...
Book cover for "I kissed Shara Wheeler"
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Average Rating:
4.5 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 "Imogen, obviously"
Star rating for Imogen, obviously
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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 "In deeper waters"
Star rating for In deeper waters
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Sixteen-year-old Prince Tal is on his long-awaited coming-of-age tour when he meets the intriguing and roguish Athlen, and when he is kidnapped by pirates, Athlen is his only hope of escape.
Book cover for "The inexplicable logic of my life"
Star rating for The inexplicable logic of my life
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"A story set on the American border with Mexico, about family and friendship, life and death, and one teen struggling to understand what his adoption does and doesn't mean about who he is"--
Book cover for "The lady's guide to petticoats and piracy"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to achieve her dreams of becoming a doctor--even if she has to scheme her way across Europe to do it"--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "Leah on the offbeat"
Star rating for Leah on the offbeat
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
In this book, we follow Simon's BFF Leah as she grapples with changing friendships, first love, and senior year angst.
Book cover for "Love, Creekwood"
Star rating for Love, Creekwood
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"It's been more than a year since Simon and Blue turned their anonymous online flirtation into an IRL relationship, and just a few months since Abby and Leah's unforgettable night at senior prom. Now the Creekwood High crew are attending their first years at different colleges, navigating friendship and romance the way their story began, on email."--
Book cover for "Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
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Naomi and Ely are best friends. Naomi loves and is in love with Ely, and Ely loves Naomi, but prefers to be in love with boys. So they create their "No Kiss List" of people neither of them is allowed to kiss. And this works fine - until Bruce. Bruce is Naomi's boyfriend, so there's no reason to put him on the List. But Ely kissed Bruce even though he is boring. The result: a rift of universal proportions and the potential...
Book cover for "The perks of being a wallflower"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie is navigating through the strange worlds of love, drugs, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," and dealing with the loss of a good friend and his favorite aunt.
Book cover for "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens agenda"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed.
Book cover for "They both die at the end"
Star rating for They both die at the end
Series:
Death-Cast volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
Book cover for "What if it's us"
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Series:
What if it's us volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Told in two voices, when Arthur, a summer intern from Georgia, and Ben, a native New Yorker, meet it seems like fate, but after three attempts at dating fail they wonder if the universe is pushing them together or apart.