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Young Adult LGBTQIA+ Books and Resources

February 26, 2021 By Kristina Naftzger

YA books featuring LGBTQIA+ characters and experiences can sometimes be challenging to locate on the library shelves, but fear not, we’ve got you covered.

Here’s what you should know: the titles in the list below don’t focus exclusively on being queer. These are love stories, coming-of-age stories, dystopian stories, adventures, murder mysteries, graphic novels, memoirs, fantasy, nonfiction and, okay, some of them are mainly about being queer. Others are about friendship. Still others are about magic. The stories are as diverse as the characters who run around in them.

If you need assistance finding a book, we love helping. Remember, these are just the titles from the YA section, so feel free to use the online catalog if you’re not finding what you’re looking for. And if you have any suggestions for new additions, we’re all ears. Come let us know! We want this collection to reflect you and your interests.

Most of all, happy reading.

*Please note, several of these titles are available as eBooks. Download the OverDrive/Libby app to read them on your digital device.

Lower Level YA Fiction (Shelved alphabetically by author’s last name)

Here’s to Us – Abertalli, Becky & Silvera, Adam

What If It’s Us – Abertalli, Becky (eBook and eAudiobook also available)

This is Why They Hate Us – Aceves, Aaron H.

The Black Flamingo – Atta, Dean

The Edge of Being – Brandon, James

All That’s Left in the World – Brown, Erik

Felix Ever After – Callendar, Kacen

The Heartbreak Bakery – Capetta, A.R.

The Red Scrolls of Magic – Clare, Cassandra (eBook also available)

Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List: A Novel – Cohn, Rachel (eBook and eAudiobook also available)

Things We Couldn’t Say – Coles, Jay

Notes from the Blender – Cook, Tish

Dreadnought – Daniels, April

Some Girls Do – Dugan, Jennifer

Pet – Emezi, Akwaeke

The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door – Finneyfrock, Karen

The Passing Playbook – Fitzsimons, Isaac

Full Disclosure – Garrett, Cameron

Me Being Me is Exactly as Insane as You Being You – Hasak-Lowy, Todd

Her Royal Highness – Hawkins, Rachel

Rust in the Root – Ireland, Justina

Yesterday is History – Jackson, Kosoko

The Extraordinaires – Klune, T.J.

Darius the Great Deserves Better – Khorram, Adib

Kiss & Tell – Khorram, Adib

The Bridge – Konigsburg, Bill

Everything Leads to You – LaCour, Nina (eBook also available)

Meet Cute Diary – Lee, Emery

She Gets the Girl – Lippincott, Rachael & Derrick, Alyson (eBook also available)

Last Night at the Telegraph Club – Lo, Malinda

Here the Whole Time – Martins, Vitor

Lakelore – McLemore, Anna-Marie

#MurderFunding – McNeil, Gretchen

The Art of Starving – Miller, Sam

Pumpkin – Murphy, Julie

Shine – Myracle, Lauren (eBook also available)

I’ll Give You the Sun – Nelson, Jandy (eBook also available)

Camp – Rosen, L.C.

The Midnight Lie – Rutkoski, Marie

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe  – Sáenz, Benjamin Alire

And They Lived – Salvatore, Steven

Fans of the Impossible Life – Scelsa, Kate

The Girls I’ve Been – Sharpe, Tess

All Kinds of Other – Sie, James

They Both Die at the End – Silvera, Adam (eBook also available)

More Happy Than Not – Silvera, Adam (eBook also available)

The Gravity of Us – Stamper, Phil (eBook also available)

Cemetery Boys – Thomas, Aiden (eBook and eAudiobook also available)

The Bone Spindle – Vedder, Leslie

Hell Followed with Us – White, Andrew Joseph

 

Lower Level YA Science Fiction (Shelved alphabetically by author’s last name)

The Darkness Outside Us – Schrefer, Eliot

 

Lower Level YA Graphic Novels (Shelved with the YA Graphic Novels by Call Number)

Flamer – Curato, Mike 741.5 C922f

Messy Roots – Gao, Laura 973.049 G159m

Heartstopper – Oseman, Alice 741.5 Os2h

Heartstopper – Volume 2 – Oseman, Alice 741.5 Os2h2

Bloom – Panetta, Kevin 741.5 P192b

The Golden Hour – Smith, Niki 741.5 Sm62g

Laura Deen Keeps Breaking Up with Me – Tamaki, Mariko 741.5 T15L

On a Sunbeam  – Walden, Tillie 741.5 W144

 

Lower Level YA Nonfiction (Shelved with the YA Nonfiction by Call Number)

Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens – 248.8 F495q

Beyond the Gender Binary – 305.3 V191b

Gay America, Struggle for Equality – 306.76 AL78g

Queer: The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens – 306.76 B411q

Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard – Bertie, Alex 306.76 B462t

What’s the T? – 306.76 D325w

All Boys Aren’t Blue:  A Memoir-Manifesto – 306.76 J632a

Falling Hard: 100 Love Poems by Teenagers – Franco, Betsy 811.6 F193

 

Resources

The Trevor Project

GLAAD

Safe Schools Coalition

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