Young adult fiction lgbt books

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These titles are all Fiction. Young Adult Non-Fiction can be found under the Non-Fiction heading. Graphic Novels can be found here.

  • B/P/Q/A – MC is bisexual, pansexual, queer/questioning, and/or asexual
  • + = label is stated explicitly on-page
  • Titles with MCs of color or indigenous MCs by BIPoC are in purple
  • * = Not yet released
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Please remark multi-POV books will be listed twice where more than one list is appropriate.

Queer Male Protagonists

Contemporary

  • Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
  • This is Why They Hate Us by Aaron Aceves &#; B
  • The Long Run by James Acker
  • Teenage Dirtbags by James Acker
  • How it All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi
  • Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
  • What if it&#;s Us? and Here&#;s to Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
  • Indivisible by Daniel Aleman
  • Under all the L

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    The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold (January 7th)

    The world is about to end. Again.

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    Until she learns that another earth-shattering Storm is coming . . . and everything changes.

    Enter Maeve, a prickly and potentially dangerous out-of-towner who breaks into the bookstore looking for shelter one darkness. Though the two girls are immediately at odds, Maeve has what Liz needs—the skills to repair the dilapidated store before the next climate disaster strikes—and Liz reluctantly agrees to authorize her stay.

    As the girls increase closer and undeniable feelings spring up between them, they discover that they face greater

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