Gay young adult fiction

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  • Originally published in This is available at TCCL as an ebook. MC Rep: biracial (Black/white) questioning lesbian female

  • Available at TCCL as a book and downloadable audiobook. MC Rep: Black Jewish bisexual female; Korean/Black straight male LI who is Heard of Hearing due to Ménière’s disease; Latina pansexual female LI

  • Available at TCCL as a book and downloadable audiobook. MC Rep: Dark biromantic asexual female; (straight?) Japanese male LI

  • Available at TCCL as a book and ebook. The first book in the Nightmare-Verse. MC Rep: Black bisexual female

  • Available at TCCL as an audiobook, book, and ebook. MC Rep: Black bisexual male; Latinx gay male LI who is Heard of Hearing

  • Available at TCCL as a book, downloadable audiobook, and ebook. MC Rep: alcoholic white gay male; Black straight female; Korean-American straight female

  • Available at TCCL as a book. MC Rep: Black/Latinx lesbian questioning female; Irish/East Asian straight questioning female; Black straight male

  • Available at TCCL as a book and ebook. MC Rep: Black (straight?) fema

    LGBTQ Young Adult Fiction & Graphic Novels

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stop and Red, White & Royal Blue comes a romantic comedy about chasing down what you need, only to find what you need

    An epic sci-fi graphic novel romance between two non-binary characters as they find one another through time, distance, and war. An amazing story that explores the complexity of human nature and what brings us together.

    Goodreads Choice Award Finalist
    Recent York Public Library Best Books for Teens
    Cybils Award Winner
    GLAAD Media Award Winner
    Lambda Literary Award Finalist



    A sweet, queer teen romance perfect for fans of Heartstopper and Check, Please!

    Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her s

    #1 New York Times bestseller! Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera reunite to continue the story of Arthur and Ben, the boys readers first fell for in the bestselling rom-com What If It’s Us

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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 mention 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

      I don’t believe in the notion of guilty pleasures. I even used to run a pop culture blog centered around the fact that they shouldn’t be a thing—we should never hold to feel guilty about something that brings us pleasure. Growing up queer, it can be really easy to be made to feel guilty about what you might secretly love, because it might not fit the rigid yet contradictory gender norms you never really adhered to. Therefore, it can also hold a long time for you to feel comfortable enjoying what you enjoy without shame or ridicule—from other people or from yourself. Internalized homophobia at its finest!

      As a teenager, I rarely felt comfortable reading YA books, let alone gay YA books, because I felt so disconnected and rejected by my age group—having never really shared the same interests or ideals of people my own age, and often being bullied for it—that I did anything I could to subtly and inaudibly set myself apart from kids my age. Adults called me an old soul, which I was, but I also didn’t feel free to live my own life, and I faced the consequences of acting more grown up tha