Bitter (Pet, #0.5)
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.12
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus o…
Want to Read $ 8.99"Miss Virtue looked amused. "How do you know your way is the right way?" "I don't. But we moving with love, and I figure that can't be wrong."-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)
"Miss Virtue looked amused. "How do you know your way is the right way?" "I don't. But we moving with love, and I figure that can't be wrong."-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)
"Miss Virtue looked amused. "How do you know your way is the right way?" "I don't. But we moving with love, and I figure that can't be wrong."-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)
"The foster parents had said that she would end up nowhere, then you could make up wherever you wanted to be, you could make it real. You could, for example, paint it into existence."-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)
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1. The Dos and Donuts of Love
By: Adiba Jaigirdar
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A pun-filled YA contemporary romance, The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar finds a teenage… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Food is a big part of my culture, especially sweet foods. When you're Bangladeshi, you're taught that any good news or celebration has to be accompanied with some sweet food. Every time you visit som…"-Adiba Jaigirdar, The Dos and Donuts of Love
2. Wash Day Diaries
By: Jamila Rowser
4.35
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
From writer Jamila Rowser and artist Robyn Smith comes a captivating graphic novel love letter to t… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
3. Hell Followed With Us
By: Andrew Joseph White
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cu… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- fantasy
- queer
"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us
"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us
"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us
"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us
4. The Deep
By: Rivers Solomon
3.78
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"What is belonging?"-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Forgetting was not the same as healing."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."-Rivers Solomon, The Deep
5. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
6. The Poisons We Drink
By: Bethany Baptiste
3.75
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illeg… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- queer
7. The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
By: Andrew Joseph White
4.52
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has th… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
- queer
"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
8. Squire
By: Nadia Shammas
4.06
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt… read more
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- fiction
- fantasy
- young adult
9. The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
By: Sonora Reyes
4.27
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"…any way you engage with your own culture is authentic, because it’s yours."-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
"Let's just say there's not a lot of melanin over there. I could probably pay my tuition selling sunscreen between classes."-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
"I know I can't take all that shame away from him. But I can start by showing him how much I'm not ashamed. Not only am I not ashamed, I'm proud. I can't make him love himself. The closest I can get i…"-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
10. D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding
By: Chencia C. Higgins
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
D’Vaughn and Kris have six weeks to plan their dream wedding.Their whole relationship is fake.Insta… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Lean on me if you have to,"-Chencia C. Higgins, D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding
"No one has ever said that to me before, and I've certainly never said it to anyone...or imagined that I ever would. I thought love would make me weak. And I was right, because when you said it, you c…"-Chencia C. Higgins, D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding
11. Bitter (Pet, #0.5)
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.12
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus o… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- magical realism
- lgbt
- young adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- queer
"Miss Virtue looked amused. "How do you know your way is the right way?" "I don't. But we moving with love, and I figure that can't be wrong."-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)
"The foster parents had said that she would end up nowhere, then you could make up wherever you wanted to be, you could make it real. You could, for example, paint it into existence."-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)
"Bitter had no interest in the revolution. She was seventeen and she thought it was ridiculous that adults wanted young people to be the ones saving the world, as if her generation was the one that ha…"-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)
12. The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
By: Aiden Thomas
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the h… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
- queer
"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings" Niya circled Teo back on the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings!" Niya circled Teo back onto the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else's, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted?"-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else’s, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted."-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
13. The Weight of Blood
By: Tiffany D. Jackson
4.21
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
" New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America's hi… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
14. Outdrawn
By: Deanna Grey
4.23
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
It isn’t always lonely at the top. Noah Blue’s finally got her foot in the door. After clawing h… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"She could be a siren; I painted her on the water in my mind, her hair splayed across the surface, eyes daring the viewer to jump in. Would she save them? Save me? Did I want her to?"-Deanna Grey, Outdrawn
15. We Are All So Good at Smiling
By: Amber McBride
3.88
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse … read more
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- magical realism
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Sorrow is no one's fault."-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling
"The only way out is through."-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling
"Let's write our story, so no one can take it away."-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling
"It starts in the middle not the beginning or the end- stories start in the middle."-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling
16. Where Sleeping Girls Lie
By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
4.05
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In Where Sleeping Girls Lie ― a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Time… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
17. Blood Orange
By: Yaffa As
4.60
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"you've drawn every line there could be while we wait for a circle"-Yaffa As, Blood Orange
"we know it ends in flame because those with power were never taught to relinquish / we wait for them to / we forget you can't give up what wasn't yours to begin with"-Yaffa As, Blood Orange
18. Blood Justice (Blood Debts, #2)
By: Terry J. Benton-Walker
4.33
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Cristina and Clement Trudeau have conjured the impossible: justice. They took back their family’… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
- queer
19. Lakelore
By: Anna-Marie McLemore
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this young adult novel by award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore, two non-binary teens are pul… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- magical realism
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- queer
"There's a certain way that falling for someone can only ever feel when you've fallen at least a little for yourself first."-Anna-Marie McLemore, Lakelore
"The worst mistake I've ever made is bad all on its own, but I never think of it on its own. Some mistakes come in sets, and my worst mistake had a part one that came seven years earlier."-Anna-Marie McLemore, Lakelore
20. Four Eids and a Funeral
By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
3.71
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
Ex-best friends, Tiwa and Said, must work together to save their Islamic Center from demolition, in… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
21. Gay the Pray Away
By: Natalie Naudus
4.46
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
Valerie Danners is in a cult. She just doesn't know it yet. When she finds a queer book at the libr… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
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- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
