Brave Face
By: Shaun David Hutchinson
4.41
Format: 368 pages, ebook
Critically acclaimed author of We Are the Ants—described as having “hints of Vonnegut’s Slaughterho…
Want to Read $ 9.99"I wasn't going to kill myself, but I wasn't going to stop dumb luck from taking me out either."-Shaun David Hutchinson, Brave Face
"I wasn't going to kill myself, but I wasn't going to stop dumb luck from taking me out either."-Shaun David Hutchinson, Brave Face
"But I do believe that every single thing we’ve done leads to everything we do, and that it’s kind of pointless to regret the past when it’s the cause of our present."-Shaun David Hutchinson, Brave Face
"But I do believe that every single thing we’ve done leads to everything we do, and that it’s kind of pointless to regret the past when it’s the cause of our present."-Shaun David Hutchinson, Brave Face
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1. Cracked
By: K.M. Walton
3.93
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes there's no easy way out. Victor hates his life. He has no friends, gets beaten up at s… read more
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- mental illness
- mental health
2. We Now Return to Regular Life
By: Martin Wilson
3.84
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
A ripped-from-the-headlines novel that explores the power of being an ally—and a friend—when a kidn… read more
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- mental health
- lgbt
- queer
3. Two Boys Kissing
By: David Levithan
3.71
Format: None pages, Hardcover
New York Timesbestselling author David Levithan tells the based-on-true-events story of Harry and C… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
4. The Art of Starving
By: Sam J. Miller
3.99
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
More Happy Than Notmeets Glory O'Brien's History of the Futurein this gritty, contemporary YA debut… read more
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5. Symptoms of Being Human
By: Jeff Garvin
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
The first thing you're going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl? Riley Cavanau… read more
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6. The Luis Ortega Survival Club
By: Sonora Reyes
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School comes a story in the vein of… read more
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- audiobook
- mental health
- lgbt
- queer
7. Camp Damascus
By: Chuck Tingle
3.94
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
8. Flamer
By: Mike Curato
4.32
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in Flamer, his debut graph… read more
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- coming of age
- lgbt
- queer
9. 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
- 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
"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
"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
10. I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)
By: Mason Deaver
4.16
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover edition for 9781338306125 can be found here. When Ben De Backer comes out to … read more
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- audiobook
- mental health
- lgbt
- queer
"Whatever happens"-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)
"The world’s too loud sometimes."-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)
"This kid, Nathan, laughs like it's his favourite thing in the world to do."-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)
"Bodies are fucking weird, especially when it feels like you don't belong in your own."-Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1)
11. Homebody
By: Theo Parish
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more
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- coming of age
- lgbt
- queer
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"-Theo Parish, Homebody
"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"-Theo Parish, Homebody
12. Wren Martin Ruins It All
By: Amanda DeWitt
4.25
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Now that Wren Martin is student council president (on a technicality, but hey, it counts) he’s goin… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"I think I might have a crush. Shit ."-Amanda DeWitt, Wren Martin Ruins It All
"Halloween would be . . . okay," she says, with all the deliberation of a somewhat uncertain judge delivering a verdict. "But no sexy catgirls. Or boys. No catpeople."-Amanda DeWitt, Wren Martin Ruins It All
"You might have saved the Dance," I say loftily, "but I saved this school from Cats ." "Not all heroes wear capes," Ryan says, pushing open the classroom door. "You know, I kind of like Cats ." "You l…"-Amanda DeWitt, Wren Martin Ruins It All
13. A Little Bit Country
By: Brian D. Kennedy
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Emmett Maguire wants to be country music’s biggest gay superstar – a far reach when you’re seventee… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"If you’re comfortable and supported in the life you were meant to be living, why go back to pretending to be someone you’re not? Lying to everyone and always having to watch your back isn’t healthy."-Brian D. Kennedy, A Little Bit Country
14. Deposing Nathan
By: Zack Smedley
4.23
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
Nate never imagined that he would be attacked by his best friend, Cam. Now, Nate is being called… read more
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- coming of age
- lgbt
- queer
"If you think you need to earn enough points on someone’s rubric for them to accept you, then either you’re wrong to assume they won’t love you for who you are, or they never loved you in the first pl…"-Zack Smedley, Deposing Nathan
"I’ve spent every minute of these past months trying to figure out why I feel the things I feel, and if there’s a way to put that into words, I won’t find it. I am who I am. I’ve never acted on less t…"-Zack Smedley, Deposing Nathan
15. The Summer of Everything
By: Julian Winters
3.75
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Comic book geek Wesley Hudson excels at two things: slacking off at his job and pining after his be… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"Don't carry today into tomorrow."-Julian Winters, The Summer of Everything
"If the worst thing you do in this lifetime is fall in love with your best friend, then I'd say you're doing pretty damn good."-Julian Winters, The Summer of Everything
16. Every Star That Falls
By: Michael Thomas Ford
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This much-anticipated sequel to the acclaimed fan-favorite novel Suicide Notes is a funny, touching… read more
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- audiobook
- mental health
- lgbt
- queer
17. Out of the Blue
By: Jason June
3.62
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
Crest is not excited to be on their Journey: the monthlong sojourn on land all teen merfolk must un… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"The blue knows what it's doing, if you just trust where it's taking you."-Jason June, Out of the Blue
"Maybe humans aren't as magicless as I thought. There's definitely some kind of power in movies."-Jason June, Out of the Blue
"Under the sea, we're all mer. We're all they/them. And we don't have this strange obsession with sex organs, since we don't have any."-Jason June, Out of the Blue
"He? Elder Crab warned us about this. About humans' obsession with gender, and how labels and rules mean so much to them when it comes to the body."-Jason June, Out of the Blue
18. Tom's Midnight Garden Graphic Novel
By: Édith
4.01
Format: 100 pages, ebook
This exquisite graphic novel adaptation of Philippa Pearce's Carnegie Medal-winning Tom's Midnight … read more
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19. The Year I Didn't Eat
By: Samuel Pollen
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
"Some days are normal. Some days, everything is OK, and I eat three square meals, pretty much, even… read more
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- audiobook
- mental illness
- mental health
20. Canto Contigo
By: Jonny Garza Villa
4.27
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot—… read more
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- coming of age
- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
21. Like a Love Story
By: Abdi Nazemian
4.26
Format: 432 pages, None
It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy w… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"I just have too much to scream about to leave just yet."-Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story
"In the language my mother speaks, I literally don't exist."-Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story
"There should be a limit on how long any human being has to wear braces. - Reza"-Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story
"I want her to hold me, ask me about him, something. Instead she says, 'I can't hear about this. Please. I can't."-Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story
22. Both Can Be True
By: Jules Machias
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Two kids join forces to save a dog . . . but wind up saving each other. Ash is no stranger to fe… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"Gender nonbinary sounds so restrictive. Like your gender can either be binary or not binary. Which...is a binary"-Jules Machias, Both Can Be True
"I finish tweaking my lyrics, then title the song 'Half-way Through the Crossfade.' I record myself playing it on the keyboard and singing it. It feels good. It feels right .I'm saying my truth, and I…"-Jules Machias, Both Can Be True
"I want to be as laid-back about gender as they are. But I'm not laid-back at all, thanks to Dad. I'm Ashley or I'm Asher and that's that. While I'm switching, for that week or so, everything feels gr…"-Jules Machias, Both Can Be True
23. Teach the Torches to Burn
By: Caleb Roehrig
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In Teach the Torches to Burn, a breathlessly romantic remix of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet and sev… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"- have you never considered that perhaps you are meant to have this happiness?"-Caleb Roehrig, Teach the Torches to Burn
"When someone has decided who you are, and they won't let you change their mind, what are you meant to do? Where is left to go?"-Caleb Roehrig, Teach the Torches to Burn
"From Author's Note: "...quite a few queer tragedies have already been written, including ones based on 'Romeo and Juliet,' and i was hesitant to tread that particular ground. I wanted to bring someth…"-Caleb Roehrig, Teach the Torches to Burn
24. The Temperature of Me and You
By: Brian Zepka
3.52
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
Sixteen-year-old Dylan Highmark thought his winter was going to be full of boring shifts at the Dai… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"One ingredient for love might be when the person you are with starts loving the people in your life who came before them."-Brian Zepka, The Temperature of Me and You
"When you lose that many parts of yourself, it hurts. And when you realize those parts are irreplaceable, you become lost too."-Brian Zepka, The Temperature of Me and You
"Jordan and I were each part of a story, a hug, a kiss, and a friendship. None of those things can exist without the other part. When you lose that many parts of yourself, it hurts. And when you reali…"-Brian Zepka, The Temperature of Me and You
25. The Passing Playbook
By: Isaac Fitzsimons
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Spencer Harris is a proud nerd, an awesome big brother and a Messi-in-training. He… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"As if Spencer's thoughts were sending out a homing beacon, Justice looked over in his direction, making eye contact, and Spencer understood what Gimli saw when he gazed upon Galadriel. But, no. Just …"-Isaac Fitzsimons, The Passing Playbook
26. Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
By: Anna-Marie McLemore
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our own lives, from the ribs of the girls we were once assumed to be."-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
"Gatsby and I may have been nothing to men like Tom Buchanan, but men like that did not know we were as divine as the heavens. We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our…"-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
"There's no use denying that I fell a little bit in love with Jay, at least as much in love as I've ever been with any body. You see, Nicky, boys are always falling in love with me, but I don't fall m…"-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
27. Brave Face
By: Shaun David Hutchinson
4.41
Format: 368 pages, ebook
Critically acclaimed author of We Are the Ants—described as having “hints of Vonnegut’s Slaughterho… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- coming of age
- mental health
- autobiography
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- queer
"I wasn't going to kill myself, but I wasn't going to stop dumb luck from taking me out either."-Shaun David Hutchinson, Brave Face
"But I do believe that every single thing we’ve done leads to everything we do, and that it’s kind of pointless to regret the past when it’s the cause of our present."-Shaun David Hutchinson, Brave Face
"Instead of being able to go out and buy a book about a closeted gay kid who's scared of becoming a stereotype while coming to terms with being gay that could have helped me understand what I was goin…"-Shaun David Hutchinson, Brave Face
"I’d never ride a rocket into out space, so standing at the edge of the ocean was probably the closest I’d get to touching something boundless and greater than myself. For me, the ocean had a way of p…"-Shaun David Hutchinson, Brave Face
28. The Prospects
By: K.T. Hoffman
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, a… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"Glasses on or off?" Luis asks. "Off." Gene is nearsighted anyway, and he doesn't plan to let Luis get far enough away that he would need them."-K.T. Hoffman, The Prospects
29. The Breakup Lists
By: Adib Khorram
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Love is more complicated than “boy meets boy” in bestselling author Adib Khorram’s sharply funny ne… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
30. Ander & Santi Were Here
By: Jonny Garza Villa
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Aristotle and Dante meets The Hate U Give meets The Sun Is Also A Star: A stunning YA contemporary … read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
31. Spin with Me
By: Ami Polonsky
3.75
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the critically acclaimed Gracefully Grayson comes a thoughtful and sensitive mid… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
