Under Shifting Stars
By: Alexandra Latos
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This novel follows twins Audrey and Clare as they grapple with their brother's death and their chan…
Want to Read $ 6.99"Whenever something scary happens or I want to comment on something, like Joyce and Hopper’s constant bickering, which is getting annoying, I glance toward Adam’s side of the couch. And each and every time I do, the pain of his absence pierces my chest. That’s the thing about losing someone: there’s one major death followed by a million little deaths."-Alexandra Latos, Under Shifting Stars
"Whenever something scary happens or I want to comment on something, like Joyce and Hopper’s constant bickering, which is getting annoying, I glance toward Adam’s side of the couch. And each and every time I do, the pain of his absence pierces my chest. That’s the thing about losing someone: there’s one major death followed by a million little deaths."-Alexandra Latos, Under Shifting Stars
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1. Calling My Name
By: Liara Tamani
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Taja Brown lives with her parents and older brother and younger sister, in Houston, Texas. Taja has… read more
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2. Queens of Geek
By: Jen Wilde
3.53
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
Three friends, two love stories, one convention: this fun, feminist love letter to geek culture is … read more
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3. The State of Grace
By: Rachael Lucas
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
Sometimes I feel like everyone else was handed a copy of the rules for life and mine got lost. Grac… read more
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- romance
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4. The Disasters
By: M.K. England
3.80
Format: 654 pages, Hardcover
Pitched as The Breakfast Clubmeets Firefly, five teenagers who consider themselves to be galactic f… 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 Other Side of Lost
By: Jessi Kirby
3.92
Format: None pages, ebook
Girl Onlinemeets Wildin this emotionally charged story of girl who takes to the wilderness to redis… read more
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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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- fiction
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"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. Between Perfect and Real
By: Ray Stoeve
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Ray Stoeve’s Between Perfect and Real is a moving YA debut about a trans boy finding his voice—and … read more
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"Not that I hate my body. There are just parts of it that aren't what they should be."-Ray Stoeve, Between Perfect and Real
"Burlesque involves stripping... It's also historically been a way of satirizing or commenting on politics, making people laugh, showing off your sexuality or your body- it's hella queer."-Ray Stoeve, Between Perfect and Real
9. Blaine for the Win
By: Robbie Couch
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
After being dumped so his boyfriend can pursue more “serious” guys, a teen boy decides to prove he … read more
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10. And They Lived . . .
By: Steven Salvatore
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Chase Arthur is a budding animator and hopeless romantic obsessed with Disney films and finding his… read more
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11. Where You See Yourself
By: Claire Forrest
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Where You See Yourself combines an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, a swoon-worthy romance, and mu… read more
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12. Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
By: Olivia A. Cole
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse a… read more
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- lesbian
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- queer
"I remember the thing that I saw on Tumblr, how people with trauma will sometimes reexpose themselves to it, salt in the wound to stay alive. I am tired of salting the wound - I am ready to salt the e…"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"My hair is the color of a dart frog: generations of death adapting into this exact shade of poison ...bright red and orange, the colors of pain, I WILL MAKE YOU SICK I WILL KILL YOU FROM INSIDE YOUR …"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"The last barbecue I went to was at Sarah's house and I almost text her to tell her how when you have so many memories with one person, it's like a crime scene after they're gone. Fingerprints everywh…"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"My mother thinks I’ve dyed my hair red for attention— How can I explain to her the ways that she is right and wrong. As of last night, my hair is the color of a brick the moment before it goes throug…"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
13. Something More
By: Jackie Khalilieh
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A contemporary teen romance novel featuring a Palestinian-Canadian girl trying to hide her autism d… read more
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- romance
- autistic spectrum disorder
- young adult
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- contemporary
- disability
"No matter how far I've come and no matter how hard I try, beneath the mask will always be a girl who's afraid of being left behind."-Jackie Khalilieh, Something More
"Maybe if people can get past the things that make me different on the outside, then they might try to get to know the real me. And maybe I’ll let them."-Jackie Khalilieh, Something More
14. Under Shifting Stars
By: Alexandra Latos
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This novel follows twins Audrey and Clare as they grapple with their brother's death and their chan… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- autistic spectrum disorder
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- disability
- queer
"Whenever something scary happens or I want to comment on something, like Joyce and Hopper’s constant bickering, which is getting annoying, I glance toward Adam’s side of the couch. And each and every…"-Alexandra Latos, Under Shifting Stars
15. The Language of Seabirds
By: Will Taylor
4.22
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A sweet, tender middle-grade story of two boys finding first love with each other over a seaside su… read more
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16. It Goes Like This
By: Miel Moreland
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In Miel Moreland's heartfelt young adult debut, It Goes Like This , four queer teens realize that s… read more
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"You have to be a little selfish in this world if you want to make it big."-Miel Moreland, It Goes Like This
17. Show Us Who You Are
By: Elle McNicoll
4.41
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
The second book from the author of A Kind Of Spark, with Neurodivergent characters you'll root for … read more
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"There are no useless facts, Cora."-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are
"Grief is just love asking for more time."-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are
"As soon as I gave up caring, everything got easier."-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are
"People's minds are all so different. All capable of different things."-Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are
18. Five Things About Ava Andrews
By: Margaret Dilloway
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A story about a shy eleven-year-old who learns to manage her anxiety through improv classes—and dis… read more
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19. The Heartbreak Bakery
By: A.R. Capetta
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Teenage baker Syd sends ripples of heartbreak through Austin’s queer community when a batch of post… read more
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- contemporary
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"They hand me one lemon, then another, and all I can think when their fingertips leave is that we're mixing ourselves together. That's what happens when skin presses skin. We think of ourselves as sol…"-A.R. Capetta, The Heartbreak Bakery
"But it does seem like I’m always the one who has to speak up and tell everyone how I’m different. I have to find a way to help them understand me, even though I don’t really understand them either. H…"-A.R. Capetta, The Heartbreak Bakery
20. The Reckless Kind
By: Carly Heath
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A genre-defying debut, this queer historical YA centers a wild and reckless trio who fly in the fac… read more
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"I didn't like being the cause of a beautiful young man's melancholy. I knew I had love in me. My love, though, wasn't the conjugal kind."-Carly Heath, The Reckless Kind
"Have you considered such lack of sentiment might be a curse?" His dulcet words were almost playful. "Mikkelsen, I'm the most sentimental person in this blasted town. And, truthfully, that's my curse."-Carly Heath, The Reckless Kind
"...And maybe folks in Muskox Hollow thought their arrangement was strange, or their parties too rambunctious, or that a lady should have a family and children instead of two gentlemen and thirteen ti…"-Carly Heath, The Reckless Kind
21. Tears in the Water
By: Margherita Scialla
4.06
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
A character-driven, slice-of-life contemporary story of love and self-discovery. At White Ravens… read more
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"I trust you to handle my heart with care"-Margherita Scialla, Tears in the Water
