Things We Couldn't Say
By: Jay Coles
3.74
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From one of the brightest and most acclaimed new lights in YA fiction, a fantastic new novel about …
Want to Read $ 6.99"Maybe if we keep letting all those things crash and burn before our eyes, they'll somehow fall back in place or maybe something new will come out from the ashes, like a phoenix."-Jay Coles, Things We Couldn't Say
"Maybe if we keep letting all those things crash and burn before our eyes, they'll somehow fall back in place or maybe something new will come out from the ashes, like a phoenix."-Jay Coles, Things We Couldn't Say
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1. The Taking of Jake Livingston
By: Ryan Douglass
3.43
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
Get Out meets Danielle Vega in this YA horror where survival is not a guarantee. Jake Livingston… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Sawyer, PLEASE," she begged. "Just open up. Can't go hurting yourself over a dumb argument. Can't handle your problems that way." But I can. "Sawyer?" Quiet now. Hush, and panic. A wink spasmed at th…"-Ryan Douglass, The Taking of Jake Livingston
2. Ryan and Avery
By: David Levithan
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of EVERY DAY, this is a queer love story for the ages--t… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"When Ryan's pickup appears within the snowfall, Avery's heart becomes the opposite of snowfall-that strange, windblown moment when you look and see the snow is actually drifting upward. Snowrise. Whe…"-David Levithan, Ryan and Avery
3. Howl
By: Shaun David Hutchinson
3.87
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From critically acclaimed Shaun David Hutchinson comes a gritty and raw portrayal of the oftentimes… read more
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- contemporary
- queer
- young adult
- lgbt
4. Out of Left Field
By: Jonah Newman
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A nerdy gay teenager jumps headfirst into the bro-y world of high school baseball in this semi-auto… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- sports
"I'm gay"-Jonah Newman, Out of Left Field
5. The Music of What Happens
By: Bill Konigsberg
3.84
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Max: Chill. Sports. Video games. Gay and not a big deal, not to him, not to his mom, not to his bud… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"That never even occurred to me, that he had feelings."-Bill Konigsberg, The Music of What Happens
"Just smile, Max. The paint cannot be stronger than a smile. But it is."-Bill Konigsberg, The Music of What Happens
"It's funny because it's true, and also it's the kind of humor that makes you think."-Bill Konigsberg, The Music of What Happens
"He stands and he lifts me up by my shoulders, and he hugs me tight. “I'm sorry, dude."-Bill Konigsberg, The Music of What Happens
6. This Is Why They Hate Us
By: Aaron H. Aceves
4.06
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Enrique “Quique” Luna has one goal this summer—get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his … read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"People are exhausting. Sure, they can be fun sometimes; they can “open you up to new experiences"-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us
"What a horrible weight it is to be silent when you want to shout, to hold back when you want to reach out, to freeze when you want to melt."-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us
"I guess it's true that us queers are starved for stories that mirror our lives. I can't remember a time when I saw a queer person in a movie or TV show or book that I didn't have to actively seek out…"-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us
"Why is the world like this? How is the world like this? How is it that humans have created a society that allows a child to come to the conclusion that they would be better off dead than alive becaus…"-Aaron H. Aceves, This Is Why They Hate Us
7. 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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- romance
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
8. 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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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
9. Lose You to Find Me
By: Erik J. Brown
3.81
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A romantic, heartfelt, and hilarious queer coming-of-age story from All That's Left in the World au… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
10. Different for Boys
By: Patrick Ness
3.82
Format: 104 pages, Hardcover
Friendship, masculinity, sex—Anthony Stevenson has a lot of questions. Is it different for boys who… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"We can't kiss. Because that would make us gay."-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys
"Because nothing I did with Charlie ever once felt like that kiss with Jack."-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys
"You know, the way teenage guys talk about sex, you'd think all of us were having it all the time, nonstop."-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys
"Although doesn't really matter how many time you do it: you think it's going to make your life less lonely, but it never does."-Patrick Ness, Different for Boys
11. The Long Run
By: James Acker
4.31
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Two track and field athletes find an unexpected but powerful love in this unapologetically blunt an… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- sports
- queer
12. The Cost of Knowing
By: Brittney Morris
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A novel about a Black teen who has the power to see into the future, whose life turns upside down w… read more
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- fiction
- young adult contemporary
- young adult
- contemporary
13. Invisible Son
By: Kim Johnson
4.20
Format: 416 pages, Library Binding
From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of This Is My America comes another thriller… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- family
- contemporary
14. The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
By: Ben Philippe
3.77
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A black French Can… read more
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"I'm the understudy for Negro on Ice"-Ben Philippe, The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
"But, as his father had said: It doesn't matter if you make a mess. It matters that you fix it."-Ben Philippe, The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
"Yes, we're all overly polite, forage for berries in the summers, and craft simple wooden objects of great beauty around the fire at night."-Ben Philippe, The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
"The way his mother loved him was occasionally vexing in how overwhelming it could be. Like the sun or some other celestial body; facing it too directly might kill him."-Ben Philippe, The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
15. You Owe Me a Murder
By: Eileen Cook
3.53
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Seventeen-year-old Kim gets more than she bargained for when she is set up for murder. Perfect for … read more
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- romance
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
16. Café Con Lychee
By: Emery Lee
3.63
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes bitter rivalries can brew something sweet Theo Mori wants to escape. Leaving Vermont f… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
17. Boys Come First
By: Aaron Foley
3.88
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Suddenly jobless and single after a devastating layoff and a breakup with his cheating ex, advertis… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
18. 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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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- 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
19. Afterglow (Golden Boys #2)
By: Phil Stamper
4.05
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
After a summer of life-changing, these four friends are finally ready for senior year. Gabriel i… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
20. Love Is a Revolution
By: Renée Watson
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Renée Watson comes a new YA--a love story … read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
21. As You Walk On By
By: Julian Winters
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Breakfast Club meets Can't Hardly Wait with an unforgettable ensemble cast in another swoony YA… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
22. Before We Disappear
By: Shaun David Hutchinson
3.88
Format: 512 pages, ebook
The Prestige meets What If It’s Us in Before We Disappear, a queer ahistorical fantasy set during t… read more
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- romance
- queer
- young adult
- lgbt
"Running from you would be like running from the air in my lungs."-Shaun David Hutchinson, Before We Disappear
"I'll steal your heart,' he said 'You cannot steal a gift freely given."-Shaun David Hutchinson, Before We Disappear
"He was a million mirror shards turned inward, he was a rootless tree following the sun."-Shaun David Hutchinson, Before We Disappear
"Jack was home to me now too, and I knew with absolute conviction that I could find him anywhere."-Shaun David Hutchinson, Before We Disappear
23. Every Body Looking
By: Candice Iloh
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Every Body Looking is a debut novel in verse tells the story of Ada--daughter of an immigrant fathe… read more
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- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
24. The Getaway
By: Lamar Giles
3.74
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to the funnest spot around . . . Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of … read more
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- fiction
- young adult
25. Enter the Body
By: Joy McCullough
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- young adult
- contemporary
"Broken people can be loved."-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body
"The telling of stories holds back the weight of time."-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body
"Each considers how these acts of violence against their bodies were acceptable to the world, while their desires were not."-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body
"Not all stories can be told. Some are so dark and twisted, their telling would undo the world. But just because she doesn't speak doesn't mean Lavinia can't share who she is, what she's been through,…"-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body
26. Right Where I Left You
By: Julian Winters
3.89
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
Kacen Callender meets Becky Albertalli in a deliciously geeky best friends-to lovers romance from a… read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Some tears aren't for wounds. Some are for healing."-Julian Winters, Right Where I Left You
"The thing about coming out is you're so focused on making sure who you are doesn't hurt or change your relationship with your loved ones that you never really think about yourself."-Julian Winters, Right Where I Left You
27. 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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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
28. A Lite Too Bright
By: Samuel Miller
3.81
Format: 480 pages, ebook
Arthur Louis Pullman the Third is on the verge of a breakdown. He’s been stripped of his college sc… read more
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- young adult contemporary
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"i am nothing but a mosaic of the people i’ve met & the things they’ve carried."-Samuel Miller, A Lite Too Bright
29. Things We Couldn't Say
By: Jay Coles
3.74
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
From one of the brightest and most acclaimed new lights in YA fiction, a fantastic new novel about … read more
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- romance
- young adult contemporary
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- sports
- queer
"Maybe if we keep letting all those things crash and burn before our eyes, they'll somehow fall back in place or maybe something new will come out from the ashes, like a phoenix."-Jay Coles, Things We Couldn't Say
30. How to They/Them: A Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity
By: Stuart Getty
4.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Ever wonder what nonbinary or gender nonconforming really mean? And how the heck do you use they/th… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
31. If I Can Give You That
By: Michael Gray Bulla
4.07
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Kacen Callender and Mason Deaver comes a heart-tugging coming-of-age YA debut that take… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
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- contemporary
- queer
