21 must-read lgbt books like Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball by Jason June

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Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

By: Jason June

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The next LGBTQ+ young adult rom-com from  New York Times  bestselling author Jason June (author of …

If you liked the lgbt plot in Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball by Jason June , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of If I See You Again Tomorrow by Robbie Couch

1. If I See You Again Tomorrow

By: Robbie Couch

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Sky Blues and Blaine for the Win comes a spe… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Couch's If I See You Again Tomorrow book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Northranger by Rey Terciero

2. Northranger

By: Rey Terciero

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In this swoony and spooky teen summer romance graphic novel set on a Texas ranch, sixteen-year-old … read more

Similar categories in Rey Terciero's Northranger book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"You weren't wrong about me being a killer. But the only person I've ever tried to kill is myself."

-Rey Terciero, Northranger

Cover of Darkhearts by James L. Sutter

3. Darkhearts

By: James L. Sutter

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Red, White, & Royal Blue and Perks of Being a Wallflower, Darkhearts is a hilar… read more

Similar categories in James L. Sutter's Darkhearts book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Time Out by Sean Hayes

4. Time Out

By: Sean Hayes

3.63

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Heartstopper meets Friday Night Lights in this keenly felt coming-of-age story about a teen hometow… read more

Similar categories in Sean Hayes's Time Out book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The Boyfriend Subscription by Steven Salvatore

5. The Boyfriend Subscription

By: Steven Salvatore

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Equal parts sizzling, sweet and irresistibly fresh, Steven Salvatore’s The Boyfriend Subscription i… read more

Similar categories in Steven Salvatore's The Boyfriend Subscription book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The [Fake] Dating Game by Timothy Janovsky

6. The [Fake] Dating Game

By: Timothy Janovsky

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Ready. Set. Faux . Holden James picked the worst time to have a meltdown. His chance to audit… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Janovsky's The [Fake] Dating Game book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Because, despite everything, I want to see the good in people"

-Timothy Janovsky, The [Fake] Dating Game

"Amber bulbs dangle on white strings above our heads, making everyone in the restaurant look like a cartoon character with a bright idea."

-Timothy Janovsky, The [Fake] Dating Game

"Under the roar of the crowd, Leo whispers into my ear. "You are full of surprises." "On the night we met, you said surprises aren't all they're cracked up to be." "You're the exception to the rule." …"

-Timothy Janovsky, The [Fake] Dating Game

Cover of Lose You to Find Me by Erik J. Brown

7. 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

Similar categories in Erik J. Brown's Lose You to Find Me book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Skater Boy by Anthony Nerada

8. Skater Boy

By: Anthony Nerada

4.03

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In this YA pop-punk debut about queer romance and destroying labels, a teen risks everything to wr… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Nerada's Skater Boy book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"If we can convince our own minds we aren't good enough, we can't really be disappointed when we don't get what we truly want."

-Anthony Nerada, Skater Boy

Cover of New Adult (Boy Meets Boy #3) by Timothy Janovsky

9. New Adult (Boy Meets Boy #3)

By: Timothy Janovsky

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Nolan Baker longs to be "thirty, flirty and thriving" in this charmingly quirky LGBTQIA+ romance th… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Janovsky's New Adult (Boy Meets Boy #3) book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Emmett by Lev A.C. Rosen

10. Emmett

By: Lev A.C. Rosen

3.62

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A modern-day gay YA Emma, with the spikey social critique of Austen plus the lush over-the-top roma… read more

Similar categories in Lev A.C. Rosen's Emmett book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • young adult romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist by Sophie Gonzales

11. The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist

By: Sophie Gonzales

3.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A fanfic writer brings her favorite TV character to life in this friends-to-enemies-to-lovers novel… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Gonzales's The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • young adult romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Teach the Torches to Burn by Caleb Roehrig

12. 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

Similar categories in Caleb Roehrig's Teach the Torches to Burn book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • gay
  • 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

Cover of My Fair Brady by Brian D. Kennedy

13. My Fair Brady

By: Brian D. Kennedy

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

My Fair Lady meets the classic teen film She's All That in this charming and swoony new rom-com fro… read more

Similar categories in Brian D. Kennedy's My Fair Brady book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Teenage Dirtbags by James Acker

14. Teenage Dirtbags

By: James Acker

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Long Run comes another unflinchingly raw and boldly hilarious novel about an… read more

Similar categories in James Acker's Teenage Dirtbags book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Charming Young Man by Eliot Schrefer

15. Charming Young Man

By: Eliot Schrefer

3.80

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer comes an exuberant YA historical coming-of-ag… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Schrefer's Charming Young Man book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of I Like Me Better by Robby Weber

16. I Like Me Better

By: Robby Weber

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This is not how soccer-star Zack Martin thought his summer would go. When the captain's prank means… read more

Similar categories in Robby Weber's I Like Me Better book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powars

17. The Borrow a Boyfriend Club

By: Page Powars

4.13

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A feel-good, coming-of-age rom-com from debut author Page Powars that follows a trans teen who join… read more

Similar categories in Page Powars's The Borrow a Boyfriend Club book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge by Matthew  Hubbard

18. The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge

By: Matthew Hubbard

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A queer coming-of-age about three teenage boys in small town Alabama who set out to get revenge on … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Hubbard's The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"The best revenge is believing in yourself."

-Matthew Hubbard, The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge

Cover of Finding My Elf by David Valdes

19. Finding My Elf

By: David Valdes

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Single All the Way meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this festive romcom about Cam, who’s … read more

Similar categories in David Valdes's Finding My Elf book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball by Jason June

20. Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

By: Jason June

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The next LGBTQ+ young adult rom-com from  New York Times  bestselling author Jason June (author of … read more

Similar categories in Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult romance
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts by Adam  Sass

21. Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts

By: Adam Sass

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A swoony contemporary romance from Adam Sass following a boy who is cursed to doom any romantic rel… read more

Similar categories in Adam Sass's Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts book and Jason June's Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

19 Best fiction books like Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball by Jason June

Transform Your Habits

If I See You Again Tomorrow

Robbie Couch

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Northranger

Rey Terciero

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Darkhearts

James L. Sutter

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Time Out

Sean Hayes

3.63

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19 must-read contemporary books like Finding My Elf by David Valdes

Transform Your Habits

The Boyfriend Subscription

Steven Salvatore

3.59

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The [Fake] Dating Game

Timothy Janovsky

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Lose You to Find Me

Erik J. Brown

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Skater Boy

Anthony Nerada

4.03

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