Kemosha of the Caribbean
By: Alex Wheatle
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Kemosha and her brother have lived their whole lives in slavery. Sold away to work in lawless Port …
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1. Moonstruck Volume 1
By: Grace Ellis
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Werewolf barista Julie and her new girlfriend go on a date to a close-up magic show, but all heck b… read more
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2. 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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- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- 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
3. The Society For Soulless Girls
By: Laura Steven
3.63
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
A dark and funny YA thriller with a supernatural twist. From the winner of the Comedy Women in Prin… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- queer
"Also I was nineteen, and therefore immortal."-Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls
"Time heals all wounds, but not the ones you leave infected."-Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls
"How thoroughly unreasonable for my actions to have consequences."-Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls
"She was almost insultingly beautiful, albeit in a satanic sort of way."-Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls
4. Tyger
By: S.F. Said
4.17
Format: 304 pages, None
In a strange alternate world, where the British Empire has never ended, a young boy called Adam has… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- audiobook
5. When Shadows Fall
By: Sita Brahmachari
3.70
Format: None pages, Audio CD
A heart-breaking and poignant novel from award-winning author Sita Brahmachari. Kai, Orla and Zak g… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- audiobook
6. The Eternal Return of Clara Hart
By: Louise Finch
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Spence and Anthony have been friends for years, but it’s only when he witnesses a classmate die in … read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- audiobook
7. Tremendous Things
By: Susin Nielsen
4.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Governor General's Literary Award--winning author Susin Nielsen comes a funny and heartfelt st… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- lgbt
8. 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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- queer
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"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)
9. Julia and the Shark
By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
4.33
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
The shark was beneath my bed, growing large as the room, large as the lighthouse, rising from unfat… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
"...which is still not a plot twist I saw coming."-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Julia and the Shark
"Panic poured into the space where my certainty had been, hot and sharp."-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Julia and the Shark
"I like how everything echoes with everything else if you listen hard enough"-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Julia and the Shark
"Dad's listening became loud, you know how that happens when someone is really concentrating and you can feel the white noise of their attention."-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Julia and the Shark
10. Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1)
By: Mariely Lares
3.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Rumor has it on the streets of sixteenth-century New Spain, there's a new vigilante in town serving… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"When no one is around to talk in your ear, then you can hear the only voice that really matters. Your own."-Mariely Lares, Sun of Blood and Ruin (Sun of Blood and Ruin, #1)
11. Needle
By: Patrice Lawrence
3.69
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Patrice Lawrence explores the harsh reality of the criminal justice system for… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
12. If You Still Recognise Me
By: Cynthia So
4.05
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
Elsie has a crush on Ada, the only person in the world who truly understands her. Unfortunately, th… read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- queer
"I wonder if Ada would be able to feel the sapphic vibes if she could see the things she and I wrote to each other through the eyes of someone who was an outsider to our friendship."-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me
"And I lie down and look at the ceiling, and I wonder how adults learn to love with this feeling that the past is always growing bigger, that you're always losing mroe of yourself to it."-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me
"I didn't truly believe it back then. That I deserved to be seen. I do now, though. I do. And being seen requires being open about myself. Joan looks at me, soft, patient. I want to be seen."-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me
"There's nothing like meeting someone and feeling comfortable with them instantly. That to me is the closest thing we have to magic in the world. The inexplicable connection that we just feel, right a…"-Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me
13. A Pinch of Magic (A Pinch of Magic, #1)
By: Michelle Harrison
4.07
Format: 368 pages, ebook
A spellbinding middle grade fantasy about three sisters--adventurous Betty, curious Charlie, and pr… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- young adult
- adventure
14. The Light in Everything
By: Katya Balen
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the author of October, October, shortlisted for the 2022 CILIP Carnegie Medal, comes a life-af… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
15. Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Remixed Classics)
By: C.B. Lee
4.01
Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition
Two intrepid girls hunt for a legendary treasure on the deadly high seas in this YA remix of the cl… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- historical
- pirates
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
"Oh, she deserves so many good things, and I want to be one of them"-C.B. Lee, Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Remixed Classics)
16. Sixteen Souls
By: Rosie Talbot
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Sixteen-year-old Charlie Frith has problems. His crush is dating someone else, his sisters have gli… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- queer
17. The Ivory Key (The Ivory Key Duology, #1)
By: Akshaya Raman
3.73
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Magic, a prized resource, is the only thing between peace and war. When magic runs out, four estran… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"My mother used to say that once you've made a choice, you have to act as though it's been made forever. But I don't know if I believe that's true. Our lives aren't decided by one choice, but by a ser…"-Akshaya Raman, The Ivory Key (The Ivory Key Duology, #1)
18. Frying Plantain
By: Zalika Reid-Benta
3.82
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “tru… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- audiobook
19. The Blue Book of Nebo
By: Manon Steffan Ros
4.16
Format: 156 pages, ebook
Prize-winner in three categories of the 2019 Wales Book of the Year Award, The Blue Book of Nebo p… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
"Diuen que els vincles de sang no es tornen mai aigua, però els veu que l'aigua es pot tornar sang."-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo
"La humanitat és una cosa espectacular, tan preparada per estimar sense conviccions, sense complexos."-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo
20. When Our Worlds Collided
By: Danielle Jawando
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
When fourteen-year-old Shaq is stabbed outside of a busy shopping centre in Manchester, three teena… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- young adult
- lgbt
21. The Cats We Meet Along the Way
By: Nadia Mikail
3.49
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
A stunning debut young adult novel set in Malaysia, charting Aisha and her family on a roadtrip thr… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- audiobook
"What happened when someone who made a home a home for you was not there to make it one any more?"-Nadia Mikail, The Cats We Meet Along the Way
22. Without Prejudice
By: Nicola Williams
3.62
Format: 249 pages, Hardcover
Black female barrister Lee Mitchell thinks she has it made when she takes on a dream client, financ… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
23. The Song that Sings Us
By: Nicola Davies
3.99
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
When animals talk, it’s time humans listened: Harlon has been raised to protect her younger sibling… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
24. Ellie Pillai Is Brown
By: Christine Pillainayagam
3.87
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
The perfect coming-of-age summer romance by the most spectacularly funny and original debut UKYA vo… read more
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- young adult
- audiobook
25. Her Dark Wings
By: Melinda Salisbury
3.64
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Her Dark Wings is a modern-day take on the Persephone myth, infused with the intense potency of tee… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- audiobook
"Are you just going to let me have everything I ask for?"-Melinda Salisbury, Her Dark Wings
"Most people have two faces. If you haven’t learned that by now, there’s no hope for you."-Melinda Salisbury, Her Dark Wings
"I’d thought it would just be a kiss, like a hundred kisses before. I thought I knew what to do, how it would go. I didn’t know anything at all."-Melinda Salisbury, Her Dark Wings
"His mouth was cold, he tasted like ice, or salt, or diamonds—something clear and sharp and glittering, something that would quench or call a thirst, or buy an army, start a war."-Melinda Salisbury, Her Dark Wings
26. Book of Wings
By: Tawhida Tanya Evanson
3.01
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
In this sweeping, allusive novel, the celebrated poet, dervish, and oral storyteller Tawhida Tanya … read more
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- fiction
27. Splinters of Sunshine
By: Patrice Lawrence
3.52
Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition
From the multi-award-winning author of Orangeboy, comes a YA road-trip mystery. I pick up the en… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
28. Read Between the Lies
By: Malcolm Duffy
3.60
Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition
Tommy is talented, cool, a young offender, and dyslexic. Ryan is smart, uncool, well-behaved, and … read more
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- fiction
- young adult
29. Truth Be Told
By: Sue Divin
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Tara is from Derry, Faith is from Armagh; their lives are very different, but they look exactly the… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- queer
30. Kemosha of the Caribbean
By: Alex Wheatle
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Kemosha and her brother have lived their whole lives in slavery. Sold away to work in lawless Port … read more
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- lesbian
- audiobook
- adventure
- lgbt
- historical
- pirates
- young adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- queer
31. Full Shift: A Graphic Novel
By: Jennifer Dugan
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In this queer, supernatural YA graphic novel from the author of Some Girls Do and the illustrator o… read more
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- lesbian
- lgbt
- young adult
- queer
