Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
By: Adib Khorram
4.24
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
Darius doesn't think he'll ever be enough, in America or in Iran. Darius Kellner speaks better K…
Want to Read $ 5.99"How could I be a tourist in my own past?"-Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
"How could I be a tourist in my own past?"-Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
"...love was and opportunity, not a burden."-Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
"...love was and opportunity, not a burden."-Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
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1. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
By: Sara Pascoe
4.30
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
"What’s “ague?"-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
2. Only This Beautiful Moment
By: Abdi Nazemian
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the Stonewall Honor–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three genera… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
3. Felix Ever After
By: Kacen Callender
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a … read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"It's easier to accept hurt and pain, sometimes, than love and acceptance."-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After
"It's easier, sometimes, to love when you know it's a love you can't have."-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After
"For trans and nonbinary youth: You're beautiful. You're important. You're valid. You're perfect."-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After
"Yeah. I don’t know, I always feel like I can’t figure out how to just stop watching and actually join."-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After
4. You Should Be So Lucky
By: Cat Sebastian
4.39
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance about grief and found family, b… read more
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- lgbt
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- queer
"Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s fucked, but he’s trying."-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
"But he also wants that feeling he had earlier, that feeling of being seen for who he is, and of being liked anyway."-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
"This urge to be kind to a relative stranger is unfamiliar and disconcerting, as if he's discovered in himself a hunger for raw meat or an enthusiasm for vaudeville."-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
"The actual problem is incredibly boring, and Mark hates admitting it even to himself. Unless a couple has the good fortune to get hit by the same freight train, their story ends in exactly one way. H…"-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky
5. Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
By: Adib Khorram
4.24
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
Darius doesn't think he'll ever be enough, in America or in Iran. Darius Kellner speaks better K… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- coming of age
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"How could I be a tourist in my own past?"-Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
"...love was and opportunity, not a burden."-Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
"Don't ask me, we never did anything other than kissing."-Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
"Suicide isn't the only way you can lose someone to depression."-Adib Khorram, Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Darius The Great, #1)
6. All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
By: Erik J. Brown
4.23
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
What If It's Us meets They Both Die at the End in this postapocalyptic, queer YA adventure romance … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"You couldn't catch this gay if you had tickets to Hamilton."-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
"Oh my fucking God, is that adorable or are my standards apocalyptically lowered?"-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
"When he kisses me, my chest feels lighter again, like he's taking on some of my sorrow but passing on some of his love."-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
"We're going to be okay,' I repeated to him. If things get hard again, I'll carry him. And he'll carry me. And we'll be okay."-Erik J. Brown, All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1)
7. Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)
By: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
4.14
Format: 516 pages, Hardcover
In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys in a border town fell in love… read more
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- audiobook
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"When will we all get to be human, Dante?"-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)
"You and Dante are going to map out a new world"-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)
"You taught me how to swim in stormy waters--- Then you left me here to drown"-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)
"I wondered if I was strong enough or good enough to love a world that hated me"-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Aristotle and Dante, #2)
8. The Darkness Outside Us
By: Eliot Schrefer
4.32
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Two boys, alone in space. After the first settler on Titan trips her distress signal, neither re… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"Wow, that was salty. I kind of like it,"-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us
"Today he smells like motor oil. It's sort of exotic-erotic."-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us
"Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power."-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us
"I can manually debug a few hundred thousand lines. It won't be fun, but I ... who am I kidding, it will be fun."-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us
9. 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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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
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- contemporary
- 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)
10. The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2)
By: Erik J. Brown
4.24
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
THEY FOUND EACH OTHER. NOW THEY MUST RESCUE WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND. The highly-anticipated sequel to… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- queer
"He sets the rifle down and we close the gap in between us in half a second. His arms around me, mine around him. Holding tight, as though we're trying to fuse ourselves together. It's familiar and lo…"-Erik J. Brown, The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2)
11. Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
By: Aiden Thomas
4.27
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him. When his traditional Latinx famil… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"But now your mess is my mess, too."-Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
"What are you going to do, stab me ?"-Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
"Maritza smiled. "Let's do this, brujo."-Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
"Julian's chuckle was wet. "Valió ... la pena."-Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
12. 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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- 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
13. 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
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- lgbt
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- 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
14. 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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15. Patron Saints of Nothing
By: Randy Ribay
4.23
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncov… read more
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"We failed him in life. We should not fail him in death."-Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing
"English is a language that lives in the middle of the mouth, but Tagalog is more of an open throat song that dances between the tip of the tongue and the teeth. My mouth feels too heavy, too thick, t…"-Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing
"But there are good things I can hold on to and there are other things I have the power to change. My family, myself, this world--al of us are flawed. But flawed doesn't mean hopeless. It doesn't mean…"-Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing
"Maybe he was reaching out to me through those words, and I let him slip away. I stayed silent. If I had written to him more often, been more honest, would it have helped him work through some of his …"-Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing
16. Icebreaker
By: A.L. Graziadei
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A. L. Graziadei's Icebreaker is a YA debut about two hockey players fighting to be the best—and the… read more
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"I don't wanna be just another one of your former teammates."-A.L. Graziadei, Icebreaker
"I get through the first few weeks of college without dropping out, but that's only because I don't want to deal with Dad whining about it for the next twenty years."-A.L. Graziadei, Icebreaker
"Gdyby @mjames17 dodał sobie te jedenaście punktów do wzrostu, może wtedy bym się przejął.' Siedzę obok niego, podjadam ze wspólnej paczki czipsy solone z octem i odpowiadam: 'Mickey James III @mjames…"-A.L. Graziadei, Icebreaker
17. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
18. 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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- contemporary
- 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
19. Icarus
By: K. Ancrum
4.08
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this… read more
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- queer
20. 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
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21. 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
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