19 Best young adult books like Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1) by Aiden Thomas

Cover of Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1) by Aiden Thomas

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…

"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)

If you liked the young adult plot in Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1) by Aiden Thomas , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, #1)

By: Benjamin Alire Sáenz

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way … read more

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

2. Carry On

By: Rainbow Rowell

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A #1 New York Times-bestseller Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's wh… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer

3. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

By: Mackenzi Lee

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Henry "Monty" Montague was born and bred to be a gentleman, but he was never one to be tamed. The f… read more

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4. The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

By: Nora Sakavic

4.02

Format: 237 pages, ebook

Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. He's short, he's fast… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Shirt off."

-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

"Are you stupid?"

-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

"Give your back to me."

-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

"I don’t understand suicide,"

-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)

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5. Otherworldly

By: F.T. Lukens

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This Is Ever After. Seventeen-year-old E… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
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6. Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)

By: Alice Oseman

4.49

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about l… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Una parte de la intimidad consiste en confiar en alguien lo suficiente como para renunciar a una parte de ese control. Y eso, a veces, es muy difícil. Pero es importante que recuerdes que, si Nick y …"

-Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)

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7. 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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  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • 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

Cover of All That’s Left in the World (All That's Left in the World, #1) by Erik J. Brown

8. 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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  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"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)

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9. Hell Followed With Us

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Prepare to die. His kingdom is near. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cu… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Hell Followed With Us book and Aiden Thomas's Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

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10. 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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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"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

Cover of I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1) by Mason Deaver

11. 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

Similar categories in Mason Deaver's I Wish You All the Best (I Wish You All the Best, #1) book and Aiden Thomas's Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • 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)

Cover of Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1) by Aiden Thomas

12. 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

Similar categories in Aiden Thomas's Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1) book and Aiden Thomas's Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

  • romance
  • urban fantasy
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • 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)

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13. In Deeper Waters

By: F.T. Lukens

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A young prince must rely on a mysterious stranger to save him when he is kidnapped during his comin… read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The world isn't kind" Tal said as Garrett held him at arm's length, the flames of the torch flickering from the ground, casting both in eerie shadows. "But that doesn't mean I cant be."

-F.T. Lukens, In Deeper Waters

"Heart aching, he decided then he wouldn't allow his magic to become a weapon, even for his own family. He'd rather be locked in a tower or exiled off the known map than become the monster his heritag…"

-F.T. Lukens, In Deeper Waters

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14. 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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  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"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

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15. Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

By: Lex Croucher

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Heartstopper meets A Knight’s Tale in this queer medieval rom-com YA debut about love, friendship, … read more

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  • romance
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"To be afraid you must have something you cannot bear to lose."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"You know fathers aren't always right just by virtue of being fathers."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"Not everybody lives for the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of the little black and white squares"

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

"The problem with compromise is that... you sit on the fence for so long that you discover you've built a kingdom on it."

-Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

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16. Most Ardently

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A trans boy searches for a future―and a romance―in which he can live and love openly as himself in … read more

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  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"I love you, Oliver," Darcy said, "Most ardently."

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"We're permitted to bring a guest,' Darcy said. 'We could bring a guest every week if we wanted to. I'd be happy to make you mine.' Oliver arched an eyebrow. Darcy's face flushed pink. 'My... guest. T…"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"Just the notion of being able to spend multiple days as himself made Oliver feel lighter. He finished his tea and stood, the heaviness of his argument with his mother melting away at the prospect of …"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

Cover of So This Is Ever After by F.T. Lukens

17. So This Is Ever After

By: F.T. Lukens

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Carry On meets Arthurian legend in this funny, subversive young adult fantasy about what happens af… read more

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  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Well, your princess isn't in another tower. She's dead."

-F.T. Lukens, So This Is Ever After

"His horrible, beautiful face and his stupid perfect magic and his snarky hilarious comments. It bothered me that he felt guilty over my predicament. It bothered me that he felt stuck here in the cast…"

-F.T. Lukens, So This Is Ever After

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18. Boyfriend Material (London Calling, #1)

By: Alexis Hall

4.00

Format: 425 pages, Paperback

When tangentially ― and reluctantly ― famous Luc O'Donnell is forced back into the spotlight in the… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Well, isn’t this cosy."

-Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material (London Calling, #1)

"You really do own your illiteracy, don’t you?"

-Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material (London Calling, #1)

"You know you’re wearing pyjamas wrong, right?"

-Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material (London Calling, #1)

"It will never stop hurting but it will stop mattering."

-Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material (London Calling, #1)

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19. Spell Bound

By: F.T. Lukens

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Two rival apprentice sorcerers must team up to save their teachers and protect their own magic in t… read more

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  • romance
  • urban fantasy
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
"Sometimes a family was a mischievous magical boss, her magical rival turned friend, a magical girl who used to be a babysitter and now was like an older sister, and the person you didn't understand i…"

-F.T. Lukens, Spell Bound

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20. 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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  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • queer
"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

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21. Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix book and Aiden Thomas's Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • queer
"We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our own lives, from the ribs of the girls we were once assumed to be."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

"Gatsby and I may have been nothing to men like Tom Buchanan, but men like that did not know we were as divine as the heavens. We were boys who had created ourselves. We had formed our own bodies, our…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

"There's no use denying that I fell a little bit in love with Jay, at least as much in love as I've ever been with any body. You see, Nicky, boys are always falling in love with me, but I don't fall m…"

-Anna-Marie McLemore, Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

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Rainbow Rowell

4.00

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4.02

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