Act Cool
By: Tobly McSmith
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Named a Rainbow Book List Title and one of Bank Street Children's Best Books of the Year. A tran…
Want to Read $ 1.99"My reality is that I was born in the wrong body. Their reality is an old book full of rules, and if you follow the rules then you go to heaven. How real is that? More real than me?"-Tobly McSmith, Act Cool
"Love can be good and beautiful, like me and Davina. But sometimes it can be a fever dream running hot and cold, leaving you with art that looks like someone took a poop on a canvas."-Tobly McSmith, Act Cool
"Each trans and nonbinary person is like a unique and beautiful snowflake. Some people are more comfortable in their body and don’t need surgery or hormone therapy, and others do. No one way is right or wrong, and what you’re feeling is your gender dysphoria."-Tobly McSmith, Act Cool
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1. Fanfik
By: Natalia Osińska , Olga Budzan
3.73
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
"Cos mu mowilo, ze moze jednak powinien wiecej rozmawiac ze swoim dzieckiem. Nie bardzo wiedzial, j… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
2. 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
- young adult contemporary
- transgender
- 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
3. 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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- romance
- audiobook
- transgender
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- 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)
4. Act Cool
By: Tobly McSmith
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Named a Rainbow Book List Title and one of Bank Street Children's Best Books of the Year. A tran… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- young adult contemporary
- transgender
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"My reality is that I was born in the wrong body. Their reality is an old book full of rules, and if you follow the rules then you go to heaven. How real is that? More real than me?"-Tobly McSmith, Act Cool
"Love can be good and beautiful, like me and Davina. But sometimes it can be a fever dream running hot and cold, leaving you with art that looks like someone took a poop on a canvas."-Tobly McSmith, Act Cool
"Each trans and nonbinary person is like a unique and beautiful snowflake. Some people are more comfortable in their body and don’t need surgery or hormone therapy, and others do. No one way is right …"-Tobly McSmith, Act Cool
5. Meet Cute Diary
By: Emery Lee
3.25
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
Felix Ever After meets Becky Albertalli in this swoon-worthy, heartfelt rom-com about how a transge… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- young adult contemporary
- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
6. Between Perfect and Real
By: Ray Stoeve
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Ray Stoeve’s Between Perfect and Real is a moving YA debut about a trans boy finding his voice—and … read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- young adult contemporary
- transgender
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Not that I hate my body. There are just parts of it that aren't what they should be."-Ray Stoeve, Between Perfect and Real
"Burlesque involves stripping... It's also historically been a way of satirizing or commenting on politics, making people laugh, showing off your sexuality or your body- it's hella queer."-Ray Stoeve, Between Perfect and Real
7. Angst with happy ending
By: Weronika Łodyga
3.63
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Życie siedemnastoletniego Aleksandra nie jest usłane różami. W domu wciąż brakuje pieniędzy, mama z… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Pomyśl o tym jak o byciu jedynym bez okularów w grupie okularników. To, że ich nie masz, nie znaczy, że jesteś gorszy i czegoś ci brakuje. Po prostu nie potrzebujesz ich, żeby dobrze funkcjonować."-Weronika Łodyga, Angst with happy ending
8. May the Best Man Win
By: Z.R. Ellor
3.23
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
A trans boy enters a throw-down battle for the title of Homecoming King with the boy he dumped last… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
9. The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
By: Sonora Reyes
4.27
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"…any way you engage with your own culture is authentic, because it’s yours."-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
"Let's just say there's not a lot of melanin over there. I could probably pay my tuition selling sunscreen between classes."-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
"I know I can't take all that shame away from him. But I can start by showing him how much I'm not ashamed. Not only am I not ashamed, I'm proud. I can't make him love himself. The closest I can get i…"-Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
10. Out of the Blue
By: Jason June
3.62
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
Crest is not excited to be on their Journey: the monthlong sojourn on land all teen merfolk must un… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"The blue knows what it's doing, if you just trust where it's taking you."-Jason June, Out of the Blue
"Maybe humans aren't as magicless as I thought. There's definitely some kind of power in movies."-Jason June, Out of the Blue
"Under the sea, we're all mer. We're all they/them. And we don't have this strange obsession with sex organs, since we don't have any."-Jason June, Out of the Blue
"He? Elder Crab warned us about this. About humans' obsession with gender, and how labels and rules mean so much to them when it comes to the body."-Jason June, Out of the Blue
11. The Gravity of Us
By: Phil Stamper
3.61
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
As a successful social media journalist with half a million followers, seventeen-year-old Cal is us… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- young adult contemporary
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Fixing seems so permanent, so absolute. Like there’s no room for error. Aim to make things better."-Phil Stamper, The Gravity of Us
12. Mój ostatni miesiąc
By: Marcel Moss
3.39
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
WZRUSZAJĄCA POWIEŚĆ YA O WIELKIEJ PRZYJAŹNI I PRAWDZIWEJ MIŁOŚCI autora bestsellerów o LICEUM FREUD… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
13. Hurt/Comfort
By: Weronika Łodyga
3.84
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Artur ma osiemnaście lat i nie wie jeszcze wielu rzeczy. Nie wie, jak zacząć rozmowę z własnym ojce… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
14. Perfect on Paper
By: Sophie Gonzales
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In Perfect on Paper: a bisexual girl who gives anonymous love advice to her classmates is hired by … read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- young adult contemporary
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"You'd be surprised how easy it is to talk an anxiously attached person down from their spiral if you don't leave them in silence to imagine the worst."-Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper
"But she hadn't chosen me. She was never going to. And it didn't matter how caring I was, or how much effort I put into my hair and makeup, or how much time I put in. It was me, as I was, that wasn't …"-Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper
15. Bliźniaczy płomień
By: Maksymilian Kuznowicz
3.47
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Zamknij oczy. Wyłącz myślenie. Posłuchaj serca. Życie Daikiego wywraca się do góry nogami po tym… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- queer
16. Both Can Be True
By: Jules Machias
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Two kids join forces to save a dog . . . but wind up saving each other. Ash is no stranger to fe… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- transgender
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Gender nonbinary sounds so restrictive. Like your gender can either be binary or not binary. Which...is a binary"-Jules Machias, Both Can Be True
"I finish tweaking my lyrics, then title the song 'Half-way Through the Crossfade.' I record myself playing it on the keyboard and singing it. It feels good. It feels right .I'm saying my truth, and I…"-Jules Machias, Both Can Be True
"I want to be as laid-back about gender as they are. But I'm not laid-back at all, thanks to Dad. I'm Ashley or I'm Asher and that's that. While I'm switching, for that week or so, everything feels gr…"-Jules Machias, Both Can Be True
17. Always the Almost
By: Edward Underhill
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A trans pianist makes a New Year's resolution on a frozen Wisconsin night to win regionals and win … read more
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- romance
- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
18. The Mirror Season
By: Anna-Marie McLemore
4.05
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable story of trauma and healing, told in achingly beautiful prose with great tendernes… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"Then comes another hand. And another one. They come out of the dark like the night is growing them."-Anna-Marie McLemore, The Mirror Season
19. The Passing Playbook
By: Isaac Fitzsimons
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Spencer Harris is a proud nerd, an awesome big brother and a Messi-in-training. He… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- transgender
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"As if Spencer's thoughts were sending out a homing beacon, Justice looked over in his direction, making eye contact, and Spencer understood what Gimli saw when he gazed upon Galadriel. But, no. Just …"-Isaac Fitzsimons, The Passing Playbook
20. Bruno Whatever
By: Leo Gramski
2.91
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Bruno jest jakiś dziwny. Nic go nie obchodzi, niczym się nie przejmuje. Nie lubi imprez, a jak już … read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- queer
21. Truskawkowy blond
By: Edyta Prusinowska
3.50
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
Juwon, jak większość koreańskich idoli, ma absolutny zakaz randkowania. Do bycia gwiazdą przygotowy… read more
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- romance
- lgbt
- young adult
- contemporary
- queer
