Middle Grade

Male Protags

• The Ship We Built by Lexie Bean
• King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
• Better Nate than Ever by Tim Federle
• Thanks a Lot, Universe by Chad Lucas (Audible)
• Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff (Audible)

Female Protags

• Almost Flying by Jake Maia Arlow (Audible)
• Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
• The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake
• Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker
• Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender
• Star Crossed by Barbara Dee
• Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff (Audible)
• Hurricane Season by Nicole Melleby
• In the Role of Brie Hitchens… by Nicole Melleby (Audible)
• How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby (Audible)
• Ellen Outside the Lines by A.J. Sass (Audible)

Nonbinary Protags

• Both Can Be True by Jules Machias (Audible)
• Spin With Me by Ami Polonsky (Audible)
• Ana on the Edge by A.J. Sass (Audible)

Anthologies

• This is Our Rainbow ed. by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby

Young Adult

Male Protags

Realistic

• How it All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi
• Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (CD | Audible)
• What If It’s Us? by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera (CD | Audible)
• The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
• One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva (CD | Audible)
• Something Like Summer by Jay Bell (Audible)
• This Is Kind Of An Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender (Audible * MP3 CD)
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• May the Best Man Win by ZR Ellor
• The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle (CD | Audible)
• Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales
• We Contain Multitudes by Sarah Henstra (Audible)
• Social Intercourse by Greg Howard (CD | Audible)
• Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg (Audible)
• Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg (Audible)
• The Music Of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg (Audible)
• The Sidekicks by Will Kostakis (Audible)
• All We Can Do is Wait by Richard Lawson (Audible)
• Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee
• The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (Audible)
• Boy meets Boy by David Levithan (MP3 CD | Audible)
• Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan (CD | Audible)
• Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith (Audible)
• Act Cool by Tobly McSmith
• I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson (Audible)
• Release by Patrick Ness (Audible)
• Anger Is A Gift by Mark Oshiro (Audible | CD)
• Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate (MP3 CD | Audible)
• Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig (Audible)
• White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig (Audible)
• Camp by L.C. Rosen (Audible)
• Keep This To Yourself by Tom Ryan (CD)
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (CD | Audible)
• Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
• Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa (CD | Audible)
• Drag Teen by Jeffery Self (Audible)
• A Very, Very Bad Thing by Jeffery Self (Audible)
• Jerkbait by Mia Siegert (Audible | MP3)
• The Dangerous Art of Blending In by Angelo Surmelis (Audible)
• Date Me, Bryson Keller! by Kevin van Whye (Audible)
• Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley (CD | Audible)
• What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson (Audible)
• We Now Return to Regular Life by Martin Wilson (Audible | MP3)

Speculative

• Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak (MP3 CD|Audible)
• Last Bus To Everland by Sophie Cameron (Audible | CD)
• The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich (Audible)
• The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
• The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon
• The Fascinators by Andrew Eliopulos (CD|Audible)
• The Disasters by MK England (CD | Audible)
• We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson (Audible)
• At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson (Audible)
• The Past And Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson (Audible | CD)
• The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune (CD|Audible)
• Fever King by Victoria Lee (Audible|MP3 CD)
• Proxy by Alex London (Audible)
• Hero by Perry Moore (MP3 CD | Audible)
• The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros
• Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (Audible)
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera (CD | Audible)
• They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera (Audible)
• Timekeeper by Tara Sims (Audible| MP3 CD)
• The Shadow War by Lindsay Smith
• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
• And I Darken by Kiersten White (CD | Audible)

Female Protags

Realistic

• Under the Lights by Dahlia Adler (Audible | Libro.fm)
• Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler (Audible | Libro.fm)
• Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler (Audible | Libro.fm)
• His Hideous Heart by Dahlia Adler (Audible | Libro.fm)
• Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli (Audible)
• Far From the Tree by Robin Benway (Audible)
• I Kissed Alice by Anna Birch (Audible | Libro.fm)
• The Pursuit of Miss Heartbreak Hotel by Moe Bonneau (Audible)
• Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju (Audible | CD)
• Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown (Audible)
• Echo After Echo by AR Capetta (Audible)
• Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert (Audible)
• Starworld by Audrey Coulthurst (Audible | CD)
• The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth (MP3 CD | Audible)
• Belly Up by Eve Darrows (Audible)
• Unbecoming by Jenny Downham (Audible)
• Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan (Audible)
• Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan (Audible | Libro.fm)
• Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan (Audible | Libro.fm)
• Melt With You by Jennifer Dugan (Audible | Libro.fm)
• I Hate Everyone But You by Gaby Dunn and Alison Raskin (Audible)
• My Heart Underwater by Laurel Flores Fantauzzo
• Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan (CD | Audible)
• All Eyes On Us by Kit Frick (Audible | CD)
• Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard (CD | Audible)
• Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden (CD | Audible)
• Amelia Westlake Was Never Here by Erin Gough
• None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio (Audible) – I
• Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins (Audible)
• You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
• The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Kahn (Audible)
• Ask the Passengers by A.S. King (Audible)
• Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner
• Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour (Audible)
• We Are Okay by Nina LaCour (Audible)
• I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee
• Squad by Mariah MacCarthy (Audible | CD)
• People Like Us by Dana Mele (Audible)
• The Prom by Saundra Mitchell
• This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp (MP3 CD | Audible)
• Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp (Recorded Books)
• Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters (Audible)
• Lies My Girlfriend Told Me by Julie Anne Peters (CD | Audible)
• The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus (Audible)
• Like Water by Rebecca Podos (Audible)
• The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston (Audible | CD)
• Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
• Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen (Audible)
• Late to the Party by Kelly Quindlen
• Just Juliet by Charlotte Reagan (Audible)
• Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (MP3 CD | Audible)
• Unspeakable by Abbie Rushton (Audible)
• If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo (CD | Audible)
• Empress of the World by Sara Ryan (Audible)
• This is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi (Audible)
• The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth (CD|Audible)
• The Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy Spalding (Audible)
• It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura (Audible)
• Pulp by Robin Talley (CD|Audible)
• Music From Another World by Robin Talley (CD|Audible)
• The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre by Robin Talley (CD|Audible)
• Who I Was With Her by Nita Tyndall
• The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante (Audible)
• The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde (Audible)
• The Gravity Between Us by Kristen Zimmer (Audible)

Speculative

• Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
• Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block (MP3 CD|Audible)
• The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow (CD | Audible)
• The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta (Audible)
• The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose Capetta (Audible)
• Once and Future by Cori McCarthy and Amy Rose Capetta (Audible|CD)
• Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer
• Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova (Audible)
• Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst (Audible)
• Inkmistress by Audrey Coulthurst (Audible)
• Dreadnought by April Daniels (Audible)
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (Audible)
• The Cerulean by Amy Ewing (Audible|CD)
• Rise by Ellen Goodlett (Audible)
• The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl
• The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman (Audible|CD)
• Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (Audible)
• The Afterward by E. K. Johnston (Audible)
• Witches of Ash and Ruin by E. Latimer (Audible)
• Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee (Audible)
• The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzie Lee (Audible)
• Furyborn by Claire Legrand (Audible)
• Ash by Malinda Lo (MP3 CD | Audible)
• Huntress by Malinda Lo (MP3 CD | Audible)
• Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh (Audible)
• We Set The Dark On Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia (Audible | CD)
• Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy
• Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan (Audible | CD)
• Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro
• A Curse of Roses by Diana Pinguicha
• The Last 8 by Laura Pohl (Audible | CD)
• The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski (CD|Audible)
• Out Of Salem by Hal Schrieve (Audible | Audio CD)
• These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling (Audible)
• The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling
• Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters
• The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters
• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Male and Female Protags

Realistic

• Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan
• You Know Me Well by David Levithan and Nina LaCour (CD | Audible)
• Technically, You Started It by Lana Wood Johnson (Audible)
• Like A Love Story by Abdi Nazemian (Audible | CD)
• Birthday by Meredith Russo (Audible)

Speculative

• Red Skies Falling by Alex London
• As I Descended by Robin Talley (CD|Audible)

Non-Binary Protags

Realistic

• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• I Wish You All The Best by Mason Deaver (Audible)
• The Ghosts We Keep by Mason Deaver
• Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin (CD | Audible)

Speculative

• Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz (MP3 CD | Audible)
• Out Of Salem by Hal Schrieve (Audible | Audio CD)

Anthologies

• His Hideous Heart ed. by Dahlia Adler (Audio CD)
• That Way Madness Lies ed. by Dahlia Adler
• All Out ed. by Saundra Mitchell (Audible)

Non-Fiction

• Brave Face: A Memoir by Shaun David Hutchinson (Audible)
• All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
• The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater (Audible)