Train by Danny M. Cohen
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
The Spy With the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke
The War Outside by Monica Hesse
The Charioteer by Mary Renault
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Category Archives: Fave Five
Fave Five: LGBTQ Witchy YAs
Witch Eyes by Scott Tracey
Hocus Pocus & the All-New Sequel by A.W. Jantha
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova
Strange Grace by Tessa Gratton
The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose Capetta
Bonus: Many of the stories in the Toil & Trouble anthology edited by Jessica Spotswood and Tess Sharpe are queer! And for Middle Grade, try The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag.
Double Bonus: Check out how many amazing ones are coming in 2019, including The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta, The Mermaid, The Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve, and These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling. Yes, I’ll probably post these again next year.
Fave Five: Adult LGBTQA Witch Books
Caroline’s Heart by Austin Chant
Darkling by Brooklyn Ray
Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault
Deadline by Stephanie Ahn
The Witches of London series by Aleksandr Voinov
Fave Five: Collaborative YA Novels
You Know Me Well by David Levithan and Nina LaCour
Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan and John Green
What if it’s Us? by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
I Hate Everyone But You by Gaby Dunn and Alison Raskin
Bonus: Coming in 2019, Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy and Starworld by Audrey Coulthurst and Paula Garner
Double Bonus: Coming in 2020, Meet Me Halfway by Tom Ryan and Robin Stevenson
Fave Five: Queer Historical Spy Fiction
Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly
The Spy With the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke
A Thin Bright Line by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht
Seven-Sided Spy by Hannah Carmack
Bonus, releasing in November: The Best Bad Things by Katrina Carrasco
Fave Five: Queer Indigenous Fiction
Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones
Drowning in Fire by Craig S. Womack
Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time ed. by Hope Nichols
The Way of Thorn and Thunder by Daniel Heath Justice
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
Fave Five: Queer Nigerian MCs
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
She Called Me Woman ed. by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, and Aisha Salau
When We Speak of Nothing by Olumide Popoola
For Sizakele by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene
Fave Five: YAs with Queer Puerto Rican Female MCs
The Resolutions by Mia Garcia
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
Summer Confessions by Lynn Vroman
Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta
The Gallery of Unfinished Girls by Lauren Karcz
Fave Five: Queer YA Magical Realism/Fabulism
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
The Gallery of Unfinished Girls by Lauren Karcz
Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno
Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
About A Girl by Sarah McCarry
Bonus: Coming up in October, Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore
Fave Five: F/F YA to Read if You Loved Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan
A&B by JC Lillis
Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde
The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in LA) by Amy Spalding
Bonus: Seemed a little obvious to include in the five, but: Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
Double Bonus: This is literally just more recommendations; so sue me: Dating Sarah Cooper by Siera Maley, Under the Lights by Dahlia Adler, Style by Chelsea M. Cameron, and Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley.
