The Better to Kiss You With by Michelle Osgood
Bearly a Lady by Cassandra Khaw
The Garoul series by Gill McKnight
Wild by Meghan O’Brien
Second Nature by Jae
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Category Archives: Fave Five
Fave Five: LGBTQP Set in NYC
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera (YA)
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova (YA)
Brooklyn, Burning by Steven Brezenoff (YA)
The Five Boroughs series by Santino Hassell (m/m)
The SoHo Loft series by Melissa Brayden (f/f)
Fave Five: Queer Poetry by Asian Authors
A Place Called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom
Night Sky with Exit Wounds and Burning by Ocean Vuong
Crevasse by Nicholas Wong
Love Cake by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul and Seasonal Velocities by Ryka Aoki
Fave Five: Queer Vampires
Better Off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Hemovore by Jordan Castillo Price
Wander This World by G.L. Tomas
Desire at Dawn by Fiona Zedde
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
Fave Five: Queer Boarding School YAs
Without Annette by Jane B. Mason
Openly Straight and Honestly Ben by Bill Konigsburg
The Scholars and Sorcery series by Eleanor Beresford
As I Descended by Robin Talley
Girlhood by Cat Clarke
Bonus: Complementary and Acute by Ella Lyons is another one, separated out simply because it’s a novella under 50 pages
Double bonus: Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert isn’t set at boarding school, but does flash back to the bisexual MC’s relationship with her roommate there
Fave Five: LGBTQ Road Trip YAs
Kiss the Morning Star by Elissa Janine Hoole
Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
Looking For Group by Rory Harrison
How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by JC Lillis
A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend by Emily Horner
Bonus: The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour, which features a non-narrating major bisexual character, and the upcoming (2018) And She Was by Jessica Verdi, which features a non-narrating major transgender character (though her POV is present via e-mail throughout)
Fave Five: Hollywood F/F
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
Under the Lights by Dahlia Adler
The Hollywood Series by Jae
The Gravity Between Us by Kristen Zimmer
And Playing the Role of Herself by K.E. Layne
Fave Five: LGBTQ Athletes in YA
Interference by Zoe Reed
Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsburg
The You-Know-Who Girls series by Annameekee Hesik
Jerkbait by Mia Siegert
Spinning by Tillie Walden
Fave Five: Gay and Bi YA with Jewish MCs
(Note: there was already a cross-category post of Jewish MCs in LGBTQ lit, a couple of which were YA titles, so check there too. That was published before most of these were available.)
Openly Straight by Bill Konigsburg (G)
Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta (B)
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert (B)
The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller (G)
Gena/Finn by Hannah Moskowitz and Kat Helgeson (B)
Fave Five: Canon Demisexual Characters
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman (YA)*
Overexposed by Megan Erickson (m/m)
Far From Home by Lorelie Brown (f/f)
Concourse by Santino Hassell (m/m)
Empty Net by Avon Gale (m/m)
*The demisexual character in Radio Silence is not the narrator, but he’s the second biggest character in the book, and as far as I know, the only character with this label in mainstream YA, so I opted to include it here
