Inkmistress by Audrey Coulthurst
Seraphina and Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman
The Second Mango by Shira Glassman
In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard
Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim Wells
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Category Archives: Fave Five
Fave Five: Queer Christmas Stories
Snow Globe by Georgia Beers
Real World by AJ Cousins
Mistletoe by Lyn Gardner
Icecapade by Josh Lanyon
Under a Falling Star by Jae
Bonus: Check out last year’s Backlist Book of December, All I Want for Christmas by Clare Lydon! And though it is a sequel, Wrapped Up in You by Ceilie Simkiss can probably be read as a standalone.
Fave Five: LGBTQ Time Travel Fiction
A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith
The Last Beginning by Lauren James
The Unintentional Time Traveler by Everett Maroon
A Knight to Remember by Bridget Essex
Time Was by Ian McDonald
Bonus: For a novella series, check out Alice Payne by Kate Heartfield!
Fave Five: Cis Girl/Trans Boy YA
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
Jaya and Rasa by Sonia Patel
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kristin Cronn-Mills
Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block
About A Girl by Sarah McCarry
Bonus: Not Your Villain by CB Lee has a bi trans guy MC who’s crushing on a girl, but that…may or may not work out.
Double bonus: coming in 2019: Squad by Mariah MacCarthy, The Wise and the Wicked by Rebecca Podos, Something Like Gravity by Amber Smith, and The Book of Love by NoNieqa Ramos
Fave Five: Polyamorous YA
Strange Grace by Tessa Gratton
That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston
Adaptation and Inheritance by Malinda Lo
3 by Hannah Moskowitz
This Song is (Not) For You by Laura Nowlin
Fave Five: Queer WWII Fiction
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
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
