The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde (Contemporary Romance, GQ LI)
Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake (Contemporary, GQ LI)
Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin (Contemporary, GF MC)
Like Water by Rebecca Podos (Contemporary, GQ LI)
Mask of Shadows and Ruin of Stars by Linsey Miller (Fantasy, GF MC)
Bonus: Much less central but still worth a mention: The Pros of Cons by Lindsay Ribar, Alison Cherry, and Michelle Schusterman (Contemporary, Genderless LI)
Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz (bi YA)
The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller (gay YA)
Love and Other Carnivorous Plants by Florence Gonsalves (queer YA)
Take Me Home by Lorelie Brown (f/f)
Empty Net by Avon Gale (m/m)
Bonus: For a romance that reads demisexual but isn’t officially so on the page, try Second Position by Katherine Locke.
Happy National Sibling Day!
Note: These are all books with allocishet MCs who have queer siblings. For sibling-centric YAs with queer MCs, go here.
The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
The Authentics by Abdi Nazemian
Seven Days of You by Cecilia Vinesse
Something Real by Heather Demetrios
On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis
Bonus: Coming up next month, Valley Girls by Sarah Nicole Lemon
Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block (YA Apocalyptic)
The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer (YA Fantasy)
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Fantasy)
About a Girl by Sarah McCarry (YA Speculative)
Outrun the Wind by Elizabeth Tammi (YA Fantasy)
Bonus: Rick Riordan’s The Heroes of Olympus series (MG Fantasy) features some major characters under the LGBTQ umbrella
The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie (YA, L, sci-fi)
The Unbinding of Mary Reade by Miriam McNamara (YA, B, fantasy)
Peter Darling by Austin Chant (T, m/m fantasy)
Escape to Pirate Island by Niamh Murphy (f/f historical)
The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin by Colleen Moody (f/f historical)
The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember (B, f/f)
Love Rising by Piper Vaughn (m/m)
Sea Lover by J.K. Pendragon (T, m/m)
Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner (f/f)
Moon-Bright Tides by RoAnna Sylver (f/f)
Razor Wire by Lauren Gallagher
Silver Wings by H.P. Munro (Historical)
Battle Scars by Meghan O’Brien
No Rules of Engagement by Tracey Richardson
Rise of the Gorgon by Tanai Walker (Paranormal)
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
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)
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
