Wildthorn by Jane Eagland (YA)
Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller
Bittersweet by Nevada Barr
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
Category Archives: Fave Five
Fave Five: MGs and YAs with Queer Moms
This Would Make a Good Story Someday by Dana Alison Levy (Contemporary MG)
The New Guy (and Other Senior Year Distractions) by Amy Spalding (Contemporary YA)
Stealing Parker by Miranda Kenneally (Contemporary YA)
The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli (Contemporary YA)
Dead Little Mean Girl by Eva Darrows (Contemporary YA)
Bonus, coming in October: 27 Hours by Tristina Wright (Sci-Fi YA)
Bonus #2, coming in 2018: Dear You by Joanne Rocklin (Contemporary MG) and And She Was by Jessica Verdi (Contemporary YA)
Fave Five: LGBTQ YA Sibling-Themed Books
Note: the above are all books with LGBTQ MCs in which siblings are central to the plot and theme (and in some cases also have a POV), not books with siblings who are LGBTQ. The latter will be a separate post.
And I Darken by Kiersten White
Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Jerkbait by Mia Siegert
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
Bonus: Coming in 2018, Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake
Fave Five: LGBTQ YA Set Outside US/Can/UK/Aus
If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan (Iran)
A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith (Japan)
Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley (Mexico)
Another Word for Happy by Agay Llanera (Philippines)
Kaleidoscope Song by Fox Benwell (South Africa)
Fave Five: Biracial Bisexual MCs in YA
Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace
37 Things I Love (in No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert*
Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
*Having read this since initially posting, I see I was misinformed, and the MC is not in fact biracial; she’s in a mixed-race family. (She and her mother are Black, her stepbrother and stepfather are white.) However, the book does have her dealing with being Black and Jewish, so perhaps bicultural would be a better adjective here.
Fave Five: M/F Trans YA with Sex on the Page
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block
Beast by Brie Spangler
Looking for Group by Rory Harrison
About A Girl by Sarah McCarry
Fave Five: M/M Historical Romance
Prosperity by Alexis Hall
Enlightenment series by Joanna Chambers
Mechanical Universe series by E.E. Ottoman
Society of Gentlemen series and pretty much everything else by KJ Charles
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (YA)
Fave Five: LGBTQ YA by East Asian Authors with East Asian MCs
(Yes, there’s already a Fave Five dedicated to queer YAs with East Asian female leads, but those are largely by non-Asian/Hapa authors, because it predated the announcements of a few of these books. There’s no overlap in titles, so make sure you check out both posts!)
A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo (Thriller)
Noteworthy by Riley Redgate (Contemp)
Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee (Sci-Fi)
Serpentine and Sacrifice by Cindy Pon (Fantasy)*
*Queer character is secondary in Serpentine, primary in Sacrifice
Seven Tears at High Tide by C.B. Lee (Fantasy)
Bonus: In NA, check out Hold Me by Courtney Milan (Contemp Romance)
Fave Five: Interracial YA+NA LBTQ Romances with No White People
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore (YA Magical Realism, Latina/Desi, m/f)
Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde (YA Contemporary, Chinese Australian/Black, f/f)
It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura (YA Contemporary, Japanese/Latina, f/f)
Wander This World by G.L. Tomas (NA Paranormal, Afro-Latina/Filipino, m/f)
Hold Me by Courtney Milan (NA Contemporary, Latina/Chinese-Thai, m/f)
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Fave Five: Pansexual Main Characters
Updated September 6, 2018
Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate (YA, male)
Final Draft by Riley Redgate (YA, female)
Out on Good Behavior by Dahlia Adler (NA, female)
Double Exposure by Chelsea Cameron (Adult, female)
Syncopation by Anna Zabo (Adult, male)
Bonus: It’s currently out of print, but The Melody of You and Me by Maria Hollis (NA, female)