* = not yet released
Titles in purple feature MCs of color
B – character is bisexual

All books are contemporary unless listed otherwise.

Queer Cis Male Protagonists

• Alan Cole is Not a Coward and Alan Cole Doesn’t Dance by Eric Bell
• Felix Yz by Lisa Bunker
• Better Nate Than Ever and Five, Six, Seven, Nate! by Tim Federle
• The Whispers by Greg Howard
• Totally Joe by James Howe
• Marco Impossible by Hannah Moskowitz
• *The. Best. At. It. by Maulik Pancholy
• The Trials of Apollo series by Rick Riordan (Fantasy)
• So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez

Queer Cis Female Protagonists

• Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow – B
• Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
• *The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake
• Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender
• Star Crossed by Barbara Dee – B
• One True Way by Shannon Hitchcock (Historical)
• *Where the Heart is by Jo Knowles
• *Hurricane Season by Nicole Melleby
• *Middletown by Sarah Moon
• *The Derby Daredevils series by Kit Rosewater/Sophie Escabasse
• Starring Kitty by Keris Stainton
• P.S. I Miss You by Jen Petro-Roy
• The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson

Transgender Girls

• *Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker
• Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
• George by Alex Gino
• Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

Transgender Boys

• *The Ship We Built by Lexie Bean
• The Other Boy by M.G. Hennessey

Intersex MCs

• *Cattywampus by Ash Van Otterloo

Non-Binary MCs

At present I know of no non-binary main characters in MG, but there is representation in the The Trials of Apollo series by Rick Riordan, and The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag is a great graphic novel pick for gender non-conforming readers.