* = not yet released
Titles in purple feature MCs of color

All books are contemporary unless noted otherwise.

Queer Cis Male Protagonists

• Alan Cole is Not a Coward and Alan Cole Doesn’t Dance by Eric Bell
• A High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner
• Felix Yz by Lisa Bunker
• King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
• Better Nate Than Ever series by Tim Federle
• *Rick by Alex Gino – A
• The Whispers by Greg Howard
• Middle School’s a Drag, You Better Werk by Greg Howard
• Totally Joe by James Howe
• *Thanks a Lot, Universe by Chad Lucas
• Boy Meets Hamster by Birdie Milano
• Marco Impossible by Hannah Moskowitz
• *The Insiders by Mark Oshiro
• 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

• *Almost Flying by Jake Maia Arlow
• Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow – B
• Hazel’s Theory of Evolution by Lisa Jenn Bigelow – A
• Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
• The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake
• *Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea by Ashley Herring Blake
• Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender
• Star Crossed by Barbara Dee – B
• One True Way by Shannon Hitchcock (Historical)
• Redwood and Ponytail by K.A. Holt
• Where the Heart is by Jo Knowles
• *In the Key of Us by Mariama J. Lockington
• *Pepper Blouse and the Wicked Will by Briana McDonald (Mystery)
• Hurricane Season by Nicole Melleby
• *In the Role of Brie Hutchens… by Nicole Melleby
• *How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby
• *Middletown by Sarah Moon
• *Spin With Me by Ami Polonsky
• *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
• Freeing Finch by Ginny Rorby
• The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith (Fantasy)

Transgender Boys

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

Intersex Characters

• *Cattywampus by Ash Van Otterloo (MS)

Non-Binary MCs

• Spin With Me by Ami Polonsky
• *Ana on the Edge by A.J. Sass

There is also nonbinary representation in major secondaries in the The Trials of Apollo series by Rick Riordan, Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker, and The Moon Within by Aida Salazar.

Gender Non-Conforming MCs

• The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag

Anthologies

• *This is Our Rainbow ed. by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby