Please note that nationalities listed refer to countries of a character’s descent; they may be of any generation within.

Aboriginal Australian

• Songs that Sound like Blood by Jared Thomas

Anishinaabe

• Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones

Armenian

• One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva

Bangladeshi

• Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam
• The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan

Chinese

• Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert
• Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee (Chinese-Vietnamese)
• A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo
• Hold Me by Courtney Milan (Chinese-Thai)
• Noteworthy by Riley Redgate

Cuban

• Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Doyle
• They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
• Odd One Out by Nic Stone

Ecuadorian

• Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova
• Final Draft by Riley Redgate

Ethiopian

• Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

Filipinx

• Don’t Tell My Mother by Brigitte Bautista
• Another Word For Happy by Agay Llanera

Greek

• The Dangerous Art of Blending In by Angelo Surmelis

Indian

• Love Bi the Way by Bhaavna Arora
• An Unseen Attraction by KJ Charles
• Avenged by E.E. Cooper
• “Elephants in the Pink City” in Love Songs for a Lost Continent by Anita Felicelli (Tamil)
• No Other World by Rahul Mehta
• Falling Into Place by Sheryn Munir
• Keeping Her Secret by Sarah Nicolas
• The. Best. At. It. by Maulik Pancholy
• Jaya and Rasa by Sonia Patel
• Certainly, Possibly, You by Lissa Reed
• Blue Boy by Rakesh Satyal
• She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya
• Spice and Smoke by Suleikha Snider
• The City of Devi by Manil Suri

Iranian/Persian

YA

• If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
• Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan
• Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
• Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian

Adult

• Behrouz Gets Lucky by Avery Cassell

Israeli

Adult

• Flying Without a Net by EM Ben Shaul

Italian

YA

• The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose Capetta

Jamaican

Adult

• Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Japanese

YA

• The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr
• A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith
• It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura

Adult

• His Cocky Valet by Cole McCade
• Southland by Nina Revoyr

Korean

YA

• Under the Lights by Dahlia Adler

Adult

• Deadline by Stephanie Ahn
• Signal Boost by Alyssa Cole
• The Trouble by Daria Defore

Mexican

YA

• Like Water by Rebecca Podos
• The Last 8 by Laura Pohl
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Adult

• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Nigerian

Adult

• Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
• She Called Me Woman ed. by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, and Aisha Salau
• Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
• For Sizakele by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene
• When We Speak of Nothing by Olumide Popoola

Norwegian

• The Aud Torvingen series by Nicola Griffith

Oji-Cree

• Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

Pakistani

• The Disasters by MK England
• When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
• Running With Lions by Julian Winters

Portuguese

• Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard

Puerto Rican

• Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta
• The Resolutions by Mia Garcia
• The Gallery of Unfinished Girls by Lauren Karcz
• Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
• They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
• What if It’s Us? by Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli
• Learning Curves by Ceilie Simkiss
• Summer Confessions by Lynn Vroman

South African

• Kaleidoscope Song by Fox Benwell

Spanish

• Belly Up by Eva Darrows

Taiwanese

• Ruse by Cindy Pon

Thai

• Hold Me by Courtney Milan (Chinese-Thai)

Turkish

• Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve

Vietnamese

• In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard
• Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee (Chinese-Vietnamese)

Virgin Islander

• Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender (Water Islander)