Please note that nationalities listed refer to countries of a character’s descent; they may be of any generation within. In the case of second-world fantasy novels, they may refer to the inspiration of the setting, particularly in the cases where the author is of that background.

(LI/MS = Love Interest/Major Secondary.)

Aboriginal Australian

• Songs that Sound like Blood by Jared Thomas – G

Anishinaabe

• Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones – G

Armenian

• One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva – G

Bangladeshi

• Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam
• *The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar
• The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan – L

Bhutanese

• Mistland by Laya Rose (webcomic)

Brazilian

• *The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar (Afro-Brazilian/Irish)(LI)
• *Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha

Chinese

• Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert – G
• Ice Cream Lover by Jackie Lau
• Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee (Chinese-Vietnamese) – B(F)
• A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo – L
• *Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• Hold Me by Courtney Milan (Chinese-Thai) – B(M)
• *She Who Became the Sun by Shelly Parker-Chan
• Noteworthy by Riley Redgate – B(F)
• Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu
• Small Beauty by jia qin wilson-yang
• Human Enough by E.S. Yu

Cree

• Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead (Oji-Cree)

Cuban

• Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Doyle
• American Fairytale by Adriana Herrera (Cuban-Jamaican)
• They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
• Odd One Out by Nic Stone

Dominican

• American Dreamer by Adriana Herrera – G
• American Fairytale by Adriana Herrera
• *Finding Joy by Adriana Herrera
• Mangos and Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera

Ecuadorian

• Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova – B(F)
• Final Draft by Riley Redgate – P(F)

Egyptian

• A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar (Egyptian-Greek/Palestinian)

Estonian

• Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before by Karelia Stetz-Waters – L

Ethiopian

• Radio Silence by Alice Oseman – B

Filipino

• Don’t Tell My Mother by Brigitte Bautista
• You, Me, U.S. by Brigitte Bautista
• “Murders at the Rue Apartelle, Boracay” by Rin Chupeco in His Hideous Heart
• Wicked As You Wish by Rin Chupeco (MS)
• The Heartbreak of Corazon Tagubio by Laurel Flores Fantauzzo
• Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger
• Another Word For Happy by Agay Llanera
• No Two Ways by Chi Yu Rodriguez
• Wander This World by G.L. Tomas

German

• Boys of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson

Greek

• The Dangerous Art of Blending In by Angelo Surmelis – G

Guayanese

• Afterlove by Tanya Byrne (Indo-Guayanese)

Haitian

• American Love Story by Adriana Herrera

Indian

MG/YA

• Avenged by E.E. Cooper – B
• *We Are Totally Normal by Rahul Kanakia – B
• Keeping Her Secret by Sarah Nicolas
• The Best At It by Maulik Pancholy
• Jaya and Rasa by Sonia Patel – T

NA/Adult

• *Sings Like a Bird by Nawaaz Ahmed
• Love Bi the Way by Bhaavna Arora – B
• An Unseen Attraction by KJ Charles
• “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
• 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

• *How it All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi
• *Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
• Moon at Nine by Deborah Ellis
• If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan – L
• Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan – L
• Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram – Q
• Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian – G
• Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi – L

Adult

• Behrouz Gets Lucky by Avery Cassell

Irish

• The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth

Israeli

Adult

• Flying Without a Net by EM Ben Shaul

Italian

YA

• The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose Capetta

Adult

• Rough Terrain by Annabeth Albert

Jamaican

Adult

• Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
• Patsy by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
• American Fairytale by Adriana Herrera (Cuban-Jamaican)

Japanese

YA

• The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr
• A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith – B
• It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura
• This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sugiura (LI)

Adult

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

Korean

YA

• Under the Lights by Dahlia Adler – L
• *I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee
• Odd One Out by Nic Stone (Irish-Korean)

Adult

• Deadline by Stephanie Ahn – L
• “Before We Disperse Like Stardust” in Homesick by Nino Cipri
• Signal Boost by Alyssa Cole
• The Trouble by Daria Defore

Lakota

• “Before We Disperse Like Stardust” in Homesick by Nino Cipri

Malaysian

• The True Queen by Zen Cho

Māori

• Mistland by Laya Rose (webcomic) (Māori-Samoan, Māori-Paheka)

Métis

• “Transition” by Gwen Benaway in Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time

Mexican

YA

• We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
• Like Water by Rebecca Podos – B
• The Last 8 by Laura Pohl – AB
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

NA/Adult

• Most Ardently by Susan Mesler Evans
• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston – B

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

Ojibwe

• This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples
• Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead (Oji-Cree)

Pakistani

• The Disasters by MK England – B
• *Zara Hossain is Here by Sabina Khan
• When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore – T
• I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi
• Running With Lions by Julian Winters (LI)

Palestinian

• *You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
• A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar (Egyptian-Greek/Palestinian)

Polish

• Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski

Portuguese

• Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard – L

Puerto Rican

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

Russian

• Stuck Landing by Lauren Gallagher
• Strong Enough by Melanie Harlow and David Romanov
• Abroad by Liz Jacobs
• The Wise and the Wicked by Rebecca Podos
• *Somebody Told Me by Mia Siegert

Salvadoran

• The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante

Samoan

• Mistland by Laya Rose (webcomic) (Maori-Samoan)

Scottish

• Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron
• Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron
• Glasgow Lads by Avery Cockburn
• Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins

South African

• Kaleidoscope Song by Fox Benwell – L

Spanish

• Belly Up by Eva Darrows

Sri Lankan

• Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju
• Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron
• A Convenient Marriage by Jeevani Charika

Syrian

• *Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler (LI)
• *The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

Taiwanese

• *Bestiary by K-Ming Chang
• Ruse by Cindy Pon

Thai

• Hold Me by Courtney Milan (Chinese-Thai)

Turkish

• Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve – L

Uruguayan

• Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis

Vietnamese

• In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard
• The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard
• Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee (Chinese-Vietnamese) – B(F)

Virgin Islander

• Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender (Water Islander)