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Asian (East)

• Under the Lights by Dahlia Adler – L
• Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert – G
• Seven Tears at High Tide by CB Lee – B
• Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee – B
• *I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee – B
• A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo
• *Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
• Sacrifice by Cindy Pon
• Noteworthy by Riley Redgate – B
• The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie
• A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith – B
• Odd One Out by Nic Stone
• It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura – L
• *Dear Twin by Addie Tsai
• Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu
• Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde – B

NA/Adult

• Deadline by Stephanie Ahn – L
• Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom – T
• The Trouble by Daria Defore
• Private Eye and His Only Valentine by Katrina Jackson
• Ice Cream Lover by Jackie Lau – B
• *She Who Became the Sun by Shelly Parker-Chan
• Soul to Keep by Rebekah Weatherspoon
• Sated by Rebekah Weatherspoon
• Human Enough by E.S. Yu

Asian (South)

MG

• The Best At It by Maulik Pancholy – G

YA

• Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju
• Vanished by E.E. Cooper – B
• *The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar – L
• *We Are Totally Normal by Rahul Kanakia
• The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan – L
• When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore – T
• Jaya and Rasa by Sonia Patel – T
• Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi

Adult

• Love Bi the Way by Bhaavna Arora – B
• Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam
• Blue Boy by Rakesh Satyal – G
• She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya
• Spice and Smoke by Suleikha Snyder

Asian (Southeast)

YA

• Don’t Tell My Mother by Brigitte Bautista
• “Murders at the Rue Apartelle, Boracay” by Rin Chupeco in His Hideous Heart – T
• Wicked As You Wish by Rin Chupeco
• Dirty Wings by Sarah McCarry

NA/Adult

• You, Me, U.S. by Brigitte Bautista
• Another Word for Happy by Agay Llanera – G
• Hold Me by Courtney Milan – B
• In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard

Asian (West)

See “Middle Eastern” for characters of descent from West Asian countries other than Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan

YA

• One Man Guy and Hold My Hand by Michael Barakiva

NA/Adult

• Out on Good Behavior by Dahlia Adler (LI)

Black

MG

• Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender
• King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
• *In the Key of Us by Mariama Lockington
• *Meow or Never by Jazz Taylor
• The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson

YA

• *Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
• The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum (LI)
• The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
• This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow – L
• *Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
• This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kheryn Callender – Q
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender – T
• Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert – B
• *Until You Came Back by Jay Coles
• *Jake in the Box by Ryan Douglass
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi – T
• *The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons – T
• Lucky Linus by Gene Gant – G
• King Geordi the Great by Gene Gant – G
• Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett – B
• The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode – G
• *Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
• Dread Nation by Justina Ireland – B
• *Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackson – Q
• *You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
• Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann – B/A
• If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann – Q
• Not Your Villain by CB Lee (Creole) – T
• 37 Things I Love (In No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon – B
• A Blade so Black by L.L. McKinney – B
• The Black Veins by Ashia Monet
• By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery – G
• Gone, Gone, Gone by Hannah Moskowitz – G
• Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz – B
• Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro – G
• The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
• How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters – G
• The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters – G
• Sunday You Will Learn How to Box by Bil Wright – G
• Black Enough ed. by Ibi Zoboi (stories by Kekla Magoon, Jay Coles, Rita Garcia-Willians, and Justina Ireland)
• *A Phoenix First Must Burn ed. by Patrice Caldwell (story by Charlotte Nicole Davis)

NA/Adult

• Wanted, a Gentleman by KJ Charles
• Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole
• His Convenient Husband by Robin Covington
• Fistful of Love by Renee Cronin
• A Hundred Thousand Words by Nyrae Dawn
• Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
• Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
• Kitten by Jack Harbon
• American Love Story by Adriana Herrera
• Work for It by Talia Hibbert
• Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
• Pink Slip by Katrina Jackson (Amz)
• From Scratch by Katrina Jackson (Amz)
• Small Town Secrets by Katrina Jackson (Amz)
• Private Eye and His Only Valentine by Katrina Jackson
• Bang & Burn and Brush Contact by Katrina Jackson
• Neighborly by Katrina Jackson
• Room for Three by Katrina Jackson
• From Terminator, With Love by Wes Kennedy
• Ascension by Jacqueline Konayagi
• She Called Me Woman ed. by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, and Aisha Salau
• Midlife Crisis by Audra North
• Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
• For Sizakele by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene
• When We Speak of Nothing by Olumide Popoola
• You Make Me Wanna by Nikki Rashan
• Touch Up by J.A. Rock and Katey Hawthorne
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
• The Art of Falling in Love by Eli Summers – G
• Crank Me Up by J.D. Walker
• Sugar & Ice by Brooklyn Wallace (Amz)
• Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace
• Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon – L
• So Sweet by Rebekah Weatherspoon
• A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White
• Pink by KD Williamson
• Buildings by B.L. Wilson
• A Drop in the Ocean by Nikki Winter
• The Winter Triangle by Nikki Woolfolk
• Bliss by Fiona Zedde
• Rise of the Rain Queen by Fiona Zedde

Indigenous/Native/First Nations

YA

• Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones – G
• *Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger – A
• *Love After the End ed. by Joshua Whitehead

Adult

• The Way of Thorn and Thunder by Daniel Heath Justice (Fantasy)
• The Final Rose by Eliza Lentszki (f/f Romance)
• Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time ed. by Hope Nichols (SFF antho)
• The Dead Go to Seattle by Vivian Faith Prescott
• Johnny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

Poetry

• Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway
• Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist
• full-metal indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead

Latinx

YA

• *This is Why They Hate Us by Aaron Aceves
• Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta
• Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova – B
• The Resolutions by Mia Garcia
• The Gallery of Unfinished Girls by Lauren Karcz – B
• Not Your Backup by CB Lee – A
• When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
• Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
• Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore
• Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore
• We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
• *The Stars Around Us by Mark Oshiro
• The Last 8 by Laura M. Pohl – Aro/B
• Like Water by Rebecca Podos
• Final Draft by Riley Redgate – P
• Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera – L
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
• Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera – G
• They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera – B
• Infinity Son by Adam Silvera – G, B
• What if it’s Us? by Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli – G
• Odd One Out by Nic Stone
• *Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas – T
• *Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes
• The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante

NA/Adult

• American Dreamer by Adriana Herrera
• American Fairytale by Adriana Herrera
• Mangos & Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera
• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston – B+
• Hold Me by Courtney Milan – T
• Cam Girl by Leah Raeder – B
• Learning Curves by Ceilie Simkiss (Amz)

Middle Eastern

YA

• *Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler (LI)
• *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 and Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram – Q
• Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian

Adult

• Soft on Soft by Em Ali (Amz)
• Flying Without a Net by E.M. Ben-Shaul
• Guapa by Saleem Haddad
• A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
• *The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

Pacific Islander

• The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart by R. Zamora Linmark
• Mistlands by Laya Rose (webcomic)

Romani

• Train by Danny M. Cohen
• Belly Up by Eva Darrows (LI)
• Over and Over Again by Cole McCade
• Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore