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Asian (East)

MG/YA

• Under the Lights by Dahlia Adler – L
• Obie is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar – T
• 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
• *Love & Other Natural Disasters by Misa Sugiura
• 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
• Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki – T
• Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom – T
• The Trouble by Daria Defore
• *Your Love is Not Good by Joanna Hedva
• Private Eye and His Only Valentine by Katrina Jackson
• Ice Cream Lover by Jackie Lau – B
• *Hard Sell by Hudson Lin
• *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

Poetry

• Crevasse by Nicholas Wong

Asian (South)

MG

• The Best At It by Maulik Pancholy – G

YA

• Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju
• Bruised by Tanya Boteju
• Vanished by E.E. Cooper – B
• The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar – L
• *Hani & Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar – B+
• We Are Totally Normal by Naomi Kanakia w/a Rahul Kanakia
• The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan – L
• *Zara Hossain is Here by Sabina Khan – B
• *The Loophole by Naz Kutub
• 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 – L

Adult

• Love Bi the Way by Bhaavna Arora – B
• Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam
• When Tara Met Farah by Tara Pammi – B
• 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
• My Heart Underwater by Laurel Flores Fantauzzo

NA/Adult

• You, Me, U.S. by Brigitte Bautista
• In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard
• The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
• Another Word for Happy by Agay Llanera – G
• Hold Me by Courtney Milan – B
• Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Poetry

• Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
• Burning by Ocean Vuong

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 – G

NA/Adult

• Out on Good Behavior by Dahlia Adler (LI)

Black

MG

• Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender
• King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender – G
• *In the Key of Us by Mariama Lockington
• The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson – L

YA

• *Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (Afro-Latinx)
• The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum (LI)
• The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta – G
• This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow – L
• *Bad Things Happen Here by Rebecca Barrow
• Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
• A Phoenix First Must Burn ed. by Patrice Caldwell (story by Charlotte Nicole Davis)
• This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender – Q
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender – T
• Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert – B
• *Things We Couldn’t Say by Jay Coles
• *The Taking of Jake Livingston 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 – Q
• Dread Nation by Justina Ireland – B
• Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackson – Q
• You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
• *Rise to the Sun 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 – Aro
• By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery – G
• Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro – G
• The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
• Date Me, Bryson Keller! by Kevin van Whye
• How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters – G
• The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters – G
• *Nothing Burns as Bright As You by Ashley Woodfolk
• 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)

NA/Adult

• Wanted, a Gentleman by KJ Charles
• Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole
• *How to Find a Princess 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
• *Greenland by David Santos Donaldson
• Kitten by Jack Harbon
• Meet Cute Club by Jack Harbon
• American Love Story by Adriana Herrera
• Work for It by Talia Hibbert
• Things Hoped For by Chencia C. Higgins (Amz)
• 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
• *The Romantic Agenda by Claire Kann
• 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
• Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers – L
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
• *More of Everything by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
• 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

Poetry

• original kink by Jubi Arriola-Headley
• The Tradition by Jericho Brown
• When the Only Light is Fire by Saeed Jones
• [insert] boy by Danez Smith
• Homie by Danez Smith
• Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

Indigenous/Native/First Nations

YA

• Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones – G
• Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger – A
• The Boy from the Mish by Gary Lonesborough
• Songs that Sound Like Blood by Jared Thomas
• Love After the End ed. by Joshua Whitehead

Adult

• *A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt
• 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
• Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
• Johnny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

Poetry

• Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist
• full-metal indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead

Latinx

YA

• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (Afro-Latinx)
• *This is Why They Hate Us by Aaron Aceves
• Echo After Echo by A.R. Capetta
• Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova – B
• The Resolutions by Mia Garcia
• *Fifteen Hundred Miles From the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa
• 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 Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa (transmasc)
• Each of Us a Desert 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)
• 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 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
• Let’s Get Back to the Party by Zak Salih

Pacific Islander

• The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart by R. Zamora Linmark
• An Island Without You by Malulani Moreno
• 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