If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan (Iran)
A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith (Japan)
Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley (Mexico)
Another Word for Happy by Agay Llanera (Philippines)
Kaleidoscope Song by Fox Benwell (South Africa)
Tag Archives: Sara Farizan
Fave Five: LGBTQ YAs Featuring First-Generation Americans
Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard (Portuguese)
A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith (Japanese)
Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before by Karelia Stetz-Waters (Estonian)
 One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva (Armenian)
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan (Persian)
Twenty LGBTQ MG + YA Paperbacks Under Seven Bucks
I’ve been doing a lot of hunting for cheap LGBTQ YA lately, as one of the easiest things for people in book world with some disposable income to do is donate. And if you don’t already have on hand to do so, here’s where you can stock up!
- Store posted will be wherever I found it the cheapest.
- Any Amazon links are affiliate for this site.
- Books available under $7 via both BookOutlet and sites that help the author will be posted twice
- One or two of these is actually hardcover, but “Hard Copies” looked sillier in the post title
Every Day by David Levithan – $2.49, BookOutlet
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan – $2.99, BookOutlet
Adaptation by Malinda Lo – $2.99, BookOutlet
Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle – $2.99, BookOutlet
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour – $3.49, BookOutlet
Proxy by Alex London – $3.99, BookOutlet
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden – $5.62, Amazon
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth – $6.24, B&N
Openly Straight by Bill Konigsburg – $6.24, B&N
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray – $6.24, Amazon
Hero by Perry Moore – $6.24, Amazon
Ask the Passengers by A.S. King – $6.44, Amazon
The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle – $6.49, BookOutlet
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan – $6.57, B&N
One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva – $6.52, Amazon
Been Here All Along by Sandy Hall – $6.67, Amazon
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson – $6.70, Amazon
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour – $6.71, Amazon
Far From You by Tess Sharpe – $6.73, Amazon
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan – $6.84, B&N
Ash by Malinda Lo – $6.87, B&N
Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson – $6.91, Amazon
Fave Five: LGBTQ Muslim MCs
A Love That Disturbs by Medeia Sharif (Contemporary YA)
Due Diligence by Anna Zabo (Contemporary Romance)
Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam (Adult Contemporary)
If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan (Contemporary YA)
Moon at Nine by Deborah Ellis (Historical YA)
Bonus: And I Darken by Kiersten White (Historical YA) – Gay MC converts to Islam mid-book
Backlist Book of the Month: Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan
Two things that are seriously rare in LGBTQIAP+ YA are intersectionally diverse books and lighter contemporary with happy endings, especially for queer girls. In her sophomore novel, the awesome Sara Farizan brings both, making this a Must Read of the highest order.
High-school junior Leila has made it most of the way through Armstead Academy without having a crush on anyone, which is something of a relief. Her Persian heritage already makes her different from her classmates; if word got out that she liked girls, life would be twice as hard. But when a sophisticated, beautiful new girl, Saskia, shows up, Leila starts to take risks she never thought she would, especially when it looks as if the attraction between them is mutual. Struggling to sort out her growing feelings and Saskia’s confusing signals, Leila confides in her old friend, Lisa, and grows closer to her fellow drama tech-crew members, especially Tomas, whose comments about his own sexuality are frank, funny, wise, and sometimes painful. Gradually, Leila begins to see that almost all her classmates are more complicated than they first appear to be, and many are keeping fascinating secrets of their own.
Buy it: Amazon * Barnes & Noble * Powell’s * IndieBound * Workman