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Coming Out

Lesbian

• Under the Lights by Dahlia Adler~ (Amz)
• Style by Chelsea M. Cameron
• The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar
• Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters
• Late to the Party by Kelly Quindlen
• Dirty London by Kelley York

Gay

• Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
• True Letters From a Fictional Life by Kenneth Logan
• Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
• The Dangerous Art of Blending In by Angelo Surmelis
• Date Me, Bryson Keller! by Kevin van Whye

Bisexual/Queer

• *Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler
• Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
• Whatever. by S.J. Goslee
• Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley

Transgender/Non-Binary

• I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
• Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
• Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith
• If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

Asexual/Demisexual

• Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
• Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee
• Loveless by Alice Oseman (aroace)

Conversion Therapy

• Throwaway Girls by Andrea Contos
• The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth (Amz)
• All Eyes on Us by Kit Frick
• *The Meadows by Stephanie Oakes
• *Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
• The Summer I Wasn’t Me by Jessica Verdi

Crime

• Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta
• Immoral Code by Lillian Clark – AA+
• Throwaway Girls by Andrea Contos
• All Eyes on Us by Kit Frick
• People Like Us by Dana Mele
• All the Things We Do in the Dark by Saundra Mitchell
• A Good Idea by Cristina Moracho
• Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig
• White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig
• Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig – B+
• Keep This to Yourself by Tom Ryan
• *I Hope You’re Listening by Tom Ryan
• Far From You by Tess Sharpe
• Trust Me, I’m Trouble by Mary Elizabeth Summer
• Sadie by Courtney Summers

Drag

• Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju
• Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig
• Drag Teen by Jeffery Self

Epistolary

• Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
• I Hate Everyone But You by Gaby Dunn and Alison Raskin
• Gena/Finn by Hannah Moskowitz and Kat Helgeson

Fandom

• Starworld by Audrey Coulthurst and Paula Garner
• How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by J.C. Lillis
• Ship It by Britta Lundin
• Gena/Finn by Hannah Moskowitz and Kat Helgeson
• The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston
• Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde – B+,~ (Amz)

Found Family

• The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum
• Brooklyn, Burning by Steve Brezenoff
• The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake

Friendship

Parentheticals are genders of friends in central friendship + number of queer characters in said friendship, e.g. (M/F, 2) means it’s about a male-female friendship and both are queer.

• Under the Lights by Dahlia Adler (M/F, 1)
• Top Ten by Katie Cotugno (M/F, 1)
• The Resolutions by Mia Garcia (M/M/F/F, 1M1F)
• Run by Kody Keplinger (F/F, 1)
• The Sidekicks by Will Kostakis (M/M/M, 1)
• You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan (M/F, 2)
• Being Fishkill by Ruth Lehrer (F/F, unclear)
• Meg & Linus by Hanna Nowinski (M/F, 2)
• Radio Silence by Alice Oseman (M/F, 2)
• Late to the Party by Kelly Quindlen
• Cherry by Lindsey Rosin (F/F/F/F, 1F)
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (M/M, 2)
• The Rainbow Trilogy by Alex Sanchez (M/M/M, 3)
• Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa (F/M/M, 2M)
• Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon (M/F, 1M)
• Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas (M/F, 2)
• Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde (F/F/M, 1)

Friendship Breakups

• We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
• Over You by Amy Reed
• We Used to Be Friends by Amy Spalding

Gaming

• My Year Zero by Rachel Gold
• *Even if We Break by Marieke Nijkamp

Gender Identity

• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard
• If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
• Birthday by Meredith Russo

Gentrification

• By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery

Grieving/Mourning

Parent

• 37 Things I Love (in No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon

Sibling

• Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman – A
• The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle (Amz)

Partner

• The Meaning of Birds by Jaye Robin Brown
• History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera (Amz)
• *Who I Was With Her by Nita Tyndall

Grandparent

• The Confusion of Laurel Graham by Adrienne Kisner
• I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain by Will Walton

HIV/Aids

• We Are Lost and Found by Helene Dunbar
• Skyscraping by Cordelia Jensen^
• Poz by Christopher Koehler
• The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg^
• Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
• Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
• Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha

Hollywood

• Under the Lights by Dahlia Adler
• Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
• Going Off Script by Jen Wilde

Intergenerational

• Unbecoming by Jenny Downham

Mental Health

Female Protag

• Top Ten by Katie Cotugno – B+ (anxiety)
• 10 Things I Can See From Here by Carrie Mac (anxiety)
• Let’s Call it a Doomsday by Katie Henry (anxiety)
• Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp (bipolar disorder)
• Scars by Cheryl Rainfield (self-harm tw for cover) (depression, suicidal ideation)

Male Protag

• The Wicker King by K. Ancrum
• The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg (Depression w/suicidal ideation)
• The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller (ED)
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera (Depression)
• History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera (OCD)

Non-Binary Protag

• I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver (anxiety)
• Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin (anxiety)
• Somebody Told Me by Mia Siegert (PTSD)

Music

• The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde

Politics

• The State of Us by Shaun David Hutchinson

Pregnancy

• Belly Up by Eva Darrows
• Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Hepperman
• Girls Like Me by Nina Packebush

Pride/Stonewall

• *Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackson
• You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan
• *When You Get the Chance by Tom Ryan and Robin Stevenson

Questioning (Gender)

• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• Birthday by Meredith Russo
• Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz

Questioning (Sexuality)

Female MC

• *Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler
• Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman – A
• Look Both Ways by Alison Cherry (Amz)
• The Sky Always Hears Me: And the Hills Don’t Mind by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
• Let’s Call it a Doomsday by Katie Henry
• Ask the Passengers by AS King
• Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy

Male MC

• We Are Totally Normal by Rahul Kanakia
• Deposing Nathan by Zack Smedley

Religion

• Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown (Amz)
• Let’s Call it a Doomsday by Katie Henry
• Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
• How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by JC Lillis
• Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen

Retelling/Reimagining

• His Hideous Heart ed. by Dahlia Adler (various works by Edgar Allan Poe)
• *That Way Madness Lies ed. by Dahlia Adler (various works by Shakespeare)
• Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block (The Odyssey)
• Nothing Happened by Molly Booth (Much Ado About Nothing)
• The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake (Twelfth Night)
• Lizzie by Dawn Ius (Lizzie Borden)
• About A Girl by Sarah McCarry (Amz)
• The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer (Hades-Persephone myth)
• The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember (The Little Mermaid)
• The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode (Cinderella)
• *Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney (Jane Eyre)
• Sometime After Midnight by L. Philips (Cinderella)
• As I Descended by Robin Talley (Macbeth)
• Outrun the Wind by Elizabeth Tammi (Atalanta myth)

Revenge

• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender – T
• People Like Us by Dana Mele
• A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith – B+

Road Trip

• Looking for Group by Rory Harrison
• A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend by Emily Horner
• The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee – B

Royalty

Contemporary

• Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins

Fantasy

• Of Fire and Stars and Of Ice and Shadows by Audrey Coulthurst – B (Amz)
• The Impostor Queen, The Cursed Queen, and The True Queen by Sarah Fine – B
• Rule by Ellen Goodlett
• Furyborn by Claire Legrand

School Violence

• That’s Not What Happened by Kody Keplinger – A+
• This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

Secret Relationships

• *Who I Was With Her by Nita Tyndall

Sexual Education

• Jack of Hearts (and other parts) by L.C. Rosen
• Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley

Sexual Assault

• Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake – B+
• Just Girls by Rachel Gold

Siblings

• Far From the Tree by Robin Benway~
• Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake – B+
• The Spy With the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke
• The Skybound Saga by Alex London
• I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson~

Social Justice

• Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
• Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Social Media

Includes books about blogs, vlogs, and podcasts

• Gena/Finn by Kat Helgeson and Hannah Moskowitz
• Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee
• Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

Space

• The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum
• The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper

Sports

• Tumbling by Caela Carter (gymnastics)
• *The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons (football)
• *Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin (football)
• *She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen (basketball, cheerleading)
• Interference by Zoe Reed (hockey)
• Running With Lions by Julian Winters (soccer)

Survival

• Wilder Girls by Rory Power
• Switchback by Danika Stone

Theatre

• Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta
• Look Both Ways by Alison Cherry – Q (Amz)
• *Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve

Unrequited Love

• Starworld by Audrey Coulthurst and Paula Garner
• Anything Could Happen by Will Walton