LGBTQIA+ Rainbow Reads
September 2025
Out of step, into you
by Ciera Burch
 
You can't outrun love. Taylor and Marianna were each other's whole world - best friends, running partners, practically sisters - until Marianna moved away and Taylor promptly ghosted her. When the former best friends turned rivals end up on the same cross-country team three years later, everything is a competition... and a reminder of old feelings, as well as blossoming new ones. Marianna runs because she's angry. The oldest child of a single mother, she knows all about responsibility - for her siblings, at her part-time job. She just has to stay focused and be faster than the past nipping at her heels if she wants to secure a new, brighter future. With or without Taylor. Taylor runs to prove herself. The only child of a Divison 1 athlete, she's no stranger to high expectations. With enough effort, she knows she can immortalize herself with a state record and make her parents proud. Then, she can discover her own passion. She definitely doesn't have time to untangle her feelings towards Mari. Can this pair figure out a way to work together before their past catches up with them?
This ends in embers
by Kamilah Cole

Once the saint of San Irie, Faron Vincent betrayed her country and now, disgraced and kidnapped, is forced to help Iya grow his bloody empire, while Elara Vincent must undo her sister's damage and save her sister and country. Simultaneous eBook.
The rebel's guide to Pride
by Matthew Hubbard

"When the mayor of a small Alabama town starts targeting Pride events, bad boy Zeke begins hosting a series of "Pride Speakeasies""
Don't Die Alone, Lucas Cook!
by George Lester

Lucas Cook is tired of being the third wheel. He's never even been kissed. Enter Vicky, his new best friend, armed with his late mother's bestselling love guide and a wild transform Lucas into a dating success story. When he finally catches the eye of his long-time crush, Grayson Murray, his world turns upside down. Soon Lucas must decide how much he is willing to change for love and whether he's losing himself-or discovering what he truly wants.
Love at second sight
by F. T. Lukens

Fifteen-year-old Cam Reynolds, a human at a paranormal high school, discovers his rare ability to see the future when he has a vision of a murder, prompting him and his friends to work together to stop the killer before time runs out
Roll for love
by M. K. England

Harper returns to her childhood farm and reconnects with Ollie, her childhood best friend and first crush through a D&D campaign, but their growing romantic tension complicates Ollie's desire to keep her bisexuality private and Harper's struggle to stay true to herself
Death in the cards
by Mia P. Manansala

"When a high school tarot reader's latest client goes missing after a troubling reading, she must apply everything she has learned from her private investigator mother to solve a case of her own"
Sometimes the girl
by Jennifer Mason-Black

"When eighteen-year-old Holiday, an aspiring writer, gets a short-term job sorting through the attic of an acclaimed ninety-something author, the author's secrets change how Holi views art and life"
A fix of light
by Kel Menton

"Hanan is supposed to be dead. The forest outside Skenashogue sent him home alive--but changed. A strange new magic makes every emotion a physical force he can't control. Fox-like Pax is everything Hanan is not. Only his touch can mute the power and quiet the curse. The darkness feeds on secrets. For their love to survive, the boys will have to open their hearts. Can they find their way back to the light?"
When love gives you lemons
by Steven Salvatore

"One year later, Fielder is asked to be one of the best men in his cousin's destination wedding on the Amalfi Coast in Italy, but there's a twist: his cousin is marrying Ricky's sister. Fielder hasn't talked to or seen Ricky once during the last entire, terrible year, but he hasn't given up on his first love quite yet...Except Ricky might have already moved on. Now, Fielder has less than a week to win back Ricky's heart while also trying not to ruin his cousin's wedding"
The Whisperwood legacy
by Jo Schulte

Frankie grows frustrated with her relatives' obsession with their family's amusement park, only to uncover a darker, more sinister story when Oma, the family matriarch, disappears and strange events unfold
All-nighter
by Cecilia Vinesse

"Autumn Povitsky is a high-achieving, booked and busy, straight-A nightmare. She's currently having a crisis of self--she needs a fake ID ASAP--but because she's a total square, she has no idea where to get one. Enter buzzcut hottie Tara Esposito. She's a rule breaker and party crasher of the highest degree, and if anyone knows where to get a fake, it's her. But Tara has hung up her James Dean leather jacket for the night. If she doesn't finish this godforsaken essay that's already weeks late, she can kiss her upcoming graduation goodbye. One brainy girl who needs a fake ID before sundown. One serial rebel who needs to turn in an essay before sunrise. It's obvious what needs to happen here. But with a years-long feud keeping the girls from working together, this may be a night to forget ... or one they'll remember forever. All-Nighter is a caffeine-fueled labyrinth of chaotic escapades--from prom after-parties to library sâeances to underground roller discos--led by two enemies who must decide if workingtogether is better than their worlds falling apart"
One of the boys
by Victoria Zeller

"Grace Woodhouse has left a lot behind. She used to have a great friend group, an amazing girlfriend, and a right foot set to earn her a Division I football scholarship--before she came out as trans. As senior year begins, Grace is struggling to find herplace in early transition, new social circles, and a life without football. But when her skills as the best kicker in the state prove to be vital, her old teammates beg her to come out of retirement, dragging her back into a sport--into a way of life--she thought had turned its back on her forever"