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LGBTQIA+ Rainbow Reads July 2025 |
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Messy perfect
by Tanya Boteju
When a former friend reenrolls at their Catholic high school a few years after a homophobic bullying incident, Cassie decides to start an underground Gender and Sexuality Alliance, exploring her own sexuality in the process
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Time after time
by Mikki Daughtry
Against her parents' wishes, nineteen-year-old Libby uses her college savings to buy an old Victorian house and teams up with Tish to fix it, but as they navigate their own struggles with family, they uncover a journal revealing a forbidden love story from a century ago that mirrors their growing connection
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I love you s'more
by Auriane Desombre
"Ivy Raines, reeling from a public breakup with her ex-girlfriend, a teen TV star, seeks solace at a summer camp as a counselor, hoping for a peaceful escape. However, when she's tasked with running the camp's musical production, she unexpectedly clasheswith Rynn, the co-director. Rynn is bossy and overconfident, especially since she's the most experienced counselor--and to make matters worse, they have unresolved history from their past. As tensions rise between the two, sparks begin to fly, and Ivy finds herself questioning if the summer escape she hoped for might come in a way she never anticipated--through a rekindled connection with Rynn"
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Not Not Normal by Peter FentonEver since his mother died, Jordan's life has been organized, precise, and neat. There is a place for everything, except for chaos, and what is love if not chaos? It's a new school year, and Jordan is tired of being called a freak. When a charismatic new student, Nathan, takes the school by storm and rallies against the rules and social norms, Jordan is disturbed, uncomfortable and enamored with the new kid. Like an unapologetic knight in shining armor, Nathan takes to defending Jordan from bullies and supporting him in breaking out of his shell. When an English class project gives Jordan the chance to share his writing with the school and his feelings for Nathan, he seizes on the opportunity. Faced with stage fright and spotlight, Nathan encourages Jordan to shine and let his writing speak for itself. As Jordan's confidence and acceptance of himself and his father's shared grief gradually grows, so do his feelings for Nathan. Will Jordan allow himself to experience the love Nathan is offering him?
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Love points to you
by Alice Lin
"When Angela Wu offers Lynda Fan the chance to design characters for her Otome game, Lynda discovers things she never knew about herself or her heart"
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A world worth saving
by Kyle Lukoff
A's parents drag him to weekly meetings where parents deadname A and his trans friends, but A discovers the meeting is run by a demon feeding off kids' misery, in a story intertwining Jewish mythology with the impacts of transphobia. Simultaneous eBook.
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The trial period
by Autumn Morrow
"Ashley Marie Parker and Lizzie Hernandez have exactly three things in common: neither have been in a relationship for more than two weeks; they share the same best friend, Camille; and they cannot stand one another. Parker is a boundary-pushing fashionista and Lizzie is an introverted musician with stage fright...Camille challenges them to date each other for one month. So Parker and Lizzie spend a month going on dates, and opening up to one another...Facing their own separate hurdles, Parker and Lizzieneed to understand if their relationship is strong enough to combat their old habits, and if you can truly fall in love after only 30 days"
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Run away with me
by Brian Selznick
Daniel is spending his sixteenth summer in Rome and encounters a shadow, who becomes a voice who becomes a boy his age, Angelo, and soon they have an affection and a closeness and fear of what happens next
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Right beside you
by Tucker Shaw
"A vintage polaroid camera sends Eddie to early 20th-century New York, where he explores the underground queer life and meets Francis, while in present-day New York, Eddie meets Theo and must choose between romantic fantasies of the past or reality"
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Say a little prayer
by Jenna Voris
"After being sentenced to a week of church camp as punishment, Riley Ackerman decides to commit all seven deadly sins while there"
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A song for you & I
by Kay O'Neill
Rowan knows what they want: to be a ranger, protecting their village alongside their flying horse Kes, but when Kes is injured, Rowan is paired with lackadaisical sheep herder Leone, whose own struggles and endless support brings new possibilities. Simultaneous and eBook. Illustrations.
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Kirby's lessons for falling (in love)
by Laura Gao
After Kirby Tan breaks her arm at the rock-climbing invitationals she joins the newspaper club, where she meets and falls for astrology-obsessed Bex and then struggles to balance her queer identity with her obligations to family and community. Simultaneous and eBook. Illustrations.
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