Here are some of our favorite LGBTQ+ books! These titles are classified as Teen High School (TH) and can be found in the Teen section of the library, unless otherwise noted. |
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These Bodies Between Us
by Sarah Van Name
Friends Callie, Talia, Cleo and Polly spend their summer learning to become invisible, and when it actually works, they revel in their reckless new freedom until they discover disappearing comes at a cost.
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Otherworldly
by F.T. Lukens
When she comes to the rescue of Knox, who needs to make a deal with a human who can tether him to this realm, natural-born skeptic Ellery strikes a bargain to help her family. Yet, despite her skepticism, the growing connection between them might just change everything.
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Time and Time Again
by Chatham Greenfield
Living the same day over and over again, Phoebe is taken out of her comfort zone and falls deeper in love with childhood crush Jess when they come crashing into the time loop.
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How to Die Famous
by Benjamin Dean
Landing a role in one of the hottest reboots, Sunset High, rising star Abel Miller, who is secretly investigating his brother's death on the show, discovers a darkness beneath the shimmer of fame when one of his co-stars is willing to kill to keep their secrets hidden.
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Another First Chance
by Robbie Couch
Forced to join a research study observing teens who are “struggling socially,” 18-year-old River Lang befriends a charming quarterback named Nash but must decide how far he's willing to go for another chance at first love when he discovers what the researchers are actually studying.
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She is a Haunting
by Trang Thanh Tran
Staying in Vietnam at the house her estranged father is restoring, Jade, plagued by sleep paralysis, bugs and a ghostly apparition, must expose the evil lurking in its walls before dark forces consume them all.
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The First to Die at the End
by Adam Silvera
Despite leaving society divided, a new technology claiming to alert people on the day of their death has thousands signing up. On day one, dozens receive their calls, including two boys destined for love until one receives the first End Day call.
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The Killing Code
by Ellie Marney
In 1943 Virginia, Kit Sutherland, a codebreaker helping the war effort, becomes involved in another kind of fight when government girls are being brutally murdered in Washington, D.C., joining forces with other female codebreakers to catch a killer.
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As You Walk On By
by Julian Winters
When his promposal goes epically wrong, 17-year-old Theo Wright, who has his life all figured all—or so he thinks—seeks refuge in an empty bedroom where he is joined by others escaping who they're supposed to be outside the bedroom door.
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We Deserve Monuments
by Jas Hammonds
When seventeen-year-old Avery moves to rural Georgia to live with her ailing grandmother, she encounters decade-old family secrets and a mystery surrounding the town's racist past.
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The Sunbearer Trials
by Aiden Thomas
Chosen to participate in The Sunbearer Trials, where the loser is sacrificed to refuel the Sun Stones, Teo, the 17-year-old trans son of the goddess of birds, must compete against more powerful and better trained opponents for fame, glory and his own survival.
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The Heartbreak Bakery
by A. R. Capetta
Syd, a baker at the Proud Muffin, is perplexed after couples who eat Syd's brownies immediately split up, but when the owners of the bakery eat the brownies, Syd is afraid the bakery may close and it is only Harley, a delivery person, who convinces Syd that baking can actually fix things.
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The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester
by Maya MacGregor
An autistic nonbinary eighteen-year-old moves to a new town and school with the support of their loving father and finds friends in an LGBTQ-plus club, but they all must come together to solve the decades-old murder of a teenage boy and confront the demons lurking in Sam's past.
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The Well
by Jacob Wyatt
Stealing coins from a sacred well to cover a debt, Li-Zhen must uncover hidden memories, bestow great wealth, and face the magical secrets that threaten everything she has ever known when the well requires payment in the form of wishes. This title is in the Teen Graphic Novel collection.
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I kissed Shara Wheeler
by Casey McQuiston
When her rival, prom queen Shara Wheeler, kisses her and disappears, leaving behind cryptic notes, Chloe Green hunts for answers and discovers there is more to this small town than she thought—and maybe more to Shara, as well.
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The Sky Blues
by Robbie Couch
Organizing an over-the-top invitation to ask his crush to the prom, an openly gay high school senior is targeted by an anonymous homophobic viral e-blast, before friends encourage him to fight back by exposing his attacker.
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Indivisible
by Daniel Aleman
An American-born teen and his younger sister scramble to keep their family together when they return home from school one day to find that their undocumented parents have been arrested by ICE and are facing possible deportation.
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The Taking of Jake Livingston
by Ryan Douglass
When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game.
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She's Too Pretty to Burn
by Wendy Heard
A provocative but uninspired photographer and her best friend, a passionate performance artist, endure a brutal summer marked by an all-consuming relationship, a fire, two murders, and three suspicious drownings.
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Can't Take That Away
by Steven Salvatore
When Carey Parker, a genderqueer teen who dreams of being a diva like their hero Mariah Carey, is cast as the female lead in the school musical, they must fight against discrimination and injustice from their closed-minded school administration.
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