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Best YA Fiction with GLBTQQI themes / characters
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
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Benjamin Alire Sáenz (Goodreads Author)
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1)
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Becky Albertalli (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 463,628 ratings
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Carry On (Simon Snow, #1)
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Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 330,797 ratings
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 410,320 ratings
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I'll Give You the Sun
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Jandy Nelson (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 354,813 ratings
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The Song of Achilles
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Madeline Miller (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,896,659 ratings
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Boy Meets Boy
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David Levithan (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 76,249 ratings
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City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 2,138,729 ratings
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The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2)
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Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 217,460 ratings
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Fangirl
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Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 774,564 ratings
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The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
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Mackenzi Lee (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 144,607 ratings
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Red, White & Royal Blue
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Casey McQuiston (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 1,190,199 ratings
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Annie on My Mind
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4.02 avg rating — 55,381 ratings
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Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
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Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 1,116,771 ratings
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They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
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Adam Silvera (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 848,089 ratings
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Every Day (Every Day, #1)
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David Levithan (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 242,318 ratings
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City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 1,006,574 ratings
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Two Boys Kissing
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David Levithan (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 48,524 ratings
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City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 984,990 ratings
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More Happy Than Not
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Adam Silvera (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 67,762 ratings
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
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Emily M. Danforth (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 59,261 ratings
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More Than This
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3.94 avg rating — 69,545 ratings
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Hero
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3.86 avg rating — 18,281 ratings
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Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3)
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Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 178,713 ratings
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Keeping You a Secret
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3.93 avg rating — 36,604 ratings
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Ash
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Malinda Lo (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 37,621 ratings
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The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 472,614 ratings
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The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4)
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Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 157,784 ratings
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Luna
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3.83 avg rating — 21,984 ratings
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The King's Men (All for the Game, #3)
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Nora Sakavic (Goodreads Author)
4.58 avg rating — 77,302 ratings
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Openly Straight (Openly Straight, #1)
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Bill Konigsberg (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 34,102 ratings
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We Are the Ants
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Shaun David Hutchinson (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 53,273 ratings
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Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
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Alice Oseman (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 860,715 ratings
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Geography Club (Russel Middlebrook, #1)
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Brent Hartinger (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 15,647 ratings
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The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
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Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 396,998 ratings
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Rainbow Boys (Rainbow Trilogy, #1)
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Alex Sanchez (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 14,127 ratings
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The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)
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Nora Sakavic (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 102,164 ratings
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Ask the Passengers
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A.S. King (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 25,345 ratings
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Suicide Notes
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3.80 avg rating — 53,581 ratings
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Everything Leads to You
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Nina LaCour (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 35,178 ratings
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History Is All You Left Me
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Adam Silvera (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 78,262 ratings
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City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 561,363 ratings
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Empress of the World (Battle Hall Davies, #1)
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Sara Ryan (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 13,067 ratings
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Leah on the Offbeat (Simonverse, #3)
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Becky Albertalli (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 76,985 ratings
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City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 634,280 ratings
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Autoboyography
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Christina Lauren (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 60,771 ratings
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Beauty Queens
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 55,132 ratings
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The Vast Fields of Ordinary
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3.93 avg rating — 10,713 ratings
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Proxy (Proxy, #1)
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What If It's Us (What If It's Us, #1)
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Becky Albertalli (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 166,630 ratings
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Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1)
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Sally Green (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 56,763 ratings
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Something Like Summer (Something Like, #1)
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Jay Bell (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 12,375 ratings
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The Realm of Possibility
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David Levithan (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 15,845 ratings
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The Bermudez Triangle
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Maureen Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 10,296 ratings
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Radio Silence
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Alice Oseman (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 126,612 ratings
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Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
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3.39 avg rating — 16,798 ratings
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The God Box
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Alex Sanchez (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 4,588 ratings
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What They Always Tell Us
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Martin Wilson (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 4,999 ratings
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If I Was Your Girl
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Meredith Russo (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 41,731 ratings
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One Man Guy (One Man Guy, #1)
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Michael Barakiva (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 12,685 ratings
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The Darkest Part of the Forest
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Holly Black (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 86,955 ratings
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The Raven King (All for the Game, #2)
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Nora Sakavic (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 79,859 ratings
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Almost Perfect
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Brian Katcher (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 9,172 ratings
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The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 381,697 ratings
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Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)
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Alice Oseman (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 559,961 ratings
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We Are Okay
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Nina LaCour (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 99,433 ratings
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The Bane Chronicles
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 106,309 ratings
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My Most Excellent Year
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Steve Kluger (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 7,701 ratings
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Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence
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Impulse (Impulse, #1)
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Ellen Hopkins (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 82,039 ratings
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Rainbow High (Rainbow Trilogy, #2)
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Alex Sanchez (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 6,027 ratings
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Parrotfish
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Ellen Wittlinger (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 5,928 ratings
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Weetzie Bat (Weetzie Bat, #1)
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Francesca Lia Block (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 14,990 ratings
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A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 225,280 ratings
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Tricks (Tricks, #1)
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Ellen Hopkins (Goodreads Author)
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Kissing Kate
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Lauren Myracle (Goodreads Author)
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How They Met, and Other Stories
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David Levithan (Goodreads Author)
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Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
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Alice Oseman (Goodreads Author)
4.55 avg rating — 490,574 ratings
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The Prince and the Dressmaker
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Jen Wang (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 120,356 ratings
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Love Is the Higher Law
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David Levithan (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 7,467 ratings
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Huntress
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Malinda Lo (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 13,452 ratings
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Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
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Aiden Thomas (Goodreads Author)
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Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
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The Upside of Unrequited (Simonverse, #2)
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Becky Albertalli (Goodreads Author)
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Wide Awake
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David Levithan (Goodreads Author)
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Totally Joe (The Misfits, #2)
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Far from Xanadu
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I am J
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Rainbow Road (Rainbow Trilogy, #3)
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Alex Sanchez (Goodreads Author)
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The Order of the Poison Oak (Russel Middlebrook, #2)
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Brent Hartinger (Goodreads Author)
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Sprout
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Symptoms of Being Human
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Jeff Garvin (Goodreads Author)
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Out of the Pocket
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Bill Konigsberg (Goodreads Author)
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So Hard to Say
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Alex Sanchez (Goodreads Author)
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Hard Love
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Ellen Wittlinger (Goodreads Author)
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Between Mom and Jo
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Half Wild (The Half Bad Trilogy, #2)
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Sally Green (Goodreads Author)
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What Happened to Lani Garver
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Teeth
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Hannah Moskowitz (Goodreads Author)
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Mar 26, 2011 09:40PM
There are no gay characters in Uglies or A Great and Terrible Beauty.
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I don't know about Uglies, but *spoiler* Felicity/ Pippa are lesbian, although you don't find out until The Sweet Far Thing. Some people say this was hinted at in the earlier books... personally, I didn't see it.
Emily wrote: "There are no gay characters in Uglies or A Great and Terrible Beauty."Pippa and Felicity are revealed to be in love with each other in later books
Did I miss E.L. Konigsburg's The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World, or was it just not on the list?
Sean wrote: "I don't remember any LGBT characters in the hunger games - I mean, the closest I've come to finding any is people speculating Johanna's sexuality, and the Peeta/Gale shippers"I like to believe Cinna is gay.
We need to take The Hunger Games and Uglies off of the list - neither belong.
I don't remember anybody from The Hunger Games being LGBT....any character I forgot?
Alright, Hunger Games, Uglies, and The Outsiders are all deleted. I'm fairly sure Eona has at least one LGBT character, since it appears on other lists for LGBT books, but I haven't read it, so I may be wrong. Anyone want anything else deleted, just respond to this comment, and I'll take care of it.
Who are the LGBTQQI characters in Paper Towns?
Um Perks most definitely isn't the best book about gays.
Who is gay in Vampire Academy?
Skyla wrote: "Therealbadkitty wrote: "Who is gay in Vampire Academy?"That is what I want to know."
I mean,it has been a while since I've read the series but I don't remember there being any LGBT characters.
And I'm not sure if this book is on the list or not but I'm curious is the book 'By The Time You Read This I'll be Dead' by Julie Anne Peters LGBT? I know most of her other books are but I don't know about this one.
Actually, I think Therealbadkitty is right. I don't remember any gay characters in the book.
What books on this list have teens questioning their sexuality (i.e.being unsure if their gay or bi)
EclecticReaderGirl wrote: "What books on this list have teens questioning their sexuality (i.e.being unsure if their gay or bi)"I think Kissing Kate does but I'm not entirely sure since I haven't read it.
nobody in the fault in our stars is gay
Therealbadkitty wrote: "EclecticReaderGirl wrote: "What books on this list have teens questioning their sexuality (i.e.being unsure if their gay or bi)"I think Kissing Kate does but I'm not entirely sure since I haven't..."
Adaptation and Empress of the World both feature that.
The Mortal Instruments have a gay character but I would hardly call them books with gay themes...
I don't consider How I Paid for College a YA book at all. But it is one of my favorites, so I voted for it.
Michael wrote: "The Mortal Instruments have a gay character but I would hardly call them books with gay themes..."I agree.
Ok, this list could use some cleanup.Removed these for not being YA....
Freeing
Annabel
Dream Boy
Rubyfruit Jungle
Cry to Heaven
The Vampire Lestat
How I Paid for College
The Road to London
Tipping the Velvet
Son of a Witch
A Boy's Own Story
Magic's Pawn
Orlando
Middlesex
The God Eaters
Blackwood Farm
The Color Purple
Stone Butch Blues
Picture of Dorian Gray
His Roommate's Pleasure
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Removed for not being fiction...
Hello Cruel World
The Full Spectrum
Running with Scissors (also not YA)
I think there's a lot more, but that will do for a start. If anyone else sees something that doesn't fit, let me know and I can take it off.
No prob! A lot of the books mentioned had teenage characters, but they were published for the adult market. Like Oranges, for example, or Dream Boy. It's always kind of tricky to tell, but a good clue is to check who the publisher is (YA imprints are different from adult ones) and also to check where the book is shelved in libraries and bookstores. Still not foolproof, especially with all these self-pubbed titles, but a good rule of thumb.
Yeah, most of the books teens read in English class are adult books. Teachers don't assign YA books very often, since the point is usually to study adult literature. We read Dorian Gray and The Color Purple, among others.
Don't see why Proxy is so far down there it's such a good book. *sighs*
I'm grateful that Hollywood High: Achieve The Honorable is in the top 100 on this list. Thank you to everyone who voted for my novel!
Ok, did some cleanup on this list.Removed for not being YA....
Funny Boy
The Automation
Betrayal series
Hadrian's Lover
The Forever War
Cinnamon Gardens
Frat Boy and Toppy
Stockings Required
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Almost Like Being in Love
Killing the Angel in the House
There's a ton more, but that's all I had time for at the moment. If anyone else sees something that doesn't belong, please make a note here in the comment section so it can be deleted.
Do these have any LGBT themes or characters? I don't think so, but not sure, so if someone could confirm or deny, that would be helpful....
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The Selection series by Kiera Cass
The City of Ember (both regular and graphic novel)
Love this list! Needs more lgbtq+ female characters in it though
Rainbowheart wrote: "Ok, did some cleanup on this list.Removed for not being YA....
Funny Boy
The Automation
Betrayal series
Hadrian's Lover
The Forever War
Cinnamon Gardens
Frat Boy and Toppy
Stockings Required
Tel..."
the book thief definitely does not have any lgbtq in it at all sadly. I don't know about the other three since I haven't read them. Yet.
Sean wrote: "I don't remember any LGBT characters in the hunger games - I mean, the closest I've come to finding any is people speculating Johanna's sexuality, and the Peeta/Gale shippers"I think Katniss is ace/demi and that is what they are referring to
I don't remember any lgbt characters in The Maze Runner (at least not outside of fan hopes and dreams)
Tia wrote: "(spoilers for The Mortal Instruments) I don't agree be..."
I totally understand what you are saying -and think it's really sweet that the glbt elements of the book has reached you and so many readers- but I think the reason some people don't feel The Mortal Instruments fits is because it's not a main character's struggle, nor is it related the ultimate plot line. Books like that might better fit lists like:
-Books with Queer Secondary Characters
-YA fantasy/sf novels with major LGBTQ Characters
etc. Pretty sure there is more out there like this? Hopefully!
It's one of those things where I'd personally list it here if the themes had a 50% or more of the stage. ...But that's just me! XP I like to think of who will be using this list and what their expectations will be. (that being said I'm happy with any book that even has a background gay couple, but some want more)
Rainbowheart wrote: "Ok, did some cleanup on this list.Removed for not being YA....
Funny Boy
The Automation
Betrayal series
Hadrian's Lover
The Forever War
Cinnamon Gardens
Frat Boy and Toppy
Stockings Required
Tel..."
I agree with Netta - The Book Thief has no LGBT+ characters. The Selection series doesn't either (At least so far - books 1 - 3). Hope this helps! :)
Ugh, can someone PLEASE take Marked off the list? I know Damian's gay, but his shallow characterization and stereotyping makes my blood boil, especially if it's on a list with David Leviathan and Ellen Hopkins :(
☁Ginjer the ninja☁ wrote: "Fangirl?? when...."
I think the Simon\Baz storyline
I think the Simon\Baz storyline
anna and the French kiss? thirteen reasons why? nick and norah??? NONE OF THESE HAVE LGBT THEMES. Nick and Norahs have a few references to minor characters but really.
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What about the Gone series? Who's lgbtqqi in them?
EclecticReaderGirl wrote: "What books on this list have teens questioning their sexuality (i.e.being unsure if their gay or bi)"Boy meets boy has.
Marianne wrote: "EclecticReaderGirl wrote: "What books on this list have teens questioning their sexuality (i.e.being unsure if their gay or bi)"The Adaptation series by Malinda Lo.
Mike wrote: "Same with The Outsiders."
well i believe that something did happen in that book
well i believe that something did happen in that book
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