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2019 YA Books with LGBT Themes
This list is for 2019 books with gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender characters or themes. Books on this list must be published for the YA or middle grade market.
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Monster of the Week (The Rules, #2)
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F.T. Lukens (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 994 ratings
score: 95,
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Where I End and You Begin
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Preston Norton (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,387 ratings
score: 94,
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Ghosting You
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Alexander C. Eberhart (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 661 ratings
score: 94,
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The Paper & Hearts Society (The Paper & Hearts Society, #1)
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Lucy Powrie (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 1,681 ratings
score: 93,
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The Truth Is
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NoNieqa Ramos (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 1,336 ratings
score: 92,
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Be My Love
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3.59 avg rating — 186 ratings
score: 91,
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Invisibly Breathing
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4.05 avg rating — 295 ratings
score: 90,
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What Makes Us
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Rafi Mittlefehldt (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 311 ratings
score: 88,
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Ricochet
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Kathryn Berla (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 159 ratings
score: 87,
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A Mark on My Soul
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Jordon Greene (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
score: 87,
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You Must Not Miss
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Katrina Leno (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 3,165 ratings
score: 81,
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Never-Contented Things
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Sarah Porter (Goodreads Author)
3.01 avg rating — 708 ratings
score: 80,
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Dear Sweet Pea
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Julie Murphy (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 4,619 ratings
score: 78,
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Fierce Fragile Hearts (Beautiful Broken Things, #2)
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Sara Barnard (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 1,760 ratings
score: 77,
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Patron Saints of Nothing
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4.21 avg rating — 19,547 ratings
score: 73,
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Sapphire the Great and the Meaning of Life
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Beverley Brenna (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 69,
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#Murderfunding (MurderTrending, #2)
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Gretchen McNeil (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 3,949 ratings
score: 66,
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You Must Be Layla
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Yassmin Abdel-Magied (Goodreads Author)
3.13 avg rating — 483 ratings
score: 65,
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Where the Heart Is
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Jo Knowles (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 760 ratings
score: 64,
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What Makes You Beautiful
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Bridget Liang (Goodreads Author)
3.26 avg rating — 46 ratings
score: 63,
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Underdog: #LoveOzYA Short Stories
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3.97 avg rating — 185 ratings
score: 62,
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A Match Made in Mehendi
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Nandini Bajpai (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 1,777 ratings
score: 62,
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Our Year in Love and Parties
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Karen Hattrup (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 592 ratings
score: 59,
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Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance
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4.22 avg rating — 832 ratings
score: 57,
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How to Make Friends with the Dark
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Kathleen Glasgow (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 39,429 ratings
score: 57,
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Girls, Guys and Choc-cherry Pies (Girl vs. the World, #4)
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Meredith Badger (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 53,
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Dear Twin
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Addie Brook Tsai (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 50,
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Call It What You Want
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Brigid Kemmerer (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 17,105 ratings
score: 49,
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Break in Case of Emergency
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Brian Francis (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 581 ratings
score: 48,
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The Grey Sisters
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3.47 avg rating — 213 ratings
score: 46,
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Becoming Dinah
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Kit de Waal (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 460 ratings
score: 43,
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All We Could Have Been
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T.E. Carter (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 703 ratings
score: 43,
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As Many Nows as I Can Get
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Shana Youngdahl (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 1,262 ratings
score: 42,
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What Was Stonewall?
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4.21 avg rating — 372 ratings
score: 41,
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Queer Heroes: Meet 53 LGBTQ Heroes From Past and Present!
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Arabelle Sicardi (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 507 ratings
score: 40,
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I Am Water (West 44 YA Verse Identifiers)
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3.11 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Letting Go
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Cat Clarke (Goodreads Author)
3.34 avg rating — 283 ratings
score: 37,
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Tell Me Everything
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The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms
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3.60 avg rating — 2,364 ratings
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Hotel Dare
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3.72 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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The Paris Project
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Donna Gephart (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 277 ratings
score: 30,
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The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise (Coyote Sunrise #1)
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Dan Gemeinhart (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 31,233 ratings
score: 25,
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Nocturnal Symphony: A Bat Detector's Journal (Science Squad Set 2 (Set of 2))
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3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Secondhand Wishes
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Anna Staniszewski (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 107 ratings
score: 19,
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Maybe He Just Likes You
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Barbara Dee (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 8,086 ratings
score: 17,
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Out of Place
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Jennifer Blecher (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 309 ratings
score: 16,
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Stage Dreams
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Melanie Gillman (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 2,245 ratings
score: 14,
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Cilla Lee-Jenkins: The Epic Story (Cilla Lee-Jenkins, 3)
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Susan Tan (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 167 ratings
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248 books ·
718 voters ·
list created February 9th, 2017
by Rainbowheart (votes) .
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2019, ace, aro, aromantic, asexual, asexuality, bisexual, fiction, gay, gender-identity, genderfluid, genderqueer, glbt, glbtq, homosexuality, intersex, lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, middle-grade, nonbinary, pansexual, pansexuality, queer, sexual-orientation, sexuality, transgender, upcoming, young-adult
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May 25, 2018 09:41AM
Hi! I was an early reviewer for True Romantics by Sarah Lyu, and while I absolutely love it, there are no LGBT themes -- just wanted to let you know. :)
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Thanks for the heads up, Sophia! I removed that one.
Isn't Queen of Air and Darkness coming out December this year unless I missed something?
I can't add it because I'm the "author," but FWIW His Hideous Heart has a bunch of queer narrators (including mine).
Thanks, guys! I removed Queen of Air and Darkness and added His Hideous Heart.
Removed Shadows You Left. No NA on this list, please.
Removed Changing Ways. This is a 2018 release.
Removed Reverie, which got pushed to 2020.
Removed Red, White and Royal Blue. Per the author, this is adult fiction, not YA.
Removed The Friend System. Looks like this got pushed to 2020.
Removed The Stars Around Us and Rise as One, which both got pushed to 2020.
Hello, My YA book (which is a Goodreads book), No Doubt In My Mind, has a prominent gay character and because the book takes place in 1968, it gives a rare historical perspective. I hope you'll include it on your list. Thanks so much!
Sheila Solomon Shotwell
sheilasolomonshotwell.com
Removed There Goes Sunday School. This is a 2018 release.
Removed Heartstopper: Volume One and Grimm Tales: Rise of the Yokai, which have original publication dates of 2018. Also removed Red, White & Royal Blue again. This is adult fiction.
Hey, could you please update this and other lists with the same tags and description additions as for 2018 list ? I just think the explicit inclusion of other queer identities beyond only L, G, B and Ts would better reflect the content of these lists and also allow them to show up if one of the at the moment not explicitly included identities are searched on goodreads as tags.(Possible change of titles to LGBTQIA+ or LGBT+ would be ideal, of course, if possible… :) )
I prefer to keep the title of the list the same, but I updated the tags so it can more easily be found by people searching for queer-oriented YA. :)
Rainbowheart wrote: "Removed Heartstopper: Volume One and Grimm Tales: Rise of the Yokai, which have original publication dates of 2018. Also removed Red, White & Royal Blue again. This is adult fiction."Why did you remove Heartstopper? Is it because it's a Graphic Novel?
No, graphic novels are always welcome! I removed the first volume of Heartstopper because it was originally released in 2018. The second volume releases in 2019, though.
Is it too late to have a book added to the 2018 list?
Not at all! Feel free to add books to the 2018 list. Just make sure they are YA/MG and have an original publication date of last year.
Removed Brooklyn Brujas #3, which got pushed to 2020, along with a few other non-2019 releases.
Removed Loveless, Semper Augustus, and When We Were Magic, which all got pushed to 2020. Also removed Last Night at the Telegraph Club, current publication date unknown.
Removed A Home for Dogs and Goddesses, which got pushed to 2020.
I love the amount of LGBT+ books coming out in 2019. It makes me so happy!
A Place for Wolves should probably be removed since it's not being published anymore.Also you should maybe change at least the description on this since some of these books feature other identities than "gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans". As an aroace, I do not use gay as an umbrella term.
Removed Birdie and Me, Only Mostly Devastated, Each of Us a Desert, and The Mermaid, the Witch and the Sea, which all got pushed to 2020. Also deleted a few other titles for wrong category, wrong publication year.
Removed Martin McLean, Middle School Queen, which got pushed to 2020. Also deleted The Astrolabe. No NA on this list, please.
Removed some adult titles and also had to delete several non-2019 releases. Please make sure that books added to this list are specifically YA and have a first publication date of 2019.
This Was Our Pact, by Ryan Andrews needs to be removed. Just finished reading it on my tablet. Although it's a good graphic novel, there are no LGBT elements (or even any romance) involved in the plot.
Thanks for the heads up! For some reason, Amazon had marked it as "LGBT," but it looks like it isn't after all.
Removed Fabiola & Ylini, A Boy Like Her, and Children of the River Ghost, current publication dates unknown.
Thanks for the heads up! I removed The Disasters.
Is The Black Flamingo on this list?
Just had to remove several more non-2019 releases.
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