Happy pride month, lovelies!! I’m carrying on last year’s tradition of compiling all the YA LGBTQ+ releases of the year, which was alternately fulfilling and infuriating. It’s a long list! I always decide to do all the research when I should be working on homework, but whatever, it’s done!
To celebrate Pride 2020 amidst this pandemic, here’s a list of all the LGBTQ+ YA releases in 2020! I’ll spare you the counting and tell you that there’s 130+ books on this list, which is amazing. Also I tried to make this list as thorough as I possibly could!
Much of this list was compiled by Charlotte, who co-runs readsrainbow (a blog dedicated to LGBT media), with Anna. Please go give them a follow! They host monthly book clubs dedicated to LGBT books in addition to reviewing and recommending so many LGBT titles. LGBTQ Reads (run by Dahlia Adler) is another great resource if you’re looking for more books to read as well.
As always, I am only human and I make mistakes. If you see any mistakes here, please let me know, and I’ll amend it as soon as I can! I tried to note representation as specific as possible, but I haven’t read much of this list and it was difficult to glean specific rep from reviews sometimes. Let me know if there’s something on-page that’s not noted here! Also, there are trigger and content warnings for many of these books that I haven’t noted, so please be aware of that.
Also, if you’re going to buy anything off this list, might I suggest buying from a Black-owned bookstore?
KEY
organized by release date then alphabetical
*** = written by an author of color
🌈 = romance
GENRES
🎈 = contemporary
🧡 = horror
✨ = fantasy
🌿 = historical
📚 = anthology
🌃 = science fiction
🌺 = historical fantasy
🔍 = mystery
TABLE OF CONTENTS
JANUARY
| book: | rep: | ownvoices for: |
|---|---|---|
| The Storm of Life (The Brilliant Death #2) by Amy Rose Capetta ✨ | queer genderfluid protagonist, genderfluid main character/love interest 🌈 genderfluid/genderfluid | queer rep |
| 19 Love Songs by David Levithan 🎈 📚 | gay protagonist, gay trans protagonist 🌈 m/m | gay rep |
| Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim *** ✨ | bisexual protagonist, asexual side character, lesbian side characters, trans side characters | author of Indian descent |
| We Used to Be Friends by Amy Spalding (read my review here) 🎈 | bisexual protagonist, lesbian love interest 🌈 f/f | bisexual rep |
| Lie to Me by Kaitlin Ward 🔍 | bisexual protagonist | |
| City of Stone and Silence (The Wells of Sorcery #2) by Django Wexler ✨ | bisexual protagonist, lgbtq+ side characters 🌈 f/f | |
| Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore *** 🌺 | queer Latinx characters, trans boy protagonist | queer rep, Latinx rep, trans rep |
| Spellhacker by M.K. England (read my review here) ✨ | queer protagonist, nonbinary love interest, bisexual side character 🌈 f/nb | queer rep, nonbinary rep |
| Infinity Son by Adam Silvera *** ✨ | gay Puerto Rican protagonists, LGBTQ+ cast 🌈 side f/f | gay rep, Puerto Rican rep |
| The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious #3) by Maureen Johnson (read my review here) 🔍 | nonbinary side character 🌈 side f/nb | |
| Diamond City by Francesca Flores *** ✨ | bisexual Latinx-coded protagonist | bisexual rep, Latinx rep |
| Blood Sport by Tash McAdam 🎈 | trans boy protagonist | trans rep, queer author |
| Blood Countess by Lana Popović 🌺 | wlw protagonist, wlw love interest 🌈 f/f |
FEBRUARY
| book: | rep: | ownvoices for: |
|---|---|---|
| You and Me and Misery by Rayel Louis-Charles (cw: bulimia, parental abuse) 🎈 | lesbian protagonist | |
| The King of Crows (The Diviners #4) by Libba Bray 🌺 | Black protagonist and main character, asexual lesbian Chinese-American protagonist, Jewish-American protagonist, gay main character 🌈 f/f | |
| The Stars We Steal by Alexa Donne 🌃 | demisexual protagonist, lesbian side character, gay side character 🌈 f/m | |
| Euphoria Kids by Alison Evans ✨ | nonbinary protagonist, trans main character | nonbinary rep |
| Deathless Divide (Dread Nation #2) by Justina Ireland *** 🌺 | Black bisexual protagonist, asexual protagonist | Black rep |
| Belle Révolte by Linsey Miller ✨ | biromantic asexual protagonist, wlw love interest, trans side character 🌈 f/f | |
| The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper 🎈 | mlm protagonist and love interest 🌈 m/m | mlm rep |
| Wranglestone by Darren Charlton 🌃 | gay protagonist and love interest 🌈 m/m | gay rep |
| Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper #3) by Alice Oseman 🎈 graphic novel | gay protagonist, bisexual protagonist 🌈 m/m | |
| Heart of Flames (Crown of Feathers #2) by Nicki Pau Preto ✨ | pansexual protagonist, mlm side characters 🌈 side m/m | |
| Ink in the Blood by Kim Smejkal (read my review here) ✨ | wlw protagonist, non-binary and trans characters 🌈 f/m | |
| History of Magic (Ember Academy for Young Witches #2) by L.C. Mawson ✨ | wlw protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f | |
| The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow *** 🌃 | Black biromantic demisexual protagonist, nonbinary side character | Black rep |
| We Unleash the Merciless Storm (We Set the Dark on Fire #2) by Tehlor Kay Mejia *** 🌃 | Latinx lesbian protagonist, Latinx wlw protagonist 🌈 f/f | wlw rep, Latinx rep |
MARCH
| book: | rep: | ownvoices for: |
|---|---|---|
| The Winter Duke by Claire Eliza Bartlett (read my review here) ✨ | wlw protagonist and love interest, nonbinary side characters 🌈 f/f | |
| Wicked As You Wish by Rin Chupeco *** (read my review here) ✨ | Filipino protagonist and side characters, gay main character, nonbinary Chinese main character, Japanese main character | Filipino rep, nonbinary rep |
| Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare 🌺 | biracial (Persian, white) protagonist, bisexual protagonist, lesbian genderfluid main character, gay main characters 🌈 f/f, m/m | |
| All the Invisible Things by Orlagh Collins 🎈 | bisexual protagonist, biracial side characters, Indian side character | |
| When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey ✨ | adopted wlw protagonist, wlw Afghani protagonist, Muslim main character, wlw main character and side character 🌈 f/f | |
| Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales *** (read my review here) 🎈 | gay protagonist, bisexual Venezuelan-American love interest, bisexual side character, fat Black side character with PCOS 🌈 m/m | Venezuelan-American rep |
| Havenfall by Sara Holland ✨ | bisexual protagonist, gay side characters | bisexual rep |
| Witches of Ash and Ruin by E. Latimer ✨ | bisexual protagonist with somatic OCD, queer love interest 🌈 f/f | |
| The First 7 by Laura Pohl 🌃 | aromantic bisexual Latinx protagonist | LGBTQ+ author |
| The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski (read my review here) ✨ | ownvoices wlw protagonist, lesbian love interest 🌈 f/f | wlw rep |
| Hello Now by Jenny Valentine ✨ | nonbinary protagonist 🌈 nb/m | |
| The Love Hypothesis by Laura Steven 🎈 | bisexual protagonist, side mlm characters 🌈 side m/m | |
| I’ll See You Again by Chris Bedell 🎈 | bisexual protagonist, mlm love interest 🌈 m/m | |
| A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope edited by Patrice Caldwell *** ✨ 📚 | Black nonbinary protagonists, Black gender-nonconforming protagonists, Black wlw protagonists | Black rep |
| Lab Partners by Mora Montgomery (cw: bullying, homophobia, outing) 🎈 | gay protagonist and love interest 🌈 m/m | |
| Super Adjacent by Crystal Cestari ✨ | wlw protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f | |
| Queerleaders by M.B. Guel (cw: outing) 🎈 | 🌈 f/f | |
| The Electric Heir (Feverwake #2) by Victoria Lee (read my review here) (tw: sexual assault and child abuse, domestic violence, references to suicide, and depections of eating disorders and substance abuse) 🌃 | bisexual Jewish-Mexican protagonist, gay protagonist, lesbian side characters 🌈 m/m | bisexual rep; agender author |
| We Were Promised Spotlights by Lindsay Sproul (cw: homophobia, lesbophobic slurs, child abuse, outing) 🎈 | lesbian protagonist | |
| The Mixtape to My Life by Jake Martinez *** 🎈 | gay Mexican-American protagonist, mlm Latinx love interest 🌈 m/m | Mexican-American rep |
| We Are Totally Normal by Rahul Kanakia *** 🎈 | questioning Indian-American protagonist, Asian-American mlm side character 🌈 m/m | Indian rep; trans author |
| Look by Zan Romanoff 🎈 | bisexual protagonist, wlw love interest 🌈 f/f | |
| Music from Another World by Robin Talley 🌿 | lesbian protagonist, bisexual protagonist, gay side character 🌈 f/f | lesbian rep |
APRIL
| book: | rep: | ownvoices for: |
|---|---|---|
| Crown of Smoke (Shadowscent #2) by P.M. Freestone ✨ | bisexual protagonist | |
| The Truth About Keeping Secrets by Savannah Brown (cw: outing, verbal abuse, suicide, self-harm) 🔍 | lesbian protagonist, biracial (Black, white) bisexual love interest with depression/anxiety/PTSD, Black gay side character, bisexual side character, East Asian side character 🌈 f/f | |
| Sword in the Stars (Once & Future #2) by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy ✨ | pansexual protagonist, gay protagonist 🌈 f/f | agender author, trans author |
| The Stone of Sorrow by Brooke Carter ✨ | nonbinary character, wlw side characters 🌈 side f/f | |
| What I Like About You by Marisa Kanter (read my review here) 🎈 | Jewish-American protagonist, love interest, and side characters; questioning side character | Jewish rep |
| Somebody Told Me by Mia Siegert (cw: sexual abuse) 🎈 | queer bigender Russian-Jewish protagonist | bigender rep, queer rep, Russian-Jewish rep, agnostic rep, mental health rep |
| Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie 🌃 | mlm protagonists 🌈 m/m | |
| Sugar Summer by Hannah Moskowitz 🎈 | Jewish lesbian protagonist, Latina lesbian love interest 🌈 f/f | Jewish rep |
| Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost ✨ | wlw protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f | |
| Fin & Rye & Fireflies by Harry Cook (cw: outing, conversion therapy) 🎈 | gay protagonist | gay rep |
| Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan (read my review here) (cw: anxiety, depression, suicide ideation, past suicide attempt) 🎈 | bisexual/pansexual protagonist, bisexual protagonist with anxiety, Black lesbian side character, adopted Korean-American side character, bisexual side character, Latinx gay side character 🌈 f/m, side f/f | |
| The Deck of Omens (The Devouring Gray #2) by Christine Lynn Herman ✨ | bisexual protagonists | bisexual rep |
| Late to the Party by Kelly Quindlen (read my review here) 🎈 | lesbian protagonist, gay side character, bisexual Panamanian side character, gay black side character, wlw love interest 🌈 f/f, side m/m and f/f | lesbian rep |
| All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson *** (memoir) | queer Black narrator | Black rep, queer rep |
MAY
| book: | rep: | ownvoices for: |
|---|---|---|
| Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo *** 🎈 poetry | lesbian Dominican-American protagonist, Black lesbian love interest, Dominican protagonist and characters 🌈 f/f | Dominican-American rep |
| Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender *** 🎈 | queer Black demiboy protagonist, queer biracial (Black, Bengali) love interest, Afro-Latinx side character 🌈 demiboy/m | trans rep, Black rep |
| Dangerous Remedy by Kat Dunn ✨ | bisexual protagonist, wlw love interest, mlm side characters 🌈 f/f, side m/m | bisexual rep |
| The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly by Jamie Pacton (read my review here) 🎈 | biracial (Indian, Russian) love interest, bisexual Black side character, trans girl side character, nonbinary side character | |
| The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall *** (read my review here) ✨ | queer Japanese-coded protagonist, Black genderfluid protagonist 🌈 f/genderfluid | queer rep, Japanese rep |
| The Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen 🎈 | bisexual Jewish-American protagonist, lesbian protagonist, Jewish-American protagonist with juvenile arthritis, Muslim Indian-American protagonist 🌈 f/f | Jewish rep |
| House of Dragons by Jessica Cluess ✨ | lesbian protagonist | |
| The Fascinators by Andrew Eliopulos ✨ | gay protagonist and love interests 🌈 m/m | gay rep |
| The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar *** (read my review here) (cw: outing, homophobia, racism, cultural appropriation) 🎈 | lesbian Bengali protagonist, bisexual biracial (Afro-Brazilian, Irish) love interest 🌈 f/f | lesbian rep, Bengali rep |
| The Boy in the Red Dress by Kristin Lambert 🌿 | bisexual protagonist, gay side character, lesbian side character | |
| The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass by Adan Jerreat-Poole ✨ | queer protagonist, nonbinary main character, gay side character | nonbinary rep |
| Boys of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson 🎈 | mlm protagonist and love interest 🌈 m/m | |
| This Coven Won’t Break (These Witches Don’t Burn #2) by Isabel Sterling ✨ | lesbian protagonist, bisexual love interest 🌈 f/f | lesbian rep |
| Date Me, Bryson Keller by Kevin van Why 🎈 | gay protagonists 🌈 m/m | gay rep |
| The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta *** 🎈 poetry | gay biracial (Black, white) protagonist | gay rep, biracial (Black, white) rep |
| Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith 🎈 | trans boy protagonist 🌈 m/f | trans rep |
| Out Now: Queer We Go Again! edited by Saundra Mitchell 🎈 📚 | LGBTQ+ protagonists | LGBTQ+ authors |
| Camp by L.C. Rosen 🎈 | gay protagonist, mlm love interest, lesbian side character, aromantic asexual side character, asexual lesbian side character, LGBTQ+ cast 🌈 m/m | gay rep |
| Wonderland by Juno Dawson ✨ | trans girl protagonist | trans rep |
| Hideous Beauty by William Hussey (tw: rape) 🎈 | gay protagonist and love interest 🌈 m/m | gay rep |
JUNE
| book: | rep: | ownvoices for: |
|---|---|---|
| Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran (read my review here) ✨ | lesbian protagonist, demisexual lesbian love interest, gay side character, bisexual side characters 🌈 f/f | lesbian rep |
| You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson *** (cw: anxiety, outing, homophobia) 🎈 | Black bisexual protagonist, wlw love interest 🌈 f/f | Black rep, bisexual rep |
| Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha *** 🎈 | gay Brazilian protagonists 🌈 m/m | gay rep, Brazilian rep |
| You Don’t Live Here by Robyn Schneider 🎈 | bisexual protagonist, wlw Chinese-American love interest 🌈 f/f | bisexual rep |
| If We Were Us by K.L. Walther 🎈 | gay protagonist, gay Japanese-American love interest 🌈 m/m | |
| Heartbreak Boys by Simon James Green 🎈 | gay protagonists 🌈 m/m | gay rep |
| Short Stuff edited by Alysia Constantine 🎈 ✨ 📚 | gay protagonists, wlw protagonists, lesbian protagonist, bisexual love interest | mlm authors, wlw authors |
| You Brought Me the Ocean by Alex Sanchez and illustrated by Julie Maroh *** 🎈 graphic novel | gay protagonist and love interest 🌈 m/m | |
| The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth (read my review here) 🎈 | lesbian protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f | lesbian rep |
| The Circus Rose by Betsy Cornwell ✨ | lesbian protagonist, wlw love interest, bisexual protagonist, nonbinary love interest, bisexual side characters 🌈 f/f, f/nb | bisexual rep |
| I’ll Be the One by Lyra Lee *** (read my review here) 🎈 | plus-sized bisexual Korean-American protagonist, bisexual Korean love interest, lesbian side characters 🌈 f/m | bisexual rep, Korean-American rep |
| I Will Be Okay by Bill Elenbark 🎈 | gay protagonists 🌈 m/m | |
| Night Owls and Summer Skies by Rebecca Sullivan 🎈 | lesbian protagonist with depression and PTSD, pansexual love interest 🌈 f/f |
JULY
| book: | rep: | ownvoices for: |
|---|---|---|
| Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust *** ✨ | Persian-inspired world and characters, bisexual protagonist, wlw love interest 🌈 f/f | Persian rep, wlw rep |
| Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron *** (cw: domestic abuse, misogyny, implied homophobic violence) ✨ | Black lesbian protagonist, love interest, and side character 🌈 f/f | Black rep, wlw rep |
| Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy ✨ | fat queer protagonist | fat rep; bisexual author |
| Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power (read my review here) (cw: emotional abuse by a parent, body horror, full list) 🧡 | lesbian protagonist | queer author |
| You’re Next by Kylie Schachte 🔍 | bisexual protagonist, Chinese-American side character, Black side characters 🌈 f/m | bisexual rep |
| Loveless by Alice Oseman 🎈 | aromantic asexual protagonist | |
| The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune ✨ | gay protagonist with ADHD, bisexual love interest, lesbian side characters 🌈 m/m | gay rep |
| The Fell of Dark by Caleb Roehrig ✨ | gay protagonist, pansexual love interest, lesbian side characters 🌈 m/m, side f/f | gay rep |
| More than Maybe by Erin Hahn (read my review here) 🎈 | gay side characters 🌈 side m/m | |
| Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters ✨ | bisexual protagonist, lesbian side characters 🌈 f/m | |
| The Shadow of Kyoshi (The Kyoshi Novels #2) by F.C. Yee ✨ | bisexual protagonist, wlw love interest 🌈 f/f | |
| Melt My Heart by Bethany Rutter 🎈 | plus-sized wlw protagonist, wlw love interest 🌈 f/f | |
| I Kissed Alice by Anna Birch | lesbian protagonist, bisexual protagonist 🌈 f/f | wlw rep |
| The Faithless Hawk (The Merciful Crow #2) by Margaret Owen ✨ | pansexual love interest, gay side character 🌈 f/m | |
| The Friend Scheme by Cale Dietrich 🎈 | ownvoices gay protagonist and love interest 🌈 m/m | gay rep |
AUGUST
| book: | rep: | ownvoices for: |
|---|---|---|
| Court of Lions (Mirage #2) by Somaiya Daud *** (read my review here) ✨ | Moroccan-inspired world and characters; wlw main character and love interest 🌈 f/f | Moroccan rep |
| Lobizona by Romina Garber *** ✨ | Argentinian-American protagonist, wlw side characters 🌈 side f/f | Argentian-American rep |
| The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska ✨ | bisexual protagonist, wlw love interest 🌈 f/f | bisexual rep |
| Eight Pieces of Silva by Patrice Lawrence *** 🔍 | lesbian protagonist | |
| Boy Queen by George Lester 🎈 | gay protagonist | |
| Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner 🎈 | bisexual protagonist, lesbian protagonist, trans protagonist, asexual protagonist | |
| Darius the Great Deserves Better (Darius the Great #2) by Adib Khorram *** 🎈 | gay biracial (Iranian, white) protagonist with depression, gay love interest 🌈 m/m | gay rep, Iranian-American rep |
| Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger and illustrated by Rovina Cai *** ✨ | asexual Lipan Apache protagonist | asexual rep, Lipan Apache rep |
| Ironspark by C.M. McGuire ✨ | bisexual protagonist and love interest, asexual side character 🌈 f/f | bisexual rep |
SEPTEMBER
| book: | rep: | ownvoices for: |
|---|---|---|
| The Lost Book of the White (The Eldest Curses #2) by Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu *** ✨ | bisexual biracial (Malaysian, white) protagonist, gay protagonist 🌈 m/m | |
| Throwaway Girls by Andrea Contos 🔍 | wlw protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f | |
| Sound Check by Jennifer Fenn 🎈 | deaf mlm protagonist, mlm love interest 🌈 m/m | |
| Queen of Volts (The Shadow Game #3) by Amanda Foody ✨ | Black bisexual protagonist | |
| The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg (cw: suicide) 🎈 | gay protagonist | gay rep |
| Gold Wings Rising (Skybound #3) by Alex London ✨ | gay protagonists, aromantic side character 🌈 m/m | gay rep |
| As the Shadow Rises (The Age of Darkness #2) by Katy Rose Pool (read my review here) ✨ | gay protagonist, bisexual protagonist 🌈 m/m | |
| Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas *** (cw: misgendering, depictions of gender dysphoria) ✨ | gay Latinx trans boy protagonist, Latinx mlm love interest 🌈 m/m | trans rep, Latinx rep, gay rep |
| Iron Heart (Crier’s War #2) by Nina Varela (read my review here) ✨ | lesbian protagonist, bisexual protagonist 🌈 f/f | wlw rep |
| Night Shine by Tessa Gratton ✨ | genderqueer protaognist, queer protagonists | |
| The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters *** 🎈 | Black gay protagonist, gay love interest 🌈 m/m | gay rep, Black rep |
| The Ninth Life by Taylor Brooke ✨ | bisexual/pansexual nonbinary protagonist | nonbinary rep |
| The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke ✨ | lesbian protagonist, bisexual Chinese-American main character, wlw Black main character, wlw love interest, mlm side characters | |
| Legendborn by Tracy Deonn *** (read my review here) ✨ | Black protagonist, bisexual main character, lesbian Taiwanese-American side character, gay side character, nonbinary side character, bisexual side character, wlw side character | Black rep |
| The Art of Saving the World by Corinne Duyvis 🌃 | questioning asexual lesbian protagonist with anxiety | anxiety rep; bisexual author |
| Watch Over Me by Nina Lacour 🎈 | lesbian author | |
| Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp 🔍 | nonbinary protagonist, trans boy protagonist | nonbinary rep |
| Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro *** ✨ | wlw Latinx protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f | Latinx rep; queer author |
| Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass (cw: conversion therapy, homophobia, suicide, physical abuse, mental abuse) 🎈 | gay protagonist and side characters | gay rep |
| Who I Was With Her by Nita Tyndall 🎈 | bisexual protagonist, queer love interest, asexual side character, queer and bisexual side characters 🌈 f/f | bisexual rep; nonbinary author |
| How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi *** 🎈 | gay Muslim Iranian-American protagonist | gay rep, Muslim rep, Iranian-American rep |
| The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves #2) by Roshani Chokshi *** (read my review here) 🌺 | biracial (Algerian, French) protagonist, bisexual biracial (Filipino (ownvoices), Spanish) protagonist, ownvoices Indian (Tamil) protagonist, Jewish protagonist, mlm biracial (Haitian, French) main character 🌈 m/m | Filipino rep, Indian rep |
| Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite edited by Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker *** ✨ 📚 | wlw protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f | wlw rep (Victoria Schwab) |
| Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh *** 🎈 poetry | queer Nigerian-American protagonist | Nigerian-American rep |
| The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life by Dani Jansen 🎈 | bisexual protagonist, wlw love interest 🌈 f/f | |
| Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia and Anna-Marie McLemore *** ✨ | pansexual Mexican-American protagonist, Mexican-American protagonist, trans boy love interest | Mexican-American rep, queer rep, trans rep |
| Fence: Striking Distance by Sarah Rees Brennan and illustrated by Johanna the Mad 🌃 | mlm protagonist and love interest 🌈 m/m | |
| Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer (read my review here) 🌃 | pansexual protagonist, demisexual love interest, lesbian side characters, asexual side characters, nonbinary side characters | gray asexual author |
| Under Shifting Stars by Alexandra Latos 🎈 | genderfluid protagonist (she/her pronouns), nonbinary love interest 🌈 genderfluid/nonbinary | |
| A Neon Darkness (The Bright Sessions #2) by Lauren Shippen ✨ | mlm protagonist and love interest 🌈 m/m |
OCTOBER
| book: | rep: | ownvoices for: |
|---|---|---|
| The Camino Club by Kevin Craig 🎈 | gay protagonist and love interest, lesbian side character 🌈 m/m | |
| Forget This Ever Happened by Cassandra Rose Clarke 🔍 | queer protagonist, lesbian love interest 🌈 f/f | queer rep |
| I Hope You’re Listening by Tom Ryan 🔍 | wlw protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f | |
| The Shadow Mission (The Athena Protocol #2) by Shamim Sarif *** 🔍 | lesbian protagonist | |
| Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions about Small-Town America edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter 🎈 📚 | gay Mexican-American protagonist, Puerto Rican protagonist, wlw protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f | |
| Beyond the Ruby Veil by Mara Fitzgerald (read my review here) ✨ | lesbian protagonist, wlw love interest, gay side character 🌈 f/f | |
| Lightbringer (Empirium #3) by Claire Legrand ✨ | bisexual protagonist | |
| The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen *** 🎈 graphic novel | gay Vietnamese-American protagonist | gay rep, Vietnamese-American rep |
| The Shadow War by Lindsay Smith 🌺 | LGBT cast | |
| Storm the Earth (Shatter the Sky #2) by Rebecca Kim Wells *** ✨ | Asian-coded bisexual protagonist, wlw love interest 🌈 f/f | Asian rep, bisexual rep |
NOVEMBER
| book: | rep: | ownvoices for: |
|---|---|---|
| From Darkness by Kate Hazel Hall ✨ | wlw protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f | |
| Sasha Masha by Agnes Borinsky 🎈 | trans girl protagonist, gay love interest | trans rep |
| The Ever Cruel Kingdom (The Never Tilting World #2) by Rin Chupeco *** ✨ | lesbian Chinese-coded protagonist, lesbian protagonist 🌈 f/f | nonbinary Filipino author |
| Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins *** 🎈 | fat, gay Brazilian protagonist, gay love interest | gay rep, Brazilian rep |
| Lies Like Poison by Chelsea Pitcher 🔍 | queer protagonist | |
| Master of One by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett ✨ | queer and trans characters 🌈 m/m | trans rep |
| These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong *** (read my review here) 🌺 | Chinese protagonist and characters, Chinese trans girl main character, gay main character, Korean main character | Chinese rep |
| Ruinsong by Julia Ember ✨ | wlw protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f | wlw rep |
DECEMBER
| book: | rep: | ownvoices for: |
|---|---|---|
| The Ballad of Ami Miles by Kristy Dallas Alley 🎈 | wlw protagonist | wlw rep |
| A Miracle of Roses by Diana Pinguicha ✨ | Portuguese-inspired world and characters, lesbian protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f | lesbian rep, Portuguese rep |
| The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre by Robin Talley 🎈 | LGBTQ+ cast | lesbian rep |
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