I can’t believe it’s already that time of the year, but happy pride month, lovelies!!! As usual, I compiled (almost?) all of the LGBTQ+ YA releases of this year to celebrate. You can view the lists from the previous years here:
As always, thank you thank you to Charlotte, who co-runs readsrainbow (a blog dedicated to LGBT media), along with Anna, for sending me the bulk of this list. I am forever grateful; please go follow them! This is a list of YA releases, but they are a great resource for LGBT novels for all age ranges, as is LGBTQ Reads (run by Dahlia Adler).
What’s a better way to celebrate Pride 2022 than going through this list of 200+ books detailed with all the representation I could find? (It was an effort of some 30+ hours rip.) So without further ado, here is a list of all the LGBTQ+ YA releases in 2022!
Of course, I am only human and there are bound to be errors in this post. If you see any mistakes, please let me know and I’ll fix it as soon as I can! * I tried to note any representation as detailed as I could, but I haven’t read most of this list and had to rely on other people’s reviews. Let me know if there’s something on-page that’s not noted here!
* If you are an author and would like me to edit or remove any personal information I have listed, I am more than happy to do so! Please message me and I will change it as soon as I can.
Also, I tried to include content warnings where I could, but please know that I could not find them for every single book. I would recommend you look into any content warnings before reading instead of depending on this post for them!
A typical disclaimer: this is more of a masterlist than a recommendation list. Again, I have not read most of the books on this list, so I cannot vouch for all of them. There are also a few books by authors who are known to have done some questionable and problematic things; if you’re curious, you can message me and I can let you know which of these are on the list. I don’t mean to stop you from reading this books, which is why they’re still on the list, but I personally do not support them and their actions. I encourage you to make your own judgments; you can often go through reviews before deciding to read a book as well.
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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
| book: | rep: | author: |
|---|---|---|
| The Kindred by Alechia Dow *** (read my review here) 🌃 | fat demiromantic asexual Black protagonist, bisexual Black protagonist, gay Black side character 🌈 f/m | Black author |
| Serendipity edited by Marissa Meyer (***) 🎈, 📚 | sapphic Black protagonists, Chinese-American protagonists, gay protagonists, lesbian Latine protagonist, sapphic Latine protagonist 🌈 f/f, m/m | LGBTQ+ authors, authors of color, LGBTQ+ authors of color |
| The Ivory Key (The Ivory Key Duology #1) by Akshaya Raman *** ✨ | Indian inspiration and -coded characters, gay protagonist, lesbian side characters 🌈 side f/f | Tamil-American author |
| Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes *** (cw: homophobia, teacher-student relationship, homophobic violence) 🌃 | gay Cuban-American protagonist and side characteres, gay Chinese-American love interest, nonbinary side character, Thai-American side character, Indian-American side character, Black side character 🌈 m/m | gay Cuban-American author |
| Love Somebody by Rachel Roasek 🎈 | sapphic protagonists, nonbinary side character 🌈 f/f | bisexual author |
| Hopepunk by Preston Norton (cw: conversion therapy, homophobia) 🎈 | gay main character, lesbian side character | bisexual author |
| The Bone Spindle by Leslie Vedder ✨ | lesbian protagonist, sapphic love interest 🌈 f/f | queer asexual author |
| Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei 🎈 | bisexual protagonist, gay Black love interest, lesbian side characters, bisexual side characters 🌈 m/m | nonbinary author |
| Beyond the End of the World (The Other Side of the Sky #2) by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner ✨, 🌃 | bisexual protagonist 🌈 m/f | |
| Game On edited by Laura Silverman (***) 🎈, 📚 | LGBTQ+ characters 🌈 f/f, m/m | LGBTQ+ authors, authors of color, LGBTQ+ authors of color |
| Coming Back by Jessi Zabarsky ✨, graphic novel | lesbian protagonists 🌈 f/f | |
| Into the Midnight Void (Beyond the Ruby Veil #2) by Mara Fitzgerald (cw: blood, eye gore, body horror) (read my review here) ✨ | lesbian protagonist and love interest, gay side character 🌈 f/f | |
| At the End of Everything by Marieke Nijkamp 🌃 | nonbinary protagonist | nonbinary author |
| Rebel Boys and Rescue Dogs, or Things That Kiss with Teeth by Brianna R. Shrum 🎈 | trans boy love interest 🌈 f/trans m | |
| The Temperature of Me and You by Brian Zepka 🌃 | gay protagonist and love interest 🌈 m/m | gay author |
| book: | rep: | author: |
|---|---|---|
| Murder of Crows by K. Ancrum *** 🔍 | bisexual Cuban-American protagonist, lesbian side character, gay side character, sapphic side character | bisexual intersex Black author |
| Magical Boy Volume 1: A Graphic Novel by The Kao ✨, graphic novel | trans boy protagonist, lesbian side characters, gay side character | |
| No Filter and Other Lies by Crystal Maldonado *** 🎈 | fat bisexual Puerto Rican protagonist, fat sapphic love interest, Indian-American side character, Puerto Rican side characters 🌈 f/f | bisexual Puerto Rican author |
| Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor ✨ | aromantic bisexual protagonist, asexual nonbinary love interest, aromantic asexual side character 🌈 f/nb | queer author |
| The Gifts That Bind Us by Caroline O’Donoghue (cw: transphobia, homophobia, self-harm) ✨ | sapphic protagonist, bisexual genderfluid love interest, sapphic biracial (Filipino, Irish) side character, deaf side character, black side characters, side character with OCD 🌈 f/genderfluid | |
| Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti 🌃, graphic novel | nonbinary protagonists | nonbinary author |
| Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie *** (read my review here) 🎈 | queer biracial (Cuban, Irish) protagonist, Pakistani-American side character, biromantic asexual Korean-American side character, bisexual Afro-Puerto Rican side character, aromantic side character, pansexual Black side character | queer multiracial (Colombian, Cuban, Irish) author |
| Golden Boys by Phil Stamper 🎈 | gay protagonists 🌈 m/m | gay author |
| Cold by Mariko Tamaki *** 🔍, graphic novel | sapphic protagonist, gay protagonist | queer biracial (Japanese, white) author |
| The Moonstone Girls by Brooke Skipstone 🌿 | lesbian protagonist, gay main character 🌈 f/f | |
| Bitter (Pet #0.5) by Akwaeke Emezi *** ✨ | Black trans girl protagonist, lesbian Muslim side character | nonbinary Nigerian-American protagonist |
| The Chandler Legacies by Abdi Nazemian *** (cw: hazing (of a sexual nature), racism, sexism, sexual assault) 🎈 | gay Iranian protagonist | gay Iranian-American author |
| Extasia by Claire Legrand (cw: cult/religious trauma, body horror, torture, attempted sexual assault, suicide, mentions of physical abuse and domestic abuse) ✨ | sapphic protagonist, love interest, and side characters 🌈 f/f | |
| From Dust, a Flame by Rebecca Podos ✨ | sapphic Jewish protagonist, lesbian Jewish love interest, gay side character with ADHD, Black Jewish side character, nonbinary side character 🌈 f/f | Jewish author |
| The Turning Pointe by Vanessa L. Torres *** 🌿 | Mexican-American protagonist, genderqueer love interest 🌈 f/genderqueer | Mexican-American author |
| book: | rep: | author: |
|---|---|---|
| Every Variable of Us by Charles A. Bush *** 🎈 | bisexual Black protagonist, lesbian Indian-American love interest 🌈 f/f | queer Black author |
| The One True Me and You by Remi K. England (cw: gender dysphoria, homophobia, transphobia, mentions of death of a parent by suicide) 🎈 | questioning nonbinary protagonist, lesbian protagonist, Black side character, sapphic side character 🌈 nb/f | nonbinary author |
| Loveless (Osemanverse #10) by Alice Oseman 🎈 | aromantic asexual protaognist | |
| Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix by Aminah Mae Safi *** 🌺 | sapphic side characters 🌈 side f/f | Muslim mixed race author |
| And They Lived by Steven Salvatore (cw: outing, homophobia, fatphobia, gaslighting, disordered eating and purging (graphic), suicidal ideation) 🎈 | gay nonbinary protagonist, gay love interest 🌈 nb/m | gay genderqueer author |
| All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown 🌃 | gay protagonist, bisexual/pansexual protagonist 🌈 m/m | gay author |
| Messy Roots by Laura Gao (cw: racism) graphic novel, memoir | [ memoir ] | lesbian Chinese-American author |
| One for All by Lillie Lainoff (cw: death of a loved one, mention of sexual assault) 🌿 | protagonist with POTS, lesbian side character, demisexual biromantic side character | disabled author |
| Great or Nothing by Joy McCullough, Caroline Tung Richmond ***, Tess Sharpe, and Jessica Spotswood 🌿 | lesbian protagonist, Japanese-American side character, British Chinese side character | Asian-American author |
| Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore *** ✨ | trans nonbinary Mexican protagonist with dyslexia, trans nonbinary Mexican protagonist with ADHD, lesbian side character 🌈 nb/nb | queer bigender Mexican-American author |
| Take Her Down by Lauren Emily Whalen (cw: sexual assault, rape, self-harm, biphobia) 🎈 | bisexual protagonist, lesbian side character, gay side character, nonbinary (demi-girl) side character | |
| Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters *** 🎈 | gay Black protagonist, bisexual brown love interest, bisexual side character, nonbinary side character 🌈 m/m | Black author |
| A Million Quiet Revolutions by Robin Gow (cw: homophobia, transphobia, deadnaming, misgendering) 🎈 | gay trans boy Puerto Rican protagonist, gay trans boy Jewish protagonist, queer nonbinary Latine side character, Puerto Rican side characters, Black side character 🌈 m/m | bisexual genderqueer author |
| Kiss & Tell by Adib Khorram *** (cw: homophobia) (read my review here) | gay protagonist, gay Iranian-American love interest, Vietnamese-Canadian side character, Indian-Canadian side character, Brazilian-Canadian side character 🌈 m/m | gay Iranian-American author |
| Forward March by Skye Quinlan (cw: outing, homophobia, depression, mentions of self-harm) 🎈 | asexual lesbian protagonist, bisexual love interest, nonbinary side character 🌈 f/f | asexual lesbian author |
| My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham 🧡 | lesbian protagonist, bisexual protagonist 🌈 f/f | |
| Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson *** (cw: police brutality, racism, racial slurs, gun violence) 🌃 | gay Black protagonist and love interest, Latina side character 🌈 m/m | gay Black author |
| So This Is Ever After by F. T. Lukens ✨ | bisexual protagonist, mlm love interest, lesbian side character, polyamorous side character 🌈 m/m | |
| Anything But Fine by Tobias Madden 🎈 | achillean protagonist and love interest, Muslim Indonesian side character 🌈 m/m | achillean author |
| Live, Laugh, Kidnap by Gabby Noone 🎈 | lesbian protagonist, sapphic love interest 🌈 f/f | |
| The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson 🌿 | lesbian protagonist and love interest, LGBTQ+ side characters 🌈 f/f | |
| When Our Worlds Collided by Danielle Jawando *** (cw: past parental abuse, violence, racial abuse and attack) 🎈 | gay Black protagonist, Black protagonists | Irish-Nigerian-Ghanaian author |
| book: | rep: | author: |
|---|---|---|
| Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak (Unstoppable #2) by Charlie Jane Anders 🌃 | sapphic protagonist, sapphic trans girl Black Brazilian protagonist, nonbinary side characters 🌈 f/f | trans author |
| Omens Bite (Sisters of Salem #2) by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast ✨ | lesbian protagonist, Egyptian side characters | |
| She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick *** 🎈 | lesbian protagonist, lesbian biracial (Korean, white) protagonist with anxiety, lesbian side characters 🌈 f/f | sapphic author, sapphic Asian-American author |
| This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke 🌺 | polyamorous Jewish protagonist, polyamorous genderqueer main character, polyamorous love interest 🌈 f/genderqueer/m | queer nonbinary Jewish author |
| Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk *** 🎈 | sapphic Black protagonist, bisexual Black love interest 🌈 f/f | Black author |
| Blaine for the Win by Robbie Couch 🎈 | gay protagonist and side characters | gay author |
| Boys of the Beast by Monica Zepeda *** 🎈 | gay Jewish Latine protagonist, Latine protagonists 🌈 m/m | Mexican-American author |
| Vile Stars by Sera Milano (cw: toxic relationship, domestic abuse (emotional)) 🎈 | gay main characters 🌈 m/m | queer author |
| The Drowning Summer by Christine Lynn Herman 🔍 | bisexual protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f | bisexual author |
| Howl by Shaun David Hutchinson (cw: sexual assault, homophobia) 🧡 | gay protagonist | gay author |
| Mamo, Vol. 1 by Sas Milledge (cw: mention of past child abuse) ✨, graphic novel | apphic protagonist, sapphic Filipino protagonist, Filipino characters 🌈 f/f | |
| I Am the Ghost in Your House by Maria Romasco-Moore ✨ | bisexual protagonist | |
| Sofi and the Bone Song by Adrienne Tooley (read my review here) ✨ | lesbian protagonist, sapphic love interest, gay side character, sapphic side character 🌈 f/f | bisexual author |
| Harley Quinn: Reckoning by Rachael Allen (cw: domestic abuse, sexual harrassment) 🌃 | bisexual protagonist | bisexual author |
| No Stopping Us Now by Lucy Jane Bledsoe 🌿 | sapphic protagonist | |
| Every Word You Never Said by Jordon Greene (cw: homophobia, religious homophobia, bullying, ableism) 🎈 | nonverbal, gay gender non-conforming protagonist, pansexual protagonist 🌈 m/m | gay author |
| Dig Two Graves by Gretchen McNeil (cw: sexual harassment) 🔍 | bisexual protagonist | |
| Arden Grey by Ray Stoeve 🎈 | questioning asexual protaognist, trans boy side character | queer nonbinary author |
| book: | rep: | author: |
|---|---|---|
| An Unreliable Magic (A Hundred Names for Magic #2) by Rin Chupeco *** ✨ | Filipino protagonist and side characters, gay main character, nonbinary Chinese main character, Japanese main character | nonbinary Filipino author |
| The Queen of Junk Island by Alexandra Mae Jones (cw: biphobia, homophobia, outing, sexual harassment) 🌿 | bisexual protagonist, lesbian biracial (Indigenous, white) love interest, asexual side character, sapphic side characters, Indigenous side character 🌈 f/f | |
| Wish Upon a Satellite by Sophie Labelle 🎈 | trans nonbinary protagonist, trans girl love interest 🌈 nb/f | trans author |
| The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor 🎈 | autistic panromantic asexual nonbinary protagonist, sapphic Latine side character | |
| I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston (cw: religious homophobia) (read my review here) 🎈 | bisexual protagonist, lesbian love interest, dyslexic gay Black main character, Black nonbinary achillean main character, lesbian side character, gay side character, nonbinary side character, bisexual side character 🌈 f/f, side m/nb | queer author |
| When You Call My Name by Tucker Shaw 🌿 | gay protagonists | gay author |
| Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado *** (cw: gore, violence) 🧡 | sapphic Afro-Dominican-American protagonist, sapphic Black love interest, Black side characters 🌈 f/f | nonbinary Afro-Latine author |
| If You Change Your Mind by Robby Weber 🎈 | gay protagonist and love interest(s) 🌈 m/m | gay author |
| Gay Club! by Simon James Green 🎈 | gay protagonist and side characters, lesbian side characters, trans side characters | gay author |
| The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson 🎈 | asexual Métis protagonist, bisexual Black side character, bisexual side character, achillean side characters | Métis author |
| Dead End Girls by Wendy Heard (cw: child abuse, death, lesbophobia) 🔍 | lesbian protagonist, sapphic nonbinary protagonist 🌈 f/nb | |
| Café Con Lychee by Emery Lee *** 🎈 | gay Chinese-Japanese protagonist with ADHD, gay Puerto Rican protagonist with anxiety 🌈 m/m | trans multiracial author |
| Beauty And The Besharam by Lillie Vale *** (read my review here) 🎈 | Indian-American protagonist and side characters, Korean-American love interest and side character, queer demiromantic Indian-American side character, sapphic side characters, Mexican-American trans boy side character, Lebanese-American side character 🌈 side f/f | Indian-American author |
| Nate Plus One by Kevin van Whye *** 🎈 | gay biracial (South African, white) protagonist, bisexual Indian-American love interest, gay side character 🌈 m/m | gay biracial author |
| Galaxy: The Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod, illustrated by Jess Taylor 🌃, graphic novel | trans girl protagonist, sapphic love interest 🌈 f/f | trans author, nonbinary artist |
| Melt With You by Jennifer Dugan 🎈 | bisexual protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f | |
| The Days of Bluegrass Love by Edward van de Vendel, translated by Emma Rault 🎈 | gay protagonist and love interest 🌈 m/m | |
| The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes *** (cw: outing, racism, lesbophobia, mentions of suicidal thoughts) 🎈 | lesbian Indigenous Mexican-American protagonist, lesbian Chinese-American love interest, bisexual Indegenous Mexican-American side character, gay Black side character 🌈 f/f | nonbinary Mexican-American author |
| Only on the Weekends by Dean Atta *** 🎈 | gay British Nigerian protagonist, gay Black love interest, trans boy love interest 🌈 m/m | gay Black author |
| Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster by Andrea Mosqueda *** 🎈 | bisexual Mexican-American protagonist, lesbian love interest, sapphic side character 🌈 f/f | Mexican-American author |
| A Cruel and Fated Light (The Hollow Star Saga #2) by Ashley Shuttleworth ✨ | lesbian protagonist with depression, pansexual protagonist, gay protagonist, bisexual protagonist, genderfluid side character 🌈 f/f, m/m | pansexual genderfluid author |
| Primal Animals by Julia Lynn Rubin 🧡 | sapphic protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f | sapphic author |
| Milo and Marcos at the End of the Word by Kevin Christopher Snipes (cw: internalized homophobia, religious homophobia, parental abuse (emotional)) 🌃 | gay protagonist and love interest 🌈 m/m | gay author |
| All Signs Point To Yes edited by g. haron davis, Cam Montgomery, and Adrianne White (***) 🎈, 📚 | queer Black protagonists, Korean protagonist, lesbian Latine protagonist, queer Latine protagonists, Ojibwe protagonist, demisexual protagonist, Peruvian protagonist, lesbian Puerto Rican-Uruguyan protagonist, pansexual Black protagonist, LGTBQ+ side characters of color 🌈 ? | LGBTQ+ authors (of color) |
| Speech and Debacles by Heather DiAngelis 🎈 | bisexual protagonist with endometriosis 🌈 f/m | bisexual author with endometriosis |
| The Fae Keeper (The Witch King #2) by H. E. Edgmon ✨ | gay trans boy protagonist, achillean Black love interest, biromantic asexual Native American side character, LGBTQ+ side characters 🌈 m/m | queer trans author |
| The Merciless Ones (Deathless #2) by Namina Forna *** ✨ | West African inspiration, sapphic side characters, trans side characters 🌈 side f/f | Sierra Leonean-American author |
| Out of the Blue by Jason June ✨ | queer genderqueer protagonist, gay love interest 🌈 genderqueer/m | genderqueer author |
| A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy 🎈 | gay protagonists 🌈 m/m | gay author |
| Flip the Script by Lyla Lee *** 🎈 | bisexual Korean-American protagonist, lesbian Korean love interest, pansexual Korean side character, Korean side characters 🌈 f/f | bisexual Korean-American author |
| Man O’War by Cory McCarthy (cw: internalized homophobia, gender dysphoria) 🎈 | pansexual nonbinary biracial (Lebanese, Irish) protagonist, bisexual agender love interest, asexual biracial (Lebanese, Irish) side character 🌈 nb/agender | queer trans biracial (Lebanese, Irish) author |
| Summer’s Edge by Dana Mele 🔍 | lesbian protagonist, bisexual protagonist | queer author |
| Deep in Providence by Riss M. Neilson *** (cw: grief, sexual harassment) ✨ | Black protagonists, Filipino-American protagonist, sapphic protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f | Filipino-Cape Verdean-American author |
| Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches by Kate Scelsa 🎈 | lesbian protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f | lesbian author |
| Kings of B’more by R. Eric Thomas *** 🎈 | gay Black protagonists, bisexual side character 🌈 m/m | gay Black author |
| book: | release date: | info: |
|---|---|---|
| Only Pieces by Edd Tello *** 🎈 | June 1 | rep: gay Mexican-American protagonist, Mexican-American side characters, gay side character 🌈 m/m author: Mexican-American author |
| Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler 🎈 | June 7 | rep: polysexual protagonist, butch lesbian protagonist 🌈 f/f author: Jewish author |
| Happily Ever Island by Crystal Cestari 🎈 | June 7 | rep: lesbian protagonist, sapphic love interest 🌈 f/f |
| Slip by Marika McCoola, illustrated by Aatmaja Pandya (cw: attempted suicide of a side character, mentions of self-harm) 🎈, graphic novel | June 7 | rep: sapphic protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f |
| Game of Strength and Storm by Rachel Menard (cw: sexism, violence) ✨ | June 7 | rep: demisexual protagonist, sapphic protagonist and side character |
| Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder edited by Saundra Mitchell (***) 🌃, 📚 | June 7 | rep: view rep for each story in this review 🌈 m/m, f/m, f/f author: LGBTQ+ authors, authors of color, LGBTQ+ authors of color |
| We All Fall Down (The River City Duology #1) by Rose Szabo ✨ | June 7 | rep: queer genderfluid protagonist, butch lesbian protagonist, fat queer biracial (Black, white) protagonist, sapphic biracial (Black, white) protagonist author: nonbinary author |
| The Gravity of Missing Things by Marisa Urgo 🔍 | June 7 | rep: bisexual protagonist 🌈 f/m author: bisexual author |
| Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White (cw: violence, body horror, transphobia (deadnaming, misgendering), religious abuse, parental abuse, domestic abuse, self-injury, vomiting) 🧡 | June 7 | rep: gay trans boy protagonist, autistic gay protagonist, LGBTQ+ characters 🌈 m/m author: queer trans author |
| Glorious Poison (Battalion of the Dead #3) by Kat Dunn 🌺 | June 9 | rep: lesbian biracial (Black, white) protagonist, Black protagonist, bisexual protagonist, gay protagonist |
| If You Still Recognise Me by Cynthia So *** (cw: past toxic relationship, homophobia) 🎈 | June 9 | rep: bisexual British-Chinese protagonist, lesbian British–Chinese side character, sapphic British-Indian side character, sapphic biracial (Black, white) side character, bisexual nonbinary Vietnamese side character, Chinese side characters, gay Chinese side character, gay and sapphic side characters author: bisexual nonbinary British-Hongkongese author |
| Not Good for Maidens by Tori Bovalino (cw: gore, body horror, violence, trauma) 🧡 | June 14 | rep: bisexual protagonist, asexual protagonist, pansexual side character 🌈 f/f |
| Valiant Ladies by Melissa Grey 🌿 | June 14 | rep: lesbian biracial (Indigenous Peruvian, Dutch) protagonist, sapphic Spanish-Peruvian protagonist, Peruvian side characters 🌈 f/f |
| The Sea Knows My Name by Laura Brooke Robson (cw: sexual assault) ✨ | June 14 | rep: bisexual love interest 🌈 f/m |
| The Comedienne’s Guide to Pride by Hayli Thomson 🎈 | June 14 | rep: lesbian protagonist, sapphic love interest 🌈 f/f author: lesbian author |
| This Wicked Fate (This Poison Heart #2) by Kalynn Bayron *** ✨ | June 21 | rep: bisexual Black protagonist, sapphic love interest, sapphic Black parents, Black side characters 🌈 f/f author: sapphic Black author |
| Epically Earnest by Molly Horan 🎈 | June 21 | rep: bisexual protagonist, sapphic love interest, gay side characteres 🌈 f/f, side m/m |
| The Loophole by Naz Kutub *** (cw: alcoholism, parental abuse, racism, Islamophobia) ✨ | June 21 | rep: queer Muslim Indian protagonist author: gay Muslim biracial (Indian, Malay) author |
| Bad Things Happen Here by Rebecca Barrow *** (cw: murder, suicide ideation, self-harm, intrusive thoughts, mentions of drowning) 🔍 | June 28 | rep: lesbian biracial (Black, white) protagonist with anxiety and depression, sapphic biracial (Filipino, white) love interest, biracial (Black, white) side character 🌈 f/f author: queer Black author |
| Godslayers (Gearbreakers #2) by Zoe Hana Mikuta *** 🌃 | June 28 | rep: lesbian Korean-coded protagonist, bisexual Korean-coded protagonist 🌈 f/f author: bisexual biracial (Korean, white) author |
| The Last Session Vol. 1: Roll for Initiative by Jasmine Walls, edited by Michael Moccio, illustrated by Dozerdraws ✨, 📚 | June 29 | rep: LGBTQ+ cast |
| book: | release date: | info: |
|---|---|---|
| The Promise of Lost Things by Helene Dunbar ✨ | July 5 | rep: gay protagonists 🌈 m/m |
| Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith *** 🎈, graphic novel | July 5 | rep: sapphic Black protagonists, Black protagonists author: Black, Puerto Rican, and Dominican author, Jamaican author |
| The King is Dead by Benjamin Dean *** 🔍 | July 7 | rep: gay Black protagonist author: gay Black author |
| The Society For Soulless Girls by Laura Steven 🌿 | July 7 | rep: sapphic protagonists 🌈 f/f |
| The You I See by Danny Freeman 🌿 | July 12 | rep: gay protagonists 🌈 m/m |
| Wake the Bones by Elizabeth Kilcoyne 🧡 | July 12 | rep: achillean main character and side character 🌈 m/m author: queer author |
| Blackwater by Jeannette Arroyo and Ren Graham ✨ | July 19 | rep: queer biromantic Black Puerto Rican protagonist, queer trans boy protagonist with a chronic illness, Black side character 🌈 m/m |
| Dauntless by Elisa A. Bonnin *** ✨ | July 19 | rep: Filipino inspiration and -coded characters; lesbian protagonist, bisexual love interest 🌈 f/f author: Filipino author |
| Heat Wave (The Extraordinaries #3) by T. J. Klune ✨ | July 19 | rep: gay protagonist with ADHD, bisexual love interest, lesbian side characters 🌈 m/m author: gay author |
| Youngblood by Sasha Laurens (cw: lesbophobia, blood, violence) ✨ | July 19 | rep: lesbian protagonist, sapphic protagonist, queer nonbinary side character, gay Salvadorian side character, Chinese side character, biracial (Indian, white) side character 🌈 f/f |
| Violet Made of Thorns (Untitled Duology #1) by Gina Chen *** (cw: self-harm in a ritual/magical context, body horror) ✨ | July 26 | rep: East Asian-coded protagonist, bisexual brown side character, lesbian side character author: Chinese-American author |
| The Witchery by S. Isabelle *** ✨ | July 26 | rep: sapphic Black protagonists author: Black author |
| Long Story Short by Serena Kaylor 🎈 | July 26 | rep: neurodiverse protagonist, biracial (Indian, white) love interest, Black side character, gay side character author: bisexual author |
| Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min *** 🎈 | July 26 | rep: adopted, pansexual biracial (Filipino, white) protagonist, achillean trans boy Korean-Japanese protagonist, lesbian Black side character, queer nonbinary side character 🌈 m/m author: Chinese author |
| The Valkyrie’s Daughter (The Helheim Prophecy #1) by Tiana Warner ✨ | July 26 | rep: sapphic protagonist and love interest, trans girl side character 🌈 f/f author: LGBTQ+ author |
| book: | release date: | info: |
|---|---|---|
| The Feeling of Falling in Love by Mason Deaver (cw: transphobia, misgendering, homophobia) 🎈 | August 2 | rep: gay trans boy protagonist, achillean nonbinary love interest, gay side character, gay trans boy side character, bisexual Korean side character, bisexual Black side character, questioning Black side character 🌈 m/nb author: nonbinary author |
| Bad At Love by Gabriela Martins *** 🎈 | August 2 | rep: demisexual Brazilian protagonist, pansexual Brazilian-American protagonist, lesbian Black side character, Korean-American side character 🌈 m/f author: Brazilian author |
| It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano *** 🎈 | August 2 | rep: fat questioning asexual Latine protagonist, Jewish gray-aromantic gray-asexual love interest with ADHD and APD, Latine side characters, Black side character, trans boy side character, nonbinary side characters 🌈 f/m author: Latine author |
| These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall 🧡 | August 9 | rep: sapphic protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f author: queer author |
| Furysong (The Aurelian Cycle #3) by Rosaria Munda (cw: burnings, blood, branding, grief; mentions of past coercive sexual relationship, threat of rape) ✨ | August 9 | rep: bisexual main character, gay main character 🌈 m/m |
| Blood Like Fate (Blood Like Magic #2) by Liselle Sambury *** (cw: gun violence, eating disorder, blood, gore, violence, full list here) ✨ | August 9 | rep: Trinidadian-Canadian protagonist and side characters, Mexican-Canadian trans boy love interest, Trinidadian-Canadian trans girl side character, Trinidadian-Canadian demisexual lesbian side character 🌈 f/trans m author: Trinidadian-Canadian author |
| The Honeys by Ryan La Sala (cw: blood, bullying, grief, homophobia, sexual harassment, transphobia, violence) 🧡 | August 16 | rep: achillean genderfluid protagonist, lesbian side character, gay side character, questioning side character author: queer author |
| The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones ✨ | August 16 | rep: bisexual protagonist, sapphic love interest 🌈 f/f |
| This Is Why They Hate Us by Aaron H. Aceves *** (cw: suicide ideation, intrusive thoughts, homophobia, anxiety, depression, mention of homophobic assault of a side character) 🎈 | August 23 | rep: bisexual Mexican-American protagonist, Muslim bisexual Palestinian-American love interest, bisexual Afro-Puerto Rican/Cuban side character, bisexual Vietnamese-American side character, gay Mexican-American side characters, biracial (Black, white) side character 🌈 m/m author: bisexual Mexican-American author |
| Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives (Clown in a Cornfield #2) by Adam Cesare 🧡 | August 23 | rep: gay main characters 🌈 m/m |
| Felix Silver, Teaspoons & Witches by Harry Cook ✨ | August 30 | rep: gay protagonist, bisexual love interest 🌈 m/m author: gay author |
| All of Our Demise (All of Us Villains #2) by Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman ✨ | August 30 | rep: bisexual protagonists author: bisexual authors |
| Moon Dark Smile (Night Shine #2) by Tessa Gratton ✨ | August 30 | rep: nonbinary character, genderfluid character, LGBTQ+ cast author: queer nonbinary author |
| In the Shadow of the Throne by Kate Sheridan, illustrated by Gaia Cardinali ✨ | August 30 | rep: gay Filipino protagonist, gay protagonist 🌈 m/m |
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| Timberdark (Wranglestone #2) by Darren Charlton 🧡 | September 1 | rep: gay protagonist and love interest 🌈 m/m author: gay author |
| Aces Wild: A Heist by Amanda DeWitt 🔍 | September 6 | rep: asexual protagonist and main characters, asexual nonbinary main character |
| Coven by Jennifer Dugan, illustrated by Kit Seaton ✨, graphic novel | September 6 | rep: sapphic protagonist and main characters, achillean side characters, Black side characters |
| Meet Me in Mumbai by Sabina Khan *** 🎈 | September 6 | rep: Indian-American protagonist, sapphic parents 🌈 side f/f author: Muslim Pakistani-American author |
| Destination Unknown by Bill Konigsberg 🌿 | September 6 | rep: fat gay Jewish protagonist, gay love interest and side characters, lesbian side characters, trans girl Black side character, LGBTQ+ side characters, Jewish side characters 🌈 m/m author: gay author |
| Self Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore *** 🌿 | September 6 | rep: trans boy protagonist, Latino trans boy protagonist, lesbian Latina side character, achillean side characters author: queer bigender Mexican-American author |
| Funeral Girl by Emma K. Ohland ✨ | September 6 | rep: asexual protagonist, nonbinary side character author: queer author |
| The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology #1) by Aiden Thomas *** ✨ | September 6 | rep: trans boy Mexican protagonist, LGBTQ+ characters, Mexican inspiration and -coded characters 🌈 m/m author: queer trans nonbinary Mexican-American author |
| It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames 🧡 | September 13 | rep: asexual protagonist with anxiety, gay side character |
| Book of Dreams by Kevin Craig 🧡 | September 13 | rep: gay protagonist author: nonbinary author |
| Death by Society by Sierra Elmore (cw: suicide ideation, depression, self-harm, bullying, domestic violence, racism, anxiety (social and generalized), and rape trauma syndrome (no rape depiction)) 🎈 | September 13 | rep: sapphic protagonists 🌈 f/f author: Black author |
| Tragic Volume 1 by Dana Mele, illustrated by Valentina Pinti 🎈, graphic novel | September 13 | rep: bisexual protagonist 🌈 f/m author: queer author |
| Eternally Yours edited by Patrice Caldwell (***) ✨ | September 20 | rep: LGBTQ+ characters 🌈 (?) author: LGBTQ+ authors, authors of color, LGBTQ+ authors of color |
| Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman ✨, graphic novel | September 20 | rep: LGBTQ+ cast 🌈 (?) author: nonbinary author |
| Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland *** 🌺 | September 20 | rep: sapphic Black protagonist, Black side characters author: Black author |
| The Killing Code by Ellie Marney 🔍 | September 20 | rep: sapphic protagonists 🌈 f/f |
| Fraternity by Andy Mientus 🌺 | September 20 | rep: achillean protagonists, achillean Black protagonist author: bisexual author |
| Bone Weaver by Aden Polydoros ✨ | September 20 | rep: bisexual love interest, gay side character 🌈 f/m author: bisexual Jewish author |
| The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers by Adam Sass 🎈 | September 20 | rep: gay protagonist and love interest 🌈 m/m author: gay author |
| How to Succeed in Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy *** ✨ | September 27 | rep: lesbian biracial (Black, white) protagonist, bisexual Latina love interest 🌈 f/f author: bisexual biracial author |
| Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callender *** 🎈 | September 27 | rep: neurodivergent polyamorous nonbinary Black protagonist, queer trans Black love interest, queer Black side characters, trans Black side characters 🌈 nb/trans m author: queer trans Black author |
| Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune #1) by Chloe Gong *** (cw: violence, blood, mentions of human experimentation) (read my review here) 🌿 | September 27 | rep: demisexual Chinese protagonist, bisexual Chinese protagonist, bisexual Chinese main character, Chinese trans woman main character, aromantic asexual side character 🌈 f/m author: Chinese-Kiwi author |
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| Tasting Light edited by A.R. Capetta and Wade Roush (***) 🌃, 📚 | October 4 | rep: nonbinary protagonist author: LGBTQ+ authors, authors of color, LGBTQ+ authors of color |
| A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo *** 🌿 | October 4 | rep: bisexual biracial (Chinese, white) protagonist, butch lesbian love interest, queer side characters, nonbinary side characters 🌈 f/f author: lesbian Chinese-American author |
| The First to Die at the End (Death-Cast #0) by Adam Silvera *** 🌃 | October 4 | rep: gay protagonists 🌈 m/m author: gay Puerto Rican author |
| Anne of Greenville by Mariko Tamaki *** 🎈 | October 4 | rep: adopted, sapphic Japanese-American protagonist, sapphic love interest, sapphic parents cw: homophobia 🌈 f/f author: queer biracial (Japanese, white) author |
| The Restless Dark by Erica Waters ✨ | October 4 | rep: sapphic protagonists 🌈 f/f author: queer author |
| Hollow by Shannon Watters and Branden Boyer-White, illustrated by Berenice Nelle, colored by Kaitlyn Musto ✨, graphic novel | October 4 | rep: sapphic protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f author: lesbian author |
| Twelfth Grade Night (Arden High #1) by Molly Horton Booth and Stephanie Kate Strohm, illustrated by Jamie Green 🎈, graphic novel | October 11 | rep: gender-nonconforming protagonist, bisexual side characters, lesbian side characters, queer side characters 🌈 (?) |
| The Edge of Being by James Brandon 🎈 | October 11 | rep: pansexual protagonist, achillean side character, LGBTQ+ side characters 🌈 m/f author: gay author |
| Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwell 🌿 | October 11 | rep: bisexual protagonist, sapphic love interest 🌈 f/f author: bisexual author |
| Everyone Hates Kelsie Miller by Meredith Ireland *** 🎈 | October 11 | rep: adopted demisexual Korean-American protagonist, Latine love interest 🌈 f/m author: adopted demisexual Korean-American author |
| Not Your Hero (Sidekick Squad #4) by C. B. Lee *** 🌃 | October 11 | rep: bisexual protagonist, bisexual Chinese-Vietnamese love interest, trans side character 🌈 f/f author: queer Chinese-Vietnamese-American author |
| The Nightland Express by J.M. Lee *** 🌺 | October 11 | rep: trans genderfluid protagonist, achillean mixed race protagonist author: queer biracial author |
| Fence: Rise (Fence #5) by C. S. Pacat, illustrated by Johanna the Mad 🎈, graphic novel | October 13 | rep: achillean main characters 🌈 m/m |
| When Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb 🌺 | October 18 | rep: genderless Jewish protagonist, Jewish protagonist, sapphic main characters 🌈 nb/m, f/f author: nonbinary author |
| Drizzle, Dreams and Lovestruck Things by Maya Prasad *** 🎈 | October 18 | rep: South Asian-American protagonists, sapphic South Asian-American protagonist, bisexual South Asian-American father 🌈 f/f author: South Asian-American author |
| Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall 🌿 | October 18 | rep: sapphic protagonist and love interests 🌈 f/f author: nonbinary author |
| The Scratch Daughters (Scapegracers #2) by Hannah Abigail Clarke ✨ | October 25 | rep: lesbian protagonist, sapphic love interest, sapphic Black side character, bisexual Chinese-American side character, achillean side characters 🌈 f/f author: lesbian author |
| The Sevenfold Hunters by Rose Egal *** 🌃 | October 25 | rep: Muslim bisexual Somali protagonist, bisexual Black protagonist, pansexual side character, lesbian side character 🌈 f/f author: Muslim bisexual Somali author |
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| How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow 🎈 | November 1 | rep: lesbian Jewish protagonists 🌈 f/f author: lesbian Jewish author |
| Seasparrow (Graceling Realm #5) by Kristin Cashore (cw: rape, attempted rape, child abuse, PTSD, violence, physical abuse) ✨ | November 1 | rep: demisexual protagonist |
| In the Key of Dale by Benjamin Lefebvre (cw: grief, death of a parent (father)) 🎈 | November 1 | rep: queer protagonist and side characters author: queer author |
| This is Our Place by Vitor Martins ***, translated by Larissa Helena 🌿, 🎈 | November 1 | rep: lesbian Brazilian protagonist, bisexual Afro-Brazilian love interest, gay Afro-Brazilian protagonist, gay Brazilian love interest, gay Brazilian protagonist, achillean Brazilian love interest 🌈 f/f, m/m author: Brazilian author |
| The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix ✨ | November 1 | rep: lesbian protagonist, bisexual love interest, LGBTQ+ side characters 🌈 f/f |
| The Vermilion Emporium by Jamie Pacton ✨ | November 1 | rep: bisexual protagonist, sapphic side characters 🌈 f/m, side f/f author: bisexual author |
| Silver in the Mist by Emily Victoria ✨ | November 1 | rep: asexual protagonist, nonbinary side character author: asexual author |
| Bloodmarked (The Legendborn Cycle #2) by Tracy Deonn *** ✨ | November 8 | rep: Black protagonist, pansexual main character, lesbian Taiwanese-American side character, gay side character, nonbinary side character, bisexual side character, wlw side character author: pansexual Black author |
| Born Andromeda by K. M. Watts 🌃 | November 15 | rep: bisexual polyamorous protagonist, demisexual polyamorous love interest 🌈 f/m author: nonbinary author |
| At Midnight edited by Dahlia Adler (***) ✨, 📚 | November 22 | rep: LGBTQ+ characters, characters of color 🌈 (?) author: LGBTQ+ authors, authors of color, LGBTQ+ authors of color |
| The Marble Queen by Anna Kopp, illustrated by Gabrielle Kari ✨, graphic novel | November 22 | rep: sapphic protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f author: queer Jewish author |
| We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammond *** 🎈 | November 29 | rep: sapphic biracial (Black, white) protagonist, sapphic Black love interest, Black side characters 🌈 f/f author: queer Black author |
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| Acting the Part by Z. R. Ellor 🎈 | December 6 | rep: transmasc nonbinary protagonist, asexual love interest 🌈 nb/f author: trans author |
| Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales 🎈 | December 6 | rep: bisexual protagonists, gay side character 🌈 f/f author: bisexual author |
| The Shattered City (The Last Magician #4) by Lisa Maxwell 🌺 | December 6 | rep: lesbian main character, Chinese main character, Black side character |
| This Cursed Crown (These Feathered Flames #2) by Alexandra Overy ✨ | December 6 | rep: lesbian protagonist and love interest 🌈 f/f |
| A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar *** 🌿 | December 13 | rep: sapphic protagonists, lesbian protagonist, Lebanonese protagonist, French Haitian protagonist 🌈 f/f author: Muslim queer Bangladeshi-Irish author |
What books on this list are you most excited for? Which are some of your favorites? Let me know in the comments below!
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