Queer books masterlist [ENG]

Contemporary books

Going off Script by Jen Wilde*: an internship with tv writers and the straightwashing of hollywood (lesbian mc, indian rep)
Everything leads to you by Nina Lacour: a set designer, hollywood and f/f romance (lesbian mc, biracial rep)
Kings, Queens and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju: a queer girl finds herself when she meets drags (lesbian and biracial mc, queer side characters)
Far From You by Tess Sharpe*: a girl tries to find who killed her best friend (bi and disabled mc, lesbian love interest)**
And they both die at the end by Adam Silvera: in a world where you get to know when it’s your last day on earth two boys meet and fall in love (bi and latinx mc, gay mc)**
The Weight of Stars by K. Ancrum: two girls who bond over space (lesbian and black mc, f/f)
Aristote and Dante by Benjamin Alire Saenz: two boys fall in love during the summer (m/m, latinx rep)**
The Summer of Us by Cecilia Vinesse: a round trip around Europe for these best friends (f/f)
The Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy Spalding: a fat fashion blogger lands an intership and falls in love during the summer (f/f, fat rep)
The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg: a rom com over the summer (gay mc, poc rep, m/m)
I’ll give you the sun by Jandy Nelson: poetic story about twins brothers (gay mc)**
Autoboyography by Christina Lauren: a very openly bi boy falls in love with a mormon boy (bi mc, gay love interest)**
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan*: lesbian bengali girl gets send in Bengladesh when her parents found out her sexuality (lesbian and muslim mc)
Juliet takes a breath by Gabby Rivera*: a lesbian puerto rican girl tries to figure herself out (lesbian and latinx mc)
The Wicker King by K. Amcrum: a boy tries to help his best friend when he starts having visions (bi mc, m/m)**
I was born for this by Alice Oseman: music band and fandom (trans and gay mc, muslim mc)
Girl Mans Up by M. E Girard: a story exploring gender identity through the life of a young butch lesbian
At the edge of the universe by Shaun David Hutcherson: a world where history has been rewritten and nobody remembers the mc’s boyfriend (trans mc, gay mc)
Leah on the Offbeat by Leah Albertalli: a group of friends starting to fracture (bi mc, fat mc)**
I wish you all the best by Mason Deaver: a nonbinary mc comes out to their family and gets kicked out (non-binary mc, mental health)
What makes you beautiful by Bridget Liang: a trans boy tries to find himself (asian, gay and trans mc)
Birthday by Meredith Russo: two best friends who share the same birthday date tries to understand their relationship while one of them discover their transidentity (trans mc)**
Something like gravity by Amber Smith: a love story between two people trying to heal after their own personal tragedies (trans mc)
Colorblind by Siera Maley*: a girl who can see at what age someone will die falls in love with another girl who’s supposed to die in six months (f/f)
Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno*: an island, a magical bird, a family of witches and a girl who tries to understand what’s happening to her sister (f/f)
The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutcherson: a girl discovers she can make miracle (f/f)
Anger is a gift by Mark Oshiro: an impactful book about police brutality (gay and latinx mc, muslim rep, ace rep, trans rep, disabled rep)
Tash Hearts Toltstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee: a webserie about Anna Karenina, youtubers and a ace girl (ace mc, m/m sc, buddhist mc)
Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman: a girl who just lost her sister tries to grieve in Hawaii (ace mc, asian mc)
Tell me again how a crush should feel by Sara Farizan: a lesbian Persian-American girl with immigrant parents trying to understand who she is (f/f, persian mc)
You asked for perfect by Laura Silverman: a book about academic pressure and the stress of applying to college (m/m, poc rep)
How (Not) To Ask a Boy for Prom by S.J Goslee: fake dating rom com (m/m)
Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas: friendship between a lesbian girl and a pan guy
Girl made of stars by Ashley Herring Blake*: a girl’s life crumble when her twin brother is accused of having raped her best friend (bi mc, non-binary rep)
The Resolutions by Mia Garcia: four latinx best friends make New Year’s Eve resolutions and try to understand what they want in life (gay mc, lesbian mc, latinx rep)
It’s not like it’s a secret by Misa Sigiura: lesbian asian mc has many secrets (f/f, asian mc, mexican li)
The nowhere girls by Amy Reed*: high school girls are getting tired of patricarchy and rape culture (latinx and lesbian mc, fat rep)**
You’re welcome universe by Whitney Gardner: aspiring street artist gets kicked out of school (deaf mc has two moms, indian american mc)
The meaning of birds by Jaye Robin Brown: first love and the aftermath of loss (f/f)**
You must not miss by Katrina Leno: magical realism story with an anti-heroine (trans rep)
Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde: three best friends in a geek convention (bi mc, autistic mc, anxiety rep)
10 things I can see from here by Carrie Mac: f/f romance with a very anxious mc
We are the ants by David Shaun Hutcherson: teenage boy gets abducted by aliens and must choose whether humanity will be saved or not (queer mc, latinx and pan love interest, depression rep, ahdh)
Don’t date Rosa Santos by Nina Moreno: a multigenerational tale of three women bound by love and loss (latinx mc, bi mc)
Quiver by Julia Watts: unlikely friendship between two teens from opposite sides of the culture wars (non-binary mc)
None of the above by I.W Gregorio: a story about a teenage girl who discovers she was born intersex (intersex mc)
Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan: fake dating in an amusement park (bi mc, f/f)
Jack of hearts by L.C Rosen: high school student writes a column about sex and love for an online blog (gay mc)
Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy: a queer girl discovers her sexuality
The Love Interest by Caleb Dietrich: two boys fight for the same girl… and fall in love (bi mc)
Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney C. Stevens: a preacher’s daughter tries to live her life how she wants it (genderfluid mc, bi mc)
Like Water by Rebecca Podos: a performing mermaid in a water park fall in love with another girl (bi mc, f/f)
The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde: a teen rockstar has to navigate family, love, coming out, and life in the spotlight after being labeled the latest celebrity trainwreck (bi mc, non-binary rep)
The confusion of Laurel Graham: a nature photographer with a slow burn romance (f/f)
Where I end and you begin by Preston Norton: body swapping with characters who hate each other (m/m, anxiety, neurotic insomniac)
The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston: a fangirl tries to save her favorite TV character (f/f)
Love & Other Curses by Michael Thomas Ford: a family with a curse where their lovers die (m/m)
Fat Angie by E.E Charlton Trujillo: a book about a very lonely girl (queer mc, fat mc, black mc)
Sister Mischief by Laura Goode: a gay suburban hip-hopper freaks out her Christian high school (lesbian mc, jewish mc, f/f)
Between you and me by Marisa Calin: a theatre nerd has a crush on her young drama teacher (bi mc, f/f)
A Girl Called Shameless by Izzie O’Neill: a girl tries to fight the slut shaming (gay rep, black rep, disabled rep)
Style by Chelsea M. Cameron: the popular student and the nerd fall in love but with lesbians (lesbian mc, f/f)
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray: a very satiric and funny book about beauty queens strand on a desert island (lesbian mc, trans mc, poc)**
This is what it feels like by Rebecca Barrow: three ex friends need to reconnect to participate in a music competition (lesbian mc, black mc)
The Albino Album by Chavisa Woods: a story about identity and a homeless terrorist who think she’s a tiger (lesbian mc, intersex rep, non binary rep, albino rep)
Tinfoil Crowns by Erin Jones: youtuber star and some stuff that shouldn’t have gone viral (bi mc)
The Love Song of Sawyer Bell by Avon Gale: a violinist join a band (f/f)
The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls by Jessica Spotswood: four sisters who spend their last summer together (f/f)
Extra Credit Epidemic by Nina Post: a lesbian mc and science nerd investigates a cases of food poisoning
This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender: two childhood bestfriends reconnect and fall in love (m/m, bi mc, gay mc, poc rep, deaf rep)
Home and Away by Candice Montgomery: a football player mc with a complex family (black mc, bi li)
My, Myself and Him by Chris Tebbetts: two alternative timelines of one life (gay mc)
True Sisters by Keren David: a girl tries get her foster sister better (queer mc, mental health)
Deposing Nathan by Zack Smedley: a book about friendship, acceptance and abusive families (bi mc, m/m)
Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz: a book about a girl struggling with labels (bi mc, black mc, eating disorder)
Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley: a teenage boy with agoraphobia who hasn’t left his house for 3 years become friends with an old classmate (gay mc, mental health)
True Letters from a Fictional Life by Kenneth Logan: a story about a boy who find it hard to admit that he’s gay
Run by Kody Keplinger: despite everything two girls become friends (bi mc, disabled mc)
The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper: two boys get close when their parents get chosen to go to space (m/m)
We Used to be Friends by Amy Spalding: childhood besties break apart during their senior year (lesbian mc)
We are Totally Normal by Rahul Kanakia: two teenage boys hook up at a party and now they have to face what it means (bi mc, m/m, asian mc)
Belly Up by Eva Darrow: a teenage girl becomes a mom during a senior year (bi mc, fat mc, ace sc)
The Art of Escaping by Erin Callahan: high school boy obsessed with the art of escaping and Houdini (gay mc)
All the bad apples by Moïra Fowley-Doyle: a missing sister and strange letters (lesbian mc, bi sc)
Letting Go by Cat Clarke: a girl climbing a mountain to grieve (lesbian mc)
Future Leaders of Nowhere by Emily O’Beirne: teens who go to future leaders camp (indian mc, f/f)
Most Ardently by Susan Mesler-Evans: pride and prejudice retelling (latinx mc, black mc, f/f, fat mc, trans side character)
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Peters: two black girls from very different backgrounds finding love and happiness in a world that seems determined to deny them both (f/f)
Invisible Boys by Holden Sheppard: confronting YA novel, tackling homosexuality, masculinity, anger and suicide with a nuanced and unique perspective (gay mc)retellin

Contemporary with older characters

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman*: a girl who works hard at school and the creater of a audio drama podcast become friends (bi and biracial mc, ace and gay side character)**
Out on good behavior by Dahlia Adler: the girl who can get anyone she wants falls in love with a southern republican mayor’s daughter (pan mc, f/f)
Learning Curves by Ceilie Simkiss: two career-driven women fall in love (lesbian, puerto rican and fat mc, pan mc)
Soft on Soft by Mina Waheed: a black fat model and persian fat make-up artist fall in love
We Are Okay by Nina Lacour*: a college student runs from everything she has ever known to cope with grief (lesbian mc)
Once ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole: two women with history meet again and give themselves a second chance (lesbian and black mc)
If it makes you happy by Claire Kann: a summer story with a fat, queer and black mc
As the crow flies by Karen F. Williams: a paranormal author fall in love with an older teacher while her antiquarian sidekick crushes on the teacher’s niece (lesbian mc)
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett: a taxidermy shop and a woman in love with her brother’s wife (lesbian mc)
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert: a girl goes home over the summer to spend time with her step-brother who has bipolar disorder and they fall in love with the same girl (lesbian mc, black mc, bi love interest, menal health)
We Go Around In The Night And Are Consumed By Fire by Jules Grant: an all female girl gang and criminals (lesbian mc)
Fierce femmes and notorious liars by Kai Cheng Thom: coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home (trans mc)
A love story for bewildered girls by Emma Morgan: three women, life choices and confusion (f/f, anxiety rep)
Let’s talk about love by Claire Kann: a college student about an ace, biromantic and black girl
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston: the president’s son and the prince of england hate each other but have to pretend they are friends (bi and latinx mc, gay love interest)*
Small Town Hearts by Lillie Vale: freshed out of high school the mc is torned between her ex-girlfriend and the cute new boy (bi mc)
A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian: 5 girls living a Bangalore slum known as Heaven support each other (trans mc, indian mc, blind rep)
Immoral Code by Lillian Clark: heist book and hackers teenagers (ace/aro rep)
Squad by Mariah MacCarthy: a cheerleader falling out of friendship with her friends who start dating a trans boy
The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart by R. Zamora Linmark: a story about first love where Oscar Wilde helps the mc navigate heartbreak (m/m)
Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett: a girl with HIV tries to live a normal life (queer cast)
This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel: two parents raise a trans girl**

Historical fiction

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid*: an old hollywood actress is ready to reveal everything about her life and most importantly about who was the true love of her life (bi and latinx mc, lesbian rep)**
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland: in America in 1800 deads are coming back to life and the mc tries to fight them (bi and black mc, biracial aro/ace side character)*
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Vertue by Mackenzi Lee: a boy is ready to start his Grand Tour around Europe with his sister and his best friend (bi mc, gay rep, POC rep, aro/ace rep)**
My real children by Jo Walton*: a women remembers two lifes: the one she had with a man and the one she had with a woman (bi mc)**
Tell the wolves I’m home by Carol Rifka Brunt: two lonely people become the unlikeliest of friends (gay mc)**
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth: a lesbian girl is sent to conversion therapy
The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin: an orphan and poor girl starts working for a rich girl and they start investigate murders in London (f/f)**
Confession of the fox by Jordi Rosenberg: a story who reimagines the life of thief and jailbreaker Jack Sheppard (trans mc)
Things a bright girl can do by Sally Nichols: three women and the Suffragettes movement (non-binary mc, lesbian mc)
The air you breathe by Frances de Pontes Pebles: the life of two best friends who bond over music (bi mc)
An impossible distance to fall by Miriam McNamara: a circus, a woman pilot and a father to find (lesbian mc)
Hild by Nicola Griffith: a reimagining story of St. Hilda of Whitby (queer mc)
The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite: sapphic romance about a lady astronomer and an explorer’s widow (f/f)
River of teeth by Sarah Gailey: hippos in a bayou and mercenaries (bi mc, genderfluid rep, fat rep, poc rep)
Pulp by Robin Talley: the story weaves together the lives of two young women connected across generations through the power of words (lesbian mc)
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages: friendship and love between queer women in San Francisco in 1940 (queer women)
Armed in her fashion by Kate Heartfield: a story with revenants, chimeras and the women who go through hell to get back what is hers (trans mc)
Miranda in Milan by Katharine Duckett: a story that reimagines the consequences of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. (f/f)
Wildthorn by Jane Eagland: a girl who tries to break free from her life as the doctor’s daughter (f/f)
An Unseen Attraction by K.J Charles: a slow burn romance and a mystery bind two men (m/m, indian american mc, autistic mc)
Gladiatrix by Russell Whitfield: women gladiators in Rome (wlw)
The Warrior, The Healer and the Thief by Diana Jean: three womens run away from expectations and civilization (lesbian mc, polyamory)
We are Lost and Found by Helene Dunbar: coming-of-age set during the AIDS crisis of the 1980 (m/m)
Ziggy, Stardust & Me by James Brandon: in 1973 (the year in which homosexuality was de-classified as a mental illness) two boys fall in love (m/m)
Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific by Meliza Banales: queer latinx punk and sex worker during the 90’s
How to Talk to Nice English Girls by Gretchen Evans: a love story between a naive English girl and a bold American girl in 1920 (f/f)

YA and Adult fantasy books

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon*: a world divided between West and East where one real hate dragons and the other worship them (f/f, gay mc, POC mc)**
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan*: girls from the lower cast are taken to the King’s palace to serve him (f/f, asian mc)
Cloaked in Shadows by Ben Alderson: Beauty and the Beast inspired fantasy with dragons and elemental magic (gay mc)**
Graceling by Kristin Cashore: the king’s niece is a killer and fall in love with a prince (gay mc, bisexual and POC mc)**
Huntress by Malinda Lo: two sages must embark in a journey to meet the Fairy Queen (f/f, lesbian mc, asian mc)
Mask of Shadows by Lindsey Miller: a competition of killers in a castle to become the Queen’s assassin (non-binary mc)
The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose Carpetta: a mafia don’s daughter and secret magic (genderfluid mc)
Of fire and stars by Audrey Coulthurst*: two princesses fall in love and one has magical powers (f/f)
Iron Cast by Destiny Soria: hemopaths, illusions and strong female friendship (m/m sc, afro latinx mc, black li)
Queen of Ieflaria by Effie Calvin: two princesses fall in love (pan mc, fat rep)
Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennet: a thief steals a powerful artifact (wlw mc)
The soulstealers by Jacqueline Rohrbach: druids stealing life forces with a mc embarking in a journey to restore balance (wlw and black mc)
The True Queen by Zen Cho: regence era fantasy with two sisters sharing a strong bond (wlw and asian mc)
Daughter of the sun by Effie Calvin*: a paladin and a minor chaos goddess must work together (pan mc, f/f)
Reign of the fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh: a necromancer and zombie monsters (bi mc)
Inkmistress by Audrey Coulthurst: a demigoddess with the power to dictate the future by writing with her blood (bi mc)
Dragonoak by Sam Farren: an exil runs away with a female knight (f/f)
The cursed queen by Sarah Fine: a warrior gets cursed (bi mc, f/f)
The fifth season by N.K Jemisin: post-apocalyptic story mixed with fantasy (queer and trans rep)**
Witchmarck by C.L Polk: a psychiatrist treating soldiers must hide his powers (m/m)
Pantomime by Laura Lam: an intersex mc performes in a magical circus (intersex, genderfluid and bisexual mc)
Craft Sequence series by Max Gladstone: a very rich fantasy series about gods, necromancers and many other things (black mc, lesbian mc, trans mc)
The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams: a world of wild nature, alien creatures and an excentric explorer (lesbian mc, gay sc)
Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear: steampunk story about prostitutes with big hearts (lesbian mc)
The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark: alternate historical 1884 New Orleans about a girl possessed by a goddess who wants to be a sky pirate (queer mc, black mc)
Vermilion by Molly Tanzer: a psychopomp must investigate missing people (non-binary mc, chinese american mc)
Black Wings Beating by Alex London: domesticated birds like pokemon and a quest to find a ghost eagle (gay mc)
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kay Ashante Wilson: a sorcerer part of a group of mercenaeries (m/m, poc mc)
The Black Tides of Heaven by J. Y Yang: a world where children have to choose their gender when they become adults (non-binary mc, m/m, asian mc)
The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera: mongolian inspired fantasy with star-crossed lovers (f/f, poc mc)
Keeper of the Dawn by Dianna Gunn: a girl who wants to be a priestress but fails the test (f/f, ace mc)
The Armored Saint by Myke Cole: a world where magic cannot exist and a girl who can control a huge armor (lesbian mc, gay sc)
Jade City by Fonda Lee: urban fantasy story where jade gives power and strenght to some people (queer mc)
Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron: urban fantasy where angels fall from the sky and a girl hides one of them (bi disabled mc, lesbian poc love interest)**
The Diviners by Libba Bray: 1920 in New York a girl with supernatural abilies investigate murders (gay mc, ace mc)
Runebinder by Alex R. Khaler: post-apocalyptic world, elemental control and hunter who kill monsters (gay mc)
Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria: a city ruled by prophecies and teenagers who want to change things (ace mc, fat mc, poc rep)
The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco: a world ruled by a twin goddesses and their daughters (lesbian mc, bi mc, disabled mc)
Fires of the Faithful by Naomi Kritzer: a music student in an Renaissance inspired world (lesbian mc)
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie: a city protected by a god is weakening (bi rep, trans mc)
The Stone is the Skull by Elizabeth Bear: two women rulers need the help of an automaton (trans mc)
The Aurora Circus by Viano Oniomoh: a magical circus and a story about finding itself (m/m, bi mc, pan rep, poc cast)
Rule by Ellen Goodlett: the daughters of a dyink king enters a competition to take the throne (wlw mc)
Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh: a lyrical book about a forest, dryads and a man who take care of them (m/m)
When Women Were Warriors by Catherine M. Wilson: high fantasy book about a warrior apprentice (f/f)
Nevernight by Jay Krsitoff: a girl in a school of assassins (bi mc)
All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Kell: a queernormative world a girl takes care of a child (bi latinx mc)
Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim Wells: a girl steal the emperor’s dragons to save her girlfriend (f/f)
The Black Veins by Ashia Monet: a magician goes on a roadtrip with other magicians tot find her missing family (queer cast, black mc)
The Poison Within by Rachel Marie Pearcy: royal ladies, evil queen and redemption story (f/f)
Making a Tinderbox by Emma Sterner-Radley: a farmer’s daughter and a noble lady embark on a journey to escape their life (pan mc, f/f)
The Binding by Bridget Collins: an apprentice who can erase people’s memories (m/m)
Illusions by Madeline J. Reynolds: a magician’s apprentice falling in love with another magician (m/m)
Ace of Shades by Amanda Foody: a city full of sins and a girl looking for her mother (bi mc, poc rep)
Beyond the Black Door by A.M Strickland: a girl who can walk into people’s souls when they sleep (ace rep)
Belle Révolte by Linsey Miller: a girl who wants to become a physician and a noble lady trained in the ways of divination (biromantic ace mc)
Reverie by Ryan La Sala: a teenager who lost his memories and a drag queen sorceress (gay mc)
Ink in the Blood by Kim Smejkal: queer girls rebelling against a god and magical tattoos (non-binary rep, bi rep, f/f, m/m)
Scavenge the Scars by Tara Sim: fantasy gender-swapped retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo (queer rep, poc rep)
Silence of Winter by Avery Blake: paranormal story with an empath and a magical family (m/m)
Sorcerer of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson: a library apprentice accused of treason teams up with a sorcerer (bi mc, ace rep)
The Alpennia series by Heather Rose Jones: historical fantasy with lot of politics and a romance between a bookish accidental heiress and her bodyguard (f/f)
Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger: asian inspired story where four destinies collide in a world with magical animals companions (f/f, asian mc, trans side character)
The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave: feminist retelling of the brides of dracula (f/f, romani mc)
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgensten: timeless love story set in a secret underground world–a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea (m/m)

Mythology

The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember: a book with Viking mythology and a romance between a Viking girl and a mermaid (f/f)
Outrun the Wind by Elizabeth Tami: a huntress of Artemis and Atalante falls in love (f/f)
Coils by Barbara Ann Wright: a historian woman needs to go to the Underworld to save her aunt where she meets Medusa and others people from greek myths (lesbian mc, queer side characters, f/f)
The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer: Hades/Persephone retelling but with lesbians
Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan: a bunch of demigods need to save the world (gay mc)**
The Trials of Apollo by Rick Riordan: Apollo is banished by Zeus and sent to earth where he needs to complete some tasks (bi mc, gay sc, m/m sc, f/f sc)**
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan: Norse mythology with demigods (pan mc, trans rep, muslim rep)**
Alcestis by Katharine Beutner: retelling story of Alcestis (bi mc)
The Last of Wine by Mary Renault: story of two Athenians through Olympic games and Spartan war (m/m)

Time Travel

The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas: four women created a time travel machine and must investigate a crime (wlw)
The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke: a girl accidentally time travels back to Berlin in 1988, a world with magic (bi mc, jewish mc, demisexual rep, ace rep)
A Knight to remember by Bridget Essex: a book-obsessed librarian meets a woman warrior from the past (f/f)
Fourth World by Lyssa Chiavari: a boy travels back at a time where his planet wasn’t dying (ace mc, demisexual mc, latinx mc, black mc)
Sapphos Bar and Grill by Bonnie J. Morris: a lonely history professor travels back in time and meet historical figures (lesbian mc)
This is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone: sci-fi enemies-to-lovers with time travel story (f/f)
Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson: a rich futuristic world with post-plague creative prosthetics, ecological disasters and time travel (wlw, asian mc)

Books with the sea/pirates/mermaids

Seven tears at high tides by C.B Lee: a romance between a boy and a selkie (gay mc, asian mc)**
The unbinding of Mary Reade by Mariam McNamara: a girl who dresses as a boy to become a pirate fall in love with another pirate (f/f)
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan*: a 13 years old boy at a magical school (bi mc, gay mc)
The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie*: a girl raising giant monsters gets kidnap by pirates (f/f, asian mc)
Into the drowning deep by Mira Grant*: a boat, very scary mermaids and a lot of blood (lesbian mc, autistic mc, deaf mc…)
Escape to Pirate Island by Niamh Murphy: lesbian pirates adventure (f/f)
Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner: a warrior raised to fight mermaids falls in love with the enemy (f/f)
Into the gray by Margaret Killjoy: trans girl lures terrible men to their deaths by feeding them to her vicious mermaid girlfriend
Our Bloody Pearl by D.N Bryn: a disabled siren and a pirate fall in love (non binary rep)
The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan: island and mermaids (f/f)

Books with superheroes

Dreadnought by April Daniels: trans girl become a superhero and fall in love with another superhero (trans mc, lesbian mc)
Not your sidekick by C.B Lee: superheroes in a modern world (bi mc, asian mc)
Hero by Perry Moore: gay teenager with superpowers and a disgraced hero-dad (gay mc)
Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey: a girl gets super strength and the inability to feel fear (bi mc, f/f)
Rise of Heroes by Hayden Thorne: a normal boy falls in love with the new superhero in town (m/m)
Secondhand Origin Stories by Lee Blauersouth: children of famous superheroes make a team to save the city (ace mc, non-binary mc, disabled mc, poc mc)

Sci-fi/Dystopy

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi: queer woman of color who’s an engineer goes on a space ship (lesbian, disabled and black mc, polyamorous)
The long way to a small angry planet by Becky Chambers: a space crew with aliens and humans (lesbian mc, genderfluid and trans side characters)**
Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie: space adventures, cyborg girls and female centric story (hijabi aroace mc, japanese girl, trans mc)
Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta: a King Arthur retelling with a queer teenage girl as Arthur and a gay teenage boy as Merlin (queer girl, gay mc, non binary rep, disabled rep)
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon: a ship travelling away from earth for centuries with each deck having different kind of people and privileges (intersex, bi and black mc)
The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow: dystopian world ruled by an A.I with a bisexual mc (f/f)**
Failure to communicate by Kaia Sonderby: space diplomacy and a first contact team (f/f, bi mc, austism rep)
The Stars are legion by Kameron Hurley: space opera with lesbians**
Barbary Station by R.E Stearns: a lesbian couple become space pirates (lesbian and poc mc)
The quiet at the end of the world by Lauren James: romance between the youngest people on the planet after a virus caused global infertility (bi mc, chinese british li, trans rep)
Space Unicorn by T.J Berry: a crew of misfits race across the galaxy (ace mc, indian mc, lesbian rep, disabled rep, maori rep)
The prey of gods by Nicky Drayden: a futuristic sci-fi novel set in South Africa(m/m)
Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone: feminist Guardians of the Galaxy (lesbian mc)
Tarnished are the stars by Rosiee Thor: queer outlaw mechanic must team up with her worst enemies (lesbian mc, ace rep)
Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells: biker gang in a Wild West world (wlw)
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon La He: a disgraced captain must recapture a fortress to redeem herself (lesbian mc, bi sc, trans mc)**
Blackfish City by Sam Miller: a old warrior woman riding an orca and with a polar bear at her side blaarrives in a floating city (lesbian mc, non-binary mc, gay mc)**
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers: a mission to research primitive alien life outside the solar system (trans rep, ace rep)

Retellings

The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer*: Hades and Persephone retelling but f/f
Girls made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust: a fantasy Snow White retelling focusing on the mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship with a f/f romance
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller*: the reimagining story of Achilles and Patroclus (m/m)**
Seeing Red by Cara Malone: a modern retelling of Red Riding Hood with a lesbian mc
A study in honor by Claire O’Dell: retelling of sherlock holmes with two black queer ladies
As I Descended by Robin Talley: a McBeth retelling story with revenge and redemption (lesbian mc, latinx, asexual and gay rep)
Winterglass by Benjanun Sriduangkaew: sci-fi retelling of the Snow Queen (lesbian and asian mc, bisexual sc, trans sc)
Peter Darling by Austin Chant*: Peter Pan retelling with a trans mc and a m/m romance
The Vanisher’s Place by Aliette de Bodard: a fantasy Beauty and the Beast retelling with a f/f couple and inspired by vietnamese mythology
Ripped Pages by M. Hollis: a Tangled retelling with a lesbian princess and a pan love interest
A blade so black by L.L McKinney: a fantasy Alice in Wonderland retelling with a black and bi mc
The darkest part of the forest by Holly Black: an urban fantasy book with a lot of fairy tales references (gay mc)
Love in the time of global warming by Francesca Lia Block: dystopian retelling of the Odyssey set in LA (trans mc)
The summer prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson: retelling of the Epic of Gilgamesh (gay mc, poc rep)
And I Darken by Kiersten White: Vlad the Impaler re-imaged (gay mc, lesbian couple)
Take your medicine by Hannah Carmack: modern retelling of Alice in Wonderland (f/f)
Robbergirl by S.T Gibson*: The Snow Queen retelling with a bi thief and a lesbian witch (f/f romance)
Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta: a King Arthur retelling with a queer teenage girl as Arthur and a gay teenage boy as Merlin (queer girl, gay mc, non binary rep)
The Little Homosapiens Scientis by S.L Huang: dark retelling of the Little Mermaid (lesbian mc, non binary rep)
A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams by Dax Murray: Swan Lake retelling (bisexual mc, non binary rep, polyamory)
The Mermaid’s Daughter by Ann Claycomb: modern and dark retelling of the Little Mermaid (f/f)
Gretel by Niamh Murphy: Hansel and Gretel retelling with adults characters (lesbian mc)
The Raven and The Reindeer by T. Kingfisher: reimagining of the Snow Queen story (lesbian mc)
The affair of the mysterious letter by Alexis Hall: fantasy retelling of Sherlock Holmes (f/f, pan mc, trans mc)
Scavenge the Scards by Tara Sim: fantasy gender-swapped retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo (queer rep, poc rep)
The Circus Rose by Betsy Cornwell: Snow White and Rose Red retelling with twins battling evil religious extremists to save their loves and their circus family (queer mc)
Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore: Hans Christian Andersen retelling set in France (trans mc, romani mc)
The Girl in Red by Christina Henry: an horrific Little Red Hiding Hood retelling with a bi, mixed-race and amputee mc
Most Ardently by Susan Mesler-Evans: pride and prejudice retelling (latinx mc, black mc, f/f, fat mc, trans side character)
The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake: f/f retelling of Twelfth Night

Witchy books

These witches don’t burn by Isabel Sterling: elementary witch with a toxic ex girlfriend (lesbian mc, non-binary sc)
The Circle by Mats Strandberg and Sara Elfgren*: six girls who have nothing in common discorver they are witches (wlw)**
Robbergirl by S.T Gibson*: The Snow Queen retelling with a bi thief and a lesbian witch (f/f romance)
The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta: atmospheric story with queer witches (queer main character, asexual rep, trans rep, fat rep, POC rep)
Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore: a latinx family of women witches can never escape their garden full of flowers (bi and latinx main character, non-binary rep)
Strange Grace by Tessa Gratton: spooky story with a eerie forest (non-binary mc, pan rep, poc rep, polyamourous)
The Wise and The Wicked by Rebecca Podos: russian fairy tales and family secrets (trans mc)
Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault: an aromantic allosexual baker who’s also a thief and a biromatic demisexual police detective
Odd Spirits by S.T Gibson: a magician and a witch get married (bi mc)
The Last Sun by K.D Edwards: urban fantasy series full of magic (gay mc)
The Fever King by Victoria Lee: a virus that kills some people and gives magical abilities to others (bi, jewish and latinx mc, gay rep)
Spellbook of the lost and found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle: Irish small town, a book of spells and an enchanting story (bi mc, lesbian mc)
The Witch Sea by Sarah Diemer: a witch and a sea creature (f/f)
Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks: elemental powers and epic fantasy (lesbian mc, woc mc)
Caroline’s Heart by Austin Chant: a spooky witch and a very sweet cowboy (trans mc, bi mc)
Witch Eyes by Scott Tracey: paranormal story and a witch with a very special power (gay mc, m/m)
From under the mountain by C.M Spivey: high fantasy story with dragons, shapeshifters and four clans of witches (asexual rep, black mc, trans rep)
Half Bad by Sally Green: in a modern world divided by two faction of witches, a boy lives in a cage (m/m)
When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey: queer witches and a accidental murder (poc rep)
The tethered mage by Melissa Caruso: a noble lady is bound for life to a fire witch (bi mc)
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey: a mage woman and her twin sister must work together to resolve a crime at a magical school (queer mc)
Other Words for Smoke by Sarah Maria Griffin: twisted fairytale with twins, witches and a talking cat (f/f)
The Heart of the Circle by Keren Landsman: Israeli urban fantasy that takes place in an alternative reality where magicians are a persecuted minority (gay mc)

Found families

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo*: a group of misfits must work together (gay mc, m/m)**
The Afterwards by E.K Johnston*: fantasy story where a group of friends must face the consequences of having saved the world (f/f, POC rep, asexual rep)
Like a love story by Abdi Nzemian: historical fiction about queer teens (queer and POC main character)
Renegades by Marissa Meyer: a world where superheroes rule a city and supervillains try to overthrow them (main character has two fathers)**
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater: a girl and for boys tries to find an old king (m/m)**
Darius the Great is not okay by Adib Khorram: a boy gets in touch with his persian heritage (fat biracial Persian rep, Iranian, white gay MC with depression)
Daughter of the burning city by Amanda Foody: a girl who can create illusions search who’s killing them (bi mc, asexual love interest)
The Devoring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman: paranormal story about friendship and magic (bi mc)
The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi: a group of friends must steal a very old artefact (bi mc, poc)
The long way to a small angry planet by Becky Chambers: a space crew with aliens and humans (lesbian mc, genderfluid and trans side characters)**
The Disasters by M.K England: a space crew and a heist (bi mc, gay li, poc, trans rep)
If We Were Villains by M.L Rio: drama students in an elite college play the same role onstage and in real life (m/m)

Boarding school

Her royal highness by Rachel Hawkins: a girl who just got her first heartbreak flies to Scotland to study abroad and shares her room with a princess (lesbian mc, f/f)
Girlgood by Cat Clarke: a girl in a new boarding school tries to escape the death of her twin sister (bi mc, lesbian side character)**
The Letting Go by Deborah Markus: a girl who lost her entire family runs away from the killer (lesbian mc)
People like Us by Dana Mele: a sapphic mean girl story with dead people (lesbian mc, bi rep)**
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell: the chosen one in a magical school falls in love with his vampire nemesis (m/m)**
We set the dark on fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia: dystopian world and a school where women learn how to be good housewifes (f/f, latin rep)
Amelia Westlake by Erin Gough: two very different girls fight to denounce the sexist and homophobic behaviours at their private school (f/f)
As I Descended by Robin Talley: a McBeth retelling story with revenge and redemption (lesbian mc, latinx, asexual and gay rep)
Wilder Girls by Rory Power: a school puts under quarantine and a missing girlfriend (f/f)

Horror

Into the drowning deep by Mira Grant*: a boat, very scary mermaids and a lot of blood (lesbian mc, autistic mc, deaf mc…)*
Sawkill Girl by Claire Legrand: an island where girls keep disappearing (f/f, asexual mc, bi mc, fat rep, POC rep)
The luminous dead by Caitlin Starling: survivalist story about an underground mission (f/f)
The one who eats monsters by Casey Matthews: a teenage girl who also eats monsters is used by the US military (f/f)
Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler*: to protect her sister the mc must steal a ghost ship as big as a city (bi mc, poc rep)
And I Darken by Kiersten White: Vlad the Impaler re-imaged (gay mc, lesbian couple)
Wilder Girls by Rory Power: a school puts under quarantine and a missing girlfriend (f/f)
The lamb will slaughter the lion by Margaret Killjoy: a queer punk rock traveller searches clues about her best friend’s suicide (f/f, trans rep, poc rep)
Alien: Echo by Mira Grant: two sisters run awar from aliens (lesbian mc)
Lizzie by Dawn Ius: retelling of the story of Lizzie Borden (lesbian mc, mental disorder)
The Girl in Red by Christina Henry: an horrific Little Red Hiding Hood retelling with a bi, mixed-race and amputee mc

Magical portals

Everyheart a doorway by Seanan McGuire: kids and teenagers who went to an alternate universe must reajust to their life on Earth (trans mc, ace rep)
The Shades of Magic Trilogy by V.E Schwab: a man can travel through alternate Londons (m/m)**
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova: a bruja cast a spell and make her whole family disappear (bi and latinx mc)
Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron*: teenage boy goes to an alternate world every Thursday to escape his real life (gay mc, lesbian rep, poc rep)
An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows: a girl follow someone into a magical portal (bi mc, aro rep)

Mystery/thrillers

Sadie by Courtney Summers: a girl tries to find the man who killed her sister (bi mc, gay mc)**
Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist*: a girl who can see ghosts tries to find a killer (lesbian mc, f/f)
Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp: in an alaskan town a girl tries to understand why her best friend is dead (asexual mc, lesbian mc)
Echo After Echo by Amy Rose Capetta: a theater crew and two murders to investigate (bi and jewish mc, lesbian latinx love interest)
Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig: a boy’s girlfriend is missing but he’s also hiding something (gay mc)
People like Us by Dana Mele: a sapphic mean girl story with dead people (lesbian mc, bi rep)**
All eyes on us by Kit Frick: a lesbian couple is being blackmailed (lesbian mc, lesbian and latinx love interest)
Far From You by Tess Sharpe*: a girl tries to find who killed her best friend (bi and disabled mc, lesbian love interest)**
White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig: murder mystery and a sister who is found next to her boyfriend’s body (gay mc)
Swipe Right for Murder by Derek Milman: a teenage boy hook up with a man and find him dead in the morning (gay mc)

Books with spies

The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth E. Wein: teenager girl who will later become a spy (bi mc)
Who is Very Kelly by Rosalie Knecht: historical fiction who follows the teenager years and youth of girl who became a spy for the CIA (lesbian mc)
Amberlough by Lara Elena Donelly: a city ruled by a fascist sect and spies who try to overthrow it (gay mc)
Death prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig: mc lives a double life as a teen star by day and spy by night with her drag queens friends (bi rep, non-binary rep, poc rep)
The Athena Protocol by Shamim Sarif: organization of female spies and vigilantes (queer mc)

Post-apocalyptic stories

The Last 8 by Laura Pohl: a survivor of the apocalypse find a group of other survivors (bi and ace mc, f/f side character)
Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz: a genderfluid teen is sent to a summer camp run by the government
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel: a virus killed most of humanity and the story follow some survivors (gay mc)
The book of the unamed midwife by Meg Elison: a flu killed many people and now the world is ruled by horrible men so a midwife helps women escape (queer rep)

Enemies-to-lovers

The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie*: a girl raising giant monsters gets kidnap by pirates (f/f, asian mc)
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston*: the president’s son and the prince of england hate each other but have to pretend they are friends (bi and latinx mc, gay love interest)
Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi*: a film student need the help of a cheerleader to complete her senior project (lesbian and muslim mc, latinx and jewish mc)
Peter Darling by Austin Chant*: Peter Pan retelling with a trans mc and a m/m romance
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir: lesbians necromancers in space (lesbian mc, f/f)
Crier’s War by Nina Varela: a world ruled by Automae where humans must fight to survive (lesbians mc, f/f)
Her royal highness by Rachel Hawkins: a girl who just got her first heartbreak flies to Scotland to study abroad and shares her room with a princess (lesbian mc, f/f)
Amelia Westlake by Erin Gough: two very different girls fight to denounce the sexist and homophobic behaviours at their private school (f/f)
The Road to You by Harper Bliss: a workhalic and a free-spirited singer keep bumping into each other (f/f)
The Sun and Moon Beneath the Stars by K. Parr: maidservant teams up with a princess to rescue her brother from an evil sorcerer (f/f)
Most Ardently by Susan Mesler-Evans: pride and prejudice retelling (latinx mc, black mc, f/f, fat mc, trans side character)

Fantastical creatures

Out of salem by Hal Shrieve: a zombie witch and a werewolf need each other to survive (genderqueer mc)
Showers, flowers and fangs by Aidan Wayne: a trans boy half-fae half-human helps the new local vampire feel at home (trans mc, gay love interest)
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan*: a 13 years old boy at a magical school, his best friend is an elf (bi mc, gay mc)
Ash by Malinda Lo: a Cinderella retelling with fairies (f/f)
Bearly a lady by Cassandra Khaw: a werebear with a vampire roomate (bisexual and fat woc mc)
The Ex-Wives of Dracula by Georgette Kaplan: a love story between a human and a vampire (f/f)
Lunav by Jenn Polish: a half-human half-fae girl want to save dragons (black mc, f/f)
Silver Kiss by Naomi Clark: a lone werewolf join a new pack (lesbian mc)
Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall: a vampire investigate the murders of supernatural being (bi mc, f/f)
Huntsmen by Michelle Osgood: werewolves tries to escape hunters (genderqueer rep)
The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic by F.T Lukens: a teenage boy becomes the assistant of supernatural creature-wrangler (m/m)

Magical schools

Red Sister by Mark Lawrence*: nuns teach young girls how to fight and use magic (bi mc, f/f side couple)**
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan*: a 13 years old boy at a magical school (bi mc, gay mc)
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell: the chosen one in a magical school falls in love with his vampire nemesis (m/m)**
Pegasi and Prefects by Eleanor Beresford: Hogwarts with lesbians (lesbian mc)

Books with strong siblings relationship

I wish you all the best by Mason Deaver: a nonbinary mc comes out to their family and gets kicked out (non-binary mc, mental health)
I’ll give you the sun by Jandy Nelson: poetic story about twins brothers (gay mc)**
Perfect and profounds things by Maribel Garcia: a lesbian woman gets pregnant and gives her child to her sister (lesbian mc, latinx)
Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore: two very different sisters are thrown into a very dangerous game (genderqueer rep, latinx)
Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore: a latinx family of women witches can never escape their garden full of flowers (bi and latinx main character, non-binary rep)
The rest of us just live here by Patrick Ness: a group of friends who just want a normal life but supernatural stull keep happening (gay mc, ocd rep, anxiety rep)**
True Sisters by Keren David: a girl tries to understand her foster sister better (queer mc, mental health)
Far From the Tree by Robin Benway: an adopted girl searches for her biological family and found out she has a brother and a sister (lesbian mc, latinx mc)

Sports books

Running with lions by Julian Winters: guys at a soccer summer training camp (m/m, bi mc, poc rep, muslim rep)
The foxhole court by Nora Sakavic: an invented sport and a group of guys with secrets (m/m, poc rep)
Fire on the ice by Tamsen Parker: set during Winter Olympics about ice skating (f/f, lesbian mc, polyamorous bi li)

Assassins

Mask of Shadows by Lindsey Miller: a competition of killers in a castle to become the Queen’s assassin (non-binary mc)
Assassins: Discord by Erica Cameron: a thief and assassin wants to have a new life (f/f)
The Perfect Assassin by K.A Doore: middle eastern inspired fantasy about assassins (gay mc, poc)
Empire of Light by Alex Harrow: dystopian sci-fi story starts a revolution (m/m, poc)
Nevernight by Jay Krsitoff: a girl in a school of assassins (bi mc)

Queer princesses

The Second Mango by Shira Glassman: a queen and a warrior fall in love (lesbian mc, f/f, poc, jewish mc)
Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis: sense 8 with fantasy elements (bi mc, disabled mc, mute rep, latinx rep, gay rep)
The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow: dystopian world ruled by an A.I with a bisexual mc (f/f)**
Queen of Ieflaria by Effie Calvin: two princesses fall in love (pan mc, fat rep)
The Queen of Rhodia by Effie Calbin: two princesses are now married and they are raising a baby dragon (pan mc, f/f, fat rep)
Of fire and stars by Audrey Coulthurst*: two princesses fall in love and one has magical powers (f/f)
The Princess Affair by Nell Stark: a commoner falls in love with a princess at a private school (f/f)
Girls made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust: a fantasy Snow White retelling focusing on the mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship with a f/f romance
The Queen’s Curse by Natasja Hellenthal: a female knight become the Queen’s bodyguard (f/f)
Her royal highness by Rachel Hawkins: a girl who just got her first heartbreak flies to Scotland to study abroad and shares her room with a princess (lesbian mc, f/f)
The Sun and Moon Beneath the Stars by K. Parr: maidservant teams up with a princess to rescue her brother from an evil sorcerer (f/f)
The Poison Within by Rachel Marie Pearcy: royal ladies, evil queen and redemption story (f/f)
Undercover Princess by Connie Glynn: a normal girl has to pretend she’s a princess at school (bi mc)

Necromancers

Dragonoak by Sam Farren: an exil necromancer runs away with a female knight (f/f)
Reign of the fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh: a necromancer and zombie monsters (bi mc)
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir: lesbians necromancers in space (lesbian mc, f/f)
Craft Sequence series by Max Gladstone: a very rich fantasy series about gods, necromancers and many other things (black mc, lesbian mc, trans mc)

Religious queer characters or with religious families

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth: a lesbian girl is sent to conversion therapy
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan*: lesbian bengali girl gets send in Bengladesh when her parents found out her sexuality (lesbian and muslim mc)
Georgia Peaches and other forbidden fruits by Jaye Robin Brown: a proud lesbian must stay in the closet when her family moves to a very conservative town
Autoboyography by Christina Lauren: a very openly bi boy falls in love with a mormon boy (bi mc, gay love interest)**
Oranges are not the only fruits by Jeanette Winterson: a religious teenage girl falls in love with a woman and leaves her church (lesbian mc)**
Release by Patrick Ness: over the course of one day a gay teenage boy with a preacher father will have ton confront everything that scares him (gay mc)**
The dangerous art of blending in by Angelo Surmelis: a religious and violet mother with a gay son (m/m, mental health rep)
My Best Friend, Maybe by Caela Carter: summer holidays in Greece with two best friends in love (f/f)
Our year of maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon: two best friends and one unrequited love (bi mc, jewish mc)
Our own private univers by Robin Talley: church group goes to Mexico for the summer and two girls fall in love (f/f)
The Summer I Wasn’t Me by Jessica Verdi: lesbian mc is sent to a religious « de-gaying » camp
Quiver by Julia Watts: unlikely friendship between two teens from opposite sides of the culture wars (non-binary mc)
There Goes Sunday School by Alexander C. Eberhart: a gay boy with a Christian family makes art (m/m)
It Looks Like This by Rafi Mittlefehlgt: a gay kid have to stay in the closet because of his family (m/m)
Learning Seventeen by Brooke Carter: teenage girl in a Baptist reform school meets a bad girl (f/f)
My Lovely Frankie by Judith Clarke: teenage boy caught between faith and love (gay mc)
A Very, Very Bad Thing by Jefferey Self: the mc’s boyfriend is being sent to a « pray the gay away » program (gay mc)
Orpheus Girl by Brynne Rebel-Henry: two girlfriends are being sent to the same conversion therapy and try to get away (lesbian mc)
Deposing Nathan by Zack Smedley: a book about friendship, acceptance and abusive families (bi mc, m/m)

Anthologies

Meet Cute: anthology about lovers and their first meeting (queer rep)
Her body and other parties by Carmen Mario Machado: short story collections about women’s bodies (lesbian mc, latinx rep)
No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll: fantasy stories about prophecies with trans characters (trans rep, intersex rep…)
The Kissing Booth Girl and other stories by A.C Wise: queer SFFF stories
Real Queer America by Samantha Allen: stories about queer communities in red states
All-Out: historical stories about queer characters
A Phoenix First Must Burn: stories centering Black girls and gender nonconforming teens
Vampire Never Get Old: fresh takes on old souls with vampire stories (queer characters)

Middle grade books

Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender: Afro-Caribbean magical-realist and the journey of three characters: a young black queer girl, her mother and her depression and her best friend and internalized homophobia (bi mc, black mc)
The Pants Project by Cat Clarke: a trans boy tries to changer his school’s rules about pants (trans mc, mc has two moms)
Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the world by Ashley Herring Blake: the mc’s house has been destroyed by a tornado but her drawings of girls holding hands keep appearing in her school locker (lesbian mc)
Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow: a girl at a summer music camp falls in love with anothe girl (bi mc)
Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker: trans girl solving cyber mystery
The Whispers by Greg Howard: a boy’s mother is missing and he will try to find her in the forest (gay mc)
Alan Cole is not a coward by Eric Bell: a game between a lonely boy with a tumultuous family and his brother (gay mc)
One True Way by Shannon Hitchcock: two girls fall in love at school in 1970 (f/f)
Star-Crossed by Barbara Dee: two girls at school must play Romeo and Juliet (f/f)
Martin McLean, Middle School Queen by Alyssa Zaczek: a young boy discorvers the drag shows universe
Rick by Alex Gino: a boy joins the Rainbow Spectrum club at his school (gay mc)
The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake: a girl with a new heart wants to spend the best summer (wlw mc, wlw and latinx mc)

Graphic novels

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson*: a shapeshifter teams up with a villain (gay couple)**
Zodiac Starforce: a team of magical girls with power based on their zodiac sign*: (f/f, poc rep)
Motor Crush by Brenden Fletcher*: a woman does illegal moto race (f/f, black mc)
Goldie Vance by Hope Larson*: a young detective investigate mysteries in an hotel (f/f, black mc)
Spell on Wheels by Kate Leth*: a road trip with three modern witches (lesbian mc, black mc, fat rep)
Kim & Kim by Magdalene Visaggio: two besties who are cowboy law enforcement in space (trans mc)
Heathen by Natasha Alterici*: a Viking girl gets kicked out of her tribe and wants to free a goddess (lesbian mc)
Space Battle Lunchtime by Natalie Riess: cooking reality TV show in space (f/f)**
The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill*: a world where tea leaves grow on dragon’s heads (gay couple)
Bloom by Kevin Panetta: two boys, a bakery and summertime (m/m)
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman: boy meets boy, boys fall in love (gay mc, bi mc)**
Laura Dean keeps breaking up with me by Mariko Tamaki: a girl and her toxic relationship with her ex-girlfriend (f/f)
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang*: the story of a prince who wears dresses and his dressmaker (queer rep)**
Bingo Love by Tee Franklin:*: two black bi girls who fell in love when they were young meet again decades years later (black mc, bi mc, f/f)
On a sumbeam by Tillie Walden: a crew on a space ship who rebuild old structures (lesbian mc, non-binary rep)**
Moonstruck by Grace Ellis: two werewolves girls dating (lesbian mc, black mc, fat rep, non-binary rep)
Heavy Vinyl by Carly Udsin: a music story hides a secret fight club team (f/f, black rep)
The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag: in a world where girls are witches and boys are shapeshifters, a boy wants to be a witch (queer rep, poc rep)**
Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson: girls in a scout camp fight supernatural creatures (f/f, trans rep)
Kim Reaper by Sara Graley: a college student gets a crush on a grim reaper (f/f)
Roadqueen by Mira Ong Chua: enemies-to-lovers, fake dating and motorcycle races (lesbian mc)
Destiny, NY by Pat Shand: a modern world where magic is real and ordinary people are the heroes of prophecies (lesbian mc, fat rep, black rep)*
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo: retelling of the Little Women story (black mc, biracial mc, lesbian mc)**
Princeless: Raven The Pirate Princess by Jeremy Whitley*: (f/f, poc rep)
Fence by C.S Pacat: sports-centered story with a hate-to-love romance (m/m)
The Spire by Simon Spurrier: a commander of the City Watch investigates murder (f/f)
Taproot by Keezy Young: a botanist who can see ghosts fall in love with one of them (m/m, poc rep)
The Backstagers by James Tynion IV: theater kids in an all-boys school (m/m)
Power Up by Kate Leth: a bunch of magical girls and boys fight crimes (queer rep)
Check Please! by Ngozi Ukazu: a figure skating champion join a hockey club (m/m)
Giant Days by John Allison: three college students and their stressful life (lesbian mc)**
As the crow flies by Melanie Gillman: a queer, black teenager who finds herself stranded an all-white Christian youth backpacking camp
Princess Princess Ever After by Kate O’Neill*: a princess saves another princess from her tower (f/f, black mc)
Rat Queens by J. Wiebe*: a diverse group of women who kill monsters (f/f, poc rep)**
Honor Girl by Maggie Trash: a teenage girl in a religious summer camp fall in love with a girl (lesbian mc)
My favorite thing is monster by Emil Ferris: a lesbian girl obsessed with monsters
Decelerate Blue by Adam Rapp and Mike Cavallaro: a sci-fi dystopian world where everything is regulated and a group of rebellious people (f/f)
The one hundred nights of Hero by Isabelle Greenberg: in the tradition of The Arabian Nights, a beautifully illustrated tapestry of folk tales and myths about the secret legacy of female storytellers in an imagined medieval world (f/f, bi girl, queer girls)**