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)**

*: my favorite books

**: books soon to be release or already release in french