Teen Press member Ivy put together a fantastic reading list for Pride month and beyond– come pick up a card in the store, or save the image below and play with us! We’d love to see your bingo cards, tag us on social media– we’re everywhere (at) bookpeople!
Celebrating Pride doesn’t begin or end in June, but there’s never been a better time to start exploring queer YA! Here are some of my favorite LGBTQ+ YA novels (with a little Middle Grade and New Adult thrown in) to help you fill out BookPeople’s Pride Bingo:
No Coming Out Scene
- DeadEndia: The Watcher’s Test by Hamish Steele, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender
LGBTQ+ Story/Characters in Another Medium
- Shadow and Bone on Netflix, Love Victor on Hulu, The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Urban Fantasy
- Infinity Son by Adam Silvera, Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas, The Fell of Dark by Caleb Roehrig
Gender Nonconforming
- Pumpkin by Julie Murphy, The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag, Kings Queen and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju
Coming Out Scene
- I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
Short Stories or Essays
Own Voices
- Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy, How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters, The Art of Starving by Sam J Miller
International Author
- Radio Silence by Alice Oseman, Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
Bisexual
- The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre by Robin Talley, Autoboyography by Christina Lauren, Pumpkinheads by Faith Erin Hicks and Rainbow Rowell
Asexual
- Loveless by Alice Oseman, Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann, Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee
F/F
- Wilder Girls by Rory Power, Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan, Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst
No Love Interest
- The Ghosts We Keep by Mason Deaver, As Far As You’ll Take Me by Phil Stamper, How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi
LGBTQ+ Retelling
- Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Baron, Orpheus Girl by Brynne Rebele-Henry, Once & Future by AR Capetta and Cory McCarthy
M/M
- What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera, The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg, Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Poetry or Novel In Verse
- The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta, I Felt a Funeral In My Brain by Will Walton, Goddess of The Hunt by Shelby Eileen
Contemporary Fiction
- Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales, Kate in Waiting by Becky Albertalli, If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
Disabled or Neurodiverse
- The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg, Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Intersectionality
- Anger Is a Gift by Mark Oshiro, Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender, Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Graphic Novel
- Are You Listening by Tillie Walden, The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen, Bloom by Kevin Panetta
Trans or Nonbinary
- Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve, Pet by Akwaeke Emezi, Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith
Sci-Fi
- The Disasters by MK England, They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera, The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson
Multiple LGBTQ+ Couples
- The Shadow War by Lindsay Smith, Heartstopper by Alice Oseman, Camp by LC Rosen
Fantasy
- Black Wings Beating by Alex London, The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore
Local Author
- Jay’s Gay Agenda by Jason June, Check Please by Ngozi Ukazu, Redwood and Ponytail by KA Holt
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