These are the books on my bookstore’s PRIDE display for teens this year:
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REPRESENTATION: Sapphic W/W
“A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love—with all its complications—” about Delilah Green, newly returned to her childhood hometown, and Claire Sutherland, the bestie of Delilah’s estranged stepsister, as they fall in love.”
REPRESENTATION: Trans character
“A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in your own body in this clever, humorous, and heartfelt novel.”
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic W/W
“”A new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks. Two women. Love on the subways. What more do you want?”
REPRESENTATION: Nonbinary character
“The first openly nonbinary contestant on America’s favorite cooking show falls for their clumsy competitor in this delicious romantic comedy debut “
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic W/W
“With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that.”
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic W/W + Bisexual
A “fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss.”
REPRESENTATION: Queer characters—nonbinary, bisexual characters
“Dragons. Art. Revolution.” All you need to know.
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic as fuck
“Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment.“
REPRESENTATION: A bunch of queer characters—lesbian, gay, bi
“On the far outreaches of a crumbling desert empire, two women–a princess and a soldier–will haggle over the price of a nation in this richly imagined, breath-taking sapphic epic fantasy filled with rebellion, espionage, and assassinations.”
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic characters
“Set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies on a dark journey to save their empire from the princess’s traitor brother.”
REPRESENTATION: Trans character
“Drawing on ancient texts and modern archeology to reveal the trans woman’s story hidden underneath the well-known myths of The Iliad, Maya Deane’s Wrath Goddess Sing weaves a compelling, pitilessly beautiful vision of Achilles’ vanished world”
REPRESENTATION: Trans + nonbinary characters
“She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor where a girl uses her brother’s identity to escape her fated death and does whatever it takes to survive.”
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic W/W
“At once exquisite and expansive, astonishing in its humanity and heart, Yerba Buena is a love story for our time and a propulsive journey through the lives of two women trying to find somewhere, or someone, to call home.”
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic W/W
“An entrancing and “wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet” (PopSugar) as she reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine.”
REPRESENTATION: Trans character
“The lives of three women—transgender and cisgender—collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires.”
REPRESENTATION: Gay M/M
A “delightful queer love story about Wallace, who suspect he might be dead, and Hugo, the owner of a peculair tea shop, who promises to help Wallace cross over. It’s an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.”
REPRESENTATION: Trans
A” lush, sweeping queer historical romance” about a pair of old friends—a trans heroine who finally decides to live as herself, and a grieving duke—who fall in love. “
REPRESENTATION: Bisexual characters
“A stunning tale of a reluctant criminal and the thief who cannot help but love her. “
REPRESENTATION: Nonbinary character
“An adventure set in California’s San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts.”
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic
“Siren Queen offers up an enthralling exploration of an outsider achieving stardom on her own terms, in a fantastical Hollywood where the monsters are real and the magic of the silver screen illuminates every page.”
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic W/W
“An unforgettable hero and a queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern era. Nicola Griffith’s Spear is a spellbinding vision of the Camelot we’ve longed for, a Camelot that belongs to us all.”
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic
“Nghi Vo’s debut novel The Chosen and the Beautiful reinvents this classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice.”
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic
“Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy.”
REPRESENTATION: Gay M/M
“Imbuing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism and giving full voice to people rarely acknowledged in the literary world, Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the bounds of masculinity, the divisions of sectarianism, the violence faced by many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.”
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