These are the books on my bookstore’s PRIDE display for teens this year:
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REPRESENTATION: Trans
“A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave.”
REPRESENTATION: Trans
“A revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.”
REPRESENTATION: Gay M/M
“Some people are extraordinary. Some are just extra. TJ Klune’s YA debut, The Extraordinaries, is a queer coming-of-age story about a fanboy with ADHD and the heroes he loves.”
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic W/W
“A teen girl navigates friendship drama, the end of high school, and discovering her queerness in Ophelia After All.”
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic W/W
“A cheerleader and the school’s newest quarterback are playing to win, but might lose their hearts in the process.”
REPRESENTATION: Gay M/M
A “postapocalyptic, queer YA adventure romance” about two boys who have to rely on each other to survive a deadly pathogen that has killed most of the world’s population.
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic W/W
“A sharply funny and moving debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love and learning to celebrate her true self. “
REPRESENTATION: Ace
“A breathtaking and spine-tingling novel about three teenage girls who face off against an insidious monster that preys upon young women.”
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic W/W
A romantic comedy “about chasing down what you want, only to find what you need..” where Chloe Green finds herself in an unlikely alliance looking for the missing Shara Wheeler.
REPRESENTATION: Gay M/M
A ” delectable rom-com that’s brimming with zest and a sprinkle of sweetness” about two boys from rival food businesses who finds them falling in love as well as trying to save their parent’s businesses.
REPRESENTATION: Nonbinary
“Two non-binary teens are pulled into a magical world under a lake—but can they keep their worlds above water intact?”
REPRESENTATION: Trans
“A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors.”
REPRESENTATION: LGBTQIA+
“From a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set in war-torn 1870s Mexico featuring a transgender soldier, to two girls falling in love while mourning the death of Kurt Cobain, forbidden love in a sixteenth-century Spanish convent or an asexual girl discovering her identity amid the 1970s roller-disco scene, All Out tells a diverse range of stories across cultures, time periods and identities, shedding light on an area of history often ignored or forgotten.”
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic W/W
“America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.”
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic W/W
“A young musician sets out to expose her rival for illegal use of magic only to discover the deception goes deeper than she could have imagined.”
REPRESENTATION: Genderqueer
“An empowering and emotional debut novel about a genderqueer teen who finds the courage to stand up and speak out for equality when they are discriminated against by their high school administration.”
REPRESENTATION: Gay M/M
“A smart, sexy YA novel about a boy band star, his first breakup, his first rebound, and what it means to be queer in the public eye”
REPRESENTATION: Ace/Aro
“A funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of a girl who realizes that love can be found in many ways that don’t involve sex or romance.”
REPRESENTATION: Nonbinary
“It’s just three words: I am nonbinary. But that’s all it takes to change everything.”
REPRESENTATION: Bisexual
“The guy of her dreams… or the girl in her heart?” Lara always had eyes on one person throughout highschool: Chase Harding, but she’s haunted by a memory of spending summer with a girl named Jasmine.
REPRESENTATION: Bisexual
A story about love and loss, Corinne isn’t ready to let people know she’s bisexual, but when her girlfriend dies, she turns to the only person who understands how she feels—her girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend
REPRESENTATION: Sapphic W/W
“Uncover a riveting story of palace intrigue set in a sumptuous Asian-inspired fantasy world” about a girl who is picked—along with eight other girls—to serve the king, but finds herself falling into a forbidden romance with one of the girls.
REPRESENTATION: Trans
“A thought-provoking and haunting novel about a creature that escapes from an artist’s canvas, whose talent is sniffing out monsters in a world that claims they don’t exist anymore.”
REPRESENTATION: Trans
A big-hearted story about Amanda, the new girl at her new school, who wants to make friends, but doesn’t want to get close—lest her secret that she used to be Andrew at her previous school is revealed. That fear becomes stronger as she gets to know the easygoing Grant.
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