Media - Books

This is just a few of the many impactful young adult LGBTQIA+ books over the last several decades. Some of these are written by LGBTQIA+ authors with LGBTQIA+ representation while others are written by members outside of the community with LGBTQIA+ representation.
If the library has a copy for checkout, it will be linked in the title of the book.
WARNING: While these are all important pieces of LGBTQIA+ history, some may contain material inappropriate for younger readers.

All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
Goerge  M. Johnson

Content warnings for racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexual assault, statutory rape, physical assault, terminal illness, and grief and loss.

Annie on my Mind
Nancy Garden
Content warnings for outing and religious bigotry.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Content warnings for violence, transphobia, intergenerational trauma, and mental illness.

Ash
Malindo Lo
Content warnings for child abuse, animal death, and confinement.

Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen
Jazz Jennings
Content warnings for deadnaming and transphobia.

Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
Susan Kuklin
Content warnings for deadnaming, transphobia, child abuse and suicide attempt.

Beyond the Gender Binary
Alok Vaid-Menon, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky
Content warnings for transphobia, body shaming, misogyny, suicide, racism, and sexual violence.

Boy Meets Boy
David Levithan
Content warnings for deadnaming, transphobia, and religious bigotry.

Carry On
Rainbow Rowell

Content warnings for blood depiction, starvation, death, murder, and bullying.

Check, Please!
Ngozi Ukazu

Content warnings for coming out themes, panic attacks, alcohol consumption, and hazing.

Everything Leads to You
Nina LaCour

Content warnings for homophobia.

Geography Club
Brent Hartinger
Content warnings for sexual assault, bullying, and homophobia.

Heartstopper
Alice Oseman
Content warnings for outing recounted, homophobia, sexual assault, and bullying.

The Henna Wars
Adiba Jaigirdar
Content warnings for outing, racism, bullying, Islamophobia, and cultural appropriation.

I'll Give You the Sun
Jandy Nelson

Content warnings for forced outing and homophobia.

Juliet Takes a Breath
Gabby Rivera
Content warnings for racism, homophobia, fatphobia, body shaming, cheating, sexual assault, and sexual harrassment.

Like a Love Story
Abdi Nazemian
Content warnings for racism, body shaming, fatphobia, violence, terminal illness.

Lumberjanes
Noelle Stevenson & Grace Ellis, Illustrated by Brooke Allen
Content warnings for animal death, violence.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky

Content warnings for homophobia, ableism, racism, sexual assault, statutory rape, domestic violence, underage drinking and drug use, abortion, death, and physical assault.

Melissa
Alex Gino
Content warnings for deadnaming and transphobia.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Emily M. Danforth
Content warnings for drug use, self-harm, religious bigotry, conversion therapy, forced institutionalization, outing, and suicide attempt.

Rainbow Boys
Alex Sanchez
Content warnings for child abuse, domestic abuse, biphobia, and alcoholism.

Ramona Blue
Julie Murphy
Content warnings for alcoholism, biphobia, anxiety and panic attacks, and racism.

Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
Becky Abertalli
Content warnings for forced outing.

Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen
Arin Andrews

Content warnings for deadnaming and transphobia.

The Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns
Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson

They Both Die At the End
Adam Silvera

Content warnings for homophobia, suicidal ideation, physical assault, gun violence, animal death,  and death.

This One Summer
Mariko Tamaki

Content warnings for sult-shaming, attempted suicide, miscarriage.

When the Moon Was Ours
Anna-Marie McLemore
Queer Femme & Trans Masc Leads

Content warnings for transphobia, deadnaming, violence, child abuse, suicide attempt.