YA lovers, rejoice! Here’s the compilation post you’ve been looking for: all (hopefully) LGBT YA books of this half of 2022. It’s over 150 books long, and I probably still missed a few!
It’s not easy to be very specific with the LGBT rep without having read all the books myself, but I tried my best. If there are any mistakes or something could be more detailed, feel free to let me know in the comments. And like always, books by LGBT authors are marked with a rainbow emoji.
Enjoy and preorder! And hey, a lot of those titles are available on Scribd, so if you want to check out that service but don’t have an account yet, use my invite code to get 2 months for free! (This also gives me one free month.)
See also: 2019-2022 releases by rep and genre
JANUARY
🌈 In a Heartbeat by Markus Harwood-Jones (trans mc)
The Kindred by Alechia Dow (bi mc, demi ace mc, gay side character)
🌈 Serendipity ed. by Marissa Meyer (short stories; f/f relationship, m/m relationship)
🌈 Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes (Cuban American gay mc, Chinese American gay li, nonbinary side character) tw homophobia, teacher-student relationship, homophobic violence
The Ivory Key by Akshaya Raman (Indian cast, gay mc, lesbian side characters)
🌈 Love Somebody by Rachel Roasek (bi mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 The Bone Spindle by Leslie Vedder (lesbian mc, sapphic li)
Hopepunk by Preston Norton (lesbian character, achillean character) tw conversion therapy, self-harm
🌈 Icebreaker by Al Graziadei (bi mc, Black gay li, lesbian & bi side characters)
Coming Back by Jessi Zabarsky (f/f relationship)
🌈 Game On ed. by Laura Silverman (lgbt short stories)
🌈 Beyond the End of the World by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner (bi mc, sapphic parents)
All Daughters Rise by Alysa Auriemma (lesbian mcs, f/f relationship)
🌈 The Temperature of Me and You by Brian Zepka (gay mc, m/m relationship)
Into the Midnight Void by Mara Fitzgerald (lesbian mc & li, gay side character) tw blood, eye gore, body horror
🌈 At the End of Everything by Marieke Nijkamp (nonbinary mc)
🌈 Rebel Boys and Rescue Dogs, or Things That Kiss with Teeth by Brianna R. Shrum (trans li)
The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle (sapphic mc, bi character, nonbinary character) tw self-harm, disordered eating, suicidal ideation
🌈 Pieces of My Life by Chris Bedell (gay mc, m/m relationship)
The Kings of Nowhere by C. G. Drews (autistic achillean mc, m/m)
🌈 One Last Summer by Emma Rossi (f/f relationship)
FEBRUARY
🌈 Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor (aro bi mc, nonbinary ace character, aroace character)
🌈 Three Left Turns to Nowhere by J. Marshall Freeman, ‘Nathan Burgoine & Jeffrey Ricker (trans mc, m/m relationship)
Magical Boy by The Kao (trans mc, lesbian side characters, gay side character)
Boy at the Window by Lauren Melissa Ellzey (m/m relationship) tw for attempted suicide
🌈 Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti (nonbinary mcs)
🌈 No Filter and Other Lies by Crystal Maldonado (fat bi Puerto Rican mc)
The Gifts That Bind Us by Caroline O’Donoghue (sapphic mc, bi genderfluid li, biracial Filipino Irish sapphic side character) tw transphobia, homophobia, self harm
🌈 From Dust, a Flame by Rebecca Podos (Jewish sapphic mc, f/f relationship, Jewish gay character)
🌈 Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie (Cuban-Irish sapphic mc, lgbt characters)
🌈 Cold by Mariko Tamaki (sapphic mc, achillean mc)
🌈 Golden Boys by Phil Stamper (gay mc, gay characters)
Finding Her Edge by Jennifer Iacopelli (gay character)
The Alpha’s Son by Penny Jessup (m/m relationship)
🌈 Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi (Black trans girl mc with selective mutism)
🌈 The Chandler Legacies by Abdi Nazemian (Iranian gay mc)
🌈 The Ooze by Tash McAdam (trans mc)
🌈 Extasia by Claire Legrand (sapphic mc, sapphic characters)
The Turning Pointe by Vanessa L. Torres (bi genderqueer li)
The Moonstone Girls by Brooke Skipstone (sapphic mc, f/f relationship, gay character)
🌈 Silver-Lined Secrets by Aleksander Petit (gay mc, trans gay li, achillean character) tw blood, violence, death, kidnapping, transphobia, ableism, vomiting, panic attacks
🌈 Reclaim the Stars ed. by Zoraida Córdova (Latine casts, f/f relationship, nonbinary mc, bi mcs, polyamory)*
🌈 Murder of Crows by K. Ancrum (Cuban American bi mc, sapphic character, bi grandmother, gay side character)
🌈 Messy Roots by Laura Gao (memoir)
🌈 Witchy, Volume 2 by Ariel Slamet Ries (trans characters)
Fish Out of Water by Kate Hendrick (gay mc)
MARCH
🌈 And They Lived… by Steven Salvatore (nonbinary mc, nb/m relationship) tw outing, homophobia, fatphobia, gaslighting, disordered eating & purging (graphic), suicidal ideation
🌈 Every Variable of Us by Charles A. Bush (f/f relationship)
🌈 The One True Me and You by Remi K. England (nonbinary mc, nb/f relationship)
Travelers Along the Way by Aminah Mae Safi (sapphic characters)
🌈 All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown (bi mc, m/m relationship)
Take Her Down by Lauren Emily Whalen (bi mc)
🌈 Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson (Black achillean mc)
🌈 The Savior’s Rise by Talli Morgan (The Savior’s Rise by Talli Morgan (nonbinary bi mc, gay demi mc, nb/m relationship, pan aro mc, pan genderqueer mc) – 1)
🌈 Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore (Latinx nonbinary mcs) tw racism, homophobia
🌈 Between Safe and Real by Dannie M. Olguin (bi mc) tw parental abuse, alcoholism, violence
🌈 Forward March by Skye Quinlan (lesbian ace mc)
One for All by Lillie Lainoff (lesbian character, bi character, ace character)
🌈 Great or Nothing by Joy McCullough, Caroline Tung Richmond, Tess Sharpe, and Jessica Spotswood (sapphic mc)
🌈 Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters (bi lis, m/m relationship)
🌈 Wynd, Book Two: Secret of the Wings by James Tynion IV & Michael Dialynas (achillean mc)
🌈 A Million Quiet Revolutions by Robin Gow (achillean trans mcs)
🌈 Kiss & Tell by Adib Khorram (gay mc)
Live, Laugh, Kidnap by Gabby Noone (sapphic mc)
🌈 So This Is Ever After by F. T. Lukens (bi mc, m/m relationship)
Boys of the Beast by Monica Zepeda (Jewish gay mc)
Dig Two Graves by Gretchen McNeil (bi mc)
The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson (sapphic mc)
Message Not Found by Dante Medema (sapphic parents)
🌈 Save Yourself! by Bones Leopard, Kelly & Nichole Matthews (sapphic mc, nonbinary li, Black gay side character, Black genderqueer side character)
When Our Worlds Collided by Danielle Jawando (Black gay mc)
APRIL
🌈 She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick (f/f relationship)
🌈 This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke (genderqueer mc, polyam)
🌈 Blaine for the Win by Robbie Couch (gay mc, Vietnamese American bi li, Black sapphic character, Latina sapphic character, gay side characters)
🌈 Sofi and the Bone Song by Adrienne Tooley (f/f relationship)
Mamo by Sas Milledge (sapphic mc, Filipino sapphic mc) tw mention of past child abuse
🌈 I Am the Ghost in Your House by Maria Romasco-Moore (bi mc)
Harley Quinn: Reckoning by Rachael Allen (bi mc)
🌈 Arden Grey by Ray Stoeve (sapphic mc, trans character)
No Stopping Us Now by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (sapphic mc)
🌈 Every Word You Never Said by Jordon Greene (gay adopted nonverbal gnc mc, m/m relationship, Black pan character)
🌈 The Drowning Summer by Christine Lynn Herman (bi mcs, f/f relationship)**
Omens Bite by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast (lesbian mc)
🌈 Howl by Shaun David Hutchinson (gay mc) tw graphic body horror & gore, gaslighting, PTSD
🌈 Sisters of Moonlight by Katherine Livesey (f/f relationship)
🌈 Vile Stars by Sera Milano (m/m relationship)
🌈 Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders (bi/pan mc, Black Brazilian trans female bi/pan mc, nonbinary characters)
🌈 Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk (Black bi mc, Black sapphic li)
We Who Hunt the Hollow by Kate Murray (bi mc, past f/f relationship)
Truth Be Told by Sue Divin (lesbian mc)
MAY
🌈 Dead End Girls by Wendy Heard (f/f relationship)
🌈 Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches by Kate Scelsa (f/f relationship)
🌈 A Cruel and Fated Light by Ashley Shuttleworth (lesbian mc with depression, pan mc, bi mc, gay mc)
🌈 The Queen of Junk Island by Alexandra Mae Jones (bi mc)
The Merciless Ones by Namina Forna (sapphic side relationship, trans side characters)
🌈 Barnabas Bopwright Saves the City by J. Marshall Freeman (bi mc, trans character, same-sex parents, lgbt side characters)
🌈 The Dove in the Belly by Jim Grimsley (gay mc, m/m relationship)
🌈 The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor (nonbinary autistic mc)
Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado (Afro-Latina lesbian mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston (bi mc, lesbian li, dyslexic Black gay character, Black nonbinary achillean side character, lesbian, gay, bi & nonbinary side characters)
🌈 When You Call My Name by Tucker Shaw (gay mcs)
🌈 If You Change Your Mind by Robby Weber (gay mc)
🌈 An Unreliable Magic by Rin Chupeco (gay character, nonbinary character)***
Beauty and the Besharam by Lillie Vale (bi mc, f/m relationship, side f/f relationship)
🌈 Café Con Lychee by Emery Lee (m/m relationship)
🌈 Only on the Weekends by Dean Atta (Black gay mc, m/m relationship, gay characters)
🌈 The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes (Indigenous Mexican American lesbian mc, Chinese American lesbian li, Indigenous Mexican American bi character, Black gay character)
🌈 Melt With You by Jennifer Dugan (bi mcs, f/f relationship)
🌈 The Days of Bluegrass Love by Edward van de Vendel, trans. by Emma Rault (gay mc)
🌈 Galaxy: The Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod & Jess Taylor (trans mc)
🌈 Nate Plus One by Kevin van Whye (Black achillean mc, m/m relationship)
🌈 Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster by Andrea Mosqueda (Chicana bi mc)
🌈 Primal Animals by Julia Lynn Rubin (sapphic mc) tw blood, insects, gore, mentions of sexual assault/harassment
🌈 Milo and Marcos at the End of the Word by Kevin Christopher Snipes (m/m relationship)
🌈 The Fae Keeper by H. E. Edgmon (trans gay mc, Black achillean li, Native American bi ace side character, lgbt side characters)
🌈 Queer Ducks (and Other Animals) by Eliot Schrefer (nonfiction)
🌈 Man O’War by Cory McCarthy (trans mc)
🌈 Summer’s Edge by Dana Mele (bi mc, lesbian mc)
🌈 A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy (gay mc, m/m relationship)
🌈 Speech and Debacles by Heather DiAngelis (bi mc with endometriosis, f/m relationship)
🌈 Flip the Script by Lyla Lee (Korean cast, bi mc, lesbian li, pan mc)
🌈 All Signs Point To Yes ed. Cam Montgomery, cara davis-araux & Adrianne White (lgbt short stories)
🌈 Out of the Blue by Jason June (nonbinary mc, gay mc, m/nb relationship)
🌈 Kings of B’more by R. Eric Thomas (Black gay mcs)
Deep in Providence by Riss M. Neilson (sapphic mc)
The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson (Métis Nation ace mc, Black bi character, bi side character, achillean side characters)
Jestin Kase and the Masters of Dragon Metal by J. Michael White (gay mc)
Desde Soulcial, ¿con amor? by Iria G. Parente & Selene M. Pascual (bi mc, lesbian li, f/f relationship, m/m relationship)
Romance real by Clara Alves (f/f relationship)
🌈 Wish Upon a Satellite by Sophie Labelle (trans nonbinary mc)
🌈 Take Your Shot by Riley Scott (f/f relationship)
The Well by Jake Wyatt & Choo (sapphic mc)
🌈 Slipping the Noose by Meg Caddy (gnc mc, trans character, genderqueer character)
JUNE
Slip by Marika McCoola & Aatmaja Pandya (sapphic mc)
🌈 Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler (polysexual mc, butch lesbian mc, f/f relationship)
Happily Ever Island by Crystal Cestari (f/f relationship)
🌈 Out There ed. by Saundra Mitchell (lgbt stories)
🌈 The Loophole by Naz Kutub (Indian Muslim gay mc)
🌈 The Gravity of Missing Things by Marisa Urgo (bi mc)
🌈 We All Fall Down by Rose Szabo (two lesbian mcs, trans & bi characters)****
🌈 Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White (trans mc, lgbt characters)
🌈 Glorious Poison by Kat Dunn (biracial Black lesbian mc, Black mc, bi mc, gay mc)
The Last Session Vol. 1: Roll for Initiative by Jasmine Walls, Michael Moccio, Dozerdraws (lgbt cast)
Valiant Ladies by Melissa Grey (Peruvian lesbian mcs, f/f relationship)
🌈 The Sea Knows My Name by Laura Brooke Robson (bi li, f/m relationship) tw sexual assault
Epically Earnest by Molly Horan (f/f relationship, side m/m relationship)
🌈 Not Good for Maidens by Tori Bovalino (bi mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron (Black bi mc, sapphic parents)
🌈 Godslayers by Zoe Hana Mikuta (Korean lesbian mc, Korean bi mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 Bad Things Happen Here by Rebecca Barrow (fat sapphic mc)
🌈 Clementine by Tillie Walden (sapphic mc)
🌈 If You Still Recognise Me by Cynthia So (British Chinese bi mc, British Chinese lesbian side character, f/f relationship, British Indian sapphic side character, biracial Black sapphic side character, Vietnamese nonbinary bi side character, Chinese side characters, Chinese gay side character, gay & sapphic side characters)
A Midnight Dark and Golden by Holly Race (gay mc)
🌈 Funny Gyal: My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica by Angeline Jackson & Susan McClelland (autobiography)
Only Pieces by Edd Tello (Mexican American gay mc, m/m relationship)
Mój ostatni miesiąc by Marcel Moss (m/m relationship) tw suicide, rape, sexual assault, death
🌈 Game of Strength and Storm by Rachel Menard (f/f relationship)
Fireworks by Alice Lin (bi mc, f/m relationship)
*Please be aware that three authors involved in this anthology (Bowles, Faring and Ibañez) have a history of anti-Indigenous racism.
**Please note that Christine Lynn Herman has a history of bullying authors of colour.
***Please note that Rin Chupeco has a history of anti-Black behaviour.
****Please note that there are concerns about the racist nature of the content in this book.
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