Readers, here’s a little treat for you: over 110 LGBT YA books coming out in the second half of 2022! The later months are usually less eventful, but that’s still a nice number, isn’t it? Surely, everyone will find dozens of books to get excited about here!
And like always, a rainbow emoji indicates that the book is by an LGBT author.
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.)
Related: LGBT YA books of January-June 2022 & more LGBT YA releases
JULY
The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen by Gary Eldon Peter (gay mc)
🌈 Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser & Robyn Smith (Black sapphic mc)
The Promise of Lost Things by Helene Dunbar (m/m relationship)
My Love Mix-Up!, Vol. 4 by Wataru Hinekure (m/m relationship; English translation)
🌈 The Society For Soulless Girls by Laura Steven (bi/pan mc, lesbian mc, f/f relationship) tw sexual harassment, animal death, self harm
🌈 The King is Dead by Benjamin Dean (Black gay mc, Black gay li, gay li) tw homophobia, racism
Something Certain, Maybe by Sara Barnard (bi mc with anxiety, British Iranian Spanish lesbian li, f/f relationship) tw mentions of attempted suicide, biphobia
🌈 The Airless Year by Adam P. Knave, Valentine Barker & Frank Cvetkovic (Black sapphic mc)
The You I See by Danny Freeman (gay mcs)
🌈 Wake the Bones by Elizabeth Kilcoyne (m/m relationship)
Blackwater by Jeannette Arroyo & Ren Graham (Black Puerto Rican bi mc, trans achillean chronically ill mc, m/m relationship)
🌈 Heat Wave by T. J. Klune (m/m relationship)
🌈 The Comedienne’s Guide to Pride by Hayli Thomson (lesbian mc) AUS 15th June
The Valkyrie’s Daughter by Tiana Warner (f/f relationship)
The Witchery by S. Isabelle (Black sapphic mcs)
Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min (pan mc, Japanese-Korean trans mc, m/m relationship, nonbinary, sapphic & lesbian characters)
Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen (bi & lesbian characters) tw self-harm in a ritual/magical context, body horror
A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow, Vol. 9 by Makoto Hagino (f/f relationship; English translation)
Youngblood by Sasha Laurens (lesbian mc & li, f/f relationship)*
Chasing Harmony by Melanie Bell (bi mc)
Brutal Hearts by Cassie Daley (bi mc, f/f relationship)
The Pox Academy by Warren Mead (m/m relationship)
Life is a Banquet by David Boyles (gay mc, lesbian side character)
Blowin’ My Mind Like a Summer Breeze by Benjamin Roesch (f/f relationship)
AUGUST
Girls Who Lie Together by Jessa Russo (f/f relationship) **no longer to be published
Dauntless by Elisa A. Bonnin (Filipino-inspired setting & characters, lesbian mc, bi li, f/f relationship)
🌈 The Signs We Missed by Lena May (bi mc, gay mc, m/m relationship)
🌈 The Feeling of Falling in Love by Mason Deaver (trans mc, nonbinary li, m/nb relationship)
It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano (questioning ace mc, aroace li, nonbinary, gay & lesbian side characters)
🌈 The Honeys by Ryan La Sala (achillean genderfluid mc, lesbian & gay side characters)
Furysong by Rosaria Munda (gay mc, bi mc) tw burnings, blood, branding, grief, mentions of past coercive sexual relationship, threat of rape
Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury (trans Mexican Canadian li, trans Trinidadian Canadian character, demi lesbian Trinidadian Canadian character)
🌈 These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall (f/f relationship)
🌈 I Asked the Moon by Paul A. Rayes (m/m relationship)
🌈 Fence: Rise by C. S. Pacat & Johanna the Mad (m/m relationships)
The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones (bi mc, f/m relationship)
Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives by Adam Cesare (m/m relationship)
🌈 This Is Why They Hate Us by Aaron H. Aceves (bi Mexican American mc, Muslim bi Palestinian American li, m/m relationship, bi Afro Puerto Rican/Cuban character, bi Vietnamese American character, gay Mexican American characters) tw suicide ideation, intrusive thoughts, homophobia, anxiety, depression, mention of homophobic assault of a side character
In the Shadow of the Throne by Kate Sheridan & Gaia Cardinali (Filipino gay mc, gay mc, m/m relationship)
Dead Flip by Sara Farizan (lesbian mc)
🌈 Moon Dark Smile by Tessa Gratton (lgbt cast)
Felix Silver, Teaspoons & Witches by Harry Cook (gay mc)
🌈 Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell by Tobias Madden (gay mc, m/m relationship) UK/US 2023
All of Our Demise by Amanda Foody & Christine Lynn Herman (bi mcs)**
🌈 The Nexus of Destiny by Kalob Dà niel (aroace mc, bi character, m/m relationship)
🌈 Bad At Love by Gabriela Martins (Brazilian American pan mc, Brazilian demi mc, f/m relationship, Black lesbian side character)
Darts and Flowers by Dean Backus (gay mc)
Instant Adult by Dave Hughes (gay mc)
🌈 Where You Left Us by Rhiannon Wilde (f/f relationship)
🌈 The Brink by Holden Sheppard (achillean mc) tw drugging, death
🌈 Dancing Barefoot by Alice Boyle (sapphic mc, trans side character)
SEPTEMBER
🌈 Timberdark by Darren Charlton (gay mc, m/m relationship)
🌈 The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas (Latine cast, trans gay mc, m/m relationship, sapphic, achillean & nonbinary characters) tw bullying, violence, death, attempted ritual murder, blood, fire, classism
Aces Wild by Amanda DeWitt (ace cast, nonbinary li, m/nb relationship, sapphic side character)
🌈 I Am Sebastian by Cameron James (pan mc, m/m relationship)
Meet Me in Mumbai by Sabina Khan (sapphic parents)
🌈 Funeral Girl by Emma K. Ohland (ace mc, nonbinary character)
🌈 Destination Unknown by Bill Konigsberg (m/m relationship)
🌈 Coven by Jennifer Dugan & Kit Seaton (sapphic & achillean characters)
🌈 Self Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore (Mexican American trans achillean mc, trans achillean li, lesbian Latina character)
Doughnuts and Doom by Balazs Lorinczi (f/f relationship)
🌈 Space Trash, Vol 1 by Jenn Woodall (Asian sapphic mc, Black sapphic mc, lgbt side characters)
Book of Dreams by Kevin Craig (gay mc)
🌈 Tragic, Vol. 1 by Dana Mele & Valentina Pinti (sapphic mc)
Call Me Bill by Lynette Richards (biography)
🌈 Love and War by Andrew Wheeler & Killian Ng (m/m relationship)
Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland (Black sapphic mc)
🌈 Other Ever Afters by Melanie Gillman (short stories; lgbt cast)
🌈 The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers by Adam Sass (gay mc, m/m relationship, lgbt characters)
🌈 Fraternity by Andy Mientus (achillean mcs) tw internalised homophobia
🌈 Bone Weaver by Aden Polydoros (bi li, f/m relationship, gay character)
The Killing Code by Ellie Marney (sapphic mcs, f/f relationship, sapphic side character)
🌈 How to Succeed in Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy (sapphic mc, bi li, f/f relationship)
🌈 Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callender (Black nonbinary neurodivergent mc, Black trans li, Black lgbt characters)
🌈 My Name Is Magic by Xan van Rooyen (nonbinary mc)
🌈 Forest Hills Bootleg Society by Dave Baker & Nicole Goux (lesbian mcs)
🌈 Death by Society by Sierra Elmore (Black bi mc, pan mc, Latina lesbian li, bi character)
Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong (Chinese cast, bi mcs, m/f relationship, demi mc, trans mc, aroace side character)
Catboat Road by Kate Rounds (lesbian mc)
🌈 Eternally Yours ed. by Patrice Caldwell (f/f relationships, m/m relationships, trans mc)
🌈 The Border Crosser by Cindy Rizzo (f/f relationship)
Jack’s on Fire by Owen Lach (m/m relationship)
Supper Club by Jackie Morrow (sapphic mcs)
🌈 The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror ed. by Tori Bovalino (f/f relationship)
🌈 Our Shadows Have Claws ed. by Yamile Saied Méndez & Amparo Ortiz (f/f relationship)
Just Like Us by Elizabeth Arroyo (m/m relationship)
Forestfall by Lyndall Clipstone (bi li, m/f relationship)
🌈 The Sacrifice by Rin Chupeco (Filipino nonbinary mc, bi/pan li, nb/m relationship)
OCTOBER
Hollow by Shannon Watters, Branden Boyer-White, Berenice Nelle & Kaitlyn Musto (Latina lesbian mc, sapphic li)
🌈 Anne of Greenville by Mariko Tamaki (Japanese American sapphic mc, f/f relationship)
Thieves by Lucie Bryon (f/f relationship)
🌈 The Restless Dark by Erica Waters (f/f relationship)
The Second Death of Edie and Violet Bond by Amanda Glaze (side f/f relationship)
🌈 The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera (m/m relationship)
🌈 Tasting Light ed. by A.R. Capetta & Wade Roush (short stories; nonbinary mc)
🌈 A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo (sapphic mc)
Pétalos de papel by Iria G. Parente & Selene M. Pascual (bi mcs, m/f relationship)
The Edge of Being by James Brandon (achillean mc, achillean li)
Twelfth Grade Night by Molly Horton Booth, Stephanie Kate Strohm & Jamie Green (bi mcs, sapphic mc)
🌈 The Nightland Express by J.M. Lee (trans genderfluid mc, achillean mixed race mc)
🌈 When Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb (genderless mc, sapphic characters, f/f relationship)
Drizzle, Dreams and Lovestruck Things by Maya Prasad (Desi sapphic mc, Desi achillean dad)
The Sevenfold Hunters by Rose Egal (f/f relationship, bi, pan & lesbian characters)
🌈 Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall (f/f relationship)
🌈 The Other Ones by Fran Hart (m/m relationship)
In the Key of Dale by Benjamin Lefebvre (gay mc)
🌈 The Scratch Daughters by H. A. Clarke (lesbian mc, sapphic li, Black sapphic character, Chinese American bi character, achillean side characters)
Dandelion Travels by Angel Barber (Black achillean mc)
Déjame Odiarte by Iguazel Serón (m/m relationship)
Thieves by Lucie Bryon (bi/pan mc, sapphic mc, f/f relationship)
Big Bad Me by Aislinn O’Loughlin (sapphic mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot (achillean mc, m/m relationship)
The Name-Bearer by Natalia Hernandez (Latina sapphic mc)
Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater (bi mc, gay li, m/m relationship)
Poison Forest by Lauri Starling (sapphic mc)
🌈 A House Unsettled by Trynne Delaney (f/nb relationship)
NOVEMBER
The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix (lesbian mc, bi li, f/f relationship)
🌈 The Wicked Remain by Laura Pohl (lesbian mcs, sapphic demi mc, aroace mc, f/f relationship)
Torch by Lyn Miller-Lachmann (gay mc) tw self-immolation
Seasparrow by Kristin Cashore (poc bi mc)
Silver in the Mist by Emily Victoria (ace mc, nonbinary character)
🌈 Born Andromeda by K. M. Watts (f/f relationship)
🌈 How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow (Jewish lesbian mcs)
The Vermilion Emporium by Jamie Pacton (bi mc, side f/f relationship)
🌈 This is Our Place by Vitor Martins, trans. by Larissa Helena (lesbian mc, Black bi li, f/f relationship, Black gay mc, gay li, gay mc, achillean li, m/m relationship)
We Are All Constellations by Amy Beashel (f/f relationship)
Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwell (sapphic mc)
🌈 At Midnight ed. by Dahlia Adler (short stories; trans mcs)
🌈 In the City of Time by Gwendolyn Clare (pan mc, trans lesbian mc)
🌈 We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammond (Black sapphic mc)
Wicked Little Things by Justin Arnold (gay mc)
🌈 Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales (bi mcs, f/f relationship, gay character)
Sisters of Midnight by Katherine Livesey (f/f relationship)
🌈 Still the Stars by Elayna Mae Darcy (queer mc)
Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn (bi li, m/f relationship, Taiwanese American lesbian character, Venezuelan American sapphic character, bi, gay & nonbinary characters)
Holding Up the Sky by Rebecca Alasdair (m/m)
Lady Night by Rita A. Rubin (gay mc, bi mc)
Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk & Nicola Yoon (Black cast, f/f relationship)
DECEMBER
🌈 This Cursed Crown by Alexandra Overy (lesbian mc, f/f relationship)
The Shattered City by Lisa Maxwell (f/f relationship)
🌈 Acting the Part by Z. R. Ellor (transmasc nonbinary mc)
The Magi Manifesto by Kale Lawrence (m/m relationship)
🌈 A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar (f/f relationship)
🌈 SPIKED! by Bob Madison (m/m relationship)
🌈 Snowflake Kisses by Jordon Greene (m/m relationship)
Zombabe by I. S. Belle (m/m relationship)
Summer’s Second by Jeff Billington (gay mc)
*Please note that concerns have been raised about racist content in this book.
**Please note that Christine Lynn Herman has a history of bullying authors of colour.
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