Happy Pride! If you’re looking for a new, queer read, I’ve got a list in every hue of the rainbow!
Fools in Love – A diverse, inclusive young adult anthology featuring short stories that re-imagine or subvert popular romance and rom-com tropes by some of the biggest authors in YA and has a little something for everyone.
You Don’t Have a Shot by Racquel Marie
Valentina jeopardizes her future when she gets into an altercation with her rival, Leticia, during a soccer game, so the two girls must co-captain a soccer team to redeem themselves and what starts as a shaky alliance of necessity blossoms into something more.
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Elatsoe has always grown up with ghosts, be it the phantoms of pets or the human spirits around her. Yet when a beloved cousin is mysteriously murdered, Elatsoe must put her abilities to the test to bring justice to her family and to her community.
Then Everything Happens at Once by M-E Girard
Baylee goes from having never been kissed to navigating two potential relationships, one with her long-time crush Freddie and the other with funny barista Alex, as the world begins to shut down from COVID-19.
My Dear Henry by Kalynn Bayron
In this reimagination of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend’s disappearance and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger.
All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue
Maeve Chambers doesn’t have much going for her. But when she finds a pack of dusty old tarot cards at school and begins to give scarily accurate readings to the girls in her class, she realizes she’s found her gift at last. Things are looking up – until she discovers a strange card in the deck that definitely shouldn’t be there. And two days after she convinces her ex-best friend to have a reading, Lily disappears. Will Maeve’s new gift be enough to bring Lily back, before she’s gone for good?
This is the Way the World Ends by Jen Wilde
Wealthy, popular Webber Academy senior, Caroline, permits her new friend and classmate Waverly, an autistic, gay, scholarship student, to attend the annual Masquerade Ball disguised as her; but the evening becomes a nightmare when there is a global blackout, and Waverly and her friends discover what the school’s dean and top donors really have planned.
Project Nought by Chelsey Furedi
Ren Mittal’s last memory in the year 1996 is getting on a bus. When he wakes up in 2122, he learns tech conglomerate Chronotech sponsors a time-travel program to help students in 2122 learn what history was really like…from real-life subjects who’ve been transported into the future. Ren learns that his memory will be wiped of all things 2122 before he’s sent back to the ’90s and he’s forming a crush on his student guide, Mars. What if Chronotech isn’t the benevolent organization they claim to be, and he and his fellow subjects are in great danger?
Always the Almost by Edward Underhill
Miles Jacobson’s New Year resolutions include winning back his ex-boyfriend and winning the Midwest’s biggest classical piano competition, but when a new, proudly queer boy moves to town, Miles reconsiders who he was and who he is now.
Indestructible Object by Mary McCoy
In the city of Memphis, Lee and her boyfriend Vincent make a popular podcast on artists in love. Vincent breaks up with her on the air right after graduation, she loses her job, and her parents announce that they’re separating. Her life in turmoil, Lee recruits her old friend Max and new friend Risa to produce “Objects of Destruction,” a podcast where they investigate whether love actually exists at all. When Lee starts to fall for Risa, she finds she’ll have to be more honest with herself and the people in her life to create a new love story of her own.
The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa
Mar, a Latinx pirate hiding magical abilities, must learn to use their magic to save their papá and newfound pirate family, including Bas, an infuriatingly arrogant and handsome pirate and Dami, a gender-fluid demonio, from losing their souls to el Diablo.
