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Hot boy summer
Jimaenez, Joe
Paper Book
Four gay teens in Texas have the summer of their lives while discovering important truths about realness, belonging, and friendship in this "explosive prose debut for the gays and theys growing up outside of the box" (Booklist, starred review). Mac has never really felt...
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Time and time again
Greenfield, Chatham
Paper Book
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club LitUp Pick In this debut YA speculative romance perfect for fans of Rachael Lippincott, two queer, disabled, Jewish teens find themselves stuck in a time loop--and falling love. Phoebe Mendel's day is never ending--literally....
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Cursed boys and broken hearts
Sass, Adam
Paper Book
A swoony contemporary romance from Adam Sass following a boy who is cursed to doom any romantic relationship--and the summer that changes everything. Grant Rossi is never getting a happily-ever-after. Ever since he was a kid and made a wish on his family's...
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The worst perfect moment
Plozza, Shivaun
Paper Book
Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this inventive queer romance asks what it means to be truly happy. Tegan Masters is dead. She's sixteen and she's dead and she's standing in the parking lot of the Marybelle Motor Lodge, the single most...
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Finally Fitz
Kanter, Marisa
Paper Book
A bisexual teen girl tries to make her ex jealous by faking an Instagram romance that leads to surprisingly real feelings in this hijinks-filled, "entertaining queer New York love story" (Kirkus Reviews) perfect for fans of To All the Boys I've Loved Before and She Gets the Girl<...
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Annie Leblanc is not dead yet
Morris, Molly
Paper Book
Every ten years in the strange little town of Lennon, California, one person is chosen to return from the dead... Wilson Moss entered the town's top-secret contest in the hopes of resurrecting her ex-best friend Annie LeBlanc, but that doesn't mean she thought she'd actually...
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Queerceañera
Crespo, Alex
Paper Book
This irresistible and hilarious rom-com from acclaimed author Alex Crespo is a whirlwind of telenovela-level drama and hijinks when Joaquin Zoido finds himself fake-dating his childhood crush and newly minted date to his queerceañera. Joaquin Zoido is out and proud...
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Furious
Pacton, Jamie
Paper Book
Jojo Emerson-Boyd should be on the fast track to her own wildly successful racing career. Instead, she's spending the seemingly endless summer working at her grandmother's auto shop in the small town of Dell's Hollow. Everything changed when Jojo lost her mom, a celebrity NASCAR racer, in a tragic...
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A darker mischief
Milman, Derek
Paper Book
The Honeys meets The Secret History in a work of dark academia like no other -- a boarding school thriller about a queer teen from Mississippi who finds himself swept into a world of old money, privilege, and the secret society at the heart of it all. When Cal Ware wins a...
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Dear Wendy
Zhao, Ann
Paper Book
An Instant Indie Bestseller! "The platonic love story of my dreams!" --Alice Oseman, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Heartstopper Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual college students, engage in an online feud...
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The breakup lists
Khorram, Adib
Paper Book
Love is more complicated than "boy meets boy" in bestselling author Adib Khorram's sharply funny new romantic comedy, set in the sordid world of high school theater Jackson Ghasnavi is a lot of things-a techie, a smoothie afficionado, a totally not obsessive list-maker-but one...
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Canto contigo : a novel
Garza Villa, Jonny
Paper Book
When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot--what he gets instead is a tenacious current lead with a very familiar, very kissable face. In a twenty-four-hour span, Rafael Alvarez led North Amistad High School's Mariachi...
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Playing for keeps
Dugan, Jennifer
Paper Book
From the author of Some Girls Do comes another heartfelt YA sapphic romance-starring a baseball pitcher and a student umpire who are definitely not supposed to fall for one another. "Sapphic sports romance perfection. Swoony and romantic, but unafraid to...
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Most ardently : a Pride & Prejudice remix
Novoa, Gabe Cole
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This bittersweet Pride & Prejudice remix follows a...
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Otherworldly
Lukens, F. T.
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller! A skeptic and a supernatural being make a crossroads deal to achieve their own ends only to get more than they bargained for in this "irresistible elixir of romance and suspense" (Kirkus Reviews) from the New York Times...
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Skater boy
Nerada, Anthony
Paper Book
In this YA pop punk debut about queer romance and destroying labels, a teen risks everything to write his own story. Perfect for fans of Sonora Reyes and Adib Khorram. Stonebridge High's resident bad boy, Wesley "Big Mac" Mackenzie, is failing senior year--thanks to his...
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Escaping Mr. Rochester
McKinney, L. L.
Paper Book
In this fresh reimagining of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel by acclaimed author L. L. McKinney, Jane Eyre and Bertha Mason must save each other from the horrifying machinations of Mr. Rochester in this intrigue-filled, empowering young adult romance. Jane Eyre has no...
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Teenage dirtbags
Acker, James
Paper Book
From the author of The Long Run comes another unflinchingly raw and boldly hilarious novel about an unlikely group of teens coming together to exact revenge on the person who wronged them. All's fair in love and revenge... Phil Reyno is...
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My fair Brady
Kennedy, Brian D.
Paper Book
My Fair Lady meets the classic teen film She's All That in this charming and swoony new rom-com from Brian D. Kennedy, author of A Little Bit Country. Perfect for fans of What If It's Us and She Gets the Girl. Wade Westmore is used to being in the spotlight. So when he's...
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Okay, Cupid
Deaver, Mason
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST, the story of a cupid who thinks they know everything about love... until they fall in love themselves. As a cupid, Jude thinks they understand love a little bit more than the average human. It makes sense -- Jude's been...
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Just happy to be here
Kanakia, Naomi
Paper Book
In this YA standalone perfect for fans of Tobly McSmith and Meredith Russo, the first out trans girl at an all-girls school must choose between keeping her head down or blazing a trail. Tara just wants to be treated like any other girl at Ainsley Academy. That is,...
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Wren Martin ruins it all
DeWitt, Amanda
Ebook
From the author of Aces Wild- A Heist comes a hilarious and compassionate romantic comedy for fans of Casey McQuiston and Netflix's Love is Blind! "My mouth still hurts from all the smiling." -Sonora Reyes, National Book Award Finalist Now...
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Night of the living queers : 13 tales of terror & delight
Page, Shelly
Paper Book
Night of the Living Queers is a YA horror anthology that explores a night when anything is possible, exclusively featuring queer authors of color putting fresh spins on classic horror tropes and tales. No matter its name or occasion, Halloween is more than a Hallmark...
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The Borrow a Boyfriend Club
Powars, Page
Paper Book
A feel-good, coming-of-age rom-com from debut author Page Powars that follows a trans teen who joins a boyfriend borrowing service masquerading as an Italian Club to prove that he's one of the guys, especially to its frustratingly handsome leader. Noah Byrd is the perfect boy. At...
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Your lonely nights are over
Sass, Adam
Paper Book
Scream meets Clueless in this YA horror from Adam Sass in which two gay teen BFFs find their friendship tested when a serial killer starts targeting their school's Queer Club. Dearie and Cole are inseparable, unlikeable, and (in bad luck for them) totally...
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They hate each other
Woody, Amanda
Paper Book
Jonah and Dylan get along like oil and water. Until a fake dating ploy gives them new perspective, and they realize that "falling for your enemy" isn't as impossible as it seems. There are plenty of words Jonah Collins could use to describe Dylan Ramírez. "Arrogant," "spoiled,"...
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