LGBTQ+ Young Adult Books of the 2010s
The 189 most-read lgbtq+ young adult books first published between 2010 and 2019, led by Red, White & Royal Blue (2019), Six of Crows (2015) and They Both Die at the End (2017).
This list collects 189 books from the 2010s by 157 authors, published between 2010 and 2019. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston
Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Becky Albertalli, Victoria Simó Perales
The house in the Cerulean Sea
T. J. Klune
Carry On
Rainbow Rowell
Cinderella Is Dead
Kalynn Bayron
Some Girls Do
Jennifer Dugan
Every Heart a Doorway
Seanan McGuire
This Winter
Alice Oseman
I Was Born for This
Alice Oseman
If I Was Your Girl
Meredith Russo
The Raven King
Nora Sakavic
The Foxhole Court
Nora Sakavic
We Are Okay
Nina LaCour
The miseducation of Cameron Post
Emily M. Danforth
Two Boys Kissing
David Levithan
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
Mackenzi Lee
Crier's War
Nina Varela
The Red Scrolls of Magic
Wesley Chu, Cassandra Clare
More Happy Than Not
Adam Silvera
Girls of Paper and Fire
Natasha Ngan
Melissa
Alex Gino
The Darkest Part of the Forest
Holly Black
Autoboyography
Christina Lauren
The King's Men
Nora Sakavic
Of Fire and Stars
Audrey Coulthurst
The Raven King
Maggie Stiefvater
If You Could Be Mine
Sara Farizan
Scars
C. A. Rainfield, Cheryl Rainfield
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
Mariko Tamaki
In Other Lands
Sarah Rees Brennan
On a Sunbeam
Tillie Walden
Pet
Akwaeke Emezi, Carla Bataller Estruch
The Art of Being Normal
Lisa Williamson
Julian Is a Mermaid
Jessica Love, Avi Roque
The Black Tides of Heaven
Neon Yang, Nancy Wu
Juliet Takes a Breath
Gabby Rivera, Gaby Rivera
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
Sara Farizan
Everything Leads to You
Nina LaCour
When the Moon Was Ours
Anna-Marie McLemore
The Black Flamingo
Dean Atta
Honor Girl
Maggie Thrash
Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
Isabel Quintero
Far From You
Tess Sharpe
Fat Angie
e. E. Charlton-Trujillo
Labyrinth Lost
Zoraida Córdova
Pantomime
Laura Lam
The Hammer of Thor
Rick Riordan
Girl Mans Up
M-E Girard
At the Edge of the Universe
Shaun David Hutchinson
One Man Guy
Michael Barakiva
The Marvels
Brian Selznick
Prince & Knight
Daniel Haack, Stevie Lewis
Hurricane Child
Kacen Callender
DeadEndia
Hamish Steele
Not Your Sidekick
C. B. Lee
All Out
Saundra Mitchell
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali
Sabina Khan
Otherbound
Corinne Duyvis
The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic
F.T. Lukens
Escape from Asylum
Madeleine Roux
Huntress
Malinda Lo
Gracefully Grayson
Amy Polonsky, Ami Polonsky
Girls Made of Snow and Glass
Melissa Bashardoust
I am J
Cris Beam
Lily and Dunkin
Donna Gephart
Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World
Ashley Herring Blake
As I descended
Robin Talley
October Mourning
Lesléa Newman
Little & Lion
Brandy Colbert
Echo After Echo
Amy Rose Capetta
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
Kirstin Cronn-Mills
What We Left Behind
Robin Talley
Lies My Girlfriend Told Me
Julie Anne Peters
Jane, Unlimited
Kristin Cashore, Cashore
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
Junauda Petrus
Of Ice and Shadows
Audrey Coulthurst
Infinity Son
Adam Silvera
Girls of Storm and Shadow
Natasha Ngan
The Deathless Girls
Kiran-Millwood-Hargrave
The Last True Poets of the Sea
Julia Drake
Not Otherwise Specified
Hannah Moskowitz
Wonders of the Invisible World
Christopher Barzak
Shatter the Sky
Rebecca Kim Wells
One True Way
Shannon Hitchcock
Pulp
Robin Talley
South of Sunshine
Dana Elmendorf
Sawkill Girls
Claire Legrand
The summer I wasn't me
Jessica Verdi
Fan Art
Sarah Tregay
Ask the Passengers
A. S. King
Inheritance
Malinda Lo
Sovereign: Nemesis - Book Two
April Daniels, Daniels, April (Young adult author)
The Pants Project
Cat Clarke
This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story
Kacen Callender