Queer

Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities that are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning "strange" or "peculiar", queer came to be deployed pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late-19th century. Beginning in the late-1980s, queer scholars and activists began to reclaim the word to establish community and assert a politicized identity distinct from the gay political identity. Queer identitites may be adopted by those who reject traditional gender identities and seek a broader, less conformist, and deliberately ambiguous alternati ...more

Is This a Cry for Help?
The Book of Blood and Roses (The Callisto Chronicles)
How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days
Last First Kiss
One Aladdin Two Lamps
Chosen Family
Sheer
To Ride a Rising Storm (Nampeshiweisit, #2)
Missing Sam
Playing for Keeps
You'll Never Forget Me
Our Ex's Wedding
I Don't Wish You Well
Through Gates of Garnet and Gold (Wayward Children, #11)
George Falls Through Time
We Used to Live Here
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Blue Sisters
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
The Emperor of Gladness
Razorblade Tears
All the Way to the River
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.1 [Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Vol. 1]
The Lamb
Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)
The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi LeeThey Both Die at the End by Adam SilveraHistory Is All You Left Me by Adam SilveraThe Upside of Unrequited by Becky AlbertalliThe Love Interest by Cale Dietrich
2017 YA Books with LGBT Themes
280 books — 887 voters
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936 books — 929 voters

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1,309 books — 940 voters
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Best Werewolf Erotica
538 books — 1,120 voters

The Song of Achilles
Red, White & Royal Blue
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
This Is How You Lose the Time War
One Last Stop
Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
Giovanni’s Room
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

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