LGBTQ Book List
This list highlights some of the LGBTQ books in our collection. We will be adding more books as the year continues. If you are looking for more titles. Try keyword searching the library catalog (follett.lemanmanhattan.org) Keywords to use: gay* lesbian* transgender. Or, ask Ms Wilberton for more suggestions.
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
The story of two boys who enter a kissing contest to get into the Book of World Records. HS FIC LEV
Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
A girl tries to escape loneliness and small mindedness by sending love to the passengers in airplanes flying over her backyard while trying to find a way to be with the girl she loves. HS FIC KIN
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
A story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah. HS FIC JAN
Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
When an email is discovered, Simon finds himself being blackmailed into help a classmate win a girls heart or else his secret will be revealed. HS FIC ALB
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
A funny, quirky tale about first love, loss and all the ways a boy tries to win the love back. YA FIC LEV
Empress of the World by Sara Ryan
While attending a summer institute, fifteen-year-old Nic meets another girl named Battle, falls in love with her, and finds the relationship to be difficult and confusing. YA FIC RYA
Beau, Lee, The Bomb & Me by Mary McKinley
What happens when you are fat, gay and new to school and the bullying begins immediately upon your arrival? You run away to San Francisco with two friends and a scruffy dog you find along the way. Funny! HS FIC MCK
Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bill Wright
Sixteen-year-old Carlos Duarte is on the verge of realizing his dream of becoming a famous make-up artist, but first he must face his jealous boss at a Macy's cosmetics counter, his sister's abusive boyfriend, and his crush on a punk-rocker classmate. HS FIC WRI
Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth
In the early 1990s, when gay teenager rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and her family decides she needs to change her ways, she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center. HS FIC DAN
Q Queer Writers Notes to Their Younger Selves
Awesome collection of letters written to the younger selves of queer writers. HS 306.76 LET
GLBTQ by Kelly Huegel
Non Fiction collection of advice for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning teens. HS 306.76 HUE
Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin
Beautiful book profiling six transgender teens.
HS 306.76 KUK
Totally Joe by James Howe
As a school assignment, a thirteen-year-old boy writes an alphabiography, and explores issues of friendship, family, school, and the challenges of being a gay teenager.
YA FIC HOW
Hold Me Closer by David Levithan
Tiny Cooper from Will Grayson Will Grayson is spot lighted in this new novel. YA FIC LEV
Sprout by Dale Peck
Moving from Long Island to Kansas after his mother dies, a teenaged boy nicknamed Sprout is surprised to find new friends, a fascinating landscape, and romantic love.
HS FIC PEC
Will Grayson Will Grayson by J. Green & D. Levithan
When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both. HS FIC GRE
Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
HS FIC WES
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
While working as a film production designer in Los Angeles, Emi Price finds a mysterious letter from a silver screen legend which leads her to Ava, who is about to expand Emi's understanding of family, acceptance, and true romance. HS FIC LAC
Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash
This graphic memoir of Maggie Thrash tells the story of one summer at camp when she fell in love with one of the older girl counselors. HS GN THR
It Gets Better edited by Dan Savage
Based on his video series, Dan Savage edits this collection of essays about gay life. MS 306.76 IT
Potential by Ariel Schrag
Ariel Schrag's autobiographical comics series about her years in high school. Potential captures her Junior year when she is both in love with a girl and trying to lose her virginity to a boy. HS GN SCH