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It’s finally June and that means Pride month, one of the most joyous months of the year! While there is a lot of big scary stuff going on in the world, I wish that you get the chance to still mark Pride and indulge in some queer joy this month. One thing that always brings me pleasure is BOOKS, particularly gay books, and I’m always on the hunt for more to read. It can also be entertaining to take this month as an opportunity to challenge yourself and your reading, or push yourself outside of your comfort zone…or just catch up on that towering TBR pile! That’s where the A-Z challenges come in!

A-Z reading challenges can be as structured or as casual as you’d appreciate them to be, which is why I locate them fun. Essentially, you pick a book to correspond with each letter of the alphabet. You can go in alphabetical order or read all over, but either way you’re going to be reading 26 great books. I came up with an A-Z reading list for queer YA books, and let me say you, it was really hard to narrow it down, because there are just so many superb books out there! But I tried to comprise a nice mix o

The best LGBTQIA+ YA books to read right now

There is no better feeling than the pleasure of racing through a wonderful book to figure out how it’s going to end. This is especially true when the guide is a funny, twisty-turny, or pacy story of mishaps and (mis)adventures with a main character you can believe in, a love interest to lust after, and a cast of out and haughty queer characters. In recent years, the choice of YA novels with just those ingredients has joyfully expanded and diversified – and it’s not just teenagers who have been enjoying all the reading fun.

In the list below, you’ll find seaside romances, road trip misfortunes, nightclubs to swoon over, and revelations to shock and delight. Throughout them all, queer characters abound as they fall in adore, stand up for what they believe in, or learn something new about themselves. I Kissed Shara Wheeler, the latest from Casey McQuiston of Red, White, and Royal Blue and One Last Stop fame, brings together so many of these elements with a bisexual protagonist and a small town much queerer than initially meets the eye. I

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    One of the few YA books with an intersex main traits, None of the Above is about Kristin, a teen miss who’s kind of living the dream with a college scholarship and a great boyfriend. But sleeping with her boyfriend for the first time brings her to the doctor, where she learns she’s intersex.
    1. The Cullingby Steven Dos Santos* (G)
    For Lucian “Lucky” Spark, Recruitment Day means the Establishment will force him to become one of five Recruits competing to join the ruthless Imposer task force. If Lucky fails, he’ll have to choose death for his 4-year-old brother. Lucky is prepared to do anything for his brother but he isn’t prepared for is his attraction to the rebellious Digory Tycho, a fellow Recruit.
    1. If I Was Your Girlby Meredith Russo (T)
    A groundbreaking YA novel about a trans girl by a transgender woman author, If I Was Your Girl is about Amanda, the new girl in town trying to fit in and make friends. Her burgeoning affair with Grant challenges her reserve to keep her trans status secret.
    1. Princeless: Raven the Copy illegally Princess Book 1: Captain Raven and the