Are you looking to add some more young adult or LGBTQIA+ books to your TBR this year? Look no further, here are 17 YA LGBT books being released in 2024! From romance to thriller to fantasy, these diverse and inclusive books will bring you on journeys to whole new worlds and new perspectives.
Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa (1/16)
In 1812 London, Oliver is bound by societal expectations as much as he is by the skirts and petticoats of his closet. Almost everyone around Oliver believes that he is a girl named Elizabeth and expects him to act like it. The only times when he feels alive are when he can sneak out into the city dressed as a man. One of these trips leads Oliver to meet Darcy, who has recently insulted “Elizabeth” at a party. Now meeting Darcy as a man, Oliver sees that Darcy is actually caring and gentlemanly, as well as extremely attractive. As his parents and suitors grow closer and more persistent Oliver will be forced to choose: the safe life that is expected of him, or risking everything for the chance at freedom and true love.
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The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha (2/13)
Compared to works like Nimona and Squire, The Fox Maidens is a tale of Kai Song, a young woman who dreams of being a warrior just like her father. While her father believes in her, society does not and deems her to be a Gumiho, a nine-tailed fox demon who had been killed by her father. As Kai learns the secrets of her mother’s past and her true identity, she must decide what to do next. In her search to escape her fate, Kai learns more than ever expected and finds a love like no other.
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The No-Girlfriend Rule by Christen Randall (3/5)
Starting senior year fat and broke, Hollis Beckwith is just trying to get through and grow in her relationship with her boyfriend. Wanting their bland, but comfortable, relationship to last, Hollis sets out to learn his favorite tabletop game. There is only one problem, “the no-girlfriend rule” at her boyfriend’s table. Still determined to learn Secrets & Sorcery, Hollis enters an all-girls group and meets Gloria Castañeda. The two become close fast and Hollis starts to believe that maybe she can be more than the fat, broke, unimportant girlfriend she is treated as. When an in-game romance blossoms between Aini Amin-Shaw’s bard and Hollis’s character, she begins to question what she wants, but is eager to see how this romance unfolds.
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Just Another Epic Love Poem by Parisa Akhbari (3/12)
Mitra Esfahani and her best friend Bea Ortega have been filling out The Book since they were 13 years old. Their words have flowed into a single, epic poem of anything and everything that they have gone through. The Book and Bea are the two things that Mitra can rely on forever, except for one small problem. Mitra has fallen in love with Bea. Through pose and poetry, Parisa Akhbari weaves a tale of friendship and love and the changes of life.
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The Perfect Guy Doesn’t Exist by Sophie Gonzales (3/26)
Ivy Winslow, fantasy nerd and fanfic writer, has the house all to herself for a week. Her only plans are to binge H-MAD, hang out with her best friend, Henry, and stay away from her ex-best friend, Mack. But one morning Ivy wakes up to Weston, the incredibly handsome main character from H-MAD who is supposed to be fictional, in her bedroom claiming to be her soulmate. Panicking at the real-world problems that Weston is causing, Ivy teams up with both Henry and Mack to find out what is going on. Forced to work together, Ivy and Mack slowly start to regain their former friendship and realize that what they have been hating might just be what they have been longing for most of all.
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Icarus by K. Ancrum (3/26)
Icarus Gallagher is a thief, stealing rare art and replacing it with his father’s perfect forgeries. Their one target is Mr. Black, as revenge for Icarus’s mother’s death. Icarus survives this life by sticking to his three rules. Don’t get close to anyone. Don’t touch anyone. And, most important of them all, don’t get caught. But when Icarus is caught by Mr. Black’s son Helios, a friendship is formed. As their relationship grows from distrust to a true friendship to something even more, they long for an escape from their normal lives. But can Icarus escape his old life and be with the boy he loves, or will attempting both be his undoing?
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Otherworldly by F.T. Lukens (4/2)
Ellery does not believe in a religion with the supernatural or magic, despite the five-year winter that persists. They believe that if goddesses were real then they would not leave people like Ellery’s family of farmers to struggle like this. Knox is a familiar sent to help humans with magical bargains from the Other World. He has not heard from his goddess in years, so when the demons come to collect him back he runs. Bumping into Ellery, the two are able to fight the demons off. Ellery is in shock, not believing what they have seen, especially the handsome otherworldly man in front of them. Knox makes a pact with Ellery, he gets tethered to this world and in return, he will help them end winter. With this unbreakable bargain, the two set out on their journey that just might change everything, including them.
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Canto Contigo by Jonny Garza Villa (4/9)
Things are going well for who just Rafael rolled from winning his high school’s eleventh annual Mariachi Extravaganza de Nacional to making out with an incredibly cute guy within 24 hours. But eight months later, his family decides to move to San Antonio and his abuelo has passed away. With his world shattering, Rafael turns towards the one thing that brings him comfort, mariachi. There’s only one problem, the lead spot in his new team is already taken, and by none other than the cute guy, Rey, from before. Will Rafael choose to follow his feelings for Rey or go for the life he has always dreamed of? In this love letter to family and Mexican heritage, Rafael Alvarez must learn to embrace his history and make his own path forward.
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Playing for Keeps by Jennifer Dugan (4/30)
June is the star pitcher for an exclusive baseball team and is well on her way to being recruited to the college level. But only if she can get through an overuse injury that just keeps getting worse. Ivy is an umpire, dreaming big of being an officiant in the professional leagues. Despite their rocky first meeting where Ivy threw June out of a game for grandstanding, the two become unlikely friends and slowly something more. But umpires and players are forbidden from dating. When someone finds out about their romance and threatens to reveal it, everything they both want is on the line. They only have one option, continue following their dreams or follow their heart.
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The Girl in Question by Tess Sharpe (5/14)
In this thrilling sequel to The Girls I’ve Been, Nora O’Malley is back and out of high school. But now as her murderous stepdad, Raymond, is being set free from prison she is trying to keep her mind off of his impending revenge. Taking a ten-day backpacking trip with Iris, Wes, and Amanda, everything is supposed to be a relaxing escape, until Amanda gets mistaken for Nora and taken. It will take everything they have to get Amanda back and make it out of the forest alive. But one of them is lying, one has secrets, and one must die.
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True Love and Other Impossible Odds by Christina Li (5/14)
Grace Tang is just trying to get through her first year of college after her grief-stricken senior year. She fills her schedule and studies with every spare moment of her time. There is no room for deviations, exceptions, or anomalies. When her statistics class calls for an algorithm assignment, Grace makes an algorithm to pair people with their perfect partners. But everyone is skeptical, especially Grace’s coworker Julia, so Grace sets out to prove it right by pursuing her match, a boy named Jamie. But as time goes on and Grace and Julia grow closer she begins to question her feelings and her algorithm. Should she follow her equation and stay safe or follow her heart and possibly get hurt?
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In the Shallows by Tanya Byrne (5/21)
Mara is still in love with her ex, Nico, the woman of her dreams. She was everything to Mara, even though Mara is sure that she meant nothing to Nico. But when Nico goes missing, only to be pulled from the sea with no memories the two meet again unexpectedly. Is this Mara’s second chance at the romance of her dreams or will the shallows be the end of everything she has hoped for? Mara must find out before Nora remembers everything.
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Together in a Broken World by Paul Michael Winters (5/21)
Zach was seventeen when the illness took most of the world, leaving an Infection that turns survivors into mindless killing machines at a single scratch. One year later, Zach is the only surviving member of his town and is desperate to return home to find his family. Aiden is on a mission for the secret Scientific Collective, to deliver vials of the cure. Haunted by the death of his boyfriend, Aiden takes risk after risk, leading him to Zach’s town. The two form a bond and escape the town, but as their relationship grows they are forced to confront each other about their pasts. How did Zach’s uncle die in that town and what are the origins of the cure? These answers may tear the boys apart, but they must find them out to survive.
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The Ghost of Us by James L. Sutter (6/11)
In this paranormal romance, eighteen-year-old Cara is set on proving that the supernatural exists. When she stumbles upon the ghost of a recently deceased, popular upperclassman, Aiden, he makes a deal with her. If Cara can bring Aiden’s little sister, Meredith, out of her depression by seducing her into a romance, then he will give her all the evidence she needs to prove that the supernatural is real. But as Cara attempts to woo Meredith, she starts to fall for her and Aiden starts to disappear. If she keeps going then he will disappear forever and so will her chances of proving the supernatural real, but if she stops then they will both hate her forever. Can Cara choose between her one shot at proving herself or her heart’s longing, and will she lose Aiden either way?
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Furious by Jamie Pacton and Rebecca Podos (6/11)
Jojo Emerson-Boyd’s one true passion is racing, but when her dreams are ripped away at the tragic passing of her mother in a NASCAR racing accident, she loses everything. Now Jojo spends her days working at her grandmother’s auto shop when she meets El. El is a motorcycle girl who is searching for her missing sister. As Jojo and El come together to solve the mystery, they fall for each other and their mutual need for speed. But will their heart-racing romance survive the growing stakes?
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Sleep Like Death by Kalynn Bayron (6/25)
Princess Eve has grown up with only one mission, to destroy the Knight who has been terrorizing the subject of Queen’s Bridge. But as Eve’s seventeenth birthday and the coming fight approaches, her stepmother, Queen Regina, starts acting strange. Between her stepmother’s infatuation with talking to her mirror and the boy who just arrived, claiming to be a messenger from the Knight with information about Eve’s past, she doesn’t know who to trust. She can only do one thing, fight. But can she fight to save her queendom and her family or will she choose the wrong side and lose it all?
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A Darker Mischief by Derek Milman (7/1)
Cal Ware is ecstatic to leave behind his old life in Mississippi and reinvent himself when he wins a scholarship to a high-class New England boarding school. But when he arrives at Essex Academy, he finds himself just as outcast as he was back in Mississippi. Almost giving up and going back, Cal finds one solution that could fix his problem and make him royalty in the eyes of his classmates, the secret society. When Cal meets Luke Kim, joining this secret society becomes possible. As the two boys go through the Rush process, Cal finds himself falling in love for the first time in his life. But as the initiation rituals start to grow more sinister and dangerous, Cal must decide how much he is willing to sacrifice and if his romance and this society are all that they seem to be.
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