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Fiction Books for Teens Fiction Books for Teens A Select List of Brown County Library Fiction Books for Teens Click on each title below to see the library's catalog record. Then click on the title in the record for details, current availability, or to place a hold. For additional books and items on this theme, ask your librarian or search the library’s online catalog. Contemporary Fiction: 10 Things I Can See from Here by Carrie Mac 19 Love Songs by David Levithan All Eyes on Us by Kit Frick Anger is Gift by Mark Oshiro Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller Ask the Passengers by A. S. King Beast by Brie Spangler Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp Between You & Me by Marisa Calin Birthday by Meredith Russo The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan The Dangerous Art of Blending In by Angelo Surmelis Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram* Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig The Difference Between Me and You by Madeleine George Drag Teen by Jeffrey Self Draw the Line by Laurent Linn Created by the Brown County Library 6/20 *=First in a series Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett Geography Club by Brent Hartinger Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruits by Jaye Robin Brown Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake Girl Mans Up by M. E. Girard The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper Great American Whatever by Tim Federle The Handsome Girl & Her Beautiful Boy by B. T. Gottfred Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar A High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner History is All You’ve Left Me by Adam Silvera Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Saenz It’s Not Like It’s a Secret by Misa Sugiura Jaya and Rasa by Sonia Patel Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann Like Water by Rebecca Podos Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan Luna by Julie Ann Peters Marco Impossible by Hannah Moskowitz Created by the Brown County Library 6/20 *=First in a series Misfits by James Howe* The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg Nate Expectations by Tim Federle None of the Above by I. W. Gregorio Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz Odd One Out by Nic Stone One in Every Crowd by Ivan E. Coyote One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva * Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg* Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley Out Now: Queer We Go Again by Saundra Mitchell Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde Radio Silence by Alice Oseman Running with Lions by Julian Winter Ship It by Britta Lundin Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli* Some Girls Bind by Rory James Somebody Told Me by Mia Siegert The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junada Petrus The Summer of Jodi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin Tash Hearts Tolstoy by K. E. Ormsbee Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Khyren Callender Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd We are Okay by Nina LaCour What If It’s Us? by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera Created by the Brown County Library 6/20 *=First in a series White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig You Should See Me In a Crown by Leah Johnson Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror: The Afterward by E. K. Johnston All of Us With Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil As I Descend by Robin Talley Ash by Malinda Lo At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson Black Wings Beating by Alex London* Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose Capetta Carry On by Rainbow Rowell* Cemetery Boys by Aidan Thomas Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block (collection) Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore Disasters by M. K. England Dreadnought by April Daniels* Every Day by David Levithan* Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune Felix YZ by Lisa Bunker Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust Hero by Perry Moore Huntress by Malinda Lo I’m a Gay Wizard by V. S. Santoni The Infinite Noise by Lauren Shippen* Infinity Son by Adam Silvera* Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova* Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz Love Interest by Cale Dietrich Created by the Brown County Library 6/20 *=First in a series Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller* More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera Not Your Sidekick by C. B. Lee* Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst* Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy* Pantomime by Laura Lam* The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchison Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh* Release by Patrick Ness Reverie by Ryan La Sala Spellhacker by M. K. England That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E. K. Johnston These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling* They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia* The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum When the Moon was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore When We were Magic by Sarah Gailey Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak Historical Fiction: All Out: the No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages edited by Saundra Mitchell Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee* The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian Created by the Brown County Library 6/20 *=First in a series Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth Pulp by Robin Talley One True Way by Shannon Hitchcock Wildthorn by Jane Eagland American Library Association’s GLBT Roundtable’s annual Rainbow Book List: https://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/rainbow-books-lists American Library Association’s GLBT Roundtable’s annual Stonewall Award for Youth Books: http://www.ala.org/rt/glbtrt/award/stonewall GLAAD Media Awards: https://www.glaad.org/mediaawards Lambda Literary Awards: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards Queer Books for Teens database: http://queerbooksforteens.com/ Created by the Brown County Library 6/20 *=First in a series .
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