Teen Fiction and Graphic Novels for Pride

Looking for some good reads for Pride month? Do you like rom-coms? Sports? Manga? Horror? We’ve got ‘em.

Would you like to read about someone like you—or get a glimpse of someone’s slightly (or completely) different experience of the world? Start with one of the titles below, then continue your explorations with our LGBTQ lists for kids and teens.


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Belle of the Ball

Belle Hawkins is psyched to tutor her crush, Regina Moreno. Regina is psyched to trick Belle into tutoring her girlfriend, Chloe, because Regina knows that Belle is crushing on her. But where will love bloom in this triangle? 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby 


The Girl That Can't Get a Girlfriend

Another memoir about dating (or the lack thereof) as a lesbian in Japan, Mieri’s story couldn’t be more different in tone than My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness. Mieri has a Type for sure – she loves otokoyaku-type girls, suave and boyish, but she has a big problem: she tends to give too much of herself to them, and then when they leave, she’s left unsure how to pick up the pieces. Mieri’s self-esteem issues are illustrated literally, with her drawing herself as a cartoonish blob yet detailing the hot women in her life with care, and her sense of humor carries off what could otherwise have been a tragedy about breakups. 


Icebreaker

A talented teenage hockey player falls for one of his teammates. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby. 


If I Can Give You That

Seventeen-year-old Gael, a trans boy, learns to let his walls down while finding community, discovering his sexuality, falling in love, and navigating difficult family situations.


Is Love the Answer?

This single volume manga tells the story of a young woman who learns that being aromantic and asexual are part of her identity—not a problem to overcome or explain to others. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on OverDrive/Libby.


The Minus-One Club

After losing his older sister in a car accident, Kermit Sanders knows grief and its all-encompassing shadows. He receives an invitation to meet with the “Minus-One Club,” a group of his schoolmates who have all suffered the tragic loss of someone they loved, and banded together as a form of moral support. Kermit’s secret crush, Matt– the only out gay student at school– is also a part of the group. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and eAudio on OverDrive/Libby.


Nick and Charlie: A Heartstopper Novella

Everyone knows that Nick and Charlie love their nearly inseparable life together. But soon Nick will be leaving for university, and Charlie, a year younger, will be left behind. Everyone’s asking if they’re staying together, which is a stupid question– or at least that’s what Nick and Charlie assume at first. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on OverDrive/Libby and eAudio on Hoopla.


She Is a Haunting

Seventeen-year-old bisexual Jade Nguyrn is spending the summer in Vietnam at the French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and eAudio on OverDrive/Libby.


We Deserve Monuments

When seventeen-year-old Avery moves to rural Georgia to live with her ailing grandmother, she encounters decade-old family secrets and a mystery surrounding the town’s racist past. This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and eAudio on OverDrive/Libby.