LGBTQ Books in the GCVI Library
Title
Author
Call #
Summary
Lo, Malinda
PUB
Date
2012
Adaptation
F
LO
In the aftermath of a series of plane crashes caused by birds, seventeen-year-old Reese and her
debate-team partner, David, receive medical treatment at a secret government facility and become
tangled in a conspiracy that is, according to Reese's friend,Julian, connected with aliens and UFOs.
After River
Milner, Donna
2008
F
MIL
Her idyllic teen years on a British Columbia dairy farm with her mother and brother irrevocably
changed by the arrival of a draft dodger, Natalie Ward remembers years later the impact he had on
the morals and beliefs of their community.
Another kind of
Cowboy
Juby, Susan
2007
F
JUB
In Vancouver Island, British Columbia, two teenage dressage riders, one a spoiled rich girl and the
other a closeted gay sixteen-year-old boy, come to terms with their identities and learn to accept
themselves.
Aristotle and Dante Saenz Benjamin 2012
Discover the
Alire
Secrets of the
Universe
Bad boy
Wieler, Diana
1989
F
SAE
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and
they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has
never asked before.
F
WIE
A.J. Brandiosa becomes the bad boy of the Cyclone hockey team, and learns that his best friend is
gay, as he tries to cope with his own sexuality during his senior year in high school.
Beauty Queens
Bray, Libba
2011
F
BRA
Teen beauty queens. A lost island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to email. And the spirit of fierce,
feral competition that lives deep in the heart of every girl, a savage brutality that can only be revealed
by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With
evening gowns. And a body count.
Becoming Chloe
Hyde, Catherine 2006
Ryan
F
HYD
A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of New York City and
eventually decide to take a road trip across America to discover whether or not the world is a beautiful
place.
Boy Meets Boy
Levithan, David
F
LEV
When Paul falls hard for Noah, he thinks he has found his one true love, but when Noah walks out of
his life, Paul has to find a way to get him back and make everything right once more.
Chance to Dance
For You
Sidonie Sobat,
Gail
F
SOB
Ian is openly gay in his bigoted high school, but doesn't exactly fit in. But he's not worried -- he's been
training in dance for a long time and soon he'll be able to leave town and train to become a
professional. Then he falls in love with Jess, the high school quarterback.
Enduring Love
McEwan, Ian
F
MCE
Joe and Clarissa Rose's spring idyll in the park is cut short when Joe helps rescue a child from a
balloon accident, one man is killed, and Joe becomes the target of suspicion and ultimately an
assassination attempt.
2013
1997
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Every Day
Levithan, David 2012
F
LEV
Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.
Funny boy
Selvadurai,
Shyam
1997
F
SEL
The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, Arjie prefers staging make-believe weddings with
his female cousins than batting balls with the other boys. Arjie painfully grows toward manhood and an
understanding of his own "different" identity.
Gender Failure
Spoon, Rae &
Ivan Coyote
2014
306.76
SPO
Based on their acclaimed 2012 live show that toured across the United States and in Europe, Gender
Failure is a poignant collection of autobiographical essays, lyrics, and images documenting Ivan and
Rae's personal journeys from gender failure to gender enlightenment.
Hello, Groin
Goobie, Beth
2006
F
GOO
Sixteen-year-old Dylan tries to understand her feelings for her girlfriend Joq at the same time she is
dating her boyfriend Cam.
Hello, I lied
Kerr, M. E.
1998
PB
KER
From the award-winning author of "Deliver is From Evie, " this is a powerfully moving novel of a young
man's struggle to come to terms with his sexuality, his emotions and ultimately himself.
Hero
Moore, Perry
2007
F
MOO
Teenager Thom Creed's father is an ex-superhero who was disgraced in a terrible tragedy, so when
Thom begins to develop superhuman powers, he doesn't tell his dad. Thom has something else he's
afraid to tell his father: he's gay. When the prestigious League of superheroes invites Thom to join, he
secretly begins training with a group of oddball recruits. But after a series of hero-murders threaten not
only the League but world security, Thom and his team realize it's up to them to save the day.
I'll Give You the Sun Nelson, Jandy
2014
F
NEL
Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and
is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red
lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely
speaking.
Impulse
Hopkins, Ellen
2007
F
HOP
Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted
suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their
lives.
Making a killing
Dunford,
Warren
2001
F
DUN
Warren Dunford has created a hilariously satirical study of celebrity culture that pokes good-natured
fun both at the insiders and those on the outside desperate to get in.
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Mortal Instrument
Series
Clare,
Cassandra
2007
F
CLA
MOR
Set in an alternate present-day Manhattan where humans unwittingly live side-by-side with monsters,
demons, fairies, and all manner of supernatural beings, this is a fast-paced, action-packed, and
suspenseful urban fantasy series in which normally opposed factions join forces to battle an even
greater evil--and many teen-love dramas play out along the way. It's sure to please fans of steamy
paranormal romance; lush, florid writing that's charged with emotion; and stories rife with snarky
humor, plot twists, shocking secrets, and gut-wrenching betrayals.
No big deal
McClain, Ellen
Jaffe
1997
PB
MCC
Janice takes a risk when she supports a favorite junior high school teacher who is rumored to be gay.
One in Every Crowd Coyote, Ivan
2013
F
COY
Collects short stories of young people dealing with questions of gender, identity, and family.
Openly straight
2013
F
KON
A funny, honest novel about being out, being proud . . . and being ready for something else.
Oranges are not the Winterson,
only fruit
Jeanette
1996
F
WIN
Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out
novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator,
Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding
evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar
balance of her God-fearing household crumbles.
Perks of being a
wallflower
Chbosky,
Stephen
1999
F
CHO
A series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the coming-of-age trials of a high-schooler
named Charlie.
Punkzilla
Rapp, Adam
2011
F
RAP
As a runaway on the streets of Portland who sustains himself through petty crimes, a 14-year-old boy
nicknamed Punkzilla decides to try to kick his meth habit and turn his life around; putting him on a
cross-country, soul-searching journey to Tennessee to visit his older brother who is dying of cancer.
Rapture Practice
Hartzler, Aaron 2013
AUT
277.
308
HAR
Hartzler recounts how he came to question and rebel against his oppresssively conservative
fundamentalist Christian upbringing in his teen years, and all the intense personal and familial conflict
it caused.
Rethinking Normal
Rain Hill, Katie
AUT
306.76
HIL
In her unique, generous, and affecting voice, nineteen-year-old Katie Rain Hill shares her personal
journey of undergoing gender reassignment.
Kongigsberg,
Bill
2014
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Shine
Myracle, Lauren 2011
F
MYR
When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover the
culprits in her small North Carolina town.
Simon vs. the
Home Sapiens
Agenda
Albertalli, Becky 2015
F
ALB
"Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his
classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed"--.
Some Assembly
Required
Andrews, Arin
AUT
306.76
AND
Seventeen-year-old Arin Andrews shares all the hilarious, painful, and poignant details of undergoing
gender reassignment as a high school student in this winning memoir.
Song of Achillies
Miller, Madeline 2012
F
MIL
Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king
Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful— irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young
prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they
forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods' wrath.
Switch
Davey, Douglas 2014
F
DAV
It was at seventeen that Sheldon desperately tried to figure out the truth and accept the fact of his
bisexuality. And trying to find someone to talk to brought its own set of complications – especially
when he found himself at the centre of a scandal that he was ill-equipped to handle. But he also
discovered he was not alone and that he would survive his seventeenth year.
The Amazing
Adventures of
Kavalier & Clay
Chabon,
Michael
2001
F
CHA
Wonder Boys gives us an exhilarating triumph of language and invention, a stunning novel in which
the tragicomic adventures of a couple of boy geniuses reveal much about what happened to America
in the middle of the twentieth century.
The Art off Fielding Harbach, Chad
2012
F
HAR
A baseball star at a small college near Lake Michigan launches a routine throw that goes disastrously
off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people, including the college president, a gay
teammate, and the president's daughter.
The Bane
Chronicles
Clare,
Cassandra
2013-
The Bane Chronicles is a series of connected novellas featuring the character of Magnus Bane from
Cassandra Clare's bestselling The Mortal Instruments series.
The Color Purple
Walker, Alice
1982
F
BAN
CAS
F
WAL
The House You
Pass on the Way
Woodson,
Jacqueline
1997
F
WOO
When fourteen-year-old Staggerlee, the daughter of a racially mixed marriage, spends a summer with
her cousin Trout, she finds herself attracted to Trout and catches a glimpse of her possible future self.
2014
Two African American sisters, one a missionary in Africa and the other a child-wife living in the South,
support each other through their correspondence, beginning in the 1920s. Celie's marriage is a harsh
and poverty-stricken arrangement, and she is sustained only by a series of trusting letters she
addresses to God and to her sister. But eventually even this unhappy marriage proves to be a
blessing, as it introduces Celie to a woman with whom she can find love and security.
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The Letter Q
Queer writers' 2012
notes to their
younger selves
306.76
LET
In this anthology, sixty-three award-winning authors such as Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom,
Jacqueline Woodson, Gregory Maguire, David Levithan, and Armistead Maupin make imaginative
journeys into their pasts, telling their younger selves what they would have liked to know then about
their lives as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender people.
The Rest of us Just Ness, Patrick
Live Here
2015
F
NES
The best friend of a kid with superhuman qualities endeavors to have a life of his own that is both
normal and extraordinary in the face of constant world-shaking challenges, threats against his school,
and an elusive pretty girl.
The Tangled boy
Soles, Caro
2002
F
SOL
Teenager Cory Williams is the only witness to the murder of wealthy libertine Jordan King as if he
didn't have enough trouble with his plummeting grades, angry parents, taunting schoolmates and his
secret desire for other boys.
The Waiting Tree
Moynihan,
Lindsay
2013
F
MOY
After expressing his feelings for another boy, eighteen-year-old Simon is ostracized by his church
community and his oldest brother until his mute twin brother changes their lives with an act of courage.
Tripping to
Somewhere
Reisz,
Kristopher
2006
F
REI
Frustrated with being the misfits of their school, Gilly and Samantha take to the road in the hopes of
finding the mythic Witches' Carnival, and along the way, discover a lot about themselves through crazy
parties, drug trips, and intimate explorations.
Truth and lies
Williams,
Tamara
2002
PB
WIL
When Marcel falls victim to an unexplainable attack and lapses into a coma, Erin feels it necessary to
take on an investigation of her own after police come up with no leads, to find out if his gay lifestyle
was the attacker's motive.
Way to go
Ryan, Tom
2012
F
RYA
Seventeen-year-old Danny worries he doesn't have his life figured out yet. Worst of all, he's keeping a
secret that could ruin everything.
Will Grayson, Will
Grayson
Green, John
and David
Levithan
2010
F
GRE
One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both named Will Grayson—are about
to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new
and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s
most fabulous high school musical.
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