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Hardcover

Bustle's 21 LGBTQ+ Authors On The Books They Wish They’d Had As Teenagers

Learning from our own lived experiences help us thrive. Bustle's K.W. Colyard's Bustle has gathered 21 insightful books—fiction and non-fiction—LGBTQ+ authors wish they had as teenagers themselves.

A Safe Girl to Love

A Safe Girl to Love
ByCasey Plett

2014 • 28 Readers • 229 pages 4.1

Dear Senthuran

Dear Senthuran
ByAkwaeke Emezi(Author, Narrator)

2021 • 35 Readers • 9 pages 4

Edinburgh

Edinburgh
ByAlexander Chee

2001 • 29 Readers • 243 pages 3

Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun

2021 • 41 Readers • 354 pages 3.5

Freshwater

Freshwater
ByAkwaeke Emezi

2018 • 211 Readers • 229 pages 3.9

Gideon the Ninth

#1 of 4 in The Locked Tomb

Gideon the Ninth
ByTamsyn Muir,Jelena Katić Živanović(Translator)

2019 • 1,661 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

i'm alive / it hurts / i love it

i'm alive / it hurts / i love it
ByJoshua Jennifer Espinoza

2014 • 2 Readers • 46 pages

Lady Hotspur

#2 of 2 in Innis Lear

Lady Hotspur
ByTessa Gratton,Eleonora González Capria(Translator)

2020 • 21 Readers • 749 pages 4

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

2019 • 80 Readers • 336 pages 3.9

Memorial

Memorial
ByBryan Washington

2020 • 163 Readers • 299 pages 3.5

Reverse Cowgirl

Reverse Cowgirl
ByMcKenzie Wark

2020 • 2 Readers • 200 pages

Sadie

Sadie
ByCourtney Summers

2015 • 432 Readers • 359 pages 4.1

Squad

Squad
ByMaggie Tokuda-Hall

2021 • 108 Readers • 224 pages 3.4

The Black Flamingo

2019 • 132 Readers • 176 pages 4.1

The Henna Wars

The Henna Wars
ByAdiba Jaigirdar

2020 • 137 Readers • 400 pages 3.9

When the Moon Was Ours

When the Moon Was Ours
ByAnna-Marie McLemore

2016 • 114 Readers • 288 pages 4.4

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

2007 • 94 Readers • 390 pages 4.4

With Teeth

With Teeth
ByKristen Arnett

51 Readers 3.3

ZOM-FAM

ZOM-FAM
ByKama La Mackerel

2020 • 4 Readers • 120 pages