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The Decoy Girlfriend

Lillie Vale · 304 pages

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My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan

Seth Rudetsky · 240 pages

Chubby, Jewish, and gay high school sophomore Justin Goldblatt plans to become popular by the end of the year, but instead of dating the star quarterback he catches the eye of Becky, the quarterback's girlfriend, while his best friend, Spencer, stops speaking to him.

Sexual OrientationLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung AdultFunny
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How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

J.C. Lillis · 296 pages

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My Most Excellent Year

Steve Kluger · 403 pages

Three teenagers in Boston narrate their experiences of a year of new friendships, first loves, and coming into their own.

Sexual OrientationLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung AdultFunny
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Faking It

Riley Hart, Devon McCormack · 274 pages

Fake RelationshipLGBTQ+ ProtagonistSexual Orientation
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Borrowing Blue

Lucy Lennox · 304 pages

Fake RelationshipSexual OrientationLGBTQ+ Protagonist
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Noah Can't Even

Simon James Green · 386 pages

Sexual OrientationLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung AdultFunny
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Jenny Han · 384 pages

What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Covey keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would nev

Fake RelationshipYoung AdultFunnyTeenagers
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Winger

Andrew Smith

Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.

Sexual OrientationLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung AdultFunny
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Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

Sara Farizan · 304 pages

When Leila develops a crush on a new female student she has to decide if her sexuality is something she wants to share with everyone else.

LGBTQ+ ProtagonistSexual OrientationYoung AdultFunny
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Carry On

Rainbow Rowell · 519 pages

Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who’s ever been chosen. That’s what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he’s probably right. Half the time, Simon can’t even make his wand work, and the other half, he sets something on fire. His mentor’s avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there’s a magic-eating monster running around wearing

LGBTQ+ ProtagonistSexual OrientationYoung AdultFunny
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson

John Green, David Levithan · 331 pages

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.Hilarious, poignant, and deeply insightful, John Green and D

LGBTQ+ ProtagonistSexual OrientationYoung AdultFunny
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The Fill-In Boyfriend

Kasie West · 344 pages

Convincing a stranger to stand in as her boyfriend for the prom after enduring a humiliating breakup, Gia discovers that she has feelings for the young man and is very much interested in transforming their budding friendship into something more.

Fake RelationshipYoung AdultFunnyTeenagers
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Blackmail Boyfriend

Chris Cannon · 249 pages

Haley Patterson has had a crush on golden boy Bryce Colton for ages. But when she hears a rumor that he hooked up with her she gives him a choice: be her boyfriend for a month to show other guys that she's dateable--despite her overprotective and very intimidating brothers--or deal with the angry, cage-fighting boyfriend of the girl he actually did hook up with. Bryce didn't know the other Haley h

Fake RelationshipYoung AdultFunnyTeenagers
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Dating Sarah Cooper

Siera Maley · 268 pages

Fake RelationshipLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Drag Teen

Jeffery Self · 261 pages

JT is a gay high school senior determined to get out of Clearwater, Florida, and be the first person in his family to go to college, even though he can not figure out how to pay for it--until his friends convince him to compete in a drag teen competition where the first prize is a college scholarship.

LGBTQ+ ProtagonistSexual OrientationYoung AdultFunny
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Kamikaze Boys

Jay Bell · 328 pages

Everyone at school thinks that Connor Williams is a dangerous psychopath, but when he rescues David Henry from the clutches of a bully, the two outsiders form an alliance of the heart. The world isn’t done messing with them though. David and Connor will have to fight to keep their love safe if they ever want to find their happily-ever-after. Kamikaze Boys, a Lambda Literary award-winning novel,

Sexual OrientationLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung AdultTeenagers
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Boyfriend Material

Alexis Hall · 425 pages

Fake RelationshipLGBTQ+ ProtagonistFunnyRomantic Comedy
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Openly, Honestly

Bill Konigsberg

Sexual OrientationLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung AdultFunny
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The Screwed Up Life of Charlie the Second

Drew Ferguson · 263 pages

A gay Lutheran teen, Charles James Stewart II, chronicles a very memorable senior year at South High in Crystal Lake, Ill.

Sexual OrientationLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung AdultFunny
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My Side Of The Story

Will Davis · 256 pages

Sexual OrientationLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung AdultFunny
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Tale of Two Summers

Brian Sloan · 248 pages

Even though Hal is gay and Chuck is straight, the two fifteen-year-olds are best friends and set up a blog where Hal records his budding romance with a young Frenchman and Hal enthuses about theater camp.

Sexual OrientationLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung AdultFunny
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