Summer is the perfect time for reading. Everyone seems to have more time, and life is easier because people become less stressed in the summer. In June, we have Pride month which celebrates the LGBTQ+ community as a whole, and allows members of that community to be in the spotlight. They feature LGBTQ+ in Young Adult Literature and Adult and Middle Grade Literature. Here are ten Young Adult books already available or being released in June so you can read them for Pride Month, and the rest of the summer.
1- Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins
Readers of the novel Royals, or if you read the paperback, Prince Charming, also by Hawkins you will recognize the main character of this novel. Our plot follows Flora, a spoiled princess who also is a lesbian. Millie and Flora start off as roommates at a boarding school in Scotland, and the two become friends next. The final step in their relationship is the two of them are dating, will dating a princess be too much for Millie or will she get her happily ever after?
Published May 7th
2- Kings Queens and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju
The main character in this book is Nima Kumara-Clark. Nima’s mother is gone, she is tired of being in love with straight girls, and she wants bigger and better things from her life. She is introduced to a side of town she didn’t know before by a local festival. Nima finds a new love among the drag queens, potential romance, and people that she never intended to meet. Now, she feels as though free to do anything she wants and be anything she wants with no limitations. This is a debut that should be considered for anyone’s tbr in honor of pride month!
Published May 7th
3- Carmilla by Kim Turrisi
Fans of the web series Carmilla will love to know that the show now has a novelization! Laura Hollis was getting along with her roommate Betty, after Betty disappears Laura’s new roommate is Carmilla, and the two get off to a rocky start. As the story progresses, Laura learns that Betty is not the first girl to suddenly disappear, and that Carmilla might be attached to all these disappearances happening. The plot thickens when Laura, a lesbian, falls for Carmilla, another lesbian.
Published May 7th
4- Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron
The moment that Brody and Art student Nico meet their lives change forever. Nico takes Brody to a place called Everland, which only opens once a week at a certain time for Nico and his outsider friends. Once in Everland, Brody feels as though he has found the people he has be searching for all along. Brody will need to make hardest choice of all, leaving Earth to stay in Everland, or never being able to return to earth again.
Published May 14th
5- I Wish You All the Best by Mason Denver
This novel has a Non-Binary main character and a Non-Binary author. After Ben is kicked for being Non-Binary they must move with their estranged older sister Hannah. Not wanting to make the same mistake again, Ben has plans to lie low at his new school. They only people who know Ben is Non -Binary are Hannah, Her Husband, and his new therapist. Enter Nathan, who notices Ben, and what starts out as friendship becomes more.
Published May 14th
6- The Pursuit of Miss Heartbreak Hotel by Moe Bonneau
This is a novel about once best friends who grow apart, and then fate brings them back together. Lu wonders if their was ever more than just friendship between her and Eve. Eve got popular and left her best friend Lucy,. Lu then got new friends and planned her life without Eve. A chance puts each girl in the other’s life again, and they pick up their friendship where they left off. With Eve back in her life, Lu forgets about her old crush, and wonders if she and Eve can ever be more than just best friends. Read this novel if you would like a a novel about two former best friends, who may or may not have something more, give this one a try!
Published May 21st
7-The Wise and the Wicked by Rebecca Podos
This Novel follows Ruby, a woman who has hears the stories of how the women in her family had the power to keep death away from them, that is until someone ran them out of Russia. Ruby might think this was all myth and legend until she finds that magic is still inside of her. Each woman of Ruby’s family comes to her in a vision of they’ll be when they die. When Ruby’s Great-Aunt dies in a way that was not in the vision, Ruby will learn that her end might not be what she expects. Russian folklore plays a large part in this novel, so if that is something you enjoy reading about, try this one.
Published May 28th
8- Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas
A novel about a queer friendship as opposed to a romance?! Yes please! Kalyn feels like her life with be defined by a murder her father committed when he himself was a teen. By attending school under a nickname to hide any relation, she meets Gus, a pan sexual boy who fears he is being defined by his cerebral palsy. Gus also is the son of the man that Kalyn’s father murdered all those years ago. Once the two learn more details about each other, they will test their friendship in ways they never could have imagined. Queer friendship is something we all need in our lives, and this novel is the perfect display of a queer friendship over a queer romance.
Expected Publication Date- June 4th
9- Something Like Gravity by Amber Smith
A lesbian and a trans boy meet after a near-fatal car accident in this new novel from the author of The Last to Let Go. If Maia and Chris want to have a good summer, they will need to get along, something they could not do since their first meeting. While these two can’t get along when they’re together, they also can’t seem to stay away from each other. Both Maia and Chris need to heal from their own traumatic events in order to move on and find friendship and love again. What they will find is a love neither of them expected. Will these two who seemingly have nothing in common, and can’t stand each other, be the happily ever after for one another? Read the novel to find out!
Expected Publication Date June 18th
10- Technically, You Started It, by Lana Wood Johnson
Here is a novel on the list with an Ace main character. Haley is not sure where she fits on the Ace Spectrum, when she receives a text from Martin Nathaniel Munroe II. Haley knows two people with that name, and she isn’t texting the one she thinks. She hates this Martin, but as the two text each other, they are connecting in ways she never thought they could. Martin doesn’t know Haley was expecting to hear from, and if they can’t figure out the correct story, they will get an ending neither of them want.
Expected Publication Date June 25th
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