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The Oscar Wilde Bookshop is celebrating 40 years of serving the LGBT community!

Last Updated: June 15, 2008

Est. 1967

To print this list simply download our PDF list: YoungAdultBooks.pdf

Acito, Marc

• How I Paid For College

• Attack of the Theater People

Baldwin, James

• Giovanni’s Room

Carbado, Devon; McBride, Dwight A., and Donald Weise

• Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction

Davis, Will

• My Side of the Story

Dolby, Tom

• The Sixth Form

• The Trouble Boy

Hartinger, Brent

• Geography Club

• Split Screen

Heim, Scott

• Mysterious Skin

Howe, James

• Totally Joe

Kidd, Chip

• The Cheese Monkeys

Lecesne, James

• Absolute Brightness

Levithan, David and Billy Merrell

• Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing about Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and other Identities

Levithan, David

• Boy Meets Boy

• The Realm of Possibilities

• Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List

Malloy, Brian

• Brendan Wolf

• The Year of Ice

Marshall, Robert

• A Separate Reality

Medina, Nico

• Fat Hoochie Prom Queen

• The Straight Road to Kylie

Reardon, Robin

• A Secret Edge

Ryan, P.E.

• Saints of Augustine

Sanchez, Alex

• Rainbow Boys

• Rainbow High

• Rainbow Road

• The God Box

Selvadurai, Shyam

• Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

Sloan, Brian

• A Really Nice Prom Mess

X, Sulayman

• Bilal’s Bread

Warren, Patricia Nell

• The Front Runner

White, Edmund

• A Boy’s Own Story

Yates, Bart

• Leave Myself Behind

Here is a brief selection of books that are age appropriate for teens 14-18 years old.

Allison, Dorothy

• Bastard Out of Carolina

Anzaldúa, Gloria

• Borderlands/La Frontera:The New Mestiza

Brown, Rita Mae

• Rubyfruit Jungle

Carbado, Devon; McBride, Dwight A, and Donald Weise

• Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction

Coyote, Ivan E

• Close to Spider Man

• Bow Grip

• One Man’s Trash

Dawesar, Abha

• Babyji

Frank, Judith

• Crybaby Butch

Garden, Nancy

• Annie on My Mind

Gurba, Myriam

• Dahlia Season

Lara, Ana-Maurine

• Erzulie’s Skirt

Lemus, Felicia Luna

• Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties

Levithan, David and Billy Merrell

• Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing about Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and other Identities

Liebegott, Ali

• The IHop Papers

Lockhart, Zelda

Myracle, Lauren

• Kissing Kate

Peters, Julie Anne

• Keeping You a Secret

• Between Mom and Jo

• Define “Normal”

• Far From Xanadu

Rich, Adrienne

• On Lies, Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

Sapphire

• Push

Walker, Alice

• The Color Purple

Waters, Sarah

• Tipping the Velvet

Winterson, Jeanette

• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Woolf, Virginia

• Orlando

Yamanaka, Lois-Ann

• Name Me Nobody

Arenas, Reinaldo

• Before Night Falls

Bass, Lance

• Out of Sync

Bauer, Marion Dane

• Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence

Butler, Judith

• Gender Trouble

Chauncey, George

• Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World

Cox, Jay C. & Kelly Huegel

• GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens

Duberman, Martin

• Stonewall

Duberman, Martin; Chauncey, George & Martha Vicinus

• Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past

*currently unavailable

Eisenbach, David

• Gay Power: An American Revolution

Faderman, Lillian

• Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present

*currently unavailable

Gallo, Marcia

• Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement

Gonzalez, Rigoberto

• Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa

Halberstam, Judith

• Female Masculinity

Jay, Karla

• Tales of the Lavender Menace:

A Memoir of Liberation

Lorde, Audre

• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Marcus, Eric