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citizen-zero:

YA literature? You mean books about Super Special White Girl and Her Mysterious Brooding Boyfriend?

Here’s a list of black YA leads! And ten Native American protagonists! And a list of ladies who love ladies in YA! And genderqueer / transgender YA leads! And more queer titles! And 2015 / 2016 YA books with Asian / East Asian leads! And bisexual YA leads! And Muslim YA leads! And asexual YA leads! And YA Interrobang’s entire section on diverse YA fiction!

*confetti*

PLEASE REBLOG THIS

PLEASE DO NOT THROW THE YA GENRE UNDER THE BUS it is filled with diversity that goes far beyond whatever makes it to the movies! Please give it a chance!

because some of these lists need updating…

* = books I’ve read

YA books about police brutality:

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas*
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone*
• Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro*
• Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles
• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

YA books about immigration:

• The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah 
• American Street by Ibi Zoboi
• The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
• Something in Between by Melissa De La Cruz
• Internment by Samira Ahmed (coming out 2019)

YA books dealing with mental illness:

• Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert
• 10 Things I Can See From Here by Carrie Mac
• Turtles All the Way Down by John Green*
• Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia*
• The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness*
• When We Collided by Emery Lord
• A World Without You by Beth Revis

YA books with queer POC main characters:

• It’s Not Like It’s A Secret by Misa Sugiura (wlw)
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (mlm)*
• Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan (wlw)
• They Both Die at the End, More Happy Than Not, and History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera (mlm)*
• Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore (wlw)*

YA fantasy with queer characters:

• The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (mlm)*
• Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (mlm)*
• Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (wlw)
• Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst (wlw)*
• Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (mlm)*

more queer YA:

• Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard (butch lesbian MC)
• We Are Okay & Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour (lesbian MCs)*
• The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (bisexual MC, historical fiction)*
• The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee (asexual MC, coming out Oct. 2018)*
• Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore (bisexual MC)*
• If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo (trans MC)
• Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee (asexual MC)*
• Radio Silence by Alice Oseman (bi MC and demisexual MC)*
• Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann (biromantic asexual MC)*
• More Than This by Patrick Ness (gay MC)*
• Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin (genderfluid MC)
• The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth (lesbian MC)*
• I Was Born For This by Alice Oseman (Muslim MC and trans MC)*

YA books with fat main characters:

• Dumplin’ & Puddin’ by Julie Murphy
• The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding (lesbian MC)*
• The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli*
• Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli (bisexual MC)*
• Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

more YA with POC:

• Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
• American Panda by Gloria Chao
• The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton (fantasy)
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (fantasy)*
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
• A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi (comes out Oct. 2018)
• Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (alternate history fantasy)
• When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
• An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir (fantasy)*
• Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan (fantasy, comes out Nov. 2018)

I can definitely reccommend Dread Nation: it’s a book set right after the civil war, in which the zombie apocalypse interrupted the fighting. It follows the black, woman protagonist who is in a school training her to fight against the zombies (and it’s a thing where pretty much every black person is expected to do that and protect the white people, which is commented on a lot). She’s the daughter of a plantation owner’s wife who tried to drown her to keep the secret of her affair. And it’s written by a black woman!

Guys reblog this version!!!!