YA Short Stories and Collections with LGBT Themes

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All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages
All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages 3.92 avg rating — 6,401 ratings
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Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet
Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet 3.57 avg rating — 14,414 ratings
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Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins 3.88 avg rating — 8,155 ratings
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Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales Of Women & Witchcraft
Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales Of Women & Witchcraft 3.66 avg rating — 4,883 ratings
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How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity
How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity 3.80 avg rating — 1,572 ratings
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Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories
Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories 3.93 avg rating — 555 ratings
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My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories 3.65 avg rating — 42,151 ratings
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A Tyranny of Petticoats (A Tyranny of Petticoats, #1)
A Tyranny of Petticoats (A Tyranny of Petticoats, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 4,275 ratings
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Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles
Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles 3.11 avg rating — 1,615 ratings
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Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories
Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories 3.51 avg rating — 12,453 ratings
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Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite
Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite 3.54 avg rating — 6,735 ratings
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Summer Love
Summer Love 3.78 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology
Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology 3.91 avg rating — 774 ratings
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Feral Youth
Feral Youth 3.52 avg rating — 1,537 ratings
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Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens
Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens 3.70 avg rating — 1,368 ratings
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Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence
Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence 3.95 avg rating — 5,104 ratings
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Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd 3.69 avg rating — 9,256 ratings
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How They Met, and Other Stories
How They Met, and Other Stories 3.75 avg rating — 11,181 ratings
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Diverse Energies
Diverse Energies 3.64 avg rating — 467 ratings
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grl2grl
grl2grl 3.96 avg rating — 3,687 ratings
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Willful Impropriety: 13 Tales of Society, Scandal and Romance
Willful Impropriety: 13 Tales of Society, Scandal and Romance 3.36 avg rating — 239 ratings
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Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology
Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology 3.88 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Out Now: Queer We Go Again!
Out Now: Queer We Go Again! 3.69 avg rating — 935 ratings
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Scheherazade's Facade
Scheherazade's Facade 3.66 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Not the Only One: Lesbian and Gay Fiction for Teens
Not the Only One: Lesbian and Gay Fiction for Teens 3.57 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Grim
Grim 3.73 avg rating — 3,146 ratings
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The Radical Element (A Tyranny of Petticoats, #2)
The Radical Element (A Tyranny of Petticoats, #2) 3.75 avg rating — 1,025 ratings
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Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales
Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales 3.54 avg rating — 2,299 ratings
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Defy the Dark
Defy the Dark 3.62 avg rating — 699 ratings
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Myth, Magic and Glitter
Myth, Magic and Glitter 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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21 Proms
21 Proms 3.23 avg rating — 3,752 ratings
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Dirty Laundry: Stories About Family Secrets
Dirty Laundry: Stories About Family Secrets 3.37 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
The Poison Eaters and Other Stories 3.78 avg rating — 6,184 ratings
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Up All Night
Up All Night 3.35 avg rating — 713 ratings
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Zombies Vs. Unicorns
Zombies Vs. Unicorns 3.71 avg rating — 13,493 ratings
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Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire
Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire 3.47 avg rating — 529 ratings
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Red Caps: New Fairy Tales for Out of the Ordinary Readers
Red Caps: New Fairy Tales for Out of the Ordinary Readers 3.69 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Bane Chronicles
The Bane Chronicles 4.08 avg rating — 105,787 ratings
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Fresh Ink
Fresh Ink 3.79 avg rating — 3,380 ratings
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The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves
The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves 3.92 avg rating — 1,584 ratings
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This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge
This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge 3.66 avg rating — 231 ratings
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What a Song Can Do: 12 Riffs on the Power of Music
What a Song Can Do: 12 Riffs on the Power of Music 3.47 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Every Man for Himself: Ten Short Stories About Being a Guy
Every Man for Himself: Ten Short Stories About Being a Guy 3.52 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance
Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance 4.21 avg rating — 830 ratings
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Sweet Lesbian Love Stories
Sweet Lesbian Love Stories 3.10 avg rating — 31 ratings
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A Perfect Life and Other Stories
A Perfect Life and Other Stories 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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No Big Deal (#lovehim #1.5)
No Big Deal (#lovehim #1.5) 4.01 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Proud
Proud 4.22 avg rating — 1,811 ratings
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Men Writing Men Illustrated: Issue 2
Men Writing Men Illustrated: Issue 2 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Colours I See
The Colours I See 4.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Life’S Uncertain Journeys: A Lgbtq Short Story Collection
Life’S Uncertain Journeys: A Lgbtq Short Story Collection 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Reclaim the Stars
Reclaim the Stars 3.81 avg rating — 1,414 ratings
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Salvación
Salvación 3.61 avg rating — 357 ratings
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Crush: 26 Real-life Tales of First Love
Crush: 26 Real-life Tales of First Love 3.48 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Haunting Muses
Haunting Muses 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Men Writing Men Illustrated: Issue 1
Men Writing Men Illustrated: Issue 1 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology
A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology 3.71 avg rating — 2,524 ratings
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Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder
Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder 3.73 avg rating — 477 ratings
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Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories
Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories 3.89 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror Delight
Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror Delight 3.85 avg rating — 1,016 ratings
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Hear Us Out!: Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present
Hear Us Out!: Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present 3.75 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Dispatches From Lesbian America
Dispatches From Lesbian America 4.02 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Speaking Out: LGBTQ Youth Stand Up
Speaking Out: LGBTQ Youth Stand Up 4.06 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Defying Doomsday
Defying Doomsday 4.32 avg rating — 339 ratings
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101 Ways to Dance
101 Ways to Dance 3.37 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Hide and Seek: Stories About Being Young and Gay/Lesbian
Hide and Seek: Stories About Being Young and Gay/Lesbian 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Boots, Dogs, and the Sea
Boots, Dogs, and the Sea 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History
Hidden Youth: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History 4.20 avg rating — 45 ratings
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His Hideous Heart
His Hideous Heart 3.56 avg rating — 3,145 ratings
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The Book of Lost Princes
The Book of Lost Princes really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Dear Heartbreak
Dear Heartbreak 3.60 avg rating — 900 ratings
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Out Is In
Out Is In 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Wrong Boy Right
Wrong Boy Right
by: Drew Hunt
4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Boys Boys Boys
Boys Boys Boys
by: J. Tomas
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Necessary Noise: Stories About Our Families as They Really Are
Necessary Noise: Stories About Our Families as They Really Are 3.42 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Winter Garden and Other Stories
The Winter Garden and Other Stories 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories
It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories 3.81 avg rating — 767 ratings
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Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales
Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales 3.73 avg rating — 1,907 ratings
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Not the Only One: Lesbian and Gay Fiction for Teens
Not the Only One: Lesbian and Gay Fiction for Teens 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Underdog: #LoveOzYA Short Stories
Underdog: #LoveOzYA Short Stories 3.98 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories
Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories 3.81 avg rating — 2,317 ratings
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First Time for Everything
First Time for Everything 3.76 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Angry Management
Angry Management 3.90 avg rating — 1,371 ratings
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God Loves Hair
God Loves Hair 4.01 avg rating — 801 ratings
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Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Stories About Falling Out of Love by Four Incredible Authors
Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Stories About Falling Out of Love by Four Incredible Authors 3.64 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Down On The Other Street: Volume I
Down On The Other Street: Volume I really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Question
The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Question 3.83 avg rating — 989 ratings
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Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth
Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth 3.43 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Hope and Love Anthology
Hope and Love Anthology
by: Piper Kay
4.12 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Kissing Tennessee: And Other Stories from the Stardust Dance
Kissing Tennessee: And Other Stories from the Stardust Dance 3.65 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Mightier Than the Lipstick
Mightier Than the Lipstick 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Fairy Tales for Modern Queers
Fairy Tales for Modern Queers 3.24 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Misfits and Rebels: Short Stories
Misfits and Rebels: Short Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Girl Meets Boy: Because There Are Two Sides to Every Story
Girl Meets Boy: Because There Are Two Sides to Every Story 3.07 avg rating — 771 ratings
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Things I'll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves
Things I'll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves
by: Ann Angel
3.33 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction
Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction 3.95 avg rating — 7,525 ratings
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Sixteen: Stories about That Sweet and Bitter Birthday
Sixteen: Stories about That Sweet and Bitter Birthday 3.34 avg rating — 994 ratings
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Losing It
Losing It 3.41 avg rating — 396 ratings
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A Vigil for Joe Rose: Stories of Being Out in High School
A Vigil for Joe Rose: Stories of Being Out in High School really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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