American Library Association Rainbow Book List

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|Picture Books

|{{Sortname|Anna|Kemp}}

|Dogs Don't Do Ballet

|{{Sortname|Charlotte|Agell}}

|The Accidental Adventures of India McAllister

|The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang

|The Death-Defying Pepper Roux

|{{Sortname|Jane|Eagland}}

|Wildthorn

|Will Grayson, Will Grayson

|A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend

|{{Sortname|Sassafras|Lowrey}}

|Kicked Out

|Don't Ask. Don't Tell

|The Gallup's Modern Guide to Gay, Lesbian & Transgender Life (Series, 15 titles)

|Picture Books

|{{Sortname|Leslea|Newman}} with Mike Dutton (Illus.)

|Donovan's Big Day

|{{Sortname|Malinda|Lo}}

|Huntress

|Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy

|{{Sortname|Cris|Beam}}

|I Am J

|Beauty Queens

|Brooklyn Burning

|Sister Mischief

|Shine

|She Loves You. She Loves You Not

|Gemini Bites

| rowspan="2" |Middle/Early Young Adult Fiction

|{{Sortname|Kirstin|Cronn-Mills}}

|Beautiful Music for Ugly Children

|Drama

|{{Sortname|Sarah|Moon|nolink=1}} (Ed.)

|The Letter Q: Queer Writers Notes to Their Younger Selves

|{{Sortname|Lisa Jenn|Bigelow}}

|Starting From Here

|The Miseducation of Cameron Post

|Ask the Passengers

|Adaptation

|The Song of Achilles

|Chulito: a Novel

|Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

|{{Sortname|Kate|Bornstein}}

|My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity

|Branded by the Pink Triangle

|{{Sortname|Francesca Lia|Block}}

|Love in the Time of Global Warming

|Freakboy

|The Culling

|Leap

|If You Could Be Mine

|The Summer Prince

|Pantomime

| rowspan="2" |Picture Books

|{{Sortname|Jeffrey|Bone}} and Lisa Bone

|Not Every Princess

|This Day in June

|{{Sortname|Janet E.|Cameron}}

|Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World

|Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

|I'll Give You the Sun

|Far from You

|Grasshopper Jungle

|Secret City

|{{Sortname|Tim|Anderson|nolink=1}}

|Sweet Tooth

|We Are the Youth: Sharing the Stories of LGBT Youth in the United States

|Graphic Novels

|{{Sortname|Jillian|Tamaki}}

|SuperMutant Magic Academy

|{{Sortname|Ami|Polonsky}}

|Gracefully Grayson

|The Marvels

|{{Sortname|Cory|Silverberg}} with Fiona Smyth (Illus.)

|Sex is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU

|{{Sortname|Becky|Albertalli}}

|Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

|Cut Both Ways

|When Everything Feels Like the Movies

|Fans of the Impossible Life

|Forgive Me If I've Told You This Before

|{{Sortname|Jack|Andraka}} with Matthew Lysiak

|Breakthrough

|Graphic Novels

|{{Sortname|Katie|O'Neill}}

|Princess Princess Ever After

|{{Sortname|Yasmeen|Ismail|nolink=1}}

|I'm a Girl

|Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story About Gender and Friendship

|{{Sortname|Yvonne|Cassidy}}

|How Many Letters are in Goodbye?

|We Are the Ants

|Every Heart a Doorway

|When the Moon Was Ours

|This Song Is (Not) for You

|The Root

|And I Darken

|Board Books

|{{Sortname|Stella|Blackstone}} and Sunny Scribens with Christiane Engel (Illus.)

|Baby's First Words

|{{Sortname|Lisa|Bunker|nolink=1}}

|Felix Yz

|Star-Crossed

|{{Sortname|Ash|Hardell}}{{efn|name=Ash|Credited as Ashely Mardell; The ABCs of LGBT+ was released before Hardell came out as transgender{{Cite web |title=I'm Trans. |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0DKOyP_vBU |author=Ash Hardell |date=November 14, 2017 |website=YouTube |language=en-US |access-date=May 14, 2021 |archive-date=May 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508181114/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0DKOyP_vBU |url-status=live }} and married their spouse.{{Cite web |title=our low-key wedding. |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdS957plVdc |website=YouTube |language=en-US |date=December 29, 2016 |author=Ash Hardell |access-date=May 14, 2021 |archive-date=May 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510143224/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdS957plVdc |url-status=live }}}}

|The ABCs of LGBT+

|The 57 Bus

|{{Sortname|Nina|LaCour}}

|We Are Okay

|Ramona Blue

|They Both Die at the End

|Dress Codes for Small Towns

|The Backstagers Vol. 1

| rowspan="2" |Picture Books Fiction

|{{Sortname|Daniel|Haack}} and Stevie Lewis

|Prince & Knight

|Sewing the Rainbow

|{{Sortname|Kacen|Callender}}

|Hurricane Child

|{{Sortname|Ashley|Herring Blake}}

|Girl Made of Stars

|Let's Talk About Love

|Darius the Great Is Not Okay

|Girls of Paper and Fire

|Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts)

|Odd One Out

|DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test

|Picture Books Nonfiction

|{{Sortname|Rob|Sanders}} and Jamey Christoph

|Stonewall: A Building. An Uprising. A Revolution.

|{{Sortname|Kyle|Lukoff}} and Kaylani Juanita

|When Aidan Became a Brother

|A Plan for Pops

|{{Sortname|Shaun David|Hutchinson}}

|Brave Face

|{{Sortname|Akwaeke|Emezi}}

|Pet

|The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali

|The Music of What Happens

|We Set the Dark on Fire

|On a Sunbeam

|Mooncakes

| rowspan="2" |Early Readers Nonfiction

|{{Sortname|Matthew|Burgess}} and Josh Cochran (Illus.)

|Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring

|Our Subway Baby

|{{Sortname|DeShanna|Neal}}, Trinity Neal, and Art Twink (Illus.)

|My Rainbow

|My Maddy

|The Every Body Book: LGBTQ+ Inclusive Guide for Kids about Sex, Gender, Bodies, and Families

|{{Sortname|Kacen|Callender}}

|King and the Dragonflies

|Ana on the Edge

|{{Sortname|George Matthew|Johnson}}

|All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto

|{{Sortname|Betsy|Cornwell}}

|Circus Rose

|When We Were Magic

|You Should See Me in a Crown

|I'll Be the One

|Elatsoe

|Miss Meteor

|War Girls

|Camp

|Cemetery Boys

|Snapdragon

|The Magic Fish

|The Deep & Dark Blue

| rowspan="4" |Picture Books Fiction

|Tyler Feder

|Bodies Are Cool

|Calvin

|Grandad's Camper

|What Are Your Words: A Book About Pronouns

|Jules Machais

|Both Can Be True

|The Deepest Breath

|Frankie & Bug

|Too Bright to See

|Mark Oshiro

|The Insiders

|Thanks a Lot, Universe

|Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

|Ace of Spades

|The Darkness Outside Us

|Each of Us a Desert

|Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating

|Last Night at the Telegraph

|Legendborn

|The Passing Playbook

|This Poison Heart

|Molly Knox Ostertag

|The Girl from the Sea

|Keito Gaku

|Boys Run the Riot, vol 1-3

| rowspan="2" |Picture Books Fiction

|Alice B. McGinty and David Roberts (illus.)

|Bathe the Cat

|Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle

|Carole Boston Weatherford, Rob Sanders, and Byron McCray

|A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington

|Kacen Callender

|Moonflower

|The Civil War of Amos Abernathy

|Tiger Honor

|You Only Live Once, David Bravo

|Ellen Outside the Lines

|Kyle Lukoff

|Different Kinds of Fruit

|Olivia Stephens

|Artie and the Wolf Moon

|Eliot Schrefer and Jules Zuckerberg (illus.)

|Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality

|Jen Ferguson

|The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

|The Honeys

|The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester

|Loveless

|The City Beautiful

|Just Ash

|When You Call My Name

|The Sunbearer Trials

|Ashley Woodfolk

|Nothing Burns as Bright as You

| rowspan="2" |Picture Books Fiction

|Gareth Peter and Izzy Evans (illus.)

|My Mommies Built a Treehouse

|Grandad's Pride

|Sarah Prager and Caitlin O'Dwyer (illus.)

|A Child's Introduction to Pride: The Inspirational History and Culture of LGBTQIA+ Community

|Leah Johnson

|Ellie Engle Saves Herself

|Camp QUILTBAG

|Nikhil Out Loud

|Jude Saves the World

|Joy to the World

|Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston

|The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet

|James Acker

|The Long Run

|Imogen, Obviously

|Ander & Santi Were Here: a Novel

|We Deserve Monuments

|Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix

|Beating Heart Baby

|The Wicked Bargain

|She Is a Haunting

|Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo (illus.)

|Northranger

|Uta Isaki

|Is Love the Answer?