ALA Rainbow Book ListSelection2020

Given by American Library Association (ALA)

Other Names: ALA Rainbow Book List Top Ten
92 Works 29,868 Books 1,329 Reviews 4.0
"The annual Rainbow List presents current well-written and/or well-illustrated books, with significant and authentic GLBTQ content, which are recommended for people from birth through eighteen show more years of age."

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Stages:
All, Selection (1,186), Starred (94), Top Ten (49), Top Ten for Young Readers (10), Top Ten for Teen Readers (10)
Categories:
All, No Category (92)
Years:
All, 2024 (113), 2023 (191), 2022 (117), 2021 (127), 2020 (92), 2019 (100), 2018 (47), 2017 (53), 2016 (43), 2015 (24), 2014 (30), 2013 (48), 2012 (32), 2011 (45), 2010 (45), 2009 (34), 2008 (45)
Announced:
February 1: Selection2024 Recent
February 1: Top Ten for Teen Readers2024 Recent
February 1: Top Ten for Young Readers2024 Recent

Selection 92

WorkYear
Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era by Jason Baumann2020
VIRAL: The Fight Against AIDS in America by Ann Bausum2020
Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist2020
Hazel’s Theory of Evolution by Lisa Jenn Bigelow2020
The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake2020
Our Rainbow by Little Bee Books2020
Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju2020
Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman2020
You Be You!: The Kid's Guide to Gender, Sexuality, and Family by Jonathan Branfman2020
Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker2020
Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron2020
The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose Capetta2020
The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta2020
The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare2020
Summer of a Thousand Pies by Margaret Dilloway2020
The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake2020
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi2020
All the Bad Apples by Moira Fowley-Doyle2020
Ho'onani: Hula Warrior by Heather Gale2020
Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman2020
How (Not) to Ask a Boy to Prom by S. J. Goslee2020
Kim Reaper Vol. 2: Vampire Island by Sarah Graley2020
Alien: Echo: An Original Young Adult Novel of the Alien Universe by Mira Grant2020
Other Words for Smoke by Sarah Maria Griffin2020
Maiden & Princess by Daniel Haack2020
Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins2020
Jacob's room to choose by Sarah Hoffman2020
Redwood and Ponytail by K. A. Holt2020
Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson2020
The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson2020
Technically, You Started It by Lana Wood Johnson2020
The Afterward by E. K. Johnston2020
That's Not What Happened by Kody Keplinger2020
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan2020
The Confusion of Laurel Graham by Adrienne Kisner2020
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe2020
The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg2020
Annex by Rich Larson2020
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand2020
Black Wings Beating by Alex London2020
When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff2020
Trans : Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You by Kathryn Gonzales Mba2020
Once & Future by Cori McCarthy2020
Blanca and Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore2020
What Was Stonewall? by Nico Medina2020
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia2020
I am Billie Jean King by Brad Meltzer2020
All the Things We Do in the Dark by Saundra Mitchell2020
The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical by Saundra Mitchell2020
By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery2020
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir2020
Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian2020
The Tea Dragon Festival by K. O'Neill2020
Fence, Vol. 1 by C. S. Pacat2020
Fence, Vol. 2 by C. S. Pacat2020
Fence, Vol. 3 by C. S. Pacat2020
The Best at It by Maulik Pancholy2020
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus2020
My Footprints by Bao Phi2020
Sometime After Midnight by L. Philips2020
Love Around the World by Fleur Pierets2020
The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets by Gayle E Pitman2020
The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston2020
Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig2020
Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell2020
Birthday by Meredith Russo2020
Keep This to Yourself by Tom Ryan2020
The Moon Within by Aida Salazar2020
Stonewall: A Building. An Uprising. A Revolution by Rob Sanders2020
Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve2020
Kissing Ezra Holtz (and Other Things I Did for Science) by Brianna R. Shrum2020
You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman2020
Deposing Nathan by Zack Smedley2020
A Plan for Pops by Heather Smith2020
Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon2020
DeadEndia: The Broken Halo by Hamish Steele2020
These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling2020
Pride Colors by Robin Stevenson2020
Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass by Lilah Sturges2020
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki2020
Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer2020
Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas2020
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn2020
The Avant-Guards Vol. 1 by Carly Usdin2020
Small Town Hearts by Lillie Vale2020
The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante2020
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden2020
Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker2020
Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim Wells2020
Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler2020
How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters2020
Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia2020

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