Lesbian (and bisexual) girls have tragically little young adult fiction to themselves. According to recent research by YA author Malinda Lo, about 0.25% of published YA books in the US are about lesbians. And yet, for such a short list of works, it was surprisingly hard to track them all down - there are plenty of GLBT YA lists, but these tend not to actually separate out the lesbian books, and to be dominated by gay male stories.

I am still surprised that there was no list already of YA lesbian books. Not even an ultimate list of queer YA books - that had the lesbian books labelled.

Anyway, because I’m a glutton for punishment, as long as it involves books and/or the internet, we’re working on breaking that list down into something a bit more manageable and useful. So far, there’s the Transgender list, and the lesbian YA with a non-lesbian main character list (surprisingly many titles).

(Source: librariesandlemonade)