Title | Author | Age Group Location (targeted audience) | Book Looks Rating | DESCRIPTION OF RATING FROM BOOK LOOKS | Notes |
Call Me by Your Name | Aciman, Andre | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains alcohol and drug use; profanity; alternate sexualities; sexual nudity; and sexual activities. |
Cool for the Summer | Adler, Dahlia | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains alternate gender ideologies; profanity; sexual activities; sexual nudity; and alternate sexualities |
How it All Blew Up | Ahmadi, Arvin | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual activities; alternate sexualities; profanity and derogatory terms; and alcohol use by minors. |
The Upside of Unrequited | Albertalli, Becky | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains inexplicit sexual nudity; sexual activities; references to sexuality; alcohol use; and frequent/excessive profanity. |
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian | Alexie, Sherman | 12-17 yrs | 2/5 | teens require parental consent | This book contains inexplicit sexual nudity; inflammatory racial commentary; references to racism; and profanity. |
The Haters | Andrews, Jesse | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains obscene sexual activities; sexual commentary; and excessive/frequent profanity |
Go Ask Alice | Anonymous | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains inexplicit sexual activities including sexual assault and prostitution involving minor; drug abuse; alcohol use; profanity and derogatory terms; and suicidal commentary |
Meet Cute | Armentrout, Jennifer | 12-17 yrs | 2/5 | teens require parental consent | This book contains alcohol use; inexplicit sexual activities; profanity; and alternate gender ideologies. |
Red Hood | Arnold, Elana | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains obscene sexual activities; violence; and profanity. |
Thirteen Reasons Why | Asher, Jay | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains suicidal ideations; profanity; sexual nudity; and sexual activities. |
The Black Flamingo | Atta, Dean | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains alternate sexualities; inexplicit sexual nudity; sexual activities; drug and alcohol use; alternate gender ideologies; controversy racial commentary; and references to racism. |
The Pronoun Book | Ayala-Kronos, Chris | 0-8 yrs | 1/5 | children require parental consent | This book contains alternate gender ideologies. |
Forever | Blume, Judy | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book has sexually explicit excerpts involving minors. |
How to be Ace: a memoir of growing up asexual | Burgess, Rebecca | 10-12 yrs | not rated on BL; we rate 2/5 | teens require parental consent | This book contains alternate gender ideologies and references to sex and sexuality |
Felix ever after | Callender, Kacen | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual activities; sexual nudity; drug use; profanity; and alternate gender ideologies. |
I am Margaret Moore | Capin, Hannah | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual activities; alcohol use; and self-harm |
The perks of being a wallflower | Chobsky, Stephen | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains sexual activities including assault and battery; sexual nudity; profanity; violence; alcohol and drug use. |
Emergency Contact | Choi, Mary HK | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual activities; sexual nudity; drug and alcohol use; profanity; and controversial racial commentary; and hate involving racism. |
Clockwork Princess | Clare, Cassandra | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual activities |
Flamer | Curato, Mike | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains alternate sexualities; sexual activities; sexual nudity; profanity and derogatory term; violence including self- harm; and controversial religious commentary. |
This Book is Gay | Dawson, Juno | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains excerpts and illustrations depicting explicit nudity and sexual activities |
Calvin | Ford, Ronald | 0-8 yrs | 1/5 | children require parental consent | This book contains alternate gender ideologies. |
Bye bye, Binary | Geron, Eric | 0-8 yrs | 1/5 | children require parental consent | This book contains alternate gender ideologies. |
Alice Austen Lived Here | Gino, Alex | 8-12 yrs | 1/5 | children require parental consent | This book contains alternate gender ideologies; alternate sexualities; derogatory term; and controversial racial and historical commentary. |
Trans+: love, sex, romance, and being you | Gonzales, Kathryn | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains explicit alternate gender ideologies; sexual activities; and nudity. |
Looking for Alaska | Green, John | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual nudity and sexual activities; moderate profanity use; alcohol use; and gender ideologies. |
If you're a kid like Gavin | Grimm, Gavin | 8-12 yrs | not rated on BL yet; we rate 1/5 | children require parental consent | this book contains alternate gender ideologies |
Red, a crayon's story | Hall, Michael | 0-8 yrs | 1/5 | children require parental consent | This book contains references to dysmorphia. |
Welcome to St. Hell : my trans teen misadventure [graphic novel] / Lewis Hancox | Hancox, Lewis | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual activities; nudity; explicit alternate gender ideologies; alternate sexualities; profanity/derogatory terms; and alcohol use. |
It's Perfectly Normal | Harris, Robie H. | 8-12 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual activities and sexual nudity. |
Crank | Hopkins, Ellen | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains explicit sexual activities; sexual battery; profanity; and drug abuse. |
Identical | Hopkins, Ellen | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains explicit sexual activities including sexual assault and child molestation; violence including self-harm and suicidal ideations; profanity and derogatory terms; and drug and alcohol abuse. |
People Kill People | Hopkins, Ellen | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains sexual activities including sexual assault and battery; sexual nudity; drug use; profanity and derogatory terms; controversial racial commentary. |
Rumble | Hopkins, Ellen | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual activities; sexual nudity; alcohol and drug use; profanity; suicide; and controversial religious commentary. |
Traffick | Hopkins, Ellen | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual activities including child prostitution and molestation; sexual nudity; profanity; alcohol and drug use by minors; alternate gender ideologies; and alternate sexualities. |
Tricks | Hopkins, Ellen | 12-17 yrs | 5/5 | ABERRANT CONTENT | This book contains sexually explicit excerpts involving minors. There are also excerpts containing explicit child rape and abuse; illegal drug abuse; graphic violence; underage alcohol consumption; and adult and child prostitution. |
All boys aren't blue | Johnson, George | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains sexual nudity; sexual activities including sexual assault; alternate gender ideologies; profanity and derogatory terms; alcohol and drug use; and controversial racial commentary. |
I am a rainbow | Kanemura, Mark | 0-8 yrs | not rated on BL yet; we rate 1/5 | children require parental consent | This book includes alternate gender ideologies, involves children in drag |
Almost Perfect | Katcher, Brlain | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | The book contains sexual nudity; sexual activities; alternate genders ideology |
The Duff | Keplinger, Kody | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains sexual nudity and explicit sexual activities. |
Relish: My life in the kitchen | Knisley, Lucy | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual nudity; alcohol use by minors; and references to drug abuse and alternate gender ideologies. |
Gender Queer | Kobabe, Maia | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains obscene sexual activities and sexual nudity; alternate gender ideologies; and profanity. |
Beyond Magenta | Kuklin, Susan | 12-17 yrs | 2/5 | teens require parental consent | This book contains inexplicit sexual activities including pedophilia; alternate sexualities; explicit alternate gender ideologies; profanity and derogatory terms; suicide commentary; hate; and alcohol use by minors. |
The Civil War of Amos Abernathy | Leali, Michael | 8-12 yrs | not rated on BL yet; we rate 1/5 | children require parental consent | this book includes alternate sexualities, derogatory terms, hate, controversial racial and religious commentaries |
19 love songs | Levithan, David | 2/5 | teens require parental consent | This book contains sexual activities; alternate sexualities; and alternate gender ideologies. | |
Last Night at the telegraph club | Lo, Malinda | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains obscene sexual activities; sexual nudity; alternate sexualities; and derogatory term. |
The Best Laid Plans | Lund, Cameron | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains alternate sexualities; sexual activities; sexual nudity; alcohol use; and profanity. |
Catwoman: soulstealer | Maas, Sarah J. | 12-17 yrs | 2/5 | teens require parental consent | This book contains graphic violence and moderate profanity. |
A Court of frost and starlight | Maas, Sarah J. | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains obscene sexual activities; explicit sexual nudity; profanity; alcohol use; and violence |
A Court of Mist and Fury | Maas, Sarah J. | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains sexual nudity; sexual activities; violence; and profanity |
A Court of Silver Flames | Maas, Sarah J. | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains obscene sexual activities; explicit sexual nudity; excessive/frequent profanity; and graphic violence. |
A Court of Thorns and Roses | Maas, Sarah J. | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains graphic violence; explicit sexual nudity; obscene sexual activities; and mild profanity. |
A Court of Wings and Ruin | Maas, Sarah J. | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains sexual nudity; obscene sexual activities; mild profanity; and violence. |
Crown of Midnight | Maas, Sarah J. | 12-17 yrs | 2/5 | teens require parental consent | This book contains inexplicit sexual activities; nudity; violence; alcohol use; and mild/infrequent profanity |
Empire of Storms | Maas, Sarah J. | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains obscene sexual activities; explicit sexual nudity; violence; and profanity. |
House of sky and breath | Maas, Sarah J. | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains obscene sexual activities and sexual nudity; excessive/frequent profanity; explicit violence; and alcohol use. |
Kingdom of Ash | Maas, Sarah J. | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains violence; mild profanity; and explicit sexual activities; sexual nudity. |
Queen of Shadows | Maas, Sarah J. | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains inexplicit sexual nudity; sexual activities; violence; and profanity. |
Tower of Dawn | Maas, Sarah J. | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual activities; sexual nudity; mild profanity; and explicit violence. |
Being You: A first conversation about gender | Madison, Megan | 0-8 yrs | 1/5 | children require parental consent | This book contains alternate gender ideologies; and controversial cultural commentary. |
Unravel Me | Mafi, Tahereh | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains profanity and sexual activities. |
The Truth About Alice | Mathieu, Jennifer | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual nudity; sexual activities; alcohol use; and profanity. |
Vampire Academy | Mead, Richelle | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual activities; violence; and gore. |
Bumped | McCafferty, Megan | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains drug abuse; sexual activities. |
Cut | McCormick, Patricia | 12-17 yrs | 2/5 | teens require parental consent | This book contains self-harm including cutting and anorexia; references to drug abuse; mild/infrequent profanity; and inexplicit sexual activities. |
All the things we do in the dark | Mitchell, Saundra | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains mild/infrequent profanity; sexual activities; alternate sexualities; and suicide references. |
L8r, G8r | Myracle, Lauren | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains references to sexual nudity; sexual activities; and profanity |
Shine | Myracle, Lauren | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains profanity and derogatory terms; alternate sexualities; pedophilia; sexual activities including sexual assault; sexual nudity; drug and alcohol use and abuse; and violence. |
Yolo | Myracle, Lauren | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains sexual activities including sexual assault; sexual nudity; alternate sexualities; references to underage alcohol use and drug abuse; and profanity. |
A is for Activist | Nagara, Innosanto | 0-8 yrs | 1/5 | children require parental consent | This book contains references to alternate gender ideologies; reference to alternate sexualities; controversial cultural and political commentary |
Like A Love Story | Nazemian, Abdi | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains sexual activities; alternate sexualities; and profanity. |
My rainbow | Neal, Trinity | 0-8 yrs | 1/5 | children require parental consent | This book contains alternate gender ideologies. |
Check Please | Ngozi, Ukazu | 8-12 yrs | 2/5 | teens require parental consent | This book contains illustrations depicting sexual activities; alternate sexuality; excessive/frequent profanity; inflammatory social commentary; and alcohol use. |
Where I end & you Begin | Norton, Preston | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual activities; sexual nudity; alternate sexualities; profanity; and drug use. |
Heartstopper Volume 1 | Oseman, Alice | 12-17 yrs | 2/5 | teens require parental consent | This book contains sexual activities; alternate sexualities; alternate gender ideologies; profanity; and violence |
Heartstopper Volume 2 | Oseman, Alice | 12-17 yrs | 2/5 | teens require parental consent | This book contains sexual activities; alternate sexualities; and profanity and derogatory terms. |
Heartstopper Volume 3 | Oseman, Alice | 12-17 yrs | 2/5 | teens require parental consent | This book contains sexual activities involving kissing; alternate sexualities; alternate gender ideologies; references to homophobia and self-harm involving cutting; and profanity |
Heartstopper Volume 4 | Oseman, Alice | 12-17 yrs | 2/5 | teens require parental consent | This book contains alternate sexualities; self-harm involving anorexia; alternate gender ideologies; and mild/infrequent profanity. |
Nick and Charlie | Oseman, Alice | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual activities; alcohol use by minors; drug use; profanity; and alternate sexualities. |
Gender Identity for Kids | Passchier, Andy | 0-8 yrs | not rated on BL yet; we rate 1/5 | children require parental consent | this book includes alternate gender ideologies |
Out of Darkness | Perez, Ashley Hope | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains controversial racial commentary; derogatory terms and mild profanity; violence; explicit sexual nudity and explicit sexual activities including sexual assault and battery of a minor. |
Who are you? the kids guide to gender identity | Pessin-Whedbee, Brook | 0-8 yrs | 1/5 | children require parental consent | This book contains alternate gender ideologies. |
Door by door: how Sarah McBride became the first openly transgender senator | Pincus, Meeg | 0-8 yrs | 1/5 | children require parental consent | This book contains alternate gender ideologies. |
33 Snowfish | Rapp, Adam | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains excessive/frequent profanity and derogatory terms; sexual activities including child prostitution; inexplicit drug abuse by minors; and hate including racism |
Camp | Rosen, Lev | 12-17 yrs | not rated on BL yet; we rate 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual activities; sexual nudity; alternate sexualities; profanity |
Eleanor & Park | Rowell, Rainbow | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual activities; excessive/frequent profanity; and hate involving racism. |
The Midnight Lie | Rutkoski, Marie | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual activities and sexual nudity; and alcohol use. |
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe / Benjamin Alire Sáenz. | Saenz, Benjamin Alire | 12-17 yrs | not rated on BL yet; 2/5 or 3/5 | teens or under 18 requires parental consent | this book contains sexual activities and alternate sexualities |
And they lived... | Salvatore, Steven | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains profanity; alternate gender ideologies; alternate sexualities; sexual nudity; obscene sexual activities; controversial cultural, political, and racial commentary; and self-harm including bulimia. |
More Happy Than Not | Silvera, Adam | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains alternate sexualities; sexual activities; sexual nudity; excessive/frequent profanity; derogatory terms; alcohol and drug use; and self-harm including suicide. |
The First to Die at the End | Silvera, Adam | 12-17 yrs | not rated on BL yet; we rate 2/5 or 3/5 | teens or under 18 requires parental consent | this book contains sexual activities, alternate sexualities |
Sex is a Funny Word | Silverberg, Cory | 8-12 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains graphic illustrations involving sexual nudity; sexual activities; sexuality and alternate gender ideologies. |
The 57 Bus | Slater, Dashka | 12-17 yrs | 2/5 | teens require parental consent | The book contains references to sexuality, alternate gender ideologies, profanity and inflammatory political commentary. |
Anatomy of a Boyfriend | Snadowsky, Daria | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains obscene sexual activities involving minors; sexual nudity; profanity; references to alcohol use by minors. |
Lunch from home | Stein, Joshua David | 8-12 yrs | 1/5 | children require parental consent | This book contains alternate gender ideologies involving use of non-binary gender pronouns consistently for the same character. |
Shiver | Stiefvater, Maggie | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains sexual activities; violence; and mild/infrequent profanity. |
Forbidden | Suzuma, Tabitha | 12-17 yrs | 4/5 | NOT FOR MINORS | This book contains sexual activities including incest; sexual nudity; profanity; and suicide. |
The Hate You Give | Thomas, Angie | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains inflammatory racial commentary; excessive/frequent profanity; and inexplicit sexual activities. |
Concrete Rose | Thomas, Angie | 12-17 yrs | 3/5 | under 18 requires parental consent | This book contains inexplicit sexual activities; sexual nudity; excessive/frequent profanity derogatory terms; violence; controversial racial social commentary; controversial religious commentary; and alcohol and drug use by a minor. |
The meaning of pride | Thor, Rosiee | 0-8 yrs | not rated on BL yet; we rate 1/5 | children require parental consent | this book contains alternative sexualities and gender ideologies |