Learning from our own lived experiences help us thrive. Bustle's K.W. Colyard's Bustle has gathered 21 insightful books—fiction and non-fiction—LGBTQ+ authors wish they had as teenagers themselves.
 Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun
| 3.5 | 5 reads | |
 Edinburgh
| 3 | 5 reads | |
 The Henna Wars
| 3.84 | 37 reads | |
 ZOM-FAM
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 A Safe Girl to Love
| 4.14 | 9 reads | |
 Reverse Cowgirl
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 With Teeth
| 3.33 | 10 reads | |
 i'm alive / it hurts / i love it
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 When the Moon was Ours
| 4.42 | 15 reads | |
 Can Everyone Please Calm Down? Can Everyone Please Calm Down?: Mae Martin's Guide to 21st Century Sexuality
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
| 3.83 | 13 reads | |
 Memorial
| 3.41 | 46 reads | |
 Sadie
| 4.06 | 198 reads | |
 Dear Senthuran | 4 | 9 reads | |
 Squad
| 3.37 | 41 reads | |
 The Black Flamingo
| 4.12 | 63 reads | |
 Gideon the Ninth
| 4.06 | 686 reads | |
 Lady Hotspur
| 4 | 1 read | |
 Freshwater
| 4.01 | 43 reads | |
 Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
| 4.35 | 25 reads |
