| Will Walton | Anything Could Happen |
| Brandon Terrell | High Drama |
| Robin Stevenson | Pride Celebrating Diversity & Community |
| Julie Anne Peters | Lies My Girlfriend Told Me |
| John Wilson | Broken Arrow |
| Steven Rowley | Lily and the Octopus |
| Frances Rooney | Hear Me Out: True Stories of Teens Educating and Confronting Homophobia |
| Ellen Wittlinger | Love & Lies: Marisol's Story |
| Alex Sanchez | Boyfriends with Girlfriends |
| Richard Scrimger | Ink Me |
| Norah McClintock | Close to the Heel |
| Julie Anne Peters | Rage: A Love Story |
| Brent Hartinger | Geography Club |
| Abigail Tarhelin | Golden Boy: A novel |
| Daniel Zomparelli | Everything is Awful and You're Terrible Person |
| Madeline Miller | The Song of Archilles : A novel |
| Maureen Johnson | How I Resist Activism and Hope for a New Generation |
| Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe |
| Vaughan Brian K, Cliff Chiang | Paper Girls |
| Kim Fu | For Today I am a Boy |
| Kristyn Dunnion | Mosh Pit: A Novel |
| Johanna Parkhurst | Here's to You, Zeb Pike |
| Susan Kuklin | Beyond Magenta Transgender Teens Speak Out |
| Liz Prince | Tomboy |