--- title: Adam Silvera Wants a New Queer Literary Canon description: At 32, Silvera has published eight young-adult novels, all of them centering the experiences of queer characters. canonical: https://time.com/collections/next-generation-leaders/6218254/adam-silvera-queer-books/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2022-10-13T10:00:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:07:11.374Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Adam Silvera Is Writing the Books He Wished He Had as a Queer Teen og:description: At 32, Silvera has published eight young-adult novels, all of them centering the experiences of queer characters. og:url: https://time.com/collections/next-generation-leaders/6218254/adam-silvera-queer-books/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3b77419943698c0c/698a365416d8848664c3b1f4/time-2022-next-generation-leaders-adam-silvera-social.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 2400 og:image:height: 1349 og:image:alt: Adam Silvera Is Writing the Books He Wished He Had as a Queer Teen og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Adam Silvera Is Writing the Books He Wished He Had as a Queer Teen twitter:description: At 32, Silvera has published eight young-adult novels, all of them centering the experiences of queer characters. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3b77419943698c0c/698a365416d8848664c3b1f4/time-2022-next-generation-leaders-adam-silvera-social.jpg?branch=production --- Oct 13, 2022 # Adam Silvera Is Writing the Books He Wished He Had as a Queer Teen > Sponsored content. 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The first—and only—time he cried while writing was at the death of one of the main characters in his third young-adult novel, 2017’s _They Both Die at the End._ He’d spent so much time outlining the story, he says, that “I knew that kid.” But his new prequel, _The First to Die at the End,_ offers more hope for new characters he’s also come to love. Both books follow queer love stories with Latinx protagonists. “I am dead set on writing queer characters for the rest of my life,” he explains. “I’m a queer man. I don’t need to contribute to the canon of heterosexual literature. If no other books were published about straight people, we would still be outnumbered for years.” At 32, Silvera has published eight young-adult novels, all of them centering the experiences of queer characters.  Anita Lashey _They Both Die at the End_ saw an unexpected spike in sales in August 2020, when fans on [BookTok](https://time.com/6221457/colleen-hoover-trauma-it-starts-with-us/)—the corner of TikTok dedicated to books—began recommending it in droves. That popularity, which led to its forthcoming TV adaptation from the creator of [_Bridgerton_](https://time.com/5921482/bridgerton-books-netflix/)_,_ is the realization of a dream that began when he started writing fan fiction for franchises like [_Harry Potter_](https://time.com/5383334/best-books-like-harry-potter/) and Marvel at age 11\. At 21, the idea for his debut novel came to him. He’d been surrounded by books when he started working in the café of a Barnes & Noble. Because he was regularly recommending novels while serving up coffees, his managers moved him to the sales floor, where he got an informal education in [YA literature.](https://time.com/collection/100-best-ya-books/6084593/more-happy-than-not-ya-book/) For Silvera, his books have been a way to reimagine his life had he felt safe enough to be out as a teen in the South Bronx. He wants to provide a safe space, especially at a time when book bans are proliferating. “There are teenagers still struggling to come out. They’re in my inboxes, at events—sometimes I’m the first person they’ve come out to, which is really special,” he says. “That’s the power of visibility within a novel.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/next-generation-leaders/6218254/adam-silvera-queer-books/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/next-generation-leaders/6218254/adam-silvera-queer-books/"},"headline":"Adam Silvera Is Writing the Books He Wished He Had as a Queer Teen","datePublished":"2022-10-13T10:00:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:07:11.374Z","description":"At 32, Silvera has published eight young-adult novels, all of them centering the experiences of queer characters.","url":"https://time.com/collections/next-generation-leaders/6218254/adam-silvera-queer-books/","keywords":["Books","Next Generation Leaders"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3b77419943698c0c/698a365416d8848664c3b1f4/time-2022-next-generation-leaders-adam-silvera-social.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Moises Mendez","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/moises-mendez-ii/"}],"creator":"Moises Mendez","articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3b77419943698c0c/698a365416d8848664c3b1f4/time-2022-next-generation-leaders-adam-silvera-social.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/next-generation-leaders/6218254/adam-silvera-queer-books/","name":"Adam Silvera Is Writing the Books He Wished He Had as a Queer Teen"}}]}] ```