The following twelve titles were under consideration by the Rainbow List Committee during the month of September:

27 Hours by Tristina Wright

All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages by Saundra Mitchell

All We Can Do is Wait by Richard Lawson

Art of Escaping by Erin Callahan

The Bride was a Boy by Chii

Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell

Chainbreaker by Tara Sim

Feeder by Patrick Weekes

Fresh Ink, edited by Lamar Giles

Full-Court Press by Elena Delle Donne

Iceman, vol. 1: Thawing Out by Sina Grace and Alessandro Vitti

Iceman, vol. 2: Absolute Zero by Sina Grace and Kevin Wada