candidlily's foray into booklr

Here are some recs for casual/feel-good f/f representation! All links are to my reviews.

Good Enough to Eat - super cute lesbian vampire rom-com

Promises, Promises - parody of LotR/D&D starring three lesbians on a quest for magical stuff

Everything Leads to You - Hollywood f/f YA about a young set designer who falls for a girl she meets under mysterious circumstances

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - ensemble-cast “crew of a spaceship” story. Mostly just random adventures, includes a f/f couple who survive the book.

Roller Girl - contemporary f/f romance about trans woman who joins a roller derby team

Not fluffy, but the angst is SFF-stress rather than “living under homophobia/biphobia” stress:

Ascension - queer disabled ladies fighting Big Pharma in space–you wanted space bi’s, come get your space bi’s (actually, if you want more space bi’s also check out the anthology Fierce Family.)

Chameleon Moon - review is of an earlier edition and I hear the new one has even more great representation. Trans woman superhero with two female partners living in a dystopian city that’s on lockdown from the government after everyone develops mutant powers in response to a wonderdrug.

Not Your Sidekick - in the future, what happens when your parents are superheroes but you never developed powers? You intern for the baddie, of course! MC is bi and ends up in a f/f relationship, and the sequel will star her trans bestie.

Gay Pride and Prejudice by Kate Christie - What it says on the tin. Elizabeth Bennett is a lesbian and the haughty Caroline Bingley is the last woman she could ever be prevailed upon to love.

Escape from B-Movie Hell by M.T. McGuire - Silly British sci-fi with a lesbian protagonist

Heart Trouble by Jae - A doctor gets shocked by a defibrillator while saving a woman’s life in the ER. Now they have a soul bond!

Finding Ms Write by Jae & Jove Belle - Collection of short stories about women who love women and also love books.

The Wind City by Summer Wigmore - Urban fantasy drawing on Maori mythology. Protagonist describes herself as “at least 60% gay” and falls in love with a monster girl.

Sword of the Guardian by Merry Shannon - Bi princess and lesbian bodyguard fall in love.

Beauty & Cruelty by Meredith Katz about the evil with falling in love with sleeping beauty (lesbian)

High & Mighty by S.S. Skye - a princess stuck in a tower who is decidely Not Amused about it (lesbian)

Humanity for Beginners by Faith Mudge - Two friends and a halfway house for lesbian werewolves (lesbian)

Hunting a Lady by Cari Z. and Caitlin Ricci - a woman who needs money goes to rescue a kidnapped lady for the reward (lesbian)

Lies & Reverie by Camilla Quinn - A shopkeeper’s daughter who loves to day dream, and the beautiful woman who runs the town (lesbian)

Love Rampage by Alex Powell - a girl in love with her best friend, and the unicorn who helps her (lesbian, trans)

Modern Serpents Talk Things Through by Jamie Brindle - a modern dragon who falls in love with the human who invades her cave (lesbian)

Prom and Other Hazards by Jamie Sullivan - super cute story about a girl, her best friend, and the prom (lesbian, bisexual)

Slaying Dragons by Sasha L. Miller - a frustrated mage, some dragons, and the lovely new partner she’s stuck with (lesbian)

The Broken Forest by Megan Derr - a Huntress, and the beautiful witch she meets dealing with a troublesome forest (lesbian, bisexual, trans)

The Mercenary by Annabelle Kitch - a peasant girl, the princess she loves, a quest to win her princess’s hand in marriage (lesbian)

The Persephone Star by Jamie Sullivan- a proper lady working in the post office, a notorious criminal set on revenge, and a bit of kidnapping (lesbian)

The Secret of Mermaid Cove by Megan Derr - an improper lady, an unwanted engagement, and an island full of secrets

Witch, Cat, and Cobb by J.K. Pendragon - a princess fleeing an arranged marriage, a witch, and a cat (lesbian, trans)

Zombies in the East End by Roxanne Dent - steampunk, zombies, and two tough ladies

California Skies by Kalya Bashe - bandits in the wild west, a hunt for jewels, stubborn people (bisexual, genderqueer)

at some point i might, mostly for my own reference, mess around with it a little more and like, organize it by subject and/or add in like goodreads links or something?? but for now it’s just title and author, plus a note of which tumblr user recommended it, so if you read a book and like it you can go talk about it with the person who so helpfully brought it into your life!!! (or i guess, also, so that if u don’t like it u can go fight them??? but pls don’t fight them; discuss respectfully and constructively with them. stronger 2gether.) if u still have more books that u think are Good let me know and i will certainly keep adding them!

Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky

Golden Gulag, Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Angela Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete?, Angela Davis

Borderlands/La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldua

A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid

Situated Knowledges, Donna Haraway

And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts, Joshua Hammer

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, Elizabeth Tova Bailey

West with the Night, Baryl Markham

A History of the World in 100 Objects, Neil MacGregor

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, Dorothy Allison

Asian American Dreams, Helen Zia

Why Does He Do That?, Lundy Bancroft

The Living Mountain, Nan Shepard

The World Without Us, Alan Weisman

Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Future of the Earth, Craig Childs

The Gene: An Intimate History, Siddhartha Mukherjee

Guns Germs & Steel, Jared Diamond

The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Last Extinction, ed. Les Kaufman and Kenneth Mallory

A Brief History of Time, Steven Hawking

The Divide, Matt Taibbi

Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow

The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

The Fire This Time, ed. Jesmyn Ward

Known and Strange Things, Teju Cole

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, Michael Eric Dyson

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond

March, John Lewis

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between, Hisham Matar

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin

Redefining Realness, Janet Mock

We, Too, Sing America, Deepa Iyer

The Butterfly Mosque, G. Willow Wilson

The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle, T.V. Reed

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann

Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial, Kenji Yoshino

Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde

Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Michel Foucault

Judge Sewall’s Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience, Richard Francis

The Pox and the Covenant: Mather, Franklin, and the Epidemic That Changed America’s Destiny, Tony Williams

The Demon in the Freezer, Richard Preston    

Six Wives of Henry VIII, Alison Weir

Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens, Jane Dunn

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness, Gerda Lerner

Sexism in America, Barbara Berg

My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

and some fiction & poetry that ppl recommended also

Girl at War, Sara Novic

Loose Woman, Sandra Cisneros

Look, Solmaz Sharif

Mary’s Song, Marion Angus

there are a ton of lgbtqia+ books coming out this year so i decided to compiled a list of all of them! if i made a mistake or if you know of a book that should be on this list but isn’t, please don’t hesitate to let me know!

JANUARY •flying lessons and other stories by ellen oh | jan 3 | diverse middle grade anthology •the cursed queen (the imposter queen #2) by sarah fine | jan 3 | wlw ya fantasy •wing jones by katherine webber | jan 5 | ya sports contemporary, unknown lgbtqia+ element •history is all you left me by adam silvera | jan 17 | mlm ya contemporary •dreadnought by april daniels | jan 24 | ya superhero ft. trans mc •the you i’ve never known by ellen hopkins | jan 24 | wlw ya contemporary •our own private universe by robin talley | jan 31 | bi mc, ya contemporary •ida by alison evans | jan ? | bi mc+trans and non binary characters, sci fi/fantasy •flowers of luna by jennifer linsky | jan ? | wlw sci fi •warrior: a collection of short stories by antonica jones | jan ? | multiple lgbtqia+ protagonists, sci fi/fantasy ya anthology

FEBRUARY •at the edge of the universe by shaun david hutchinson | feb 7 | mlm ya contemporary •love is love by mette bach | feb 14 | trans love interest, ya contemporary •same love by tony correria | feb 14 | mlm ya contemporary •we are okay by nina lacour | feb 14 | wlw ya contemporary •10 things i can see from here by carrie mac| feb 28 | wlw ya contemporary

MARCH •the other f word by natasha friend | mar 7 | wlw parents, ya contemporary •the inexplicable logic of my life by by benjamin alire sáenzs | mar 7 | mlm parent, ya contemporary •the pants project by cat clarke | mar 7 | trans mc, middle grade contemporary •you’re welcome, universe by whitney gardner | mar 7 | wlw parents, ya contemporary •queens of geek by jen wilde | march 14 | wlw ya contemporary •star-crossed by barbara dee | mar 14 | questioning mc, middle grade contemporary •shadow run by adrianne strickland | mar 21 | genderfluid+gay secondary characters, ya sci fi/fantasy •the lotterys plus one by emma donoghue | mar 27 | wlw+mlm+transgender characters, childrens/middle grade contemporary •honestly ben (openly straight #2) by bill konigsberg | mar 28 | mlm ya contemporary

APRIL •ashes to asheville by sarah dooley | apr 4 | wlw parents, ya contemporary •the upside of unrequited by becky albertalli | apr 11 | wlw ya contemporary •meg & linus by hanna nowinski | apr 18 | wlw+mlm ya contemporary romance •the edge of the abyss (the abyss surrounds us #2) by emily skrutskie | apr 18 | wlw ya sci fi/fantasy •lumberjanes vol 6: sink or swim by noelle stevenson | apr 20 | wlw+trans characters, ya fantasy comic •looking for group by rory harrison | apr 25 | mlm+trans character, ya contemporary

MAY •georgia rules by nanci turner stevenson | may 2 | wlw parents, middle grade contemporary •how to make a wish by ashley herring blake | may 2 | wlw ya contemporary •my fairy godmother is a drag queen by david clawson | may 2 | mlm ya contemporary •noteworthy by riley redgate | may 2 | bi mc, ya contemporary •release by patrick ness | may 4 | mlm, ya contemporary •the seafarer’s kiss by julia ember | may 4 | wlw fantasy retelling •it’s not like it’s a secret by misa sugiura | may 9 | wlw ya contemporary •ramona blue by julie murphy | may 9 | self-identified lesbian questioning (bi)sexuality, ya contemporary •rough patch by nicole markotic | may 16 | bi mc, ya contemporary •the love interest by cale dietrich | may 16 | mlm ya contemporary •this would make a good story someday by dana alison levy | may 16 | wlw parents, children’s contemporary •queer, there, and everywhere: 23 people who changed the world by sarah prager | may 23 | nonfiction

JUNE •troublemakers by catherine barter | june 1 | mlm side characters, ya contemporary •perfect ten by l. philips | june 6 | mlm ya contemporary romance •tash hearts tolstoy by kathryn ormsbee | june 6 | asexual mc, ya contemporary •from prejudice to pride: a history of the lgbtq+ movement by amy lamé | june 8 | nonfiction •the gentlemen’s guide to vice and virtue by mackenzi lee | june 20 | bi/pan mc, mlm ya historical fiction

JULY •the art of starving by sam j. miller | july 11 | mlm ya contemporary •the gallery of unfinished girls by lauren karcz | july 25 | wlw ya contemporary

AUGUST •we now return to regular life by martin wilson | aug 1 | mlm ya contemporary •little & lion by brandy colbert | aug 8 | wlw ya contemporary •what is gender? how does it define us? and other big questions by juno dawson | aug 10 | nonfiction •dress codes for small towns by courtney c. stevens | aug 29 | ya contemporary questioning mc •the tiger’s watch by julia ember | aug ? | genderfluid mc, ya fantasy

SEPTEMBER •girl made of snow and glass by melissa bashardoust | sep 5 | wlw ya fantasy retelling •mask of shadows by linsey miller | sep 5 | genderfluid mc, ya fantasy •they both die at the end by adam silvera | sep 5 | mlm ya sci fi contemporary •echo after echo by amy rose capetta | sep 15 | wlw ya •the queer history project: no way, they were gay? by lee wind | sep ? | middle grade nonfiction

OCTOBER •27 hours by tristina wright | oct 3 | mlm+wlw ya sci fi •mick & michelle by nina rossing | oct ? | trans mc, ya contemporary

Most Anticipated Releases of January - June  2017

– There are more releases listed in the comments, and diverse reads (whether LGBT, race-releated, or disability/illness related) that I’m aware of are bolded. All titles are linked to Goodreads pages. Feel free to add! – 

All release dates are sourced from Goodreads pages and are obviously subject to change/ could be different depending what country you’re in.

January

Wayfarer (Passenger #2) by Alexandra Bracken - January 3rd  Windwitch (Witchlands #2) by Susan Dennard - January 10th  Frostblood (Frotblood Saga #1) by Elly Blake - January 12th  A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard - January 12th  History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera - January 17th  Wires and Nerve (Wires and Nerve #1) by Marissa Meyer - January 31st Caraval (Caraval #1) by Stephanie Garber - January 31st Dawn Study (Soulfinders #3) by Maria V. Snyder - January 31st

February

Valentine (Valentine #1) by Jodi McAlister - February 1st  Traitor to the Throne (Rebel of the Sands #2) by Alwyn Hamilton - February 2nd King’s Cage (Red Queen #3) by Victoria Aveyard - February 7th  A Tragic Kind of Wonderful by Eric Lindstrom A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic #3) by V E Schwab - February 21st  Frogkisser! by Garth Nix - Febraury 28th The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas - February 28th 

March

The Beast is an Animal by Peternelle van Arsdale - March 7th  The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz - March 7th  Stranger Than Fanfiction by Chris Colfer - March 7th  The Song Rising (The Bone Season #3) by Samantha Shannon - March 7th You’re Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner - March 7th  Masquerade (Micha Grey #3) by Laura Lam - March 9th  Hunted (Hunted #1) by Meagan Spooner - March 14th  Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer #1) by Laini Taylor - March 28th A Crown of Wishes (Star-Touched Queen #2) by Roshani Chokshi

April

Draekora (The Medoran Chronicles #3) by Lynette Noni - April 1st  The Secret Science of Magic by Melissa Keil - April 1st  Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray - April 4th The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli - April 11th Spindle Fire by Lexa Hillyer - April 11th Given to the Sea by Mindy McGinnis - April 11th   The Edge of the Abyss (The Abyss Surrounds Us #2) by Emily Skrutskie - April 18th  Begin, End, Begin: A LoveOzYA Anthology ed. by Danielle Binks - April 24th

May

A Court of Wings and Ruin (ACOTAR #3) by Sarah J Maas - May 2nd Avenged (Ruined #2) by Amy Tintera - May 2nd  The  Dark Prophecy (Trials of Apollo #2) by Rick Riordan - May 2nd Always and Forever, Lara Jean (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before #3) by Jenny Han - May 2nd Release by Patrick Ness - May 4th  Flame in the Mist (Flame in the Mist #1) by Renee Ahdieh - May 16th The Crown’s Fate (The Crown’s Game #2) by Evelyn Skye - May 16th The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich - May 16th Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices #2) by Cassandra Clare - May 23rd Dark Breaks the Dawn by Sara B. Larson - May 30th  When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon - May 30th

June

OH MY GOSH GUYS I JUST READ THIS AND WHY ISN’T EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT IT

Imagine, if you will: 

A boarding school for children who went to magical worlds like Narnia and Wonderland…and came back and now have to adjust to being stuck in the Real World again. Ever wonder what Alice, Dorothy, and the Pevensie kids went through afterwards? It was probably something like this.

The main character, Nancy, is openly asexual. RED ALERT RED ALERT AN ACTUAL FANTASY BOOK BY AN ACCLAIMED AUTHOR WITH A CANONICAL ASEXUAL HEROINE WHOSE ASEXUALITY IS OPENLY DISCUSSED BUT IS NOT CENTRAL TO HER PLOTLINE! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

The deuteragonist is a trans boy*. His name is Kade; he’s really cool. (He’s a former Goblin Prince-in-Waiting, I want his story so much, come on Seanan McGuire give us a prequel about him). 

There’s also a creepy murder mystery because why the heck not. 

Basically, it’s everything I ever wanted in a book. And did I mention actual asexual representation…I swear, if I’d had this book as a teenager, my life would have been so different. 

And the author is demi/bisexual. 

(The kindle book is like $2.99 over at Amazon right now, if you want to go check it out.)

buying things with keywords i like when they go on sale

buying things i see recced on twitter by people i trust to have tastes aligning with mine

which means my collection skews toward paranormal and historical and historical paranormal, and it is tragically hetero. finding m/m isn’t so bad but trying to find good w/w is hell. those don’t go on sale for a dollar as often. also these links are gonna be affiliate links. with all that in mind here are some books:

Be Not Afraid is about a Black soldier fighting for the American Revolution to win his freedom. He meets and falls in love with a Black woman fighting for the British for much the same reason. It is written by a woman of color and I have read it and recommend it. Kinda short novella-ish.

Be My Fantasy is about a secretly kinky woman and her secretly kinky ex who broke up because they thought they were too vanilla for each other. It’s got a Latino male protag and I wish I could better describe all the tropes in this because it was hella my shit. It’s got all the weird class dynamics of a good historical but it’s contemporary rich people instead. It is written by a woman of color and I have read it and recommend the shit out of it. Kinda short novella-ish with a sequel if you’re down.

Bound with Honor is about a marquess in love with a dude but then the marquess falls in love with a lady and marries her and then finds out his wife is in love with another lady and I have not read it and know nothing about it but I want it because holy shit

The Duchess War is the book I recommend to everyone because Courtney Milan is my favorite forever and also The Duchess War is free. It is about a well-meaning SJW of a duke and a disfigured chess master just trying to live her life in peace with her lesbian aunts. Other books in the series include Talk Sweetly To Me, about a Black woman who works as a computer falling for a scandalous advice columnist, and… honestly every book in the series is gold, fuck. She researches the shit out of everything, everything is always accurate, I don’t even care but if you do you will appreciate her dedication. Courtney Milan is a woman of color and I rec everything she has ever written including the stuff that’s contemporary and in the first person WHICH IS HOW YOU KNOW I’M RIDE OR DIE.

Slightly Married got me into historicals tbh. Colonel Lord Aiden promises a dying man on the battlefield that he’ll take care of his sister, turns out the only way to save the man’s sister from evil relatives is to marry her, no one is happy about it, she is sweet and Welsh and he is dour and high in the instep and then whoops they fall in love. I’ve read it but not in years, nonetheless it’s very classic Mr Darcy shit.

the shapeshifter category on amazon is massive and it is up to you to navigate that minefield for yourself but just know that a popular subgenre is rich white men who can turn into bears and pregnant black bbws. if you are into vicariously experiencing the most vulnerable members of society being loved and cared for by the most powerful you are pretty much set for life.

Slave to Sensation is the first in a series I only just discovered because I liked the cover art of the most recent entry but ANYWAY it seems to be about aliens who are either psychic or shapeshifters and they hate each other but oh no two of em fall in love. And the author is a woman of color! I’M DOWN it has been added to my wishlist.

The Protector is about a lesbian werewolf bodyguard and a secret vampire and has also been added to my wishlist for what i assume are obvious reasons.

i feel bad for listing so many books i haven’t read but tbqh i mostly read basically the same book over and over again and i don’t want this list to be nothing but dukefucking. i read a lot of dukefucking. it’s my shit.

The Djinn’s Dilemma is the first in a series about sexy djinn. It is about a sexy djinn assassin. Like, he’s an assassin who’s half-djinn, not he assassinates djinn. anyway. it’s a shortish novella thing and the author is a woman of color.

i am going to stop here but as part of my going through amazon for books i have and have not bought i discovered that they even have this handy organizational tool

“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee

“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen

“The Diary of Anne Frank” by Anne Frank

“1984” by George Orwell

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" by J.K. Rowling

“The Lord of the Rings” (1-3) by J.R.R. Tolkien

“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White

“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott

“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury

“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte

“Animal Farm” by George Orwell

“Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell

“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger

“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain

“The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins

“The Help” by Kathryn Stockett

“The Lion, the Witch, and the Wadrobe” by C.S. Lewis

“The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck

“The Lord of the Flies” by William Golding

“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini

“Night” by Elie Wiesel

“Hamlet” by William Shakespeare

“A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L'Engle

“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck

“A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens

“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare

“The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams

“The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens

“The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” by J.K. Rowling

“The Giver” by Lois Lowry

“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood

“Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein

“Wuthering Heights” Emily Bronte

“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green

“Anne of Green Gables” by L.M. Montgomery

“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain

“Macbeth” by William Shakespeare

“The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larrson  

“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley

“The Holy Bible: King James Version”

“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker

“The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas

“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith

“East of Eden” by John Steinbeck

“Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll

“In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote

“Catch-22” by Joseph Heller

“The Stand” by Stephen King

“Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon

“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” by J.K. Rowling

“Enders Game” by Orson Scott Card

“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy

“Watership Down” by Richard Adams

“Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden

“Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier

“A Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin

“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens

“The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway

“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (#3) by Arthur Conan Doyle

“Les Misérables” by Victor Hugo

“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” by J.K. Rowling

“Life of Pi” by Yann Martel

“The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge” by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“The Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis

“The Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett

“Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins

“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl

“Dracula” by Bram Stoker

“The Princess Bride” by William Goldman

“Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen

“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

“The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd

“The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel” by Barbara Kingsolver

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger

“The Odyssey” by Homer

“The Good Earth (House of Earth #1)” by Pearl S. Buck

“Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3)” by Suzanne Collins

“And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie

“The Thorn Birds” by Colleen McCullough

“A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving

“The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot

“Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy

“The Things They Carried” by Tim O'Brien

“Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse

“Beloved” by Toni Morrison

“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut

“Cutting For Stone” by Abraham Verghese

“The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster

“The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Trans | Non-Binary | LGBTQIA* | Asexuality Spectrum | Bisexual | Lesbians | LGBTQ* POC

The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson

Adaptation by Malinda Lo

Stranger by Rachel Manija Brown & Sherwood Smith

Love you Two by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli

Thief by C.L. Stone

Introductions by C.L. Stone

more book recommendations on my blog The Bookavid

9 YA books with LGBTQIA Characters of Color

It’s June! And LGBT Pride Month, a time to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots. With that in mind, here are 9 great YA books (including a graphic novel!) starring LGBTQIA characters of color:

Reblog and add your own!

Diverse angsty teens steal grisha drugs. – @bookdrunkinlove

All the otps, all the time. – @anarrayofbooks

Motley crew orchestrates a heist masterpiece. – @gutsreads

Ocean’s Eleven in fantasy magical Russia. – @singingktp

Such weird names, so many feels – @sophieinbookland

Angsty teen replaces love with murder. – @mockingjaynfinch