#ReadingPride — Day 2: Queer book that reminds you of home.
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
I wasn’t exactly sure how to respond to this prompt — I am interpreting it as “what queer book makes me think of home.” To which I would unequivocally say that it is TJ Klune’s book, The House in the Cerulean Sea. I adore this book so much and I am over-the-moon that they are making an animated series adaptation!
I think TJ Klune’s other novel, Under the Whispering Door, is probably a close second. Definitely makes me feel like home as well. No one does queer, found-family like Klune.
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Stealing from Gail Carriger. I don't know if I have a book for every prompt but we'll see.
Day 1: first queer book you remember reading.
I'm going to have to go with The Color Purple by Alice Walker. But around the same time (freshman year of college) I read a book I remember virtually nothing about. Except the first time the main character has sex with another woman she thinks to herself that this was the first time she felt like a real participant in sex; when she was with men she felt like just an accessory to their masturbation. Anyway I bought this book off the clearance shelf of my university (so probably published in the late 1980s) I think the author might have been Australian. So if anyone knows what it is I will love you forever.
First queer book I remember reading was Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling. The first book was hard for me to get into because of info dumping, but after that *chef kiss*. I remember being like; “The world is LGBT+ friendly, and the whole premise isn’t about their sexuality? Why aren’t there more books like this?!”
30 days of #readingpride. Recommend your favorite Queer books during the month of June. Please participate and spread the word if you’d like.
A prompt list for Pride Month by queer author @gailcarriger
I gave up posting these daily because reasons, but have my full list of LGBT book recs. And if you’re looking for a list of LGBT Sci-Fi/Fantasy books where being queer is a sidenote to the plot, this has many things for you.
(My definition of “LGBT book” got a little fast and loose a couple times, but if a character isn’t explicitly cis or straight then you can pry the headcanon from my cold dead hands.)
Day 1: The first queer book you remember reading: The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner. A scholar and a noble discover Old Magic.
Day 2: Queer book that reminds you of home: Passing Strange by Ellen Klages. Lesbians in 1940 San Francisco.
Day 3: Queer book been on your to-be-read for way to long. The Left Hand of Darkness by Urusla K Le Guin. I’m a bad queer scif-fi fan for not reading this yet.
Day 4: Queer book with a name or number in the title: George by Alex Nino. An elementary-school aged trans girl comes into her own.
Day 5: Queer book where protagonist has a cool job: Flesh & Fire by Laura Anne Gilman. Maker of magical wines.
Day 6: Favorite queer graphic novel: Nimona by Noelle Stevenson. Everything Noelle touches is gold.
Day 7: Queer book you often re-read: Antique Bakery by Fumi Yoshinaga. This and the Zelda adaptations are the only manga I still own.
Day 8: Queer book with a happy ending: Queen of Ieflaria by Effie Calvin. Princesses fighting dragons.
Day 9: Queer book over 100 pages: Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly. Jazz age spies.
Day 10: Favorite queer genre novel: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Lesbian necromancers in space.
Day 11: Queer book you love in a genre you don’t read: Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston. I’m pretty staunchly a SFF reader, but this was bomb.
Day 12: Queer book with a strong sense of place: Starless by Jaqueline Carey. Incredible worldbuilding.
Day 13: Queer book that really made you think: Planetfall by Emma Newman. Mass Effect: Andromeda but it’s a cult.
Day 14: Queer book that made you cry: Time Was by Ian McDonald. Two lovers unstuck in time leave messages for each other.
Day 15: Queer book that made you laugh out loud: Good Omens by Neil Gaiman. Ya’ll know this one.
Day 16: Queer book that is really personal to you: Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. Obvious reasons?
Day 17: Favorite queer book sequel or spin-off: A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson. Set in the same world as Wilson’s previous novel, but a stand alone story.
Day 18: Favorite queer book by a favorite author: Knight of Ghosts and Shadows by Mercedes Lackey. Mercedes Lackey never fails me, love triangle turned polycule.
Day 19: Queer book that changed your life: The God Eaters by Jesse Hajicek. Still readable on Jesse’s LiveJournal. My first exposure to self published original queer fiction.
Day 20: Favorite queer book series: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. Murderbot is my favorite agender android with PTSD.
Day 21: Queer book that you recommend a lot: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. Space opera with lots of very good aliens, minimal plot.
Day 22: Queer book that made you take action: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy. Fuck the police. By summoning the elder gods.
Day 23: Queer book by an author who is dead: Maurice by E.M. Forster. The OG gay novel (in the west).
Day 24: Queer book you wish you’d read when younger: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire. Wish I’d had an asexual main character as a teen.
Day 25: Queer book in a historical setting: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. The Illiad from the pov of Achilles’ boyfriend.
Day 26: Queer superhero book or comic: Hero by Perry Moore. Gay son of a disgraced superhero becomes one himself.
Day 27: Favorite queer children’s picture book: And Tango Makes Three. Classic gay penguins.
Day 28: Queer book that made you feel uncomfortable: Autonomous by Annalee Newitz. Android changes gender just because boyfriend has internalized homophobia? Paladin is bad trans rep.
Day 29: Queer book that made you want to fall in love: Witchmark by C.L. Polk. We all want an elf prince who adores us, right?
Day 30: Queer book with your favorite ending: The Lord of the White Hell by Ginn Hale.
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#ReadingPride — Day 5: Queer book where the protagonist has a cool job
Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore
Is it weird that I would totally volunteer in a funeral home if the opportunity arose? …Anyways, this was the queer book that came to my mind for this prompt. Excellent and original in every way — the protagonist, Ezra, is trans and queer, and he’s simply trying to work through his family drama while navigating romance in his family-run Jewish funeral home.
