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YA Pride Dream Books Pt. 1

I saw that YA Pride asked their twitter followers to respond with their dream LGBT books here and while yes, we need absolutely need more books and more diverse books, I don’t want people to miss out on some of the great books that already exist! (Going off a mix of books I’ve read and descriptions, anything marked by a * I haven’t personally read)

Physical Disability:

Sheridan’s Fate by Gun Brooke (uses a wheelchair)*

Mean Deaf Little Queer by Terry Galloway (deaf)* 

All in the Family by Q. Kelly (deaf)*

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi (chronic pain, prosthetic leg)

Far From You by Tess Sharpe (physically handicapped, uses crutches)*

Gay Fairy Tales:

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue

Robins in the Night by Dajo Jago

Ash by Malinda Lo

Cinder Ella by S. T. Lynn*

Marian by Ella Lyons*

Gretel: A Fairy Tale Retold by Niamh Murphy

Gay Vampires:

Mad House: Vengeful Vampires by Bria Lin

Better Off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon*

Gay Witches:

Bluebell Hall by Kayla Bashe

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova

The Witch Sea by Sarah Diemer

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue

Gretel: A Fairy Tale Retold by Niamh Murphy

Gay Superheros:

Dreadnought and Sovereign by April Daniels

Cinnamon Blade: Knife in Shining Armor by Shira Glassman*

Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee

Gay Superheros (in comics):

Bombshells by Marguerite Bennett

America by Gabby Rivera*

Batwoman by Greg Rucka*

Runaways by Brian K. Vaughan*

Gay Fantasy (see above but also):

Love in the Time of Global Warming and The Island of Excess Love by Francesca Lia Block

The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis

The Second Mango by Shira Glassman

The Shattering by Karen Healey

About a Girl by Sarah McCarry

Huntress by Malinda Lo

Libyrinth by Pearl North

Time Travel:

Sappho’s Bar and Grill by Bonnie J. Morris*

A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith*

Gays in Space!:

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Finding Hekate by Kellie Doherty

The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley*

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi

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Sapphic As Fuck Books That You Haven’t Heard Of

yeah bitches i’m back and I have some God Dang Thoughts. all of them are about sapphic novels I’ve read this year and have seen nothing about on this platform!! sapphic fiction is getting its day in the sun and y'all have not yet NOTICED and it’s time to fix that

Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake [May 2018!!] - this is about a bi girl working to figure out both her brother’s role in a rape of her best friend and her own trauma, especially in how it affected her relationship with her ex, Charlie [who’s nb!] Charlie and Mara are my literal otp of the year and this book is one of the most quality ya books I have ever read. I cried and laughed and connected so much. 

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli - this is the only one I haven’t read, but if you wanted Leah to end up with Abby after watching Love, Simon, maybe read the sequel where she actually does? 

Final Draft by Riley Redgate [May 2018!!] - this book is about being an ambitious and depressed and biracial and pan as hell seventeen year old and it is so funny. what gets me about this one is that the characters are so real - Laila’s inner narrative especially is so incredibly well-done, I feel like I both know her and am her and love her. also, Hannah and Laila sailing was the most important moment of this year so far. a goddamn callout of a book

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - the best heterobait of 2017. I spent five extended hours of my life crying over Evelyn and Celia and I plan to spend more. very Literary Historical Fiction that reads like your typical pulpy mystery but is so much better. literally perfect. thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

Black Iris by Elliot Wake - ooooooh my god.  if you’ve ever wanted to read about Murder Gays who Kill Shitty Men this is your book and you should read it [tw for sexual assault and homophobic bullying] ooooooooo hh  m yg od

The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson - the voice of god references that name game meme from two years ago. I do not kid. seriously, though, this book is so effortlessly weird and cool and quintessentially millennial. i would die for Elena’s flawed bad-at-decision-making sarcastic vulnerable latina bi ass. [oh, and her girlfriend is amazing].

Jane Unlimited by Kristin Cashore - this is the wildest book ever written, maybe? I love it so much what the fuck

Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore - sometimes a family can be five sisters all in love with the same genderqueer girl. no but seriously, this killed me. i cried for five hours. i cry a lot. this book is a literary masterpiece and belongs in every class on post-colonial writing and queer studies, but it also doesn’t Feel like annoying literary fiction but also you will probably feel really deep after reading it?

Nevernight and Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff - invented enemies-to-lovers. another heterobait. they’re all assassins and the writing is overdramatic to the point of satire [yes, it’s intentional]. kind of hilarious for a book about murder. a walking meme that will make you sad

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant - it’s like Jaws but with bisexuals and mermaids. i k n o w it sounds really wild but i read this book in like one night and it was so goddamn entertaining but also so deep and yeah i’ll die if a sequel gets released

Bright We Burn by Kiersten White [July 2018!!] - sometimes a family can be a useless gay, his competent lesbian wife, her girlfriend, and his boyfriend. LISTEN UP, BITCHES. this trilogy is now completed [!!!] and it is the most addicting trilogy on the market right now. it’s about becoming at home with yourself and finding religion in love [most of the leads are Muslim] and the power of the forgotten in history and i can’t believe kiersten white killed the bury-your-gays trope, personally. Nazira and Fatima don’t narrate, but they are such an important part of this book and I adore them both. love these four platonically married gays

anyway read my fucking weird gay books you’re welcome

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Here are a few of the books I hope to read this month! I recently got a subscription to Comixology as well, so expect to see a lot of Comics and Graphic Novels as well over the next month. 

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I keep buying books because in the future I’m gonna have a kickass library with two floors and a fireplace so I need to start collecting books to fill it with

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Afternoon classes are the best can it means I can stay in bed all morning and read

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Hugh Thomson illustrated edition of Pride and Prejudice, 1894

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instead of, you know, actually reading, I’ve been searching for even more books to read. ya feel?

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Read Black authors

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Okay but seriously real talk. Literally there were just so many beautiful quotes is Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.

- “The problem with my life was that it was someone else’s idea.”

- “Birds exist to teach us about the sky.

- “There are worse things in the world than a boy who likes to kiss other boys.”

- “How could I ever be ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?”

- “I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn’t get - and never would.”

- “I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.”

LIKE WTF THIS BOOK IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND DEEP AND JUST SO WONDERFUL

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Heat-sensitive edition of the book Fahrenheit 451.  

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currently reading → summer days and summer nights 

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new ya magazine!

hey, everyone! there’s this new ya magazine that’s made by teenagers (which i think is amazing), that you guys should check out! here’s the link to it if you’re interested!