#a r capetta

[queer-ragnelle]

if i could add a retelling to your list: once & future and sword in the stars by a.r. capetta and cori mccarthy. thank you sm for your work

Hi anon!

You’re so welcome. I love helping people find Arthuriana to read or watch. :^)

In regard to your suggested books, I’ll add them to the list! But rather than PDFs, it will be links to purchase. When authors are still living and earning from their works, I advise anyone interested to go to their favorite bookseller or borrow from the library! But including them on the list will make people aware of them regardless, so I’ll do that.

Have a nice day!

[beep-beep-robin]

autistic robin (quotes from rebel robin by r. a. capetta)

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Book names + authors under the cut

Cristina Mendoza Rosales/Mark Blackthorn/Kieran Kingson- The Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare

Ancel/Berenger- Pet by C. S. Pacat

Teodora di Sangro/Cielo- The Brilliant Death/The Storm of Life by A. R. Capetta

Nina Zenik/Hanne Brum- King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

[ofliterarynature]

“love comes in every flavor”

currently reading this months book club pick, The Heartbreak Bakery! It’s very cute and I’m dying to try all of the baked 🍰🍪🥧

[str4wb3rry-fire]

i finished rebel robin, its incredible. 10/10, definitely recommend.

now im gonna read runaway max and i need songs for the playlist im making :) please leave any and all song that remind you of max mayfield!

[the-final-sentence]

'I'm Herman!'

A. R. Capetta and Cory McCarthy, from “Dragons Name Themselves”

[i-oooo]

Read this book.

It's cute, it's wholesome, it's heartwarming.

It's queer AF, it has an agender cupcake main character and I have read it twice this year. Do yourself a favor and go ahead and read it too. Or listen to the audio book, the narrator is great, imo.

I don't know what the genre is called. Magical realism maybe? Or super low fantasy. Honestly, just a fantasy bakery AU situation.

Heartbreak Bakery by. A. R. Capetta

[queer-and-nd-coded]

reading the heartbreak bakery and syd feels very autistic to me

[queerographies]

[Stranger things. La storia segreta di Robin][A. R. Capetta]

Scopri la storia di uno dei personaggi più amati di Stranger Things: dov'era Robin mentre Will spariva senza lasciare traccia e Undici arrivava a Hawkins? Si stava nascondendo, non dai mostri, ma da se stessa...

È difficile trovare il proprio posto in una cittadina come Hawkins, Indiana. A scuola tutti pensano solo al ballo di fine anno e a spettegolare su chi esce con chi, e adesso persino gli amici nerd di sempre sono ossessionati dal provare a comportarsi in modo “normale”… Tutto ciò che può fare una ragazza fuori dal coro come Robin Buckley è starsene buona sullo sfondo e sperare che nessuno la noti.…

[queerliblib]

Do you have any recommendations for a nonbinary main character who uses they/them pronouns, is gender neutral, and their AGAB is not mentioned? I can't seem to find any books fitting this, and it makes me extremely dysphoric. I don't identify with masc or fem at all, and I can't find any books with a gender neutral nonbinary MC, where their AGAB isn't mentioned or alluded to except for "I Wish You All The Best". Any NB character book I find is either trans masc or trans fem aligned and I just want to read a book about someone like me...

Hi! so this is a little tricky, because I don’t want to guarantee anything 100% without having personally read each one..

that being said! we had decent luck searching for ‘agender’ or ‘ungendered’ instead of only non-binary. here are some options!

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (99% sure it'll fit)

Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin (according to our research, "The book text never uses a gendered pronoun for Riley and never discloses Riley's gender assigned at birth")

The Heartbreak Bakery by A. R. Capetta (agender MC, no pronouns just goes by name Syd, don’t think assigned gender is ever mentioned)

Sphinx by Anne Garréta (trans. from french, does not gender the narrator, or their lover "A***”)

[shorlibteens]

It's Pride Month!

Check out these LGBTQ+ themed reads at your local library:

GAY & LESBIAN

Last Night at the Telegraph Club / Malinda Lo

Gwen & Art Are Not In Love / Lex Croucher

Pritty / Keith F. Miller, Jr.

The Black Flamingo / Dean Atta

We Deserve Monuments / Jas Hammonds

The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School / Sonora Reyes

BI & PAN

Imogen, Obviously / Becky Albertalli

The Luis Ortega Survival Club / Sonora Reyes

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue / Mackenzi Lee

I Wish You All the Best / Mason Deaver

Ander & Santi Were Here / Jonny Garza Villa

Forever Is Now / Mariama J. Lockington

TRANS & NONBINARY

Pet / Awaeke Emezi

Man o' War / Cory McCarthy

Self-Made Boys / Anna-Marie McLemore

The Honeys / Ryan La Sala

The Sunbearer Trials / Aiden Thomas

Dreadnought / April Daniels

AROMANTIC & ASEXUAL

Wren Martin Ruins It All / Amanda Dewitt

Loveless / Alice Oseman

Planning Perfect / Haley Neil

All Out / edited by Saundra Mitchell

Being Ace / edited by Madeline Dyer

Gender Queer: A Memoir / Maia Kobabe

QUEER & INTERSEX

None of the Above / I. W. Gregorio

Hell Followed With Us / Andrew Joseph White

Just Ash / Sol Santana

Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution / Kacen Callender

Pantomime / Laura Lam

The Heart-Break Bakery / A. R. Capetta

[wondereads]

Sapphic Book Recs for Pride 2024

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Adult, high fantasy, 4.28 star average (my rating: 5 stars)

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Adult, sci-fantasy, 4.29 star average (my rating: 5 stars)

The Winter Duke by Claire Eliza Bartlett

Young Adult, high fantasy, 3.55 star average (my rating: 5 stars)

Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide

Young Adult, thriller, 4.27 star average (my rating: 5 stars)

Crier's War by Nina Varela

Young Adult, high fantasy, 4.11 star average (my rating: 4.5 stars)

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

New Adult, low fantasy, 4.18 star average (my rating: 4.5 stars)

Seven Devils by L. R. Lam and Elizabeth May

Adult, space opera, 4.03 star average (my rating: 4.5 stars)

Malice by Heather Walter

Adult, fantasy romance, 3.97 star average (my rating: 4.5 stars)

Beguiled by Cyla Panin

Young Adult, high fantasy, 3.48 star average (my rating: 4 stars)

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

Adult, high fantasy, 4.21 star average (my rating: 3.5 stars)

Ash by Malinda Lo

Young Adult, fantasy romance, 3.57 star average (my rating: 3.5 stars)

We Ate the Dark by Mallory Pearson

New Adult, horror fantasy, 3.04 star average (my rating: 3 stars)

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

Adult, historical fantasy, 3.66 star average

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

Adult, historical fantasy, 4.13 star average

Flip the Script by Lyla Lee

Young Adult, contemporary romance, 3.64 star average

The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart

Adult, high fantasy, 4.07 star average

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Adult, historical fantasy, 4 star average

This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

Young Adult, contemporary fantasy, 4.17 star average

Tink and Wendy by Kelly Ann Jacobson

Young Adult, low fantasy, 3.4 star average

The Tiger's Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera

Adult, high fantasy, 3.84 star average

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

Adult, horror sci-fi, 4.04 star average

Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

Young Adult, high fantasy, 3.65 star average

The Goddess of Nothing at All by Cat Rector

Adult, high fantasy, 4.23 star average

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Young Adult, historical romance, 4.28 star average

Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta

Young Adult, dystopian sci-fi, 3.92 star average

The City of Dusk by Tara Sim

Adult, high fantasy, 3.72 star average

Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills

Young Adult, contemporary fiction, 4.25 star average

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

Adult, gothic fantasy, 3.83 star average

A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson

Adult, gothic fantasy, 4.12 star average

Seven Faceless Saints by M. K. Lobb

Young Adult, high fantasy, 3.5 star average

Darker by Four by June CL Tan

Young Adult, contemporary fantasy, 4.11 star average

The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling

Young Adult, paranormal romance, 3.64 star average

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Lin

Adult, mystery thriller, 3.63 star average

Once & Future by Cory McCarthy and A. R. Capetta

Young Adult, sci-fantasy, 3.57 star average

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

Adult, high fantasy, 4.1 star average

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Young Adult, sci-fi horror, 3.48 star average

Afterworlds by Scott Westerfled

Young Adult, contemporary fiction/low fantasy, 3.69 star average

[wizardshark]

8 Queer books I read this year! These are placed in no particular order, they're all sapphic stories, and I HIGHLY recommend every single one :)

Gear Breakers - Zoe Hana

The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics - Olivia Waite

Once & Future - A. R. Capetta, Cory McCarthy

Spear - Nicola Griffith

The Unbroken - C.L. Clark

This Delicious Death - Kayla Cottingham

Wilder Girls - Rory Power

Backward to Oregon - JAE

[gayboysteve]

"I want to hear it because maybe I can help (...) I don't even want credit I'm just bored!"

Stranger Things Seasons Three and Four // Rebel Robin by A. R. Capetta

[the-lark-ascending69]

rebel robin a. r. capetta

[duckprintspress]

Our Favorite Reads of 2023

Inspired by this post from the Queer Liberation Library, we asked our awesome rec-list contributors to name their one favorite read of 2023, and the result is a list wonderful in its diversity of formats, genres, characters, stories, and authors. Check um out!

@adrianharley Favorite: Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed

@dei2dei Favorite: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha

@shadaras Favorite: The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

@terrapwaters Favorite: Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

@unforth Favorite: Mo Du by Priest

hullosweetpea’s Favorite: Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

Shea Sullivan‘s Favorite: Death by Silver by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold

@thechaoscryptid Favorite: The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by K. S. Villoso

@hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon Favorite: Gideon the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir

@fpwoper Favorite: November by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

@captainhaterade Favorite: Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

@tryslora Favorite: To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh

@ramblingandpie Favorite: Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

@nursinggeek Favorite: The Heartbreak Bakery by A. R. Capetta

@boneturtle Favorite: Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley

An anonymous Favorite: Heaven Official’s Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

@diroxy Favorite: Add Magic to Taste

@maggiepageauthor Favorite: A Power Unbound by Freya Marske

Lyonel Loy’s Favorite: The Last Sun by K. D. Edwards

@crowbraiin Favorite: Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

@not-gwaenchanha Favorite: Open Throat by Henry Hoke

What was YOUR favorite read of 2023? Dare ya to try to pick only one!