This is a weekly thing created by Books by Proxy, but currently run by Lynn’s Book Blog.
This week’s theme: “One swallow does not make a summer” – A cover that makes you think of Summer
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster (2014)
French version, Milan Editions (2018)
Thai version, Jamsai (2018) (ISBN13: 9786160623082)
Hungarian version, Álomgyár Kiadó (2018) (ISBN13: 9786155763397)
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I wrote out this whole post and then it got deleted … it hurt more than it should have. Blue is the color of every book where characters are contemplating life apparently. Also magical realism & fairytale vibes from a lot of these.
A bisexual girl as main character (also biracial) and a demisexual boy. Another two gay minor characters. It’s the perfect coming-of-age and finding your own identity book where none of the characters are doing the correct things always and finding community through making a podcast and opening up enough to share your interests and be comfortable doing so. Amazing writing making it all so relatable.
Fantasy where a trio of one mage, one werewolf and a newcomer witch, all gay, walks into a bar ... and they become bestfriends and have a good time for the most part. It’s an entertaining book.
goodreads. The ultimate teen gay M/M summer-vibes romance. It’s just heartfelt and special and so so popular for a reason. I thought it would be overhyped before I first read it – it isn’t.
A nerdy gay main character who is dealing with existential questions and grief over his boyfriend committing suicide, and also is abducted by aliens giving him the chance to save the world. It’s a sad and beautiful book, my favourite from the author that I’ve read so far, as the main character has to find hope and will inside himself to move forward.
The book I hear less about than Ari and Dante, but it gave me such a warm feeling, as well as being thought-provoking. This YA is about growing up, what family is and every single character dealing with serious shit. The main character’s dad is the ultimate kind-hearted parent, also gay and mexican. Would completely recommend it to anyone.
Magical realism with two bff’s turned romantic, where one is a queer girl and one a trans boy. I absolutely love magical realism if it’s done well.
Cute YA contemporary with a queer girl as main character.
YA contemporary novel with queer girl main character.
F/F romance fantasy with a kingdom of princesses, alliances and assassins.
Fantasy book with sea monsters, pirates and a F/F relationship with the pirate queen.
goodreads. It’s Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown, so it’s gay af. But also dealing with mental health and a lot of healing.
Let me know if you’ve read any of these books and if you liked them! Please link your post if you’re participating so I see it and recommend any LGBTQ books you’ve loved.
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Green is my current favourite colour for book covers, I mean look at these! With green I feel a vibe of characters saying fuck it and being themselves.
Full review: 4/5 stars
Bisexual male main character who starts out a 1700s rich douche who gambles, drinks and sleeps around too much until he’s sent of a Grand Tour of Europe with his sister and best friend and continues to get himself in trouble, but also fun dangerous mystery type of trouble.
Review is coming as I just finished it, but it was a 5/5 star read! It’s a cute graphic novel with M/M romance, with the gay characters from Solitaire by Alice Oseman.
Muslim lesbian teenage girl as main character dealing with family not accepting her, sending her to Bangladesh into an arranged marriage.
Amazing gay author writing contemporary YA with gay characters. This one has a dead best friend coming back to life?? Intriguing.
A classic lesbian novel. That’s what I know of it, honestly. This cover is lovely as well.
It’s 65 pages short and definitely caught my eye because of how much that title makes my eyes turn into hearts. From what I can see it has an asexual woman falling in love with a robot?? Will pick this up soon and come back to you with how that works.
A classic that I need to read. Orlando changes gender midway in the book, so I don’t yet know what category that makes this book, but that might be the point.
Queer girls at an all-girl boarding school. Sounds promising, especially as it’s marked as horror with some kind of deadly infection spreading.
Let me know if you’ve read any of these books and if you liked them! Please link your post if you’re participating so I see it and recommend any LGBTQ books you’ve loved.
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Gold and beige is included with yellow right? With the yellow books we got a lot of very different and particular subjects that the plot centers around – sports, pirates, Greece and Montana.
4/5 stars. Lesbian main character, is sent to christian conversion therapy camp so trigger warning for that.
It’s a sad story, but also about being brave and sticking up for others. It’s set in Montana, so also about being queer in a small place and dealing with family that isn’t accepting. But it’s also about queer people bonding together and becoming friends. I would recommend the movie by the same name, even though it was like a shortened version with not as much depth. It does have Chloe Grace Moretz who has been my biggest celeb crush since I saw her in kickass when I was like eleven years old.
3/5 stars. Gay main characters and romance between Achilles and bff Patroclus. Greek heroes and greek ancient mythology. A tragic love story with younger boys being friends and then growing up and it developing into love, but then destiny and expectations messes with things.
Bisexual and gay male main characters and on the team.
A sport YA contemporary novel that seems similar to The foxhole court by Nora Sakavic, which I loved. I really am all in for the friendgroup bonding and becoming like family type of books and drama. I really need to read this soon.
It’s a classic lesbian coming-of-age novel. That’s what I know about it, honestly.
It’s set in a remote fishing village!!! And the main character girl is kidnapped by a pirate queen! Why haven’t I been paying more attention to this book. Lesbian romance ensues.
Let me know if you’ve read any of these books and if you liked them! Please link your post if you’re participating so I see it and recommend any LGBTQ books you’ve loved.
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Orange for … kickass characters and special relationships of all kinds, platonic and romantic? I haven’t read too many orange lgbtq books, but I’ll go with that guess.
This cover was just more orange, haha. I dnf’ed this book because while it had a cute gay romance and gay main character, it was just so slow and the plot about nothing – which I found wasn’t for me in this case because I couldn’t connect that well with the characters. Would recommend giving it a try though!
Bisexual, gay and trans male characters
The ultimate book about fandom and finding yourself, about identity and friendship. It just did everything so great and still lingers in my mind months later.
Queer Eye’s Tan France’s memoir. It has to be gay af by definition and I’ve seen lots of people liking it.
From my research there’s supposed to be a trans character and queer girls. And lots of characters with superpowers, where the protagonist doesn’t have any of them, but still gets involved in danger somehow. Seems fun.
Epic fantasy novel that I’ve seen recommended and hyped up so much, but also looks so cool. With F/F romance.
Let me know if you’ve read any of these books and if you liked them! Please link your post if you’re participating so I see it and recommend any LGBTQ books you’ve loved.
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Red comes with drama and mystery! And also identity crises, apparently?
3/5 stars. A spy series with M/M romance between an art thief and a FBI agent, it’s entertaining, while not realistic, with enemies to lovers kind of vibe.
Gay main characters and musicals is what I remember from this book. I liked this book when I read it, but it’s honestly been a while.
5/5 stars, it’s such great heist fantasy with awesome friend-group. Bisexual male characters (maybe one of them was gay?).
Cute YA coming of age story with gay main character and him coming out and starting to date.
Queer girl main character. YA contemporary novel about struggling with gender identity, fitting in with friends and dealing with her family negative attitude about her not being ‘girly’ enough
YA fantasy book with a queer girl main characters, I think. I’m not sure if it’s explicitly said before the sequel. She’s on the run from demons, so that’s why it’s on my TBR, haha. I love that we’ve come to a point where I constantly find books that have queer characters by accident, instead of having to go on a hunt for queer books.
Let me know if you’ve read any of these books and if you liked them! Please link your post if you’re participating so I see it and recommend any LGBTQ books you’ve loved.
Pink books for all your sweet romances ❤ Well, except Solitaire? I usually don’t like romances, have had that problem since I was a kid. But then I found queer romances and my bi heart realized that – while I’m still not that into romances – there’s some really cute ones out there.
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Full review: 4/5 stars
F/F relationship
LaCour is a great author that writes queer books all so different and amazing. This is a lovely story of a girl who works with decorating movie sets falling in love with a mystery and then the girl underneath it. It’s sweet, it’s mystery, it’s drama and most of all entertaining all the way through.
Review will be out soon (just finished this book): 2/5 stars
Gay side characters
I adored the characters, but not the story or the writing itself. It’s the first of Oseman’s books, written when she was a teenager, and I think that’s too apparant for me – I’ve loved every other book from her as well as the very gay Heartstopper comics she’s made featuring the gay boys in this book.
Full review: 4/5 stars
F/F relationship
The protagonist girl leaves her old life behind very abruptly and goes away for school, and while she’s alone at the school for vacation her old best ‘friend’ comes to visit and then there’s drama and mystery about how they’re going to reconnect and why she left at all. Beautiful writing, it’s a magical experience on the first read through, until you get to know the reasons behind the mystery.
Poetry collection exploring “queer, Asian American femininity” and “how to be tender and feeling and still survive a violent world filled with artificial intelligence and automation” which sounds absolutely fascinating.
Are you ever unsure of if you want to read a book and then you see it has queer characters and change your mind? Happens with me a lot. I found this book recommended as a ‘dark academia’ book, meaning it has some kind of mystery and is set on a college/university, in this case Oxford. I just want to read more books like “the secret history” by Donna Tartt, especially gayer versions.
I’ve seen this contemporary novel recommended so many places. F/F relationship, I think.
Let me know if you’ve read any of these books and if you liked them! Please link your post if you’re participating so I see it and recommend any LGBTQ books you’ve loved.
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I wasn’t going to make another monthly TBR for a while, because I suck at them, but then I went through the queer books I’ve been wanting to read for a while so here it is and I’m crossing my fingers that I get to go through more than 40% haha –
It’s 65 pages short and definitely caught my eye because of how much that title makes my eyes turn into hearts. From what I can see it has an asexual woman falling in love with a robot?? I need to know how that works.
Because it got a muslim lesbian teenage girl as main character dealing with family not accepting her, sending her to Bangladesh into an arranged marriage.
Because it seems similar to The foxhole court by Nora Sakavic and I really am a sucker for friendgroup bonding like a family and having drama. With bisexual and gay male main characters on the team.
Because it’s magical realism (which I love!!!) with two bff’s turned romantic, where one is a queer girl and one a trans boy.
It’s Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown, so it’s gay af. But also dealing with mental health and a lot of healing, which I’m going to need to listen to on audiobook while I’m packing up memories and moving.
Because I liked the first book, and this sequel is following Felicity, the nerdy aromantic-asexual sister trying to become a doctor in 1700s Europe. I don’t know where the piracy plays in, but excited to find out.
Because it’s a new release with a queer girl main character who’s also a witch! Supernatural disasters in the city happens, dark magic is appearing, and also a cute new ballerina arrives, all throwing her off the normal state of things. I’M SO EXCITED TO READ THIS!
Let me know if you’ve read any of these and if you liked them. And if you have any other LGBTQ books to recommend!
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