The Pride Library 2019 Challenge is hosted by Library Looter, Anniek’s Library and Michelle Likes Things. Join in on it anytime or link your post in the comments so I see it! Also all reviews I’ve written will be linked.

Red comes with drama and mystery! And also identity crises, apparently?

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The Morning Star by M. Chandler

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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.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green

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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.

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

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5/5 stars, it’s such great heist fantasy with awesome friend-group. Bisexual male characters (maybe one of them was gay?).

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Full review: 5/5 stars

Cute YA coming of age story with gay main character and him coming out and starting to date.

Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard

Full review: 3/5 stars

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

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Demon Road by Derek Landy

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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.

The Pride Library 2019 Challenge is hosted by Library Looter, Anniek’s Library and Michelle Likes Things. Join in on it anytime or link your post in the comments so I see it! Also all reviews I’ve written will be linked.

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Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour

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.

Solitaire by Alice Oseman

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.

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

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.

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Soft Science by Franny Choi

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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.

The Lessons by Naomi Alderman

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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.

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

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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.