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#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

Just need a Latinx author or rep to complete the card!

Any recommendations Litsy??

I enjoy mostly science fiction and literary fiction, things I don‘t enjoy are young adult and romance - but find queer books with it more tolerable 😛.

ChaoticMissAdventures If you like YA I highly recommend anything by Aiden Thomas. I have enjoyed all his books Cemetery Boys might be my favorite. I have been meaning to read The Town of Babylon that a friend keeps recommending. Or I loved this one

Cantoras: A Novel

Kitta @ChaoticMissAdventures oh my friend just recommended Cemetery boys and the Sunbearer Trials to me! Haha great minds. 1w

ChaoticMissAdventures @Kitta he is awesome! He lives in my hometown and I see him often at book events, just the nicest person 😍. But his books are very YA so just depends on your reading preferences. 1w

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monalyisha If you do audiobooks, I absolutely loved this one!

Clap When You Land

monalyisha Another option (which I read in print).

Juliet Takes a Breath

Kitta @ChaoticMissAdventures oh that‘s so cool! I‘m leaning towards Sunbearer trials, I‘m not a huge YA fan though so I‘ll have a look around at what else is out there as well. 1w

Kitta @monalyisha I don‘t deal well with audio but I‘ll look into the other one! Thanks! 1w

Kitta @monalyisha oh I own a copy of the Poet x. Maybe I should read that? 1w

monalyisha That would work! The Poet X is my second favorite of hers (and it was my introduction to her writing). 💖 1w

monalyisha I don‘t know how MUCH lgbtq rep there is, and I don‘t remember it being the focus, but it‘s not absent. 1w

willaful I like a lot of Anna-Marie McLemore's books, especially When the Moon Was Ours.

When the Moon Was Ours

monalyisha Her other title that I mentioned exists in print, too. I just prefer her books as audio because she reads them herself. Clap When You Land has an additional narrator, as well, and The Poet X features spoken word poetry so it‘s cool to hear it as it was meant to be performed. But that‘s not to say that they wouldn‘t be enjoyable as hard copies! 1w

lil1inblue I loved this.

The Sunbearer Trials

BookmarkTavern Chiming in to also recommend Aiden Thomas! Cemetery Boys and Lost in the Never Woods we‘re both great! 1w

Liz_M Carmen Maria Machado? I loved In the Dream House. Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis was also good.
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Kitta @monalyisha it can just be an LGBTQ author as well (is she LGBTQ?), it doesn‘t need to be the main focus so I‘ll probably read that! Thanks. 1w

Kitta @lil1inblue oooh yes that look good thanks!! 1w

Kitta @Liz_M oof Dream House sounds intense and I was in a queer abusive relationship until we spit during the pandemic. Might be too intense for me right now but I‘ll keep it in mind. It sounds really good. 1w

Kitta @Liz_M wow Cantoras sounds amazing, added to the list! 1w

Kitta @monalyisha good to know! I just suck at listening to audiobooks. I‘ve tried 3 times and either I hate the narrator, get lost and distracted or fall asleep. lol. 1w

Kitta @willaful oh wow sounds interesting! Thanks for the rec! 1w

willaful LOL, I just noticed you said you don't like YA and romance which of course is exactly what I recc'd. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Kitta @willaful haha its okay a lot of people skipped that part of the post and recommended YA and romance. I love getting input either way and will pass the suggestion on to one of my best friends who loves that stuff. 1w

monalyisha @Kitta I‘m not sure! I know she‘s said, “Every single one of my books has a character who‘s queer, and their queerness isn‘t the point of that character. That isn‘t the only reason they‘re there. It‘s not a plot point. It‘s just that is the world and I try to give joy and full arcs for that.” 1w

Kitta @monalyisha oh I like that though, not making queerness a plot point is important to me! I‘ll read it either way and decide if it counts for the LGBTQIA book bingo challenge when I‘m done. 1w

Kenyazero 🤩 I hope some of these recs work for you! 5d

Kitta @Kenyazero yes some should do! 5d

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peanutnine

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I've been organizing my storygraph challenges this weekend and decided to make one to track my reads for #QueerBC
If anyone else participating wants to join, here's the link:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/eaaf6dca-2dd1-4218-887e-1df2e9c...

I've got all the authors since we started last May and will try to keep it updated as we add more ☺️
@PuddleJumper

lil1inblue This is awesome! Thank you! 🥰 7mo

PuddleJumper That's brilliant! Thank you 7mo

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PerksOfBeingABookworm

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Advice appreciated: I am rearranging my shelves and am trying to decide if my LGBTQ+ books should be mixed in with all my other books (which are separated by genre) or if they should be in their own group. Thoughts?

Booksblanketsandahotbeverage How about separate by color? (Rainbow) 6y

tammysue Own group that way easier to find? 6y

Bks4Wrms I agree with @BookHoarder32 6y

PerksOfBeingABookworm @BookHoarder32 @Bks4Wrms my hesitation with organizing by color is that I will never be able to find the book I‘m looking for unless I know the color of its spine. 6y

CouronneDhiver I have about 60 books and love the rainbow shelves set up... You just remember where to look after awhile. 😊 (Same as you currently know to look at a certain section for a mystery, for example) 6y

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Bibliogeekery

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The Lambda finaliat lists is up! https://www.lambdaliterary.org/31st-annual-lammy-finalists/ There are some great titles here! #queerbooks #transbooks

Naj Thanks for sharing this. Have added quite a few to my tbr. 6y

Tonton Thank you！ 6y

bookandbedandtea Great looking list! I've bookmarked to take a closer look this weekend. 6y

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Bibliogeekery

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I had such a lovely time at Glad Day yesterday attending the Naked Hearts Festival (a queer literary festival in Toronto). At one event I heard Larissa Lai, Farzana Doctor, Shani Mootoo, and Shyam Selvadurai! Talk about superstar Canadian queer authors! 😍📚 #queerbooks

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