#queer reads

[read-alert]

This does come with the caveat that I can't quite remember if the characters in How to Find a Princess, Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, and Chain-Gang All-Stars identity specifically as lesbians or not, but they are all sapphic. Full titles under the cut!

EDIT: Apparently Alice Walker is a big proponent of a famous antisemitic conspiracy theorist, David Icke, so be aware of that when considering The Color Purple

Happy Lesbian Visibility Week! 📚📖🏳️‍🌈

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole

Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

#lesbian #lesbian reads #lesbian books #lesbian lit #queer books #queer reads #queer lit #lesbian visibility week #bookblr #hijab butch blues #in the dream house #how to find a princess #cantoras #the color purple #stone butch blues #funeral songs for dying girls #chain gang all stars

[dommnics]

I haven't seen Wish (2023) yet, but I keep seeing people mourning over the scrapped concepts that Disney explored for a human star character possibly being the secondary lead and love interest in the movie.

Gonna take this time to plug in my little queer space opera graphic novel series with the first book coming out in 2025, literally about a human star boy who falls in love with a human.

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#graphic novel #kloud 9 #kloud 9 book one #queer art #queer reads #ocs #original character #original characters #comic #comics #oc art #oc #oc artwork #queer artist #queer books #gay books #ya books #queer literature #queer lit #graphic novels #lgbtq graphic novels #lgbtq books #queer graphic novels #book love #ya fiction #indie author #mlm romance #queer romance #gay romance #wish

[noahhawthorneauthor]

Happy Trans Awareness Week 🏳️‍⚧️✨🏳️‍🌈📚

Queer books, especially books with trans characters, are what helped me become the person I am today. In a world where it's easy to feel alone, you can always find the company you seek in not only books, but the people who enjoy them. I have made so many author and reader friends, and they make me feel so seen.

Don't underestimate the power of words, and kinship.

#noahs book recs #trans books #trans reads #trans awareness #queer books #indie books #indie author #writing fantasy #writeblr #queer fantasy books #queer reads #fantasy books #book recommendations

[xiaq]

All Hail the Underdogs (queer YA hockey fiction with a happy ending) is out now!

Digital and print copies are available wherever you like to procure your books in the US :)

(My publisher told me to post about it on social media. Blazing a Tumblr post is probably not what they meant but here we are).

#author things #ya fiction #lgbtq #queer reads

[pigeonflavouredcake]

Work has me super tired but I made a cute reading list for queer fiction (mainly surrounding my interests but you're more than welcome to use it).

Remember to take care of yourself and check the CW's for these books, especially the horror list.

#when I started looking into more queer fiction all i was recommended was mlm ya #like song of Achillies and red white and royal blue #like that's cool but it's not for me #so i made a reading list #it's primarily lesbian/sapphic stuff #it's a mix of YA and Adult stuff #bookrec #reading list #queer reads #queer books #lesbian books #sapphic books #trans books #lgbtq books #bookblr #books and reading #lgbtq fiction #queer fiction #fiction

[popchyk-oui]

Sometimes I go crazy with writing out my thoughts on books when I read but there are also times when I just highlight a little bit and tab them with 0 thoughts. Just highlighting them is enough for me to know that the passage struck a chord with me. Then I place a sticky note on the title page with my very general thoughts. So if you want to start annotating your books, remember that you don't have to go all-out! It's your book, make your own set of rules, and remember the most important thing of all — have fun!

To be alone in a crowd, apart and belonging, to have distance between what I see and what I am. - This is How You Lose the Time War

#book annotations #bookblr #books #lgbt books #queer reads #reading #annotating #annotations #annotators #chaotic academia #own #books and literature

[evelynncarver]

🔥 Sparks fly when a talented fire mage and enigmatic rogue team up to break an ancient curse. 🌙

What begins as a romantic runaway adventure soon turns out to be much more than Valentino bargained for. It seems that his magic isn’t worth as much as he thought when it comes to dealing with a willful demon, gunslinging bounty hunters, and his own fickle heart. He might be falling in lust with a monster, but will he sell his very soul just to run away from responsibility?

Moonlight and the Magician - The first book in a new queer fantasy/romance series by Evelynn Carver

Available NOW via your favorite digital bookstore - Amazon Kindle, Kobo, Smashwords, and more! ✨

#queer romance #queer reads #gay romance #mlm romance #romance novels #fantasy romance #fantasy books #moonlight and the magician #matm

[dwimmer-crafty]

So it turns out that

a queer reading of Bram Stoker’s Dracula

is literally just reading

Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

#dracula #bram stoker #bram stoker’s dracula #jonathan harker #mina harker #lucy westenra #queer reads #mina x lucy #dracula x jonathan harker #dracula x reader

[thelastofthebookworms]

Feel free to make suggestions. I may make another poll if there are enough candidates.

More polls.

#polls #sapphic reads #queer reads #lgbt reads #sapphic leads #teixcalaan #a memory called empire #a desolation called peace #arkady martine #the stars are legion #kameron hurley #this is how you lose the time war #amal el mohtar #max gladstone #the priory of the orange tree #samantha shannon #ninefox gambit #yoon ha lee #the privilege of the sword #ellen kushner #down among the sticks and bones #wayward children #seanan mcguire #the long way to a small angry planet #the wayfarers #becky chambers #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #the locked tomb #tamsyn muir

[queerbookshelf]

"She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and got drunk on it every night, he would have."

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

#I dont know what to do with myself after reading that line #i dont #i need psychological help bc the person im turning into is not a sane ome #one* #wtv #kaz brekker you have my entire soul do with it what you have to #six of crows #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #kanej #queer bookshelf #book quotes #queer books #books #book blog #reading #currently reading #queer reader #queer reads #read in 2023 #book recommendations #quotes

[yoondepity]

it's gay gay gay across the board for me in 2023 and I will keep the streak going in 2024 😁

#gay gay GAY #queer reads #tgcf #heaven official's blessing #mxtx tgcf #2ha #erha #the husky and his white cat shizun #erha he ta de bai mao shizun #svsss #mxtx svsss #thousand autumns #as u can see i clearly let my interests consume me whole #as they should

[read-alert]

Another crosspost from my Instagram!

I won't be participating in the Trans Rights Readathon because I only heard about it the day before yesterday and as a library reader, I don't think I can get my hands on the books I would need that fast. But I figured it was a good time to post my favorite recent trans reads! Full titles and authors under the cut

Black Movie by Danez Smith

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

A Prayer for the Crown Shy (Monk and Robot #2) by Becky Chambers

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada translated to English by Kit Maude

Femme in Public by Alok Vaid-Menon

From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea by Kai Cheng Thom and Kai Yun Ching

The Fae Keeper (The Witch King #2) by HE Edgmon

#bookblr #trans books #trans reads #trans lit #queer books #queer reads #queer lit

[archergrid]

Read my serial sapphic heist romance, GIRL WITH NO NAME, on Substack if you like: 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩Butch/femme 💰Steal from the rich 👾Latina hacker FMC 🌹Asian butch-fatale love interest 🌶️spicy love scenes

Or DM me if you'd like to be a beta reader!

#lesfic #ff romance #lesbian #lesbian fiction #lgbt reads #sapphic #sapphic romance #wlw #wlw romance #contemporary romance #crime #queer #queer reads #queer fiction #queer books #queer lit

[b-oredzoi]

Books I Read in 2023: Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Rose 2:6. And when the morning came she pushed onward, because the wicked and the vile bore down from every side, and onward was the only direction she had left.

#camp damascus #chuck tingle #bookblr #litblr #litedit #book moodboard #horror #queer reads #books of 2023 #moodboard

[xiaq]

It’s giveaway time!

I have 2 signed/personalized copies of All Hail the Underdogs up for grabs (shipped to you for free if you’re in the US). You have 2 ways to enter:

1. Like + Reblog this post 2. Make your own post rec'ing one of my books (or fic, if you'd rather) and tag me in it.

Or do both for 2 entries. The contest closes and I'll announce winners on Friday the 6th. There's another contest happening on Instagram as well if you want to improve your chances of getting one!

Also! I ended up having to order more author copies of AHTU since I oversold the first 100 I offered. If you just want to pay ($20 w/shipping) for a signed/personalized one, you can email me at [email protected].

Ok, ok. Here’s the blurb so any unfamiliar folks can be enticed into buying it:

When seventeen-year-old Patrick Roman is offered a scholarship to a top hockey preparatory school, he thinks maybe his notorious bad luck has finally ended. With a hearing for his legal emancipation on the horizon, he dreams of getting scouted and securing a place on a D1 college team. There’s only one problem: Roman has serious beef with his new winger on the team, Damien Bordeaux. They’re supposed to be perfectly in sync on the ice. But Roman, with his buzzcut and tattoos, has nothing in common with trust-fund-kid Damien, his floral scrunchies, and designer T-shirts that cost more than all of Roman’s secondhand hockey gear combined.

When eighteen-year-old Damien Bordeaux starts his senior year, he tells himself he’s going to focus on hockey and school. No more making out in the stacks, no more dorm parties. He needs to decide what his future will look like. Does he pursue his long-held dream of becoming an author? Or stay in his lane and do what he’s good at: hockey. Regardless, he’s not going to let any pretty boys distract him from figuring his shit out. Except his new center, Roman, is possibly the most beautiful boy Damien has ever seen. And his hockey—the way he moves on the ice—might be even more beautiful. Too bad he’s also probably a homophobic, racist asshole.

But their antagonistic beginning turns into an unlikely friendship and then turns into something much scarier for them both. Navigating relationships is hard enough for normal teenagers. It’s a lot harder when contending with lawyers, NHL scouts, and mutual past trauma. Roman and Damien have to decide: What do they really want in life? Are they willing to fight for each other—including fighting against their own pasts and prejudices—so they can have a happy ending?

#mylife #myface #author things #all hail the underdogs #ahtu #lrpd adjacent #ya fiction #queer reads #diversity reads

[variousqueerthings]

something about asexuality that is underappreciated is its potential to recontextualise -- this is true of queer reads + disabled reads generally, but asexuality is very much still widely in a space considered unworthy of looking at closer, because for many people it simply represents “not doing anything.” 

this also embedded in irl acephobic wank that claims it’s “not as queer” as other kinds of queerness, because again, all that is perceived is a surface-level idea that as it is apparently just “not having sex,” that must mean it is at odds with liberatory queer sexual theory/practice 

and so what does this apparent “not doing anything” have to say about our fictional reads? what does it say about desires for closeness, lack of language or gain of language, what does it say about characters who have never had sex, or about characters who have? what does it say about (lack of) agency and consent? about desire? how does it play into bdsm and kink? into concepts of sexiness and attractiveness (both wanting or not wanting to be perceived as such and perceiving or not perceiving of others as such)? into bodies and our relationships with them? how does it recontexualise characters goals or lack of goals for life? how does it put them at odds with social expectations for them in the times/stories they exist in? 

and once one starts asking actual curious questions, one can easily see that a character being read as -- or, hell being, if we’re so lucky -- asexual, is potentially doing a heck of a lot! 

#i focused on asexuality here instead of asexuality and aromanticism #because I was particularly thinking about sex/versions of sex #which is a little more specific + i think there is something a little different id wanna write about aromanticism #its invisibility is more encompassing/slightly different/the antagonism against it has similarities but also differences #asexuality #queer stuff #queer reads #queer fiction #ace stuff