My Favourite LGBTQ Books 🌈
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- čas přidán 13. 03. 2019
- I filmed this video a little while ago, in which I talk to you about some of my favourite LGBTQ books that I've read in the last few years. I'd love to hear your recommendations and look forward to discovering more amazing LGBTQ reads in the future!
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We Are Okay: / we-are-okay
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The Accident Season: / the-accident-season
Don't Call Us Dead: / don-t-call-us-dead
Release: / release
The Miseducation of Cameron Post: / the-miseducation-of-ca...
Clariel: / clariel
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: / oranges-are-not-the-on...
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I’m always happy to hear about upcoming books, but I’m afraid I don’t review self-published books and can only accept a small number of books for review. I enjoy reading classics, dystopian/apocalyptic novels, sci-fi, translated fiction and a variety of graphic novels, YA and contemporary literary fiction. Get in touch at booksandquills@gmail.com
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I was born and raised in the Netherlands, studied English Lit at Leiden University (also in the Netherlands), studied in the US for 3 months and have lots of American friends. I'm definitely not Irish or Canadian, I promise!
Where do you live?
I live in London and have been here for 6 years now.
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I can't recommend Alice Oseman's books enough, especially "Radio Silence"! Ace and gay characters make me happy. 😍 Also, one of the main characters in "I Was Born For This" is trans.
I cant thank you enough for this recommendation. I just read it in one go. It's really good. Thank you. Maybe you can advice some other books too?
@@antsifersvetlyy8313 honestly all of Alice Oseman's books! They're great ;-;
Oh gawd 😍
The song of Achilles!!!!!!!
Sydney P Yess second this!
Larissa it made me feel more emotions in 4 hours than all my 22 years combined!!!
Made me sobb multiple times
I just finished Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe 😭🥰 my firsr lgbtq book
Although i always read yaoi manga and fanfiction
I also read a lot of yaoi!! thinking about buying aristotle!!
Rqhan_ do it !! It’s great 🥺
I loved that book and i really liked aristole and his name does kind of remind me of some air freshner though😂😂 i love lqbtq 💜
We have many similarities that book is my first lgbt book too
Hey I wanna buy one gay novel for my friend is Aristotle and dante really good?
Hope you liked this one! I filmed a version of this ages ago and decided to refilm and update it with some more books I'd read in the meantime. I've also left some more LGBTQ reads videos by fellow booktubers in the description. I'm super keen to discover more books that represent different sexual orientations and gender identities, so leave your favourite recommendations in a comment to share it with everyone!
Sarah Waters books
I’m not sure if you’ve read it before, but Heartstopper by Alice Oseman is just the most beautiful, heartwarming lgbtq graphic novel (her illustrations are lovely). Much love for it
It's just one of my favourite comics.
Y e s, its beautiful in so many ways!
My favourites are Once and Future, the Song of Achilles, Aristotle and Dante and Her Name In The Sky
This is the video I was secretly waiting for :-)
+Cassy und so. Hope ya liked it!
It is very important to produce publications with useful and useful content instead of these shameful and immoral publications.
Yay!! Clicked this so fast! Thanks for this Sanne! ☺️🙌 I loved “The Summer of Jordi Perez” and “Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars” is amazing!
I love how you included so many different genres instead of just showing like 10 contemporary YA books! So many reads I haven't heard of, I will definitely check them out :)
Highly highly recomend Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy. Its YA and all about questioning your sexuality, the fluidity of the sexual spectrum and your preconceived ideas about yourself, and the (sometimes destructive) concept of needing to label yourself as just one thing. Its so amazing and as a bisexual lady constantly questioning my own sexuality, its so validating and just an all around great read!
+Andrea Fowler ahh thank you! I bought that one a while ago, so looking forward to reading it.
I love that I learned about some books I'd never heard of before in this video, The One Hundred Nights of Hero and Release have definitely been added to my TBR! I also had never heard that Clariel has ace rep so that was good to know!
I'd recommend David Levithan's Two Boys Kissing, I'm actually writing an essay about it right now weirdly. It follows two boys trying to break the record for the longest kiss, who used to be a couple, a couple who have going strong for a year but one isn't officially out to his family, two brightly haired boys who meet at gay prom (one of whom is a transman) and a lonely teen who leaves home when his parents find out he's gay and react badly. This is all narrated by a greek chorus of gay men who died in the AIDS crisis and is actually based on real events. It's very different to any book I've read, I read it years ago and again recently and it still just sticks with you.
This is a bit late, but I can recommend Red, White & Royal Blue as well as In Other Lands, both have bisexual main characters!
I've added all of these to my reading list so thank you! The only one I'd already read was Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit as I think it's essential reading for any lesbians like myself who read a lot.
Omg thanks for this, these are my favorite recommendation videos :)
I strongly recommend The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I have a full shelf of lgbt books but none of them have captured an f/f romance quite as well as that one
The One Hundred Nights of Hero is sooooo good! I've not read Fun Home but saw the stage production which was very powerful and heartbreaking. Love the sound of The Miseducation of Cameron Post - hadn't heard of the book or film before so will seek it out. Thank you!
When The Moon Was Ours has a trans protagonist 😊 there is an lgbtq+ bookshop in London called Gay's The Word, I really recommend it and they have loads of suggestions of books with underrepresented lgbt themes.
I highly recommend A Song Only I Can Hear by Barry Jonsberg. I read it in a day, it made me laugh and cry sooo much! Even though the protagonist is only 13 it´s definitely a book for all ages and I don’t want to spoil the end, but the story does adress lgbtq topics, as well as PTSD, activism, climate change and social acceptance. Just read it, okay? :D
A little late in commenting, but I just recently read The Merry Spinster, which is a short story, fairytale retelling collection that features trans characters and themes (I say themes which I really can't explain, you just need to read and then you'll see why it's the word I chose). Also it's a super collection.
A cute graphic novel I recommend is RoadQueen. It's of 2 lesbians learning about Love in a light hearted way and it's just plain out adorable! Ya'll should read it
Hi Sanne. I've just subscribed to your Channel. The books you talk about in this video have in common some interesting variations on the same central theme. I wish you could do something similar on the type of books I prefer. I like reading novels or crime fiction especially those written by contemporary British authors. I love British English and I am always looking for realistic stories/series which take place in today's England (without witches, wizards, warlocks, vampires, werewolves, dragons or other fantastic creatures). I am fond of British real-life characters who speaks proper English (not dialect or slang). I am keen on beautifully written books but slow, stodgy, uneventful sagas aren't really my cup of tea. It is an amazing experience following the gripping adventures of my favourite characters throughout several volumes. Unfortunately, it is not so easy to detect from the back cover the nationality of an author and figure out whether he or she writes in British English. This precious piece of knowledge (regarding the writer's origins and language) is too often left out as it were a trivial detail. Believe me, it isn't. So please, from now onwards, don't forget to mention such a relevant piece of information. I hope I gave you materials you can use for making new videos. I am sure you can help me find what I am desperately looking for. Can you recommend any books/authors to me? Or any videos in which you carry out a review of books that might be of interest to me? It would be very nice of you and I'd appreciate it very much.
Thank you.
I loved this list! I've read some of these but I will have to check the others out! Also I just read Beast by Brie Spangler which is a YA novel about a boy who has a crush on a trans girl but doesn't realize she's trans, you should definitely give it a go it's worth a read
I went on goodreads to save these only to realize that most of them are already on my to read list
Damn, I really really have to catch up on my reading
Alice Oseman is great for LGBT+ books including ace characters. I also love Ngozi Ukazu's Check Please graphic novel which has gay and bisexual characters. Tillie Walden is great for wlw graphic novels they're all so beautiful to look at as well as moving stories. The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers is great as it has wlw characters as well as a character whose an alien whose gender changes as they age which is an interesting concept and the All For The Game series will forever be my all time favourite book series and features demisexual, gay and briefly also lesbian characters although it's not for everyone as there is some serious trigger warnings to go along with it!
im a simple person. i saw ari and dante, i click lol but seriously who am i kidding. i click and watch all her videos hahaha 😎🥰❤️
(the bookshelves at the back is so beautiful and giving me major green eyes)
I really enjoyed I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman - it features a trans main character who is the lead singer of a popular boyband, as well as numerous other LGBT side-characters, and it has some interesting conversations about the relationship between celebrity and the fandom that surrounds them. Also I really need to read Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit! Sounds fantastic!
I love 100 Nights of Hero so bloody much.
One of the best bl books I have read is a Chinese novel called MDZS. There is a live action called untamed and an anime as well. It's amazing
My first bl novel and that was wonderful, still can't find anybook to that standard
@@varshinikumaravel3946 well the Third series might be good for you then...quite 18+ but very good.
Yesss I love Fun Home!! These are some great recs x
George by Alex Gino is a great middle grade read about a trans character, I read it for my education class at university and absolutely loved it! Also great to see that representation in middle grade.
So thrilled that Don't Call Us Dead got a shoutout!
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami has a transgender character.
I just want to recommend a book for everyone called Bloom it is a book about two men and a bakery and how one of them does not want to bake and the other does. It is a amazing graphic novel I’d recommend for everyone.
I highly recommend the captive prince trilogy, it has every thing you need and will satisfy your hunger for gay love, and maybe it will get stuck in your mind for probably.. the rest of your life.
OMG right.I loved it.
I just read 'Date me Bryson Keller' and I wanna read more of gay love story.
Maurice by E.M. Forster is a great one! It was written way back in 1913 (posthumously published in 1971) and has a gay main character.
Have you read
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street?
The Binding?
Have you read Let's Talk About Love? It's a YA(ish) book about a black asexual bi-romantic girl, and it was one of my favourite reads last year.
Would highly recommend She Of The Mountains by Vivek Shraya!
Chloe Hutchinson yes!!!!!!!!!!
The Miseducation of Cameron Post film was so beautiful
There's this book I'm currently reading and it is called "Loveless" and it's by our classical LGBTQ+ author Alice Oseman, it is (personally) very relatable so I recommend reading it especially if you're on the Ace spectrum (hint hint on the book 👀✨)
This video is quite old and I’ve since read Loveless! What a wonderful recommendation! :) 👌
Thank you so much for mentioning my channel, ONYX Pages! I'm watching your video now and will comment when I'm done!
Hey! Here are a few SFF books with trans characters: An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon; Juniper Leaves by Jaz Joyner, Two Moons by Krystal S. Smith. There's also Dreadnought - which is not a Black character.
Also, don't you love how the word "fornicating" rolls off the tongue?!
Have you read 'Etiquette and Espionage'? It's the first book in a steampunk series on a finishing school for espionage. It's totally wacky and weird, but such a good read. Randomly stumbled upon it and absolutely love the characters and the setting. Batshit crazy perfect trash read.
It's not LGBT, but could be read as such. More in response to you liking finishing school books :)
One of my fave LGBT books is 'Georgia and the forbidden fruits' and 'Annie on My Mind'
Favorite transgender themed book is by far 'George', but 'The art of being normal' is also quite cute
I don't give either of these books justice in my descriptions but look them up on goodreads you won't regret it:
For a book with a trans character I highly recommend This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel, it's about Claude, a child who is transgender and how her and her family get along and how their lives change.
Also, Disobedience by Naomi Alderman tells the story of a queer woman who comes back to her old community after her orthodox Jewish Rabbi father dies. It's about different things, but the biggest thing is her old gay retionship with a childhood friend.
When the Moon Was Ours is a fantastically written fantasy novel with a trans character!
An amazing book with a transgender character is “This is How it Always Is” by Laurie Frankel. The book follows the trans character’s childhood as they grow up. I haven’t finished it yet but so far it is wonderful!
That last one sounds like a hoot...great selection. A sense of humour helps...don't you think?
A bunch of books I plan to read after watching this. Thanks
I recommend Peter Darling by Austin Chant for transgender character.
She of the Mountains!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
one time i had a lgbtq+ book at school and my friends were at my neck to read it 🙄, thank u for the video tho
Red, White & Royal Blue, The best book i've EVER READD
Nevada by Imogen Binnie is a classic, staple trans novel! Written by a trans woman and featuring trans characters. Highly recommend.
boy meets boy by david levithan has a secondary trans character
Trumpet by Jackie Kay
Hi! Love the video, I'll check this books out!
I loved Symptoms of being human, it has a gender fluid protagonist, it's really good. 😊
I FEEL YOU ON THE SCHOOL READING THO
+Megan Ward haha weirdly it doesn’t seem to apply to contemporary schools, just historical and magical settings. 😅
Yes Aristotle and Dante!
loved this!!!
This is a great list!
Well Sanne, I guess now you are just gonna have to read our Dutch eternal masterpiece De Avonden (The Evenings) by Gerard Reve.
+mabusestestament I didn’t realise it featured an LGBTQ character! Thanks for the recommendation. :)
booksandquills Well, the thing is... nobody knew until years later. The big question at the time (1947) was, if De Avonden is such an intimate, psychological autobiographical novel, why doesn't it mention anything about sex, sexuality, love, attraction etc.? The reason is that in those days it wasn't possible for Reve to write about those intimate feelings because he was gay; if you know this, it all makes sense: the novel (in part) is about suppressing one's homosexuality, that's one of the reasons he's such a neurotic person, stuck in life and probably depressed. It's about homosexuality by never ever mentioning it.
In the 80s the novel was made into a (imo pretty good) movie that brings this gay subtext more explicitly to the foreground.
Also, imo the novel is really, really, really funny, although its 'zwartgallige' humor may not be for everyone.
You've probably heard of this book already, but "This Is How It Always Is" is a really sweet contemporary book about a family who's youngest son transitions and how that affects all of their lives
I just want to thank you so much for including asexuals in this! Loveless by Alice Oseman came out this year and it is another fantastic book with an asexual main character!
Such a great books and thanks for recommending it here! I read it recently and thought it was fantastic. :)
I've not read it but my sister tells me "if I was your girl" is a good book with a trans protagonist
I love this video so much, and I love you for doing this video 💗 original content!
I would like to hear about LGBT+ books that are not YA, dystopian, Sci-fi, or fantasy. I did enjoy Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, which I read as part of my English degree. Nevada by Imogen Binnie features trans characters
“It’s not like it’s a secret” is a great LGBTQ+ book.
All I’m looking for is a bisexual bad boy/girl falls for the soft boy/girl Is that so much to ask for!??
I love the book Simon Vs The Homosapiens Agenda
Just SWEET AND WONDERFUL
Still can't understand it. It's in my shelf for ages...
I’ve seen the play version of Fun Home and it was great! I would recommend it!
Asexual book recommendation: Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann :)
+Jane Dough thank you!
I'd love to get more asexual books recommendations
Release I absolutely love. The way it handles relationships is the most relatable I’ve ever read, for any sexualities. It wasn’t cutesy or romantic, all butterflies in stomachs. It was very real and direct which I appreciated.
my author soul hoping my future book might be one of these fav LGBT book videos
Same lol
If I was your girl and The past and other things that should stay buried are really good books with trans characters!
Have you read Far From You? It’s fantastic. The big lie seems like it’s a gay version/rip off of man in high castle.
+Novella That’s quite a big jump to make! Have you read it?
booksandquills not yet. The libraries are closed so I can’t get it.
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You got any books for someone who is Preußen-Sexual
if i’ll give you the sun isn’t here😤...
(i can’t think of a cool threat but that does not mean you should not be afraid)
+Erica Nonyana I haven’t read it yet haha!
you really should...
If I was your girl by Meredith Russo is one of my favourite LGBTQ books. It's about a trans girl who moves in with her dad post surgery and her trying to fit in and find love in her new school. You also get some flashbacks to her life before moving.
It's the only book I've heard of with a trans protagonist and it gives some insight into trans life and fears. However, in the author's notes Meredith Russo admits that the book is quite romanticised and life for most trans women doesn't turn out as well as it does for the girl in the book.
As a writer, the fact that there is such a thing as books considered as lgbtq books and not just simply as books. If you are going to portray romance in your writing, it's absolutely absurd if it's not representative of the real world (yes, I'm aware of the political atmosphere around the topic, just questioning the logic)
Miseducation of Cameron Post is my FAVOURITE book. but God I hate the film. It misses out that she was gay before, the whole character of Lindsey, how Aunt Ruth is actually a hypocrite. I feel the book is more the story of grief, and how Cameron’s sexuality affects that. The film is about a bland character whiling away her hours in conversion therapy. In the book we see as Cameron loses herself whilst at God’s promise, but in the film we never meet her before ao she just comes across as the deadest character
i'm sad to see how little the real mm reading community is shown in this video
no one should base their learning or reading preferences based on sexual orientation or someone's agenda
Well, it’s been nice
Hard pass. Unsubbed.
lol good riddance. Bye!