LGBT Reading Challenge

I'm an author, not a book blogger, but I figure there's no harm in signing up for the LGBT reading challenge hosted by Fighting Dreamer. It might give me a kick in the ass to search for more YA LGBT books that are up my alley. It's hard because I don't much like contemps or romances and excluding those genres doesn't leave a lot of options. I want to read the same kind of stuff I write, which means fantasy or sci-fi where romance/sexual orientation is a minor, yet vital, plot point.

Recommendations are extremely welcome. Here's one from me:


Dreams of Fire and Gods trilogy by James Erich
YA high fantasy with gay MCs. This series is with a small press and I'm really impressed by the covers. So pretty.

Lifted from Goodreads:
"A thousand years ago, two factions of gods, the Stronni and the Taaweh, nearly destroyed the Kingdom of Dasak by warring for the land and the frightened humans who lived there. Then suddenly the Taaweh vanished and the Stronni declared victory.

Now, as tensions escalate between the emperor and his regent, Vek Worlen, the vek's son, apprentice mage Sael dönz Menaük, finds himself allied with a homeless vagabond named Koreh. Together they flee the capital city and make their way across a hostile wilderness to the vek's keep, mere steps ahead of the emperor’s assassins.

But Koreh has dreams—dreams of the ancient Taaweh—and he knows the looming war between the emperor and the vek will be nothing compared to the war that is about to begin. The Taaweh are returning, and the war between the gods may destroy the kingdom once and for all. "