Queer

Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities that are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning "strange" or "peculiar", queer came to be deployed pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late-19th century. Beginning in the late-1980s, queer scholars and activists began to reclaim the word to establish community and assert a politicized identity distinct from the gay political identity. Queer identitites may be adopted by those who reject traditional gender identities and seek a broader, less conformist, and deliberately ambiguous alternati ...more

John of John
Homebound
Canon
Bone of My Bone
Bromantasy
The Bone Door
The Lost Book of Lancelot
Waiting on a Friend
The Fake Divination Offense (Magic and Romance, #2)
Radiant Star
Villain (Hench, #2)
Decomposition Book
Body Count
A Kiss of Crimson Ash (Games of the Goddess, #1)
Returns and Exchanges
We Used to Live Here
Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
Blue Sisters
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
A Family Matter
So Old, So Young
A Good Person
Villa Coco
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Razorblade Tears
Score (Hollywood Renaissance, #2)
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
気になってる人が男じゃなかった Vol. 1 [Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Vol. 1]
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,866 books — 4,183 voters
Hot Head by Damon SuedeTigers and Devils by Sean KennedyBear, Otter, and the Kid by T.J. KluneSomething Like Summer by Jay BellLatakia by J.F.  Smith
M/M Books Written By Men
1,562 books — 1,061 voters

Crash & Burn by Abigail RouxTrust by Ella FrankRise & Fall by Charlie CochetNot So Innocent by Dani AlexanderAgainst the Grain by Charlie Cochet
Can't Wait M/M Romance of 2015
260 books — 880 voters
Captive Prince by C.S. PacatCaptive Prince by C.S. PacatThe Foxhole Court by Nora SakavicKings Rising by C.S. PacatThe Raven King by Nora Sakavic
Best M/M With An Actual Story
1,562 books — 1,257 voters

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzSimon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky AlbertalliCarry On by Rainbow RowellThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyRed, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
LGBTQ for YA
1,271 books — 2,255 voters
The Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerLuck in the Shadows by Lynn FlewellingMagic's Pawn by Mercedes LackeyKushiel's Dart by Jacqueline CareyThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
LGBTQ Science Fiction and Fantasy
2,081 books — 1,975 voters

The Song of Achilles
Red, White & Royal Blue (Red, White & Royal Blue, #1)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
This Is How You Lose the Time War
One Last Stop
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)
Giovanni’s Room
Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

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Gay kids aren’t a “plot point” that you can play with. Gay kids are real, actual kids, teenagers, growing up into awesome adults, and they don’t have the books they need to reflect that. Growing up, my nose was constantly stuck in a book. Growing up as a lesbian, I was told over and over and over by the lack of gayness in said books that I did not exist. That I wasn’t important enough to tell stories about. That I was invisible. Why are we telling our kids this? Why are we telling them that they ...more
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