Task 5: A Book By or About Someone Who Identifies as LGBTQ

[Book Riot]

This thread is for dropping ideas, questions, resources, comments, and discussion about Task 5: A Book By or About Someone Who Identifies as LGBTQ.

Here are a few great lists to get you started:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...

http://bookriot.com/2014/10/27/coming...

http://bookriot.com/2014/07/17/lgbtq-...

[Malvina]

http://m.ranker.com/list/gay-authors-...

This list could be helpful

[Jenny]

Planning on reading Roxane Gay. Either An Untamed State or Bad Feminist

[Kathryn]

I bought High Hearts by Rita Mae Brown at a book sale, so it's on the list.

[Melissa]

Thinking of doing Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers

[Lauren Henderson]

Anything by Patricia Highsmith is a good choice. I love Strangers on a Train.

[Sarah]

Maurice, by EM Foster has been on my shelf for ages. So I'll use that one for this task.

[Kelli]

I plan to read some Alison Bechdel - probably The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For which I have at home already.

[Rainey]

I am going to read Fingersmith or The Paying Guests

[Meliza]

Rainey: I started Fingersmith before without any idea what it's about. And the first chapter engaged me, so I continued reading and liked it.

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Sarah and Rainey, those are both great books! Looking at various Listmania lists it looks like I have a few options to choose from on my owned/to-read shelves. I looked at winners/nominees of the Lambda and Gaylactic Spectrum awards as well for ideas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_L...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylacti...

[Annie]

planning on: She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders.

[Rainey]

Glad to hear you enjoyed fingersmith.

[Ashley]

Does My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut count? Technically it's a cookbook, but also "self-help," kind of....

[Lynda]

Anything by J H Trumble!! She's amazing!!

[DarthVixReads]

I've had Tipping the Velvet on my shelf for awhile, I figure it's about time I get to reading it!

[☕Laura]

I think I'll probably read Dream Boy for this one as I loved Winter Birds and My Drowning by this author. Both were heartbreaking and beautiful.

[Aurora]

I'm currently reading White Girls by Hilton Als. It's pretty amazing.

[Becky]

I'm going with "Oh Myyy, There Goes the Internet" by George Takei :)

[Cynthia (Bingeing On Books)]

Going to read something by Virginia Woolf, maybe Mrs Dalloway

[Brianna Graham]

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides is SUCH a good book. I have already read it so I do not have it as my choice BUT I WANT TO. If anyone needs a book to read in this genre, read the above.

"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."
— Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex)

I will be re-reading Middlesex in my own time but for the Read Harder Challenge, I chose Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden.

[Clémence]

Going to read Blue Is the Warmest Color. :)

[Samantha]

Brianna wrote: "Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides is SUCH a good book. I have already read it so I do not have it as my choice BUT I WANT TO. If anyone needs a book to read in this genre, read the above.

"I was born..."

I second this. Middlesex is one of the best books I have ever read.

[Bea]

I do not usually read book that fit this task. However, I have found one author whose prose is so very good and whose MC I can find some identity with that fits. The author is Nicola Griffith. I will be reading Always.

[Karen]

I'm thinking of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz for this one. Or maybe Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith. I've wanted to read both of them for awhile now.

[Janet]

Planned on checking out "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" today so this one is easy!

[Julia]

Just finished Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

[Kimberly]

PAYING GUESTS is my read for this category. I got it from the library right on time...it was quite a wait!

[Kelly]

Just finished my first book for the challenge! I read Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic.

[Stacey]

If you like science fiction, Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi is a good one for this category.

[Lisa]

I read Ali Smith's How to Be Both for this one.

[Vanessa]

I read Blue is the Warmest Color for this, I'd highly recommend!

[Teresa]

Karen wrote: "I'm thinking of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz for this one. Or maybe Grasshopper Jungle by [auth..."
I loved "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" ~ it was one of my favorite books read in 2013. I have been wanting to read "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" as it created quite a controversy in the Delaware public school system last summer.

[Bobby]

Not sure yet, but I'm considering The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde; I am My Own Wife: The True Story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf; Corydon, by André Gide; or Hedwig and the Angry Inch, by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask.

[Jenn]

This is out of my wheelhouse, but after doing some digging, I'm considering one of the following:
1. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
2. Huntress and Ash by Malinda Lo
3. Something by Sarah Waters, maybe The Paying Guests

[Brandyn]

I started "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" today. It's $1.99 on Kindle right now:).

[Nadia]

I recommend Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, IT'S SO GOOD. It comes out on April 7th, and I think it can count for others tasks: YA novel, book published this year, a recommendation.

[Jeimy]

I just finished Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out and did not like it. However, I am happy to see that other people have chosen well: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, and Le bleu est une couleur chaude are all excellent.

I would also recommend Hood by Emma Donoghue, Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg, Libba Bray's Beauty Queens, Jodi Picoult's Sing You Home, Two Boys Kissing and Will Grayson, Will Grayson--David Levithan is genius... I can make this list seem more interminable, but I will stop here.

[Ana-Maria]

Bobby, The Picture of Dorian Gray has been sitting on my shelf for a while now, and I really want to read some more classics, so I've been mulling over using that as my challenge read, too.

[Lauren]

Kristianne wrote: "I've had Tipping the Velvet on my shelf for awhile, I figure it's about time I get to reading it!"

I LOVED Tipping the Velvet! Probably one of my favorite books of all time.

[Lydia]

Was thinking of Oscar Wilde-The Importance of Being Earnest-would be a first read for me.

[Katie]

Lydia wrote: "Was thinking of Oscar Wilde-The Importance of Being Earnest-would be a first read for me."

I read it last year and was delightfully laughing the whole way. A very good choice, I would say.

[Sally]

Have just finished Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson. An interest book, quick and easy to read littered with comedy but otherwise hard to describe.

[Jennifer]

I've just finished Dragon Age The Masked Empire by Patrick Weekes for this one.

The book is dedicated to all the LGBTQ fans of the Dragon Age, and other Bioware games.

The games have received a lot of buzz over the years for having many different romance options and IMO they're doing really well in pioneering games to be different.

[N.C.]

Someone who was giving away books gave me Middlesex, so I'm reading that one right now.

[Dee]

I just studied abroad in Dublin and learned about Oscar Wilde. I think I'll read The Importance of being Ernest as well.

[Natasha]

I'm currently reading To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.

[Jennifer]

Currently reading Texts From Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg. So far very funny and surreal.

[Adriana]

Nikki wrote: "Someone who was giving away books gave me Middlesex, so I'm reading that one right now."

I am also reading it right now, loving it so far :)

[Kwame]

Nikki wrote: "Someone who was giving away books gave me Middlesex, so I'm reading that one right now."

Good choice, Eugenides is an amazing writer