June Lighten TBR Shelf Prompt Suggestions

[Tessa]

Hey y'all!
According to the poll, y'all want to do another Lighten TBR Shelf Challenge in June. Since this month is Pride Month, one set of prompts is going to be as follows:

Read a book with a main character that is-
L - Lesbian
G - Gay
B - Bisexual
T - Transgender
Q - Queer
+ = Asexual, pansexual, non-binary, etc.
(let me know if I missed something)

Down here, list some prompts that are like the prompts from the last challenge, and we (the mods) will randomly pick some. (5)

You can do both! The LGBTQ+ prompts, and the regular ones.

[Tessa]

So this is the current list of prompts under the spoiler
(view spoiler)[- a book with an imaginary country or planet
- a book with a 2020 Pantone classic blue cover
- a book to help you shift your perspective
- a book that will hit the screen in 2020
- a book that takes you back in time
- a collection of short stories
- a book with multiple first person narrators
- a book featuring an MC with a mundane daily life
- an #ownvoices book
- a book with a cover you judge badly (lol)
- a book written by an author from your country
- a book from a genre you think you'd never like
- a romance book from a guy's perspective
- a book with an MC at least 10 years younger or older than you
-a book set in the country you live in
-a book that was banned
-a book that is told from a villain's perspective
-a book that was mentioned in another book you liked
-a book that has the fewest reviews on GR
-the book with the longest title on your list
-a book that is written from 2 different timelines (if that makes sense, like past and present/future...)
-a book that starts with the first letter of your name
-a book that someone recommended to you when you last met her/him (oddly specific)
-a book that hit the screen but turned out bad and/or unsuccessful
- a book which won the 2019 goodreads award
- a book with the character(s) name in the title
- a book that has number(s) in the title
- a book about music
- a book about books (aka, book lovers, libraries, etc.)
- a book about royals
- a book with a (predominantly!) black & white cover
- a historical fiction book feat. a minority as the main character
- a book that starts with a vowel (aka, a, e, i, o, u)
- A book with a specified color cover
- A book that brings back memories
- A book with a certain amount of letter in the title
- The author of the last book you read first book
-a book with a clock on the cover
-a book with a number in the title
-a book by an author who has the same initials as you
-a book you have been putting off reading for a year or more
-a book that a friend has always been trying to get you to read, but you never picked up
- A book with a colorful cover.
- Not so famous author.
- A book with a rhyming title.
-Story of an imaginary place.
- Characters with gifted powers like telepathy
-The last book you marked “want to read” on Goodreads
- A book that matches a taste (ex. If a book was cotton candy sweet which book would match it?)
- A book set in your dream country to visit
-A book that takes place in a highschool
- A book that's in another language
- - a book with flowers on the cover
- a book written by an author whose works you've never read before
- the first book you see from your tbr list when walking into a bookstore
- a book that has something to do with the four elements (water, fire, air, earth)
-A book with an LGBTQ+ main character
•A book with a number as the title
•A book featuring your favorite animal
•The book that has been on your TBR the longest
•A book from a genre you don’t normally read
•A book with a character that has the same name as you
•The first book in a series
•The last book in a series
•A play script
•A book about theatre/a musical/ characters putting on a musical
•A nonfiction book
•Re-read a book you haven’t read in at least 2 years
-If "character x" would read a book what would it be? (Ex. If Sherlock Holmes would read a book what would it be?)
-A book with a 5+ words in the title
-A book that you've been neglecting
-A children's book you think is boring
-A nonfiction about something you have no idea about
-A book with not so good ratings that you think you’d like
-A book one of your favorite character loves
-A book one of your favorite author loves
-A book with a mainly black cover
-A book set in the Victorian era
-A book with your favorite animal on the cover
-A book told from an animal’s point of view
-A book with an unreliable narrator
-A book that connects in some way with your life
-A book set in the decade one of your parents was born in
-A book that had more than 500 pages.
-A book that you can reread that was a favorite
-A book that is an anthology of short stories
-A book which is a sequel of a series
-A book which is a fairy-tale retelling
-The longest book on your tbr list
-A book with an isolation theme
-An LGBTQ+ book outside the "gay" and "lesbian"
-A book that relates to something personal in your life
-Ask a friend to rec you a book, now you have to read it
-A book that you have been putting of reading for forever even though you have it
- A book with a destination in the title
- A fiction book written about a nonfiction person
- A book published by a small press
- A book set in a war zone/conflict
- A book with a rainbow/rainbow colors on the cover
- A book about a plague
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[Rinda]

I read the first book in the Wayward Children series and have wanted to finish the series. I believe most books in this series will work for this challenge and they're all around 200 pages so they're quick reads.

[Jawahir]

For those wishing to participate in the other prompts under the "spoiler" do we pick from the current list and write them in this thread?

Or will the moderators will send us another notification with 5 prompts already picked? (So no need for me to list down anything)

[Tessa]

Jawahir wrote: "For those wishing to participate in the other prompts under the "spoiler" do we pick from the current list and write them in this thread?

Or will the moderators will send us another notification ..."

If you'd like to put any other prompts to give it a shot and see if it'll be picked, you can. The prompts under the spoiler are prompts already suggested by members

[Tessa]

Rinda wrote: "I read the first book in the Wayward Children series and have wanted to finish the series. I believe most books in this series will work for this challenge and they're all around 200 pages so they'..."

Which prompt would they come under? (sorry i haven't read that series)

[Ananya]

hey i was also wondering if we could share some recs for each letter so that its easier for people to identify the books they wanna read

[Jawahir]

Heres are some prompts I thought would be interesting:
- A book with a destination in the title
- A fiction book written about a nonfiction person
- A book published by a small press
- A book set in a war zone/conflict

[Tessa]

Alright I'm going to add that to the list!

[Tessa]

Whew that's a long list

[Ananya]

if we want to...can we do both?? the letters as well as the prompts?

[Tessa]

Ana wrote: "if we want to...can we do both?? the letters as well as the prompts?"

Of course! Sorry I forgot to add that part.

[Ananya]

Tessa HC (onceuponabookworm) wrote: "Ana wrote: "if we want to...can we do both?? the letters as well as the prompts?"

Of course! Sorry I forgot to add that part."

ohkay thanks a lot!!

[Tessa]

Hey y'all, because this is a prompt thread, I'm going to delete anything unrelated, like today's conversation.

[Sara]

Could we do a prompt about like plague-dystopian books? I'm not sure if that makes sense, but like books where a plague is a major part of it. Examples would be like The Maze Runner (because of the ending...rip) and The Andromeda Strain (although that's more sci-fi than YA)...
or I guess even Fever 1793 even though that's more middle-grade.
If that's too sensitive for our current situation I understand if you don't want to do this one.

[Tessa]

Haha I don’t think it is. Funny story, right before quarantine (like a month before) we were reading it (Fever1793)in class and that was when the coronavirus was kinda “easing out of China” and coming to other countries, so it wasn’t a big deal in the US (where I live) yet, and my teacher said “the cases are getting worse because we are reading this book” And here we are

[Sara]

Ahaha wow. We were reading poetry (which unfortunately had no crazy coincidences)

[Tessa]

Haha

[Dalia]

We were reading Freak The Mighty. It was boring.

[Tessa]

Ooh that was what we read at the beginning of the year. We watched the movie too

[Dalia]

Also I’m looking up some books with lgbtq main characters and here’s what I found that sounded interesting:

Lesbian-
Wild and Crooked
Of Fire and Stars
The Abyss Surrounds Us
Everything Leads to You
Fat Angie
Lies We Tell Ourselves
The Porcupine of Truth
We Are Okay
Huntress
Little & Lion

Gay-
Simon VS. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (on my tbr for forever)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Hero
Proxy
True Letters From A Fictional Life
Openly Straight
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Carry On
27 Hours

Bisexual-
Boyfriends With Girlfriends
The Gentleman’s Guide To Vice and Virtue
Ash
Ramona Blue

Transgender-
Luna
I Am J
Almost Perfect
Freakboy
The Art of Being Normal
If I Was Your Girl
A Boy Like Me
Beast (technically not the main character)

Queer and plus-
Symptoms of Being Human
None of the Above
Tash Hearts Tolstoy
Let’s Talk About Love

I’ll edit this if I find more that sounded interesting. Hope that helped!

[[deleted user]]

One of my favorite is Will Greyson Will Greyson John Green about a gay couple

[Abrianna]

Simon vs homosapians agenda and Ramona blue r rly good btw

[Valerie May]

Can I still suggest a prompt?

[Tessa]

Valerie May wrote: "Can I still suggest a prompt?"

I already put up the poll, but I can add your suggestion to the huge prompt list

[Kathleen]

This is a little late, but I’m thinking maybe a book with a rainbow/rainbow colors on the cover?

[Tessa]

Kathleen wrote: "This is a little late, but I’m thinking maybe a book with a rainbow/rainbow colors on the cover?"

I can add it to the list! Maybe it'll be picked next time:)

[Helena]

I have another book suggestion for a bisexual MC - Fever King by Victoria Lee

[Abrianna]

The Dark Tide is a lesbian romance/ACOTAR meets Caraval, book if anyone is stuck on Ya books for L catagory