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Anonymous asked:
Can I read Six of Crows without reading the Grisha Trilogy?
buttermybooks answered:
I read the first Grisha book but not the last 2 and read six of crows.
LGBT Books
This is a list of the LGBT books I’ve read/planning on reading as diverse recommendations if you’re interested. I hope this will introduce you to new books you’ll enjoy! Bolded titles will be the special favourites.
Gay
- Something Like Summer by Jay Bell
- Something Like Winter by Jay Bell
- Language Lessons by Jay Bell
- Hell’s Pawn by Jay Bell
- Kamikaze Boys by Jay Bell
- Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
- Maurice by E.M. Forster
- Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault
- The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- The Art of The Heart by Dan Skinner
- Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green, David Levithan
- Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg
- The Pretty Gentleman by Max Fincher
- Sidecar by Amy Lane
- Bewitched by Bella’s Brother by Amy Lane
- Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
- The Iron Words by Michael Fridgen
- Fatal Shadows by Josh Lanyon
- Bear, Otter, & The Kid series by TJ Klune
- Angel by Todd Young
- The Rusted Sword by R.D. Hero
- For Men Like Us by Brita Addams
- Going Down in La-La Land by Andy Zeffer
- It’s Like This by Anne O'Gleadra
- Teleny by Oscar Wilde
- The Medici Boy by John L'Heureux
Lesbian
- Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Taken By Storm by Kim Baldwin
- Dating Sarah Cooper by Siera Maley
- Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman
- The Midnight Moon by Gerri Hill
- Beyond The Pale by Elana Dykewoman
- Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley
- She’s My Ride Home by Jackie Bushore
- The Deadliest Sin by Clara Miller and Donna Miller
- One Day Longer Than Forever by AJ Adaire
- Blindsided by Karis Walsh
- Jolt by Kris Bryant
- To Love Free by Chris Paynter
Bisexual
- Aristotle and Dante Discover The Secrets of The Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- Something Like Autumn by Jay Bell
- Something Like Spring by Jay Bell
- Getting Bi by Robyn Ochs
- Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
- The Island of Excess Love by Francesca Lia Block
- Love In The Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block
- Best Bi Short Stories
- Adaption by Malinda Lo
- Inheritance by Malinda Lo
- Empress of the World by Sara Ryan
- Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
Others
- A Perfect Solution by KC Carlton (trans protagonist)
- Every Day by David Levithan
- Being Asexual in a Sexual World by Umbrella Rain Bryony
- Little Black Book Of A Demisexual by Shannon Taylor
- The Stars Change by Mary Anne Mohanraj
- After reading An Ember in the Ashes: what the HELL?! WHAT?!? THE?!? HELL?!? WAS?!? THAT?!? W H A T T H E H E L L W A S THAT. WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED? THAT IS MESSED UP
- Talking to a friend over text: There's this really amazing book you have to read. You're going to love it :)
- Me: *reading old writing*
- Me: This is actually kind of good.
- Me: ....
- Me: What the fuck was I on?
The Dewey’s 24 Hour read-a-thon was a success for me! I read over 600 pages across 4 different books. How did you do?
You can never read too much
What I tell my friends when they tell me I read too much (via ohsomanybooks)
hey if you ever tell someone they’re stupid for getting an arts degree do me a favor and
-never watch a movie or play again
-never watch tv or Netflix again
-never listen to music again
-never watch a recital again
-never look at another painting, photo, or statue
-never play a video game again
-never read a book again
and return to your judgmental ass Puritan lifestyle
Some Queer Book Suggestions
Hey all! Here’s a list of some books that people seem to always recommend that either have LGBT+ characters or focus strongly on LGBT+ issues. I haven’t read all of them but I’ve had them mentioned to me several times. If anyone has any suggestions for missing novels, definitely message them!
1. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You– Peter Cameron
In this novel, James Sveck has recently graduated from high school and is expected to attend Brown University in the fall. However, James finds himself dreaming of buying a house in the Midwest where he can live out his life in quiet solitude. An anti-social person by choice, James makes a number of missteps in his attempts to become independent, creating a situation in which nothing seems to work out as James had thought it would. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is a novel of self-exploration, of one teenager dealing not only with the perils of an uncharted future, but with the trauma of a past that he cannot face.
2. Luna – Julie Anne Peters
Regan’s brother Liam can’t stand the person he is during the day. Like the moon from which Liam has chosen his female name, his true self is only revealed at night.In the secrecy of his basement bedroom, Liam transforms himself into Luna, the beautiful girl he longs to be, but only with his sister, Regan’s, support and silence.
3. Hero – Perry Moore
The last thing in the world Thom Creed wants is to add to his father’s pain, so he keeps secrets. Like that he has special powers. And that he’s been asked to join the League - the very organization of superheroes that spurned his dad. But the most painful secret of all is one Thom can barely face himself: he’s gay.
4. Rose of No Man’s Land – Michelle Tea
Fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll is a gender-blurring, self-described loner whose family expects nothing of her. While her mother lies on the couch in a hypochondriac haze and her sister aspires to be on The Real World, Trisha struggles to find her own place among the neon signs, theme restaurants, and cookie-cutter chain stores of her hometown. After being hired and abruptly fired from the most popular clothing shop at the local mall, Trisha befriends a chain-smoking misfit named Rose, and her life shifts into manic overdrive.
5. Middlesex: A Novel – Jeffrey Eugenides
“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974… My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver’s license…records my first name simply as Cal.”
So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
6. Our Lady of the Flowers – Jean Genet (1943)
The novel tells the story of Divine, a drag queen who, when the novel opens, has died of tuberculosis and been canonised as a result. The narrator tells us that the stories he is telling are mainly to amuse himself whilst he passes his sentence in prison - and the highly erotic, often explicitly sexual, stories are spun to assist his masturbation. Jean-Paul Sartre called it “the epic of masturbation”. Divine lives in an attic room overlooking Montmartre cemetery, which she shares with various lovers, the most important of whom is a pimp called Darling Daintyfoot. One day Darling brings home a young hoodlum and murderer, dubbed Our Lady of the Flowers. Our Lady is eventually arrested and tried, and executed. Death and ecstasy accompany the acts of every character, as Genet performs a transvaluation of all values, making betrayal the highest moral value, murder an act of virtue and sexual appeal.
7. God Says No – James Hannaham
Gary Gray has a huge problem. On the one hand he’s young and black, a devout Christian, husband and father; on the other hand he’s secretly gay. His is the story of a black Christian bouncing between desire and belief, between love for his family and his desire for other men. Gary struggles for years to hold his life together with his dark secret always threatening to destroy his fragile world, but then what he believes is a clean way out presents itself – a way to slip away from his life and be someone completely different, with a new set of rules and where his gayness is no longer an issue. But of course, there is never an easy way out of big problems, and Gary must eventually face society, his family, himself, and his God.
8. Boy Meets Boy – David Levithan
This is the story of Paul, a sophomore at a high school like no other: The cheerleaders ride Harleys, the homecoming queen used to be a guy named Daryl (she now prefers Infinite Darlene and is also the star quarterback), and the gay-straight alliance was formed to help the straight kids learn how to dance. When Paul meets Noah, he thinks he’s found the one his heart is made for. Until he blows it. The school bookie says the odds are 12-to-1 against him getting Noah back, but Paul’s not giving up without playing his love really loud. His best friend Joni might be drifting away, his other best friend Tony might be dealing with ultra-religious parents, and his ex-boyfriend Kyle might not be going away anytime soon, but sometimes everything needs to fall apart before it can really fit together right.
9. Orlando: A Biography – Virginia Woolf
The protagonist, Orlando, begins the novel as a young sixteenth century aristocrat and a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I. She gives him an estate and orders him never to grow old. We then follow Orlando through the centuries, as he crisscrosses the world, falls in love, and becomes a woman. Profound and comic, Orlando is Woolf’s deepest investigation of gender roles.
10. Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More– Janet Mock
This powerful memoir follows Mock’s quest for identity, from an early, unwavering conviction about her gender to a turbulent adolescence in Honolulu that saw her transitioning during the tender years of high school, self-medicating with hormones at fifteen, and flying across the world alone for sex reassignment surgery at just eighteen. With unflinching honesty, Mock uses her own experience to impart vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of trans youth and brave girls like herself.
11. Tipping The Velvet – Sarah Waters
“Lavishly crammed with the songs, smells, and costumes of late Victorian England” (The Daily Telegraph), this delicious, steamy debut novel chronicles the adventures of Nan King, who begins life as an oyster girl in the provincial seaside town of Whitstable and whose fortunes are forever changed when she falls in love with a cross-dressing music-hall singer named Miss Kitty Butler.
*Also made into a 2002 BBC serial
That’s all I’ve got for now, but I’ll probably update the list as I hear about more books!
I will always be the girl who will happily sit alone and read. Do not mistake me for a lonely person, I am merely fascinated with other worlds.
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