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Happy Pride Month, everyone! In honour of it, I’m tweaking this week’s theme so that all of the titles on it are about LGBTQ+ characters. These are all books I’ve been meaning to read but not have read yet.
If you’ve read any of them, did you like them? If you’re familiar with this subgenre, What other LGBTQ+ books did you think were great stories?
And don’t you wish we all had unlimited time to read?
1. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
2. Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1) by Rebecca Roanhorse
3. They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1) by Adam Silvera
4. The City We Became (Great Cities, #1) by N.K. Jemisin
5. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Technically, I did read a little of this book, but then it was due back at the library and so I couldn’t finish it. Someday I will try again.
6. The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1) by T.J. Klune
7. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
8. Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
9. Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp
10. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Great idea for a tweak of this week’s prompt—to link it with this month’s important theme.
Thank you!
I haven’t read any of these either! Hope you enjoy them when you get to them! Thanks so much for dropping by my list!
You’re welcome!
I really enjoyed The House in the Cerulean Sea. 🙂 I like your twist!
Thank you, and glad to hear it!
Off the top of my head: Days Without End by Sebastian Barry, The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr. and The Two Roberts by Damian Barr. Miss Veal and Miss Ham by Vicki Heywood is in my TBR pile.
Wonderful! Thank you.
Great tweak, Lydia. I’ve read four of these, but although I finished it, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous wasn’t a favourite. It was really depressing. Nice list.
Thank you for sharing. That’s good to know.
The Cerulean Chronicles are on my TBR
Thanks for sharing your #TTT
You’re welcome. Hope you like that one.
I loved The House in the Cerulean Sea (love everything by this author, pretty much). I read Clap When You Land just a couple of years ago at my daughter’s urging, and thought it was beautifully written and very moving.
Oh, that’s so good to hear. Thanks.
Great topic for this week! Clap When You Land was great!
Thank you. 🙂 I’m glad to hear it.
Lots of great ones here! 1, 2, 3, and 6 are some of my favourite books 😍 I did read 7 last month and while I enjoyed it and highly appreciated the craft, I also felt way too dumb for it 😂 I hope you enjoy all these books whenever you get around to them!
Thank you for sharing and for stopping by. That’s all good to know.
I’ve seen some rave reviews for some of Elizabeth’s books. I guess I’ve never really taken a closer look at those yet though. And having more reading time? Well, that would always be great. 🙂 Thanks for visiting my list today.
You’re welcome, Rissi!
So many great books on your list! I loved Clap When You Land, and On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is such a beautiful, haunting read. I listened to it on audio with the author narrating and it was such an emotional experience.
That sounds wonderful. I’ll try to find the audiobook version of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.
An interesting list. I loved The House in the Cerulean Sea! I need to read the second one.
Have a great weekend!
I didn’t know there was a sequel to that book. Cool!
Happy Pride Month! Great list, I need to read The House in the Cerulean Sea.
Happy Pride to you as well. I hope that book is good.
Love The House in the Cerulean Sea!
Yay!
I’ve read Clap When You Land!
Cool!
I’ve been meaning to read several of these too! Made me smile how many I recognised.
I hope you like them. 🙂
Great topic idea. I haven’t read any of these. I hope you enjoy if you get a chance to read them.
Thank you!
Great list. I did really like the TJ Klune book on audio and I have the follow up to listen to at some stage.
Thank you. Hope you like the sequel.
I hope you enjoy these when you get an opportunity to read them. Have a great week!
Thank you, and you, too.
Good idea for Pride month. I haven’t read any of these either!
Thank you!
I really enjoyed both The House in the Cerulean Sea and This Is How You Lose the Time War… actually, I’ve been meaning to reread both of them for a while, too.
Clap When You Land was also a great read. If you enjoy audiobooks, I highly recommend reading this one in audio. Novels in verse seem to work better read aloud in my experience.
Thank you for the heads up. I will do that. I’m glad you liked The House in the Cerulean Sea and This Is How You Lose the Time War, too. 🙂
Some of my favorites are on this list. I will always scream about This Is How You Lose the Time War. Such an unusual, yet beautifully written book.
Yay, so glad to hear that!
I see what you did there for June. 😉
I love the theme for this week’s prompt. I will admit, I don’t think I have too many LGBTQ books on my TBR. I tend to read them first. LoL
Kristin @ Book Sniffers Anonymous
Heh, thank you. I try to read them first, too, but don’t always succeed. 🙂
I’ve read a couple of these – I really enjoyed Clap When You Land, The House on the Cerulean Sea and On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. I am in the minority and never got what the fuss was about with This Is How We Lose The Time War though.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Very helpful.
Nice tweak! I already had The House in the Cerulean Sea in my TBR list, and now I’ve added Black Sun.
Nice. Happy reading!
I haven’t read any of these. Wouldn’t unlimited reading time be wonderful? I already read a ton, but I still need MORE time to get to all the books I want to get to. The struggle is real.
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
I’m glad you think so, Susan. Happy belated TTT to you as well!
I haven’t read any of these either. One I read a few years ago and enjoyed was When You Get the Chance by Tom Ryan and Robin Stevenson. And bonus points: it’s about someone trying to get to Toronto Pride.
Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier.
That sounds great. Thanks for the recommendation. I’m looking it up now.
We read Carmilla in our book club at work and I highly recommend it.
I actually listened to it rather than read it, as it isn’t in the library, and it was playing as I cycled through woods to an old castle, which I thought rather apt.
We decided to read a queer book and voted on about 5 books; I put forward ‘Girls Girls Girls’ by Shoshana von Blanckensee but it didn’t win the nomination. I didn’t read it through lack of time, but it does sound interesting.
I liked Carmilla quite a bit, and I’m glad you did as well!
Thanks for the other recommendation as well. 🙂
My thought on Carmilla was that the queer themes reminded me of ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ which is also subtle, but does have that subtext.
I look forward to hearing what the rest of the book club has to say!
Oh, that’s really interesting, and I didn’t think of it while reading it. But it makes sense. I hope your book club agrees with you, too.
Great list, Lydia. I can’t believe I haven’t read Klune’s book either.