LGBT Book Recommendations

vou · LGBT Book Recommendations

Can I get a few recommendations? I'm stacking my library with lgbt themed books so i'll welcome any suggestions...so far i've gone through

Stone Butch Blues
S/He
Butch is a noun
Progressive Muslims (which has a really good chapter on homosexuality & islam)

Lucypants

I've recently read a couple of books that were actually quite a good read. Firstly I read 'One Summer Night' by Gerri Hill, that was a good, as it dealt with the emotionally side of relationships as well as the physical. Also even more recently I've read 'Keeping You A Secret' by Julie Ann Peters, again a good book and is about coming out as a teenager and what the character faces.

vou

C4bl3Fl4m3

Oh, dear.

I work at a GLBT bookstore. I do this kind of thing for a living.

I just read The God Box by Alex Sanchez and I couldn't put it down.

I could recommend SO many books to you, it's not even funny.

Perhaps just check out the Staff Picks page on our website?
http://www.lambdarising.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storepicks

vou

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Serafer

I just finished reading "The Temple at Landfall" by Jane Fletcher and "Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer" by Mari Sangiovanni. I recommend both! "The Temple at Landfall" if you enjoy fantasy and "Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer" if you like to laugh in public. Wink

alchera

As far as pleasure reading goes, I'm a huge fan of scifi, fantasy, and horror, so any suggestions along those lines with lesbian content is a plus. I haven't encountered much in my normal course of reading. I'll definitely check out that Temple at Landfall one.

alchera

Lyska · bookishnessocity

Oranges Aren't The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson is a classic (ps I like all of her books), and so is Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown.

If I had to pick a couple of favorites they might be Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters, and Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. I laughed, I cried, and I blushed.. publically in the coffee house. ::sigh::

I agree that there are too many to list.

kazolis

I'd highly recommend any of the books by either Nicola Griffith or Kelley Eskridge. Both are wonderful.

Kazolis

vou

muchos gracias folks! Very Happy

doczira

I really enjoyed Meghan Brunner's Faire-Folk books, From the Ashes and Into the Storm. She has great character development, interesting ideas and a sweet love story. Hmmmm...might have to re-read these, as I hear she is working on the 3rd book in the trilogy.

FullMetalRissa

Can anybody recommend a book that is in first-person? I don't really care for reading books in third-person... I'm really picky about books. XD

branches

I comment on stuff I read in my LJ.

Not a lot yet, but my most recent reads are there, incl. LBGT stuff.

http://kiranerys101.livejournal.com/

acro_circus

FullMetalRissa

Sweet! I'll see if my library has them! Thank you a lot!

soapbox · i <3 books

I am also a big science firction/ fantasy, i guess horror is in there somewhere too fan. I would recommend David Weber's Honor Harrington series, no LGBT content but centers on a very strong female character(s). check out www.baen.com. I would also recommend the anita blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton. The early books are very character driven although the hetero- porn on paper gets a little boring in the later books. Also a strong female character. I am also partial to books by Elizabeth moon. At Baen they have a free library of some of the first book of large series, they get you hooked and then you want more. I would recommend most of the stuff they publish because its good quality sci fi. Anything by John Ringo I am also a fan of. Space opera is a lot of what I read.

cheers.

maylith

Many currently published Lesbian Authors got their start in Xena fanfic, including some mentioned in this post. A few of their printed works are also available free online.....will link a few now.

Blayne Cooper
http://www.academyofbards.org/authors/advocate.html
At least 5 of these stories are available in book form as well at amazon.com

Kim Baldwin
http://www.academyofbards.org/authors/kim_baldwin.html
Most of the stories on that site are her early works, but a couple are also available on Amazon along with many not available on the web

Missy Good
http://www.academyofbards.org/authors/missy_good.html
Only her short stories remain free on the web but she has 8 titles available at Amazon

Gerri Hill
http://www.academyofbards.org/authors/gerri_hill.html
Mentioned earlier in this thread, check out her early works here

KG MacGregor
http://www.academyofbards.org/authors/kg_macgregor.html
Has many unedited versions of her published works free online and 10 titles on Amazon.

SX Meagher
http://www.academyofbards.org/authors/sx_meagher.html
Has many unedited versions of her published work free online and 5 or so titles at Amazon along with more at http://www.susanxmeagher.com/books.htm

Kim Pritekel
http://www.academyofbards.org/authors/kim_pritekel.html
Has many works available for free on line, 4 titles on Amazon

Radclyffe
http://www.academyofbards.org/authors/radclyffe.html
Some early works available online for free. Well over 30 titles available at Amazon

There are other published authors that got their start in Xena fanfic, and you can find them all here
http://www.academyofbards.org/
Many of the works archived here are not Xena facis but original or Uber (the characters tend to look like X&G, but aren't them) works.

There is also some decent lesbian fanfiction about Buffy The Vampire Slayer. These can be found at the site below.
http://www.mysticmuse.net/

As with a lot of fanfic out there....some is good, some isn't, but you can usually figure it out pretty quick, so poke around and see if you like anything.

branches

All of Missy Good's work is available online at her site: http://www.merwolf.com/ffiction.htm

Both her Dar and Kerry tale (incl. a story in progress) and Xena fanfiction.

samanth0r

in terms of stuff thats not scifi... ( i don't wana cover Elizabeth Moon or Laurel K Hamilton AGAIN.)
"The Monkeys Mask" By Dorothy Porter AMAZING piece of poetic queer work, 250 page long poem all told in verse.
Hardboiled Noir Detective Fiction with a butch lead. <3

Kaledio_Ruby

If you like period novels, I suggest the 4 books by Sarah Waters.

Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch.

I had to read Tipping the Velvet for a GLBT literature class and I hated it... then when I wasn't forced to read it for an assignment, I couldn't put it down. Then I immediately got the next two, Affinity and Fingersmith and read those relatively quickly. These three are set in Victorian England and makes for a delightfully romantic, dark, and depressing setting. The Night Watch is set in London in the 1940's during WWII.
If you don't feel like reading, Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith are available on DVD as BBC 3-episode drama specials. Affinity is set to be a move later this year or next.

stack

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden is pretty much the quintessential coming out as a teen book. IMO it's her masterpiece. Her other books aren't quite as good, but still worth the read, I also recommend Good Moon Rising.

Thefremen

Red headed step-child is a great book by new author Jaye Wells about a half-mage/half-vampire girl. I must have found out about it from a borders email or io9, either way very good stuff.

After finishing think i'll get some elizabeth moon.

Serenity

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Thefremen

Serenity

Hmmm. . . I thought it was Wal-Mart but maybe I saw it at Books-A-Million. Not sure if I want to read it now though, if it takes the time to describe demon penis. LOL

Thefremen

FullMetalRissa

I just finished Curious Wine by. Kathrine V. Forrest last night. I loved it. I highly recommend it.

Wingedmoggy

I don't know if 'The Stone Gods' by Jeanette Winterson has popped up anywhere - anyway, it's three short sci-fi stories, all interlinked, and so also has re-reading potential. I thoroughly recommend it Very Happy

Also, thanks for the suggestions, all - I work in a library and have read all the obviously LGBT fic I could find via my random shelf browsing (mainly Sarah Waters and Jeanette W), but now at least I have a few authors and titles I can run through the system!

FallenRose

These are excellent reads! Sorry if they have already been listed, I didn't see them though.

Annie on My Mind- By Nancy Garden
Keeping You a Secret- By Julie Anne Peters
Dare Truth or Promise- By Paula Broock

Thefremen

Comic-wise, Runaways is an awesome book with a main character who is a lesbian.

Great great award-winning comic too.

queerella · Author Suggestions

These are some of my favorite authors/poets:

Jeanette Winterson
Pat Califia
Jewelle Gomez
Rita Mae Brown
Adrienne Rich

And every lesbian must have If Not, Winter - the fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson.

I hope this helps! Smile

Meagan

Empress of the World by Sara Ryan is really good. I think there's even a sequel, The Rules for Hearts.

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