Archive for Lesbian Gamers .com The Forum Lesbian Gamers Forum - Video Game Talk by Girls Who Like Girls Who Like Games          Lesbian Gamers .com The Forum Forum Index -> Books, Poetry, Music and Art 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 Lucypants wrote: 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. cheers lucy, i'll have a look...damn i really can't wait for a break where i can indulge in all the recommendations i've had! 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 C4bl3Fl4m3 wrote: 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 You're a star muchos gracias!!! C4bl3Fl4m3 vou wrote: You're a star muchos gracias!!! Just doin' my job. Do let me know what you end up reading and how you like it. It's always good to get feedback. Hell, if you write reviews, we're always looking for new guest reviewers for the website. 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. 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 Quote: I'm a huge fan of scifi, fantasy, and horror, so any suggestions along those lines with lesbian content is a plus. And then I noticed a few were recommended in the "lesbian slutfest" thread.   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! 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 wrote: 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 Haha, the DOOM II books are in first person xD (duurr, not surprising) and so is Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein which the Doom II series was emulating. 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.        Lesbian Gamers .com The Forum Forum Index -> Books, Poetry, Music and Art Page 1 of 1