This is a weekly tag hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, and this week’s challenge is to pick ten books with _____ characters – you fill in the blank!
For this week’s prompt, I decided to focus on LGBTQ+ characters. If you follow my blog regularly, you know that, every Thursday, I do a Diversity Spotlight where I feature 3 diverse reads. I’ve been doing that for a couple of months now, and it’s been a fun meme, but I don’t believe I’ll continue doing it every week – probably just every so often! To bring it to an end, I thought what better way than to put the spotlight on ten books that I love recommending for queer rep?
1. Now I Rise – Kiersten White
reps: gay, lesbian
2. They Both Die at the End – Adam Silvera
reps: gay, bi
3. The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue – Mackenzi Lee
reps: gay, bi, possible ace
4. How to Make a Wish – Ashley Herring Blake
reps: lesbian, bi
5. Taproot – Keezy Young
reps: gay
6. Heathen, Vol 1 – Natasha Alterici
reps: lesbian
7. Hunting Prince Dracula – Kerri Maniscalco
reps: lesbian
8. Spellbook of the Lost and Found – Moira Fowley-Doyle
reps: lesbian, bi
9. Daughter of the Burning City – Amanda Foody
reps: lesbian, bi, demi
10. Lumberjanes series – Noelle Stevenson
reps: lesbian, bi?, trans
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I love The Gentleman’s Guide. What a fun yet serious book that covers a plethora of topics. My TTT related to Banned Books this week
awww, great list! totally agree with mateo and rufus. also percy from “the gentleman’s guide” <3
i loved simon from "simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda" too! <3
Simon is a sweetheart!
yeees ❤️❤️❤️
Love this list <3
Thank you!
Great list! My ultimate fave is Magnus Bane (the book version of him)
I still have to read those! 🙂
Great topic. Gentleman’s Guide is so great. I didn’t know that Hunting Prince Dracula would have rep like that. That’s great. The first book wasn’t really my thing but the title alone for this second one is making me itch to get it.
Yes, the rep pleasantly surprised me in HPD! I hope you check it out and like it. 🙂
I’ve heard so many good things about The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue….I hope I can read it sometime this year! Great List!
It’s very good! Thank you!
I really enjoyed The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue and can only recommend it. I have Now I Rise – Kiersten White on my tbr – can’t wait to pick it up.
Yay! I hope you like it!
I clicked on this SO FAST when I saw it. Aaand then added all the ones I hadn’t read yet to my TBR. I need more books with LGBTQ+ characters. Thanks for the recs!
Bahaha yay! <3
I FINALLY own The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue; and Stalking Jack The Ripper is on its way! [Alas, Amazon is being a **** so I have no clue when it’ll arrive..] AND Daughter of the Burning City is also on my TBR.
God, I’ll be crying the day I can say that I’ve actually read every interesting book on a list instead of going “I own it, but have yet to read it!”
Great list though, haha!
Aww, I hope they show up soon! And I hope you love all of them! <3
And I FEEL YOU. I'm always like, 'yep, that's on my TBR. Yep, that's on it too…" lmao! Thank you!
Saaaaame. Still haven’t arrived, boo. 🙁
Oh well. Maybe it’s better that way than “Oh, adding that to my TBR. Oh! That one as well! OH YES THAT ONE!” :’D
Awww. 🙁 I hope it does soon!
Hm, point. If my TBR wasn’t already overwhelming, about 3 days of book blog following would do it, lmao
3 days of book blogging.. Or wanting to make your “Most anticipated” list for 2018.. Which I still have to do and I think I’ll be crying when I’m doing so. :’D
Oh god, don’t remind me lmao.
Let’s all cry together :’D
I’m reading And I Darken at the moment, I think I know what the gay rep is but I don’t know who the lesbian character is? Or do they only appear in Now I Rise? Gentleman’s Guide I’m so excited about, I’ve heard such great things and I had no idea Daughter of The Burning City had so much sexuality rep in it, it’s made me even more excited for it!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/top-ten-tuesday-126/
You may not have met the lesbians yet – but you’ll get there! You meet them in book 1 and spend more time with one of them in book 2. 🙂 It’s wonderful.
That’s great to hear!
Sadly I haven’t read many books with LGBTQ+ characters. There are some books in the list which I am seeing everywhere these days. I am definitely adding some of these to my list 🙂 Great list!
My TTT
I hope you enjoy them! Thank you!
Added Spellbook and Daughter of the Burning City to my TBR! Ughh I must read Now I Rise soon!
Ooooh yay! I hope you enjoy!
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I’m dying for Hunting Prince Dracula! 🙂
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It’s so great! Hope you can grab a copy soon!
I have several of these in my TBR mountain.
River of Teeth/Taste of Marrow- Sarah Gailey, most of this crew fits. I love Hero!
The Missing- Jerico Lenk- gender fluid mc
Thanks for the recs! I’ll look them up!