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Black History Month 2021

February 1, 2021 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

This is an annual feature that runs a little differently from the rest on LGBTQReads, as the post builds on itself each year and new titles/sections are added with asterisks. These books are all queer titles by Black authors, the vast majority of which star Black main characters. (Obviously this isn’t remotely exhaustive.)

Sites

Sistahs on the Shelf – SotS is run by Rena, a Black lesbian who reviews Black lesbian books. You can also follow on Twitter at @SotS!

WoC in Romance – this is a site highlighting all Romance written by WoC, but there’s a page just for LGBTQ Romances. It’s run by Rebekah Weatherspoon, whose name you may recognize as being a prolific author of LGBTQ lit herself! You can follow on Twitter at @WOCInRomance, and make sure you check out their Patreon; link is in the pinned tweet!

Black Lesbian Literary Collective – To nab from their site, “The Black Lesbian Literary Collective creates a nurturing and sustainable environment for Black lesbian and queer women of color writers.” Looking for more reviews of Black lesbian fic? Ta da! The site is new, so it’s not packed with posts just yet, but there is already an active radio show linked to it. Find them on Twitter at @LezWriters.

The Brown Bookshelf – this is a site dedicated to Black kidlit; here are the posts that come up if you search LGBT.

Books

*=new additions this year

Picture Books

My Rainbow by DeShanna and Trinity Neal*

Middle-Grade

Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender (Stonewall Award Winner)
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender (National Book Award finalist, CSK Award Nominee)
Meow or Never by Jazz Taylor*
In the Key of Us by Mariama Lockington*
The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson

Young Adult

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo* (New York Times and Indie bestseller)
The Wicker King by K. Ancrum
The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum
Darling by K. Ancrum*
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta (Stonewall Award winner)
This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow
Bad Things Happen Here by Rebecca Barrow*
Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
The Inevitability of Home by Ciera Burch*
A Phoenix First Must Burn ed. by Patrice Caldwell
Where Shadows Reign by Patrice Caldwell*
This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert (Stonewall Award winner)
Things We Couldn’t Say by Jay Coles*
The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (National Book Award finalist)
The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons
Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode
We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds*
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (New York Times bestseller)
Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackson
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson (Indie bestseller, Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club inaugural YA pick)
Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson
Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
If it Makes You Happy by Claire Kann
The Marvelous by Claire Kann*
Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee*
Forever is Now by Mariama J. Lockington*
37 Things I Love (in No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon
A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney*
Home and Away by Candice Montgomery (Bi LI)
By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus (CSK Nominee)
Odd One Out by Nic Stone
Running with Lions by Julian Winters
How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters
The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters
Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters*
The Beauty that Remains by Ashley Woodfolk
Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk*
Black Enough ed. by Ibi Zoboi

NA/Adult (Realistic)

Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia*
The Way Back List by Lily Anderson
The Unfortunates by J K Chukwu
Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole
A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole
How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole*
Hamilton’s Battalion by Alyssa Cole, Courtney Milan, and Rose Lerner
A Hundred Thousand Words by Nyrae Dawn
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Jeremiah by Jayce Ellis*
Learned Behaviors by Jayce Ellis*
Learned Reactions by Jayce Ellis*
For Sizakele by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings*
Work For It by Talia Hibbert
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert*
Things Hoped For by Chencia C. Higgins
Ready, Set, Wed! by Chencia C. Higgins*
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
The Spies Who Loved Her series by Katrina Jackson
The Welcome to Seaport series by Katrina Jackson
Neighborly by Katrina Jackson
I’m (So) Not Over You by Kosoko Jackson*
Being Merry by Meka James*
Cinder Ella by S.T. Lynn
The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie
She Called Me Woman ed. by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, and Aisha Salau
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
When We Speak of Nothing by Olumide Popoola
You Make Me Wanna by Nikki Rashan
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Booker Prize finalist)
Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor*
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor*
Group Show by Brandon Taylor*
F*ths by G.L. Thomas
Sugar and Ice by Brooklyn Wallace
Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace
Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon
So Sweet by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Xeni by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Harbor by Rebekah Weatherspoon*
Bliss by Fiona Zedde
Femme Like Her by Fiona Zedde*

NA/Adult (Speculative)

Stone and Steel by Eboni J. Dunbar
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
To Terminator, With Love by Wes Kennedy
Shatterproof by Xen Sanders
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon*
The Root by Na’amen Gobert Tilahun
Better off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Every Dark Desire by Fiona Zedde

Comics/Graphic Novels*

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu

Memoirs

Mama: A Black, Queer Woman’s Journey to Motherhood by Nikkya Hargrove*
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson (YA)
We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson* (YA)
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
*Fat Off, Fat On by Clarkisha Kent
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me by Janet Mock
*Fierce Love by Francesca Royster

Poetry

original kink by Jubi Arriola-Headley*
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
When the Only Light is Fire by Saeed Jones
Black Queer Hoe by Britteney Black Rose Kapri
Reacquainted With Life by KOKUMỌ
The Black Unicorn by Audre Lord
[insert] boy by Danez Smith
Homie by Danez Smith

Featured Authors

Posts

Shop Queer Books From Black-Owned Bookstores, Part I and Part II
Finding Queer Black Love in Literature: a Guest Post by Katrina Jackson
Where is the Queer Black Male Voice in YA Lit?

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Black History Month 2020

February 7, 2020 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

Sites

Sistahs on the Shelf – SotS is run by Rena, a Black lesbian who reviews Black lesbian books. You can also follow on Twitter at @SotS!

The Brown Bookshelf – this is a site dedicated to Black kidlit; here are the posts that come up if you search LGBT.

Books

*=new additions this year

Middle-Grade

Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender (Stonewall Award Winner)
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson

Young Adult

The Wicker King by K. Ancrum*
The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta* (Stonewall Award winner)
This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow
Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron*
A Phoenix First Must Burn ed. by Patrice Caldwell
This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender*
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert (Stonewall Award winner)
Until You Came Back by Jay Coles
Jake in the Box by Ryan Douglass
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (National Book Award finalist)
The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons
Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett
The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackson*
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson*
Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson*
Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
If it Makes You Happy by Claire Kann
37 Things I Love (in No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon
A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
Escaping Mr. Rochester by L.L. McKinney*
Home and Away by Candice Montgomery (Bi LI)
By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus (CSK Nominee)
Odd One Out by Nic Stone
Running with Lions by Julian Winters
How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters
The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters*
The Beauty that Remains by Ashley Woodfolk
Black Enough ed. by Ibi Zoboi

NA/Adult Contemporary

The Way Back List by Lily Anderson*
Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole
A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole*
Hamilton’s Battalion by Alyssa Cole, Courtney Milan, and Rose Lerner
A Hundred Thousand Words by Nyrae Dawn*
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
For Sizakele by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo*
Work For It by Talia Hibbert*
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
The Spies Who Loved Her series by Katrina Jackson
The Welcome to Seaport series by Katrina Jackson
Neighborly by Katrina Jackson*
The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie*
She Called Me Woman ed. by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, and Aisha Salau
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
When We Speak of Nothing by Olumide Popoola
You Make Me Wanna by Nikki Rashan*
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers*
Real Life by Brandon Taylor*
F*ths by G.L. Thomas
Sugar and Ice by Brooklyn Wallace
Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace
Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon
So Sweet by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Xeni by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Bliss by Fiona Zedde*

NA/Adult (Speculative)

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James*
To Terminator, With Love by Wes Kennedy
Shatterproof by Xen Sanders
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
The Deep by Rivers Solomon*
The Root by Na’amen Gobert Tilahun
Better off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Every Dark Desire by Fiona Zedde

Comics/Graphic Novels*

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu

Memoirs*

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson (YA)
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me by Janet Mock

Poetry*

The Tradition by Jericho Brown
When the Only Light is Fire by Saeed Jones
Black Queer Hoe by Britteney Black Rose Kapri
Reacquainted With Life by KOKUMỌ
The Black Unicorn by Audre Lord
[insert] boy by Danez Smith
Homie by Danez Smith

Featured Authors

Discussion Posts

Where is the Queer Black Male Voice in YA Lit?

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Happy Holigays

Black History Month 2019

February 15, 2019 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

Last year, I posted this on the last day of Black History Month as part of the Around the Blogosqueer feature. This year, I thought it’d be nice to start a tradition of just adding to it every year as a BHM staple, keeping the old stuff but continuously providing new content, and posting it in th middle of February. Living history FTW.

Sites

Sistahs on the Shelf – SotS is run by Rena, a Black lesbian who reviews Black lesbian books. You can also follow on Twitter at @SotS!

The Brown Bookshelf – this is a site dedicated to Black kidlit; here are the posts that come up if you search LGBT.

Books

*=new additions this year

Middle-Grade

Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender (Stonewall Award Winner)
The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson

Young Adult

The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum*
This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow
A Phoenix First Must Burn ed. by Patrice Caldwell*
This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kheryn Callender
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert (Stonewall Award winner)
Until You Came Back by Jay Coles*
Jake in the Box by Ryan Douglass*
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi*
The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons*
Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett*
The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland*
A Place for Wolves by Kosoko Jackson
Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
If it Makes You Happy by Claire Kann*
37 Things I Love (in No Particular Order) by Kekla Magoon*
A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney*
Home and Away by Candice Montgomery (Bi LI)
By Any Means Necessary by Candice Montgomery*
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus*
Odd One Out by Nic Stone*
Running with Lions by Julian Winters
How to Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters*
The Beauty that Remains by Ashley Woodfolk*
Black Enough ed. by Ibi Zoboi*

NA/Adult Contemporary

Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole*
Hamilton’s Battalion by Alyssa Cole, Courtney Milan, and Rose Lerner
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn*
For Sizakele by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene*
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala*
The Spies Who Loved Her series by Katrina Jackson*
The Welcome to Seaport series by Katrina Jackson*
She Called Me Woman ed. by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, and Aisha Salau*
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
When We Speak of Nothing by Olumide Popoola*
F*ths by G.L. Thomas
Sugar and Ice by Brooklyn Wallace*
Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace
Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon*
So Sweet by Rebekah Weatherspoon

NA/Adult (Speculative)

To Terminator, With Love by Wes Kennedy*
Shatterproof by Xen Sanders
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon*
The Root by Na’amen Gobert Tilahun*
Better off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon*
Every Dark Desire by Fiona Zedde

Comics

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin*

Featured Authors

Posts and Featured Authors

Where is the Queer Black Male Voice in YA Lit?

Have more to share? Add them in the comments!

News

Good News Roundup of LGBTQ Reads, 2018 Edition

December 17, 2018 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

After so many years of LGBTQIAP+ lit struggling for recognition, it’s been pretty killer to watch literary news this year, and to watch it get more mainstream multimedia recognition than ever. And since I think at any given time, we could all use some good news about the progress of LGBTQIAP+ books in publishing, here’s to highlighting some (but not even all!) of this year’s biggest successes in mainstream media:

Picture Books

Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love was named one of Amazon’s best Children’s Books of the year for ages 3-5 and one of the Best Children’s Books of 2018 by New York Public Library, Time, and School Library Journal, as well as a Notable Children’s Book by The New York Times

Middle Grade

Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender was named one of Booklist‘s Top 10 First Novels for Youth: 2018, a Malka Penn Award Honor Book, and a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal

Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake was a recommended title for the 2019 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children and was named one of the Best Children’s Books of 2018 by New York Public Library and Chicago Public Library, and a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and NPR

Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell was named one of the Best Children’s Books of 2018 by New York Public Library and a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal

Young Adult

*Graphic novels listed separately below

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour was awarded the Printz

The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller won The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book

Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert won the Stonewall Award

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee received a Stonewall Honor and made the 2018 Top Ten Best Fiction list by YALSA

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal

The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal

Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal and was named among the Best YA of 2018 for Feeding Imaginations by Kirkus

Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp hit the New York Times bestseller list and was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli hit the New York Times bestseller list, was named Best Young Adult Fiction by Goodreads voters, and was named among the Best YA Romances of 2018 by Kirkus

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee hit the New York Times bestseller list and was named among the Best Historical YA of 2018 by Kirkus

What If It’s Us? by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera was optioned for film, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen, Amazon, Bustle, Paste, B&N Teen Blog, and New York Public Library, and a Best Audiobook of 2018 by Audible

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan hit the New York Times bestseller list and was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List Top Ten for Winter 2018-19

Sadie by Courtney Summers hit the New York Times bestseller list and was named a Publishers Weekly Best YA of 2018, one of Booklist’s 10 Best YAs of 2018 for Adults, a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and NPR, a Best Teen Fiction of 2018 by Chicago Public Library, a Best YA Mystery and Thriller of 2018 by Kirkus, a Best Audiobook of 2018 by Google Play, and a Best YA of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog, Paste, Amazon, and The Boston Globe

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland hit the New York Times bestseller list and was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen, Amazon, School Library Journal, New York Public Library, B&N Teen Blog, and one of Booklist‘s 10 Best YAs of 2018 for Adults, as well as the Best YA of the Year by Paste

Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram was a finalist for the Morris Award and named a Publishers Weekly Best YA of 2018, a Best YA of 2018 by The Boston Globe, New York Public Library, Time, Amazon, and B&N Teen Blog, and among the Best YA Books of 2018 that Explore on Family and Self by Kirkus

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli released as a feature film called Love, Simon

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth released as a feature film

Black Wings Beating by Alex London was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen and Paste and a Best YA Fantasy of 2018 by Kirkus

People Like Us by Dana Mele was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen

The Beauty that Remains by Ashley Woodfolk was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen and Bustle, and the Best YA Debut of 2018 by Paste

Ship It by Britta Lundin was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen

Camryn Garrett, author of 2019’s Full Disclosure, was named one of Teen Vogue‘s 21 Under 21 Class of 2018

Pulp by Robin Talley was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List Top Ten for Winter 2018-19 and included among the Best Teen Fiction of 2018 by Chicago Public Library and the Best YAs of 2018 by Paste

The Disasters by MK England was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List Top Ten for Winter 2018-19

Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List for Winter 2018-19

The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List for Winter 2018-19

This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List for Winter 2018-19

Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore was named one of Tor.com Reviewers’ Best Books of 2018, a Best YA Fantasy of 2018 by Kirkus, a Best YA of 2018 by The Boston Globe, and a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal

Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman was named one of Booklist’s 10 Best YAs of 2018 for Adults, among the Best YA Books of 2018 About Speaking Your Truth by Kirkus, and a Best YA of 2018 by New York Public Library, B&N Teen Blog, and Paste

Dear Rachel Maddow by Adrienne Kisner was named a Best YA of 2018 by New York Public Library

Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert was named a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and among the Best Teen Fiction of 2018 by Chicago Public Library, Best YA Books of 2018 that Explore Family and Self by Kirkus, and Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog

A Room Away From the Wolves by Nova Ren Suma was named a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and NPR and a Best YA of 2018 by Bustle and Paste

Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake was named among the Best Teen Fiction of 2018 by Chicago Public Library and Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog

The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson was named among the Best Teen Fiction of 2018 by Chicago Public Library and a Best YA of 2018 by The Boston Globe

Odd One Out by Nic Stone was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR and among the Best YAs of 2018 by The Boston Globe and Paste

The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in LA) by Amy Spalding was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, a Best YA Romance of 2018 by Kirkus, and among the Best YAs of 2018 by The Boston Globe and Paste

The Spy With the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Paste and B&N Teen Blog and among the Best Jewish Children’s Books of 2018 by Tablet

A Blade so Black by L.L. McKinney was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Paste

Home and Away by Candice Montgomery was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog and Paste and among the Best YA Mysteries and Thrillers of 2018 by Kirkus

Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Paste

For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Paste

Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog and Paste and among the Best YA Books of 2018 About Speaking Your Truth by Kirkus

Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by The Boston Globe and Paste

This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kheryn Callender was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Bustle and B&N Teen Blog and a Best YA Romance of 2018 by Kirkus

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Bustle

Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog

Final Draft by Riley Redgate was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog and the Best YA Romances of 2018 by Kirkus

Running With Lions by Julian Winters was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog

The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose Capetta was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog and a Best YA Romance of 2018 by Kirkus

Jack of Hearts (and other parts) was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog

Unbroken ed. by Marieke Nijkamp was named among the Best YAs of 2018 that Feed Imaginations by Kirkus

Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones was named among the Best YA Books of 2018 that Explore on Family and Self by Kirkus

We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia is a Junior Library Guild selection

Romance

Rend by Roan Parrish was named a Best Romance of the Year by Amazon

Time Was by Ian McDonald was named a Best Book of 2018 by New York Public Library

When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR

Contemporary and Historical Adult Fiction

Less by Andrew Sean Greer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

John Rechy received the 2017 Robert Kirsch Award

White Houses by Amy Bloom was named a Best Book of 2018 by New York Public Library

Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR

The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara was named one of the Best Debuts of 2018 by Entertainment Weekly

Sugar Run by Mesha Maren was named to the January 2019 Indie Next List

SFF

Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novel

The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novella

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey was nominated for a a Nebula Award for Best Novella

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado was a finalist for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado is being developed into an FX series

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez is being developed into a TV series

Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller was named a Publishers Weekly Best SF/Fantasy/Horror of 2018 and a Kirkus Best Sci Fi and Fantasy of 2018

Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg was named a Best Historical Fiction of 2018 , a Best Debut Fiction of 2018 by Kirkus, and among “10 More Great Debuts” by Entertainment Weekly, a supplement to their list of the 10 Best Debuts of the 2018

The Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard was named one of Tor.com Reviewers’ Best Books of 2018

The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson was named one of Tor.com Reviewers’ Best Books of 2018

Vengeful by V.E. Schwab was named Best Science Fiction by Goodreads voters

Nonfiction

Garrard Conley’s memoir, Boy Erased, was released as a feature film and hit the New York Times bestseller list

I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya was named among the Best YA Books of 2018 About Speaking Your Truth by Kirkus

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee was named a Best Book by TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, New York Public Library, The A.V. Club, Book Riot, PopSugar, The Rumpus, My Republica, Paste, Bitch,Library Journal,Bustle, Christian Science Monitor,Shelf Awareness, Tor.com, Chicago Public Library, Entropy Magazine,The Chicago Review of Books, The Coil, iBooks, and Washington Independent Review of Books, and was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

Poetry

Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by New York Public Library

Graphic Novels

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR

My Brother’s Husband by Gengoroh Tagame, translated by Anne Ishii, was named among the Best YA Books of 2018 that Explore on Family and Self by Kirkus

Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu was a finalist for the Morris Award and named one of Booklist’s 10 Best YAs of 2018 for Adults, a Best YA of 2018 by New York Public Library and The Boston Globe, and among the Best YA Books of 2018 that Explore on Family and Self by Kirkus

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang was named a Best YA of 2018 by Publishers Weekly, Amazon, New York Public Library, School Library Journal, NPR, and The Boston Globe

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden was named a Publishers Weekly Best YA of 2018 and a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal

For lists of the best queer books of 2018, check out these on BookRiot and Autostraddle!

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Around the Blogosqueer: Queer Black Sites, Books, and Posts

February 28, 2018 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

On this final day of Black History Month of 2018, here are some books, sites, and posts to read, enjoy, promote, support, review, and share:

Sites

Sistahs on the Shelf – SotS is run by Rena, a Black lesbian who reviews Black lesbian books. You can also follow on Twitter at @SotS!

The Brown Bookshelf – this is a site dedicated to Black kidlit; here are the posts that come up if you search LGBT.

2016-18 Books

Middle-Grade

Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender

Young Adult

This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow
This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kheryn Callender
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert (Stonewall Award winner)
The Secrets of Eden by Brandon Goode
Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
Home and Away by Candice Montgomery (Bi LI)
Running with Lions by Julian Winters

Adult

Hamilton’s Battalion by Alyssa Cole, Courtney Milan, and Rose Lerner
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
F*ths by G.L. Thomas
Tailor-Made by Yolanda Wallace
So Sweet by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Adult (Speculative)

Shatterproof by Xen Sanders
Every Dark Desire by Fiona Zedde

Books You Can Add on Goodreads

Young Adult

A Place for Wolves by Kosoko Jackson (Historical Thriller, 2019)
Mabel and Audre’s Existential Transcendental Journey Through Black Universe by Junauda Petrus

Not yet on Goodreads, but take note:

(Electric Literature editor, Lambda Literary Fellow, and Iowa Writer’s Workshop fellow Brandon Taylor’s REAL LIFE, a novel of unexpected intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, and a story collection, to Cal Morgan and Riverhead, in a pre-empt, by Meredith Kaffel Simonoff at DeFiore and Company.)

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2017 Good News Roundup of LGBTQ Reads

December 21, 2017 Dahlia Adler 3 Comments

Continuing in the tradition that’s been happening on this blog since…last year, I’m documenting some of the many literary accolades that’ve been heaped on incredible LGBTQIAP+ works this year, partly to help you find great books but mostly just so we can bask in the joyous glory. Without further ado, check out what’s been deemed this year’s best of the best!