Book Recs: The Great Big LGBT Rec List (II)

It’s Friday, which means (you guessed it!) Anna is finally letting me post the second part of the Great Big Rec List! (I’m kidding, kind of. Anna keeps the posts on this blog regular.) Anna posted her first 25 here, and you can find all of the parts of this list here or by the link in the menu up top.

So, here is a list of 25 of my favourite LGBT books. I say of my favourite because, not unexpectedly, when I tried to write down only 50 books, the list kept spilling over (so did Anna’s, which is good news for you guys because it means there might be more than 4 parts to this series). The books on here are all ones I’ve loved, and they’re also all ones which end on a, if not always outright happy, then hopeful note. (You can always trust me and Anna not to rec you tragic gay stories, or ones which end up burying their gays, just fyi.) There are some books that need trigger warnings on this list, so if you’re wondering, just drop us a comment and we can answer any questions!

Once again, the key to the rep is:

lesbians & wlw relationships: ☀️
gays & mlm relationships: 🌿
bisexual characters: 💎
trans, genderqueer, non-binary, gnc characters: 🌷
LGBT authors: 🌈
poetry: 🌉

Compass Rose by Anna Burke ☀️🌈
True Letters from a Fictional Life by Kenneth Logan 🌿🌈
In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard ☀️🌷🌈
Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger 🌿🌈
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour ☀️🌈

Taking Flight by Siera Maley ☀️🌈
Joyride by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly (writers) & Marcus To (artist) ☀️
Heavy Vinyl by Carly Usdin (writer) & Nina Vakueva (artist) ☀️🌈
Release by Patrick Ness 🌿🌈
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan 🌿💎

Thief in the Interior by Phillip B. Williams 🌿🌈🌉
Hold Me by Courtney Milan 💎🌷🌈
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth ☀️🌈
Prom and Other Hazards by Jamie Sullivan ☀️💎🌈
Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno ☀️💎

Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns by Andrea Gibson 🌷🌈🌉
Into the Blue by Pene Henson 🌿💎🌈
This Way to the Sugar by Hieu Minh Nguyen 🌿🌈🌉
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan ☀️🌈
Goldie Vance by Hope Larson (writer) & Brittney Williams (artist) ☀️

The Switch by Justina Robson ☀️🌿
Know Not Why by Hannah Johnson 🌿🌈
Falling into Place by Sheryn Munir ☀️🌈
That Could be Enough by Alyssa Cole ☀️🌈
The Love Song of Sawyer Bell by Avon Gale ☀️💎🌈

I hope we’ve managed to convince you to read at least one of the 50 books we’ve presented so far (and start your 2019 off the right (gay) way!). And look out for Anna’s second post due at the beginning of next week for recs 51-75!