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Best LGBTQ Books of 2011?
Dec. 13th, 2011 10:44 amGot included on a Lambda Lit request to recommend Best LGBT books of 2011, and while I have my favorites, I'm curious to hear what yours are. One request: if you recommend your own book, please recommend another writer's as well (I abided by my own rules, below and recommended several others). Nothing with only secondary/minor queer characters, please.
Bring on the recommendations!
Edited:
Here's a list of what got recommended out on LJ, via email plus my own recommendations, limited by a having a first publication in English in 2011. Huge thanks to everyone for the suggestions and please send me more!
The Girls Club by Sally Bellerose (Bywater Books)
For Frying Out Loud by Fay Jocobs (A&M Books)
The Dark Wife and Far by Sarah Diemer (indie)
Gemini Bites by PE Ryan (Scholastic Press)
Huntress by Malinda Lo (Little, Brown)
Every Step You Take by Jock Soto (Harper)
Shadow Walkers by Brent Hartinger (Flux)
I am J by Cris Beam (Little, Brown)
Nightsiders by Sue Isle (Twelfth Planet)
Sister Mischief by Laura Goode (Candlewick)
365 Days by KE Payne (Bold Strokes)
Adam's Gift by Jimmy Creech (Duke University Press)
Who I Am by ML Rice (Bold Strokes)
Sleeping Angel by Greg Herren (Bold Strokes)
She Loves You She Loves You Not by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown)
Brooklyn, Burning by Steve Brezenoff (Lerner Publishing)
Witch Eyes by Scott Tracey (Llewellyn/Flux)
Hollowstone by Dennis Upkins
The Courier's New Bicycle by Kim Westwood (Harper Australia)
The Cage of Zeus by Sayuri Ueda (VIZ Media)
A Ride to Remember and Other Erotic Tales by Sacchi Green (Lethe Press)
Promises, Promises by L-J Baker (Lethe Press)
Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft (Torquere Press)
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray (Scholastic)
Speaking Out: LBGTQ Youth Stand Up edited by Steve Berman
A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw by Peggy Shaw (U. of Michigan Press)
Smoketown by Tenea Johnson (Blind Eye Books)
Dark Hunt by Naomi Clark
Sarah, Son of God by Justine Saracen (Bold Strokes)
Enter Oblivion by C.M. Harris (Casparian Books)
Maye's Request by Clifford Henderson (Bold Strokes)
The Shattering by Karen Healey (Little Brown)
Firestorm by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes Books)
Murder in the Irish Channel by Greg Herren (Bold Strokes Books)
The Affair of the Porcelain Dog by Jess Faraday (Bold Strokes Books)
Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic, edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoff (Lethe Press)
A Day at the Inn, A Night at the Palace and Other Stories by Catherine Lundoff (Lethe Press)
Just out and consequently not yet recommended by anyone (Bueller? Bueller?)
Saints Astray by Jacqueline Carey (Grand Central Books)
Bring on the recommendations!
Edited:
Here's a list of what got recommended out on LJ, via email plus my own recommendations, limited by a having a first publication in English in 2011. Huge thanks to everyone for the suggestions and please send me more!
The Girls Club by Sally Bellerose (Bywater Books)
For Frying Out Loud by Fay Jocobs (A&M Books)
The Dark Wife and Far by Sarah Diemer (indie)
Gemini Bites by PE Ryan (Scholastic Press)
Huntress by Malinda Lo (Little, Brown)
Every Step You Take by Jock Soto (Harper)
Shadow Walkers by Brent Hartinger (Flux)
I am J by Cris Beam (Little, Brown)
Nightsiders by Sue Isle (Twelfth Planet)
Sister Mischief by Laura Goode (Candlewick)
365 Days by KE Payne (Bold Strokes)
Adam's Gift by Jimmy Creech (Duke University Press)
Who I Am by ML Rice (Bold Strokes)
Sleeping Angel by Greg Herren (Bold Strokes)
She Loves You She Loves You Not by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown)
Brooklyn, Burning by Steve Brezenoff (Lerner Publishing)
Witch Eyes by Scott Tracey (Llewellyn/Flux)
Hollowstone by Dennis Upkins
The Courier's New Bicycle by Kim Westwood (Harper Australia)
The Cage of Zeus by Sayuri Ueda (VIZ Media)
A Ride to Remember and Other Erotic Tales by Sacchi Green (Lethe Press)
Promises, Promises by L-J Baker (Lethe Press)
Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft (Torquere Press)
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray (Scholastic)
Speaking Out: LBGTQ Youth Stand Up edited by Steve Berman
A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw by Peggy Shaw (U. of Michigan Press)
Smoketown by Tenea Johnson (Blind Eye Books)
Dark Hunt by Naomi Clark
Sarah, Son of God by Justine Saracen (Bold Strokes)
Enter Oblivion by C.M. Harris (Casparian Books)
Maye's Request by Clifford Henderson (Bold Strokes)
The Shattering by Karen Healey (Little Brown)
Firestorm by Radclyffe (Bold Strokes Books)
Murder in the Irish Channel by Greg Herren (Bold Strokes Books)
The Affair of the Porcelain Dog by Jess Faraday (Bold Strokes Books)
Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic, edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoff (Lethe Press)
A Day at the Inn, A Night at the Palace and Other Stories by Catherine Lundoff (Lethe Press)
Just out and consequently not yet recommended by anyone (Bueller? Bueller?)
Saints Astray by Jacqueline Carey (Grand Central Books)
