YA LGBT Books discussion

Izabella ✨ wrote: "I wanna read something with a wlw grumpy x sunshine trope. Any recs?"

im very sure there's a lot of other books that i've read with this trope. but the only one that comes to my mind right now is night & day by lily seabrooke. it's like a cosy feel good with a side of business drama.

Izabella ✨ wrote: "I wanna read something with a wlw grumpy x sunshine trope. Any recs?"

Maybe a little bit the Gives Light series by Rose Christo - Skylar is the most open, positive and easygoing guy you could ever hope to meet; Rafael is a tall, somber young man with some hidden darknesses.

If you're up for a graphic novel, I highly recommend Crystal Frasier's Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms .

Hello!
I'm looking for a new queer YA book to read, I just finished "I kissed Shara Wheeler" and loved all Casey Mquistons books but I'm open to any. If someone has a rec. I'm up to read it.(However I'm not into series)

Orchid wrote: "Hello!
I'm looking for a new queer YA book to read, I just finished "I kissed Shara Wheeler" and loved all Casey Mquistons books but I'm open to any. If someone has a rec. I'm up to read it."

hey! i also love casey’s books so i’m gonna recommend some fun YA for you that i adored!

Never Ever Getting Back Together

How to Excavate a Heart

She Gets the Girl

The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

and there's these two books which they are not very popular but I wish they were

Catch and Cradle

Endgame

if u want more recs, u can def send me a message! I have way more lol

Thank you! I read She Gets the Girl and I loved it, I will def look at these.

Orchid wrote: "I'm looking for a new queer YA book to read."

Girl Mans Up
Far from Xanadu
Annie on My Mind
Starting from Here
Dress Codes for Small Towns
The Difference Between You and Me

Dear Rachel Maddow is fantastic and I also love, love, love the graphic novella, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me.

heyoooo
im looking for m/m YA books that have trans characters in it preferably ftm :)

Ash wrote: "heyoooo
im looking for m/m YA books that have trans characters in it preferably ftm :)"

My favorites include
Spy Stuff
Cemetery Boys
When the Moon Was Ours
I Wish You All the Best
Symptoms of Being Human
Felix Ever After


You can also check our "trans men/boys" bookshelf
https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Jo wrote: "I'd love to find out whether there are any YA books with trans* characters in which the character "just happens" to be trans*... in other words, a book in which the character's gender identity is n..."
Into the Deep
It's an autistic mc, a lot of queer characters but these things aren't the focus of the story. It's just a lot of different people finding their way in a college setting, underground magic school, not wild or anything haha

Anna wrote: "Jo wrote: "I'd love to find out whether there are any YA books with trans* characters in which the character "just happens" to be trans*... in other words, a book in which the character's gender id..."

<3 Sounds good.

Hello! I’m looking for a queer YA book, I’ve recently read Imogen Obviously, and None of the above. I would love some recs!

Orchid wrote: "Hello! I’m looking for a queer YA book, I’ve recently read Imogen Obviously, and None of the above. I would love some recs!"

It sounds like you like contemporary fiction about queer self-discovery. In that vein, I recommend:

Arden Grey
Beating Heart Baby
Birthday
The Black Flamingo
The Boy from the Mish
Cool for the Summer
Final Draft
Friday I'm in Love
How to Repair a Mechanical Heart
If This Gets Out
Leah on the Offbeat
The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
Loveless
The One True Me and You
Symptoms of Being Human
This Is Why They Hate Us
We Are Your Parents

That's a great list. I'd add
The Music of What Happens
I Wish You All the Best
Jordan vs. All the Boys
We Are Okay
Nobody's Butterfly
Autoboyography

lyraand wrote: "Orchid wrote: "Hello! I’m looking for a queer YA book, I’ve recently read Imogen Obviously, and None of the above. I would love some recs!"

It sounds like you like contemporary fiction about queer..."

I am def a fan of self discovery queer books as well as "stereotypical" queer meet-cutes like "The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers" and "One Last Stop". Per your rec I started Symptoms of Being Human this:)

Hello,

I have been reading A LOT of Chinese web novels and Japanese light novels for the past few years and I have had my fill of it. I want to transition back into American novels, but here is the thing. The themes I really loved in all the CWNs and JLNs I read are stories about reincarnation and transmigration with a heavier emphasis on the latter.

The reincarnation stories I read are basically people (mostly villains) who led a very tragic or miserable end and they end up reincarnating back to their younger selves and start life anew (in a better direction).

Transmigration is when the soul of the main character dies (usually) in their original home world (usually Earth) and reincarnated in a whole new world, parallel universe, ancient past, interstellar era, or in the storybook of the last book the character read. They can either be born anew as a baby or their souls are transplanted into the recently deceased body of the person who 'coincidentally' shared the same name as them (usually).

What I want to ask is if there are any American novels that have these kind of themes that you could recommend to me, especially transmigration novels? And, if the main characters are gay, that'd be a big plus.

Alex wrote: "Hello,

I have been reading A LOT of Chinese web novels and Japanese light novels for the past few years and I have had my fill of it. I want to transition back into American novels, but here is th..."

I know of a reincarnation novel that is adult gay romance although the reincarnated soul was not evil to start with. ( Any Given Lifetime by Leta Blake) . I'm not familiar with transmigration but it sounds like a fun theme to play with.