An index of reviews on this blog, in alphabetical order by author surname. I only review books I feel broadly positive about.
Queer Book Club
All the fiction books have queer (LGBTQIA+) characters, either as main characters or significant secondary characters. Some are recent publications, others are modern classics.
Adult:
Bunny, Mona Awad
Regeneration Trilogy, Pat Barker
Nobody Passes, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, ed. (non-fiction)
Nevada, Imogen Binnie
Trans Britain, Christine Burns, ed. (non-fiction)
The Magpie Lord, K.J. Charles
The Terracotta Bride, Zen Cho
One Bloody Thing After Another, Joey Comeau
The Devourers, Indra Das
Maurice, E.M. Forster
What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell
Guapa, Saleem Haddad
For Real, Alexis Hall
The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood
Mr Norris Changes Trains, Christopher Isherwood
The Vampire Gideon’s Suicide Hotline, Andrew Katz
Agents of Dreamland, Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, Margaret Killjoy
The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales, Kirsty Logan
The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh
Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi
Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones, Torrey Peters
Fire from Heaven, Mary Renault
The Persian Boy, Mary Renault
Funeral Games, Mary Renault
An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon
Nik’s Revenge Road Trip Mixtape, by Jack Swift
Beloved Poison, E.S. Thomson
The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay
Nightmare magazine: Queers Destroy Horror special, Wendy N. Wagner, ed.
The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
The Daylight Gate, Jeanette Winterson
The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson
Orlando, Virginia Woolf
Young Adult:
Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, by Becky Albertalli
Wake of Vultures, by Lila Bowen
Girl Mans Up, by M-E Girard
We Are the Ants, by Shaun David Hutchinson
Nina is not Okay, by Shappi Khorsandi
You Know Me Well, by Nina LaCour and David Levithan
Every Day, by David Levithan
Proxy, by Alex London
Every Heart a Doorway, by Seanan McGuire
Not Otherwise Specified, by Hannah Moskowitz
Wilder Girls, Rory Power
If I Was Your Girl, by Meredith Russo
The Abyss Surrounds Us, Emily Skrutskie
The Raven Cycle, Maggie Stiefvater
Call Down the Hawk, Maggie Stiefvater
Lies We Tell Ourselves, Robin Talley