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HIJAB BUTCH BLUES by LAMYA H.
Alright, changing it up a bit with my book stuff but this one hit home with me. The author draws very interesting parallels between stories in the Quran and her experiences as a gay muslim woman that are very interesting. And if you think you can’t be muslim and gay, or wear a hijab and be gay, or even tackle muslim culture and queerness in one, then you’re bound to be pleasantly proved wrong with this one.
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makingqueerhistory · 7 months
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Queer Book Recommendations!
So, I get asked for book recommendations a lot, and I love sharing some of my favourites, but I thought it might be helpful to share a masterlist!
To be completely transparent, these are affiliate links, so you will be supporting Making Queer History through using them. That being said, feel free to just use them as a guide!
First, we have a complete masterlist with almost every queer book I have read! This is for the people who want to luxuriate in options. I think there is something for everyone on this particular list.
Second, we have a list for the more selective people, these are strictly for the best of the best. The queer books I have rated five stars and wholeheartedly recommend. There is less to go through but a lot to love.
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duckprintspress · 7 months
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Celebrate Bisexual Awareness Week with 18 Awesome Books with Bi Characters!
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September 16th to 23rd is Bisexual Awareness Week, culminating in Bisexual Visibility Day on the last day! To celebrate, we cooked up a list of our 18 favorite books featuring bisexual characters!
The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths and Magic by F. T. Lukens
Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Guardian by priest
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Unmasked by the Marquess by Cat Sebastian
Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
When the Stars Alight by Camilla Andrew
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake
Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall
The Heartbreak Bakery by A. R. Capetta
Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake
What are YOUR favorite books with bisexual protagonists? Tell us so we can get our read on even more!
This post was compiled with contributions from numerous Duck Prints Press contributors. We’ll have another post coming out on the 23rd, with Duck Prints Press publications featuring bi characters!
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overthegardenwirtt · 19 days
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there are a few books I've read recently, like in the last year, that no one ever talks about. they're not the booktok or tumblr darlings so it's hard to find other people who are interested in them. anyway most of these are at least subtextually queer and written prior to 1970, and those vintage queer vibes go so fucking hard. like once you read pre-1970s queer lit it's really hard to read a modern LGBT romance.
Another Country by James Baldwin. James Baldwin was an actual icon. He lived between New York City and Paris and wrote profoundly human books about race, gender, and sexuality while also being an American civil rights activist and orator. Another Country is Baldwin's third novel, published in 1962. It follows a group of artists in Greenwich Village and their various relationships with one another. It looks at racism, Black masculinity, interracial relationships, homosexuality, and bisexuality, and it explores all of these societal issues through the microcosms of different romantic and sexual relationships between the characters. Baldwin's writing is like Jazz. It is rhythmic, smooth, and breathtaking. If you liked Giovanni's room, read this. It is much more nuanced in its exploration of both race and sexuality.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin. Le Guin's mind is revolutionary. She is everything jk r*wling is credited for, except far better as her most famous books center people of color and androgynous people. She published the first The Earthsea Quartet, a series about a boy wizard at a wizarding school, in 1964 and was never credited as inspiration by r*wling. The Left Hand of Darkness was published in 1969 and won both the Hugo and the Nebula that year. The book follows a human who visits a planet where he finds that its inhabitants are all completely androgynous for the majority of their lives. It is a beautiful exploration of love, trust, and the ability to see past societal conventions to truly love and understand other people.
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson is perhaps best known for her short story The Lottery, or unfortunately for the incredibly unfaithful Netflix TV adaptation of this novel. Published in 1959, The Haunting of Hill House follows Eleanor Vance, a woman in her early 30s who has about the maturity of a 19-year-old, as she is recruited along with a group of others to live at the mysterious Hill House. The book is essentially psychological horror and follows Eleanor as she is driven mad by her own feelings of otherness and isolation from the world. There is also some incredibly lesbian subtext in the novel between the two female main characters which adds really interesting layers to Eleanor's feelings of otherness. It's a quick and compelling read and gives interesting insight into the lives of two women in the late 1950s who cannot adhere to the standards of womanhood set for them in society.
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queer-book-recoms · 5 months
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Angels before Man- Rafael Nicolas
Goodreads summary-A queer retelling of Satan's fall that's part cozy coming of age and part fast-paced tragedy, with a little love story in between –
In an eternal paradise, the most beautiful angel, Lucifer, struggles with shame, identity, and timidity, with little more than the desire to worship his creator.
It isn't until the strongest angel, Michael, comes into his life that Lucifer learns to love himself. Along the way, their friendship begins to bloom into something else. Maybe the first romance in the history of everything.
But this God is a jealous one, and maybe paradise is not paradise.
$13.49 paperback
$26.00 hardback
$4.99 kindle
Personal review:
I adore this book, it’s beautifully written and portrays angels in such detail and uniqueness that I have never seen before in most imagery.I love this book.
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Just finished Rasio Silence for the second time, I'm literally crying!😭😍😭 Do you have any good book suggestions? I am 13 years old, love to read, bisexual, a girl and my favorite book is probably Radio Silence. 🏳️‍🌈❤️
First of all you have great taste in books if you love radio silence😌 first obviously Alice Oseman’s other works! And then get ready because I have quite a few recommendations hehehe (I always hoped this day would come)
- The Sky Blues (by Robbie Couch): I read this a while ago so I don’t remember the intrigue in detail but it’s very sweet and the main character is gay
- If you could be mine (by Sara Farizan): this one is wlw with a pretty sad ending but the story is beautiful, set in Iran, best friends to lovers who are trying to find a way to be together
- Tell me again how a crush should feel (by Sara Farizan): also wlw and the main character is Iranian American, I don’t remember that much of the plot cause I read it quite a while ago but I remember it was fun!
- Criers’s war (by Nina Varela)/Iron Heart (by Nina Varela): beautiful fantasy duology with wlw ennemies to lovers! I’m absolutely in love with these books and they’re criminally underrated
- The passing playbook (by Isaac Fitzsimons): trans gay main character who just wants to play on the boy’s soccer team of his new school (this one is so sweet)
- Cemetery boys (by Aiden Thomas): also trans gay main character but this one is fantasy and also Hispanic Americans
- Her royal highness (by Rachel Hawkins): boarding school, royalty, ennemies to lovers, but make it sapphic
- She gets the girl (by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick): this is also a sapphic ennemies to lovers, where one of the main characters has to help the other (who is extremely shy) flirt with her crush to prove to her ex that she can help other people
- If this gets out (by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich): this one is mlm and has one of the best depictions of internal struggle to discover your queer identity, also bonus points for talking about fan culture and music industry
- I kissed Shara Wheeler (by Casey McQuiston): I haven’t actually read this one yet but I checked and it’s appropriate for your age and my best friend just read it and loved it so it’s on my tbr
There you go! I hope you find something you enjoy reading, and if you like any of those books let me know!
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nerdynatreads · 1 year
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book review || Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White
video review || TLDR Version -- September Wrap Up || 13 books!
Holy. Shit. This was so freaking good? I cannot believe I liked a dystopian book this much, but apparently, if you mix a zombie apocalypse with a genocidal cult and add a sprinkling of queer characters, dystopians can be for me!
I am so impressed at how dark, gory, and visceral this book went for being ya, but I loved every second of it. This felt very reminiscent of zombie stories that were really popular a few years ago, but with the added plot element of the cult. White’s utilization of scripture and the (not unrealistic) twisting of religious themes to formulate the basis of this cult was so well done and the impact of it on Benji’s characters was phenomenal. I really felt his struggle with everything he’d been raised with compared to his own morals and ethics. His arc was so well done and I wanted to both shake and hug him at the same time for the entire book.
On the opposite side, Nick, was my favorite sort of character, bad-ass exterior with a cinnamon roll inside and my LORD! The way his stimming and handling of the pressures he was under were showcased without making him out as a fake or weak, ugh, so good. His protectiveness over everyone made my heart swell but the super soft, slow-moving feelings between him and Benji? Damn, I was melting.
This is heavy. SO heavy, balancing a horror story, with a coming-of-age novel, and a strong found family. These characters are very young, surviving in this unforgiving place and yet, they still find happiness in each other and in themselves. There are lots of phobias brought up and I could definitely see certain parts of the plot being pretty triggering for any trans readers, but I also think there are so many positives in this story and the ability for queer kids to see themselves represented in something other than a traditional contemporary.
The pacing was very stop-and-go, which could be jarring, and the flow could sometimes be disrupted by the biblical scripture that was dropped, but all in all, I really loved this book and blasted through it pretty quickly. Highly, highly recommend it, but definitely look at content warnings if necessary.
5 / 5 stars
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kunoichi96 · 2 years
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Queer Horror Reading Recommendations
Queer Horror Reading Recommendations
Sounds gay and scary, I’m in.  My love of horror is pretty well documented at this point. I’ve discussed Lovecraftian horror and gothic horror in Halloweens’ past. Now let me share some queer horror to terrify you this Halloween.  Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield I am somewhat cheating with this one, as it’s more gothic than pure horror, but I say it counts due to its promising…
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ale-arro · 7 months
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been going a little bit insane about this sentence from Ace by Angela Chen for the past week
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theartofangirling · 7 months
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part 3 of the 2023 version of this post: adult books!
part 1: middle grade books | part 2: young adult books
this is a very incomplete list, as these are only books I've read and enjoyed. not all books are going to be for all readers, so I'd recommend looking up synopses and content warnings. feel free to message me with any questions about specific representation!
list of books under the cut ⬇️
yerba buena by nina lacour
if we were villains by m.l. rio
everyone in this room will someday be dead by emily r. austin
i want to be a wall by honami shirono
portrait of a thief by grace d. li
the thirty names of night by zeyn joukhadar
on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong
love & other disasters by anita kelly
take a hint, dani brown by talia hibbert
boyfriend material by alexis hall
almost like being in love by steve kluger
the charm offensive by alison cochrun
something wild & wonderful by anita kelly
red, white & royal blue by casey mcquiston
something to talk about by meryl wilsner
honey girl by morgan rogers
one last stop by casey mcquiston
once ghosted, twice shy by alyssa cole
kiss her once for me by alison cochrun
a spindle splintered by alix e. harrow
finna by nino cipri
every heart a dooryway by seanan mcguire
the starless sea by erin morgenstern
under the whispering door by tj klune
space opera by catherynne m. valente
light from uncommon stars by ryka aoki
dead collections by isaac fellman
the city we became by n.k. jemisin
light carries on by ray nadine
an absolutely remarkable thing by hank green
feed them silence by lee mandelo
summer sons by lee mandelo
upright women wanted by sarah gailey
lavender house by lev a.c. rosen
fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe by fannie flagg
the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid
a master of djinn by p. djeli clark
witchmark by c.l. polk
a marvellous light by freya marske
a restless truth by freya marske
when women were dragons by kelly barnhill
plain bad heroines by emily m. danforth
a lady for a duke by alexis hall
infamous by lex croucher
passing strange by ellen klages
even though i knew the end by c.l. polk
the chosen and the beautiful by nghi vo
whiskey when we're dry by john larison
wake of vultures by lila bowen
silver in the wood by emily tesh
the once and future witches by alix e. harrow
the kingdoms by natasha pulley
a tip for the hangman by allison epstein
she who became the sun by shelley parker-chan
the song of achilles by madeline miller
spear by nicola griffith
this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone
gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir
some desperate glory by emily tesh
all systems red by martha wells
a psalm for the wild built by becky chambers
the mimicking of known successes by malka older
winter's orbit by everina maxwell
fireheart tiger by aliette de bodard
empress of salt and fortune by nghi vo
legends and lattes by travis baldree
the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune
other ever afters by melanie gillman
the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon
a day of fallen night by samantha shannon
a strange and stubborn endurance by foz meadows
the unbroken by c.l. clark
real queer america by samantha allen
fun home by alison bechdel
in the dream house by carmen maria machado
better living through birding by christian cooper
why fish don't exist by lulu miller
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🍉 Queer Palestinian Books 🍉
🇵🇸 The algorithm is going to keep silencing my posts, but they're not going to silence me. I grew up with little to no books that made me feel seen as a queer/bisexual Palestinian Arab American. Today, it's still not easy enough to find those books online, even though we have thousands of lists, posts, and directories to guide us. To make your search a little easier, here are a few queer Palestinian books to add to your TBR. Please help me spread this by reblogging. Consider adding these to your least for Read Palestine Week (click for resources)! 💜
🍉 The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher 🇵🇸 A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar 🍉 Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam 🇵🇸 To All the Yellow Flowers by Raya Tuffaha 🍉 You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat 🇵🇸 The Specimen's Apology by George Abraham 🍉 Birthright by George Abraham 🇵🇸 Nayra and the Djinn by Iasmin Omar Ata 🍉 Where Black Stars Rise by Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger 🇵🇸 The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan 🍉 Guapa by Saleem Haddad 🇵🇸 From Whole Cloth: An Asexual Romance by Sonia Sulaiman
🍉 The Philistine by Leila Marshy 🇵🇸 Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar 🍉 Shell Houses by Rasha Abdulhadi 🇵🇸 Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan 🍉 Belladonna by Anbara Salam 🇵🇸 Confetti Realms by Nadia Shammas, Karnessa, Hackto Oshiro 🍉 Blood Orange by Yaffa As 🇵🇸 The ordeal of being known by Malia Rose 🍉 Decolonial Queering in Palestine by Walaa Alqaisiya 🇵🇸 Are You This? Or Are You This?: A Story of Identity and Worth by Madian Al Jazerah, Ellen Georgiou 🍉 This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers 🇵🇸 My Mama's Magic by Amina Awad
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makingqueerhistory · 1 year
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Queer Book Recommendations
Every once in a while I like sharing some queer book recommendations on here as I read a lot and I get requests to share some of the books I love, so here we go! 
Tell Me I'm Worthless: Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends Ila and Hannah. Since then, things have not been going well. Alice is living a haunted existence, selling videos of herself cleaning for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself to sleep. She hasn’t spoken to Ila since they went into the House. She hasn’t seen Hannah either.
Our Wives Under The Sea: Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. 
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty: Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again.It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now—an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the glamorous home of a celebrity chef, and a major curator who wants to launch her art career.
Silver Under Nightfall: Remy Pendergast is many things: the only son of the Duke of Valenbonne (though his father might wish otherwise), an elite bounty hunter of rogue vampires, and an outcast among his fellow Reapers. His mother was the subject of gossip even before she eloped with a vampire, giving rise to the rumors that Remy is half-vampire himself. Though the kingdom of Aluria barely tolerates him, Remy’s father has been shaping him into a weapon to fight for the kingdom at any cost.
Disintegrate/Dissociate: In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relationships after death and metamorphosis. In these spare yet powerful poems, she explores, with both rage and tenderness, the parameters of grief, trauma, displacement, and identity. Weaving together a past made murky by uncertainty and a present which exists in multitudes, Arielle Twist poetically navigates through what it means to be an Indigenous trans woman, discovering the possibilities of a hopeful future and a transcendent, beautiful path to regaining softness. 
The Perks of Loving a Wallflower: As a master of disguise, Thomasina Wynchester can be a polite young lady—or a bawdy old man. She’ll do whatever it takes to solve the cases her family takes on. But when Tommy’s beautiful new client turns out to be the highborn lady she’s secretly smitten with, more than her mission is at stake . . . 
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror: Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. Common tropes—such as the circumspect and resilient “final girl,” body possession, costumed villains, secret identities, and things that lurk in the closet—spark moments of eerie familiarity and affective connection. Still, viewers often remain tasked with reading themselves into beloved films, seeking out characters and set pieces that speak to, mirror, and parallel the unique ways queerness encounters the world. 
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture: Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong. The notion that everyone wants sex–and that we all have to have it–is false. It’s intertwined with our ideas about capitalism, race, gender, and queerness. And it impacts the most marginalized among us. For asexual folks, it means that ace and A-spec identity is often defined by a queerness that’s not queer enough, seen through a lens of perceived lack: lack of pleasure, connection, joy, maturity, and even humanity.
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duckprintspress · 2 months
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Happy International Women’s Day! Enjoy these 13 Queer Books Starring Women!
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Today, March 8th, is International Women’s Day. Duck Prints Press challenged our rec list contributors with a Herculean task: to pick one, and only one, favorite queer book starring a female character. Thirteen contributors rose to this challenge, and this rec list is the result! The contributors to this list are Shadaras, Polls, Alex, boneturtle, Alessa Riel, Dei Walker, Nina Waters, Maggie Page, and four anonymous contributors.
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade series) by Seth Dickinson
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb series) by Tamsyn Muir
Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know by Cyan Wings
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan series) by Arkady Martine
Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness Quartet series) by Tamora Pierce
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire series) by Yoon Ha Lee
The Tiger’s Daughter (Their Bright Ascendency series) by K. Arsenault Rivera
She Wears the Midnight Crown edited by Nina Waters
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland
Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
A Restless Truth (The Last Binding series) by Freya Marske
How about you? Can you pick JUST ONE favorite queer book starring a female character?
You can view these recommendations, and many others, by visiting the our shelves on Goodreads.
New! Duck Prints Press is now a Bookshop.org affiliate! We are still in the process of turning all our rec lists into browsable shopping lists, but we’re working on it. See a book on this list, or any of our other lists, that you’d like to buy? Make us your Bookstore on Bookshop.org to support indie book stores and indie press: you get a great book at a great price, and part of your purchase goes to supporting Bookshop.org and Duck Prints Press!
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noahhawthorneauthor · 5 months
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Be thankful for who you are today, and do better than those who came before you.
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I live on Iroquois land, specifically the Mohawk region. The Iroquois, or Five Nations, was brought together by Deganawidah the Great Peacemaker, and it was composed of the nations Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca.
Later on the Tuscaroras joined, and they became Haudenosaunee, or 'six separate nations.'
Happy Thanksgiving, keep your minds open, never stop learning, and don't let history become forgotten. The majority of us are already do a damn poor job of not repeating it.
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jeniferprince · 1 year
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I can’t...
I made this illustration based on a beautiful scene from “FORGET ME NOT”, Alyson Derrick’s upcoming book. Learn how you can pre-order and get a print with this illustration here! <3
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fella-lovin-fella · 1 year
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losing my mind over this, actually.
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