#gray legrand

[lokiwaffles]

Lil sketchy thing <3

I love them sooooooo much you guys don’t even know

#eloise legrand rivers #gray legrand #marvel oc #art #sketchy thing

[queerlit]

Six Spooky Queer Novels

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova

Photo Source Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. So while most girls celebrate their Quinceañera, Alex prepares for her Deathday―the most important day in a bruja's life and her only opportunity to rid herself of magic. But the curse she performs during the ceremony backfires, and her family vanishes, forcing Alex to absorb all of the magic from her family line. Left alone, Alex seeks help from Nova, a brujo with ambitions of his own. -- Amazon

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle L. Gómez

Photo Source The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards (fiction and science fiction) The Gilda Stories is a very lesbian American odyssey. Escaping from slavery in the 1850s Gilda's longing for kinship and community grows over two hundred years. Her induction into a family of benevolent vampyres takes her on an adventurous and dangerous journey full of loud laughter and subtle terror. -- Goodreads

The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan

Photo Source Caitlín R. Kiernan is a master of her craft of dark fantasy-sci-fi horror and The Drowning Girl is an excellent place to start with her books. India Morgan Phelps — aka Imp — begins her first person story by telling the reader that she is schizophrenic and that she’s aware of her own unreliability. This, of course, calls into question the entirety of the book that follows. But this is not a story that asks you to guess whether the supernatural elements are real or whether they are just a product of Imp’s mental health status. Instead, it’s an investigation of how the paranormal — Imp’s encounter with a mysterious figure — interacts with mental illness. This post-modern creepy, if not outright scary story, also features a lesbian relationship between a cis and a trans woman! -- Autostraddle

Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters

Photo Source Shady Grove inherited her father’s ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but she also knows the fiddle’s tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness. But when her brother is accused of murder, she can’t let the dead keep their secrets. In order to clear his name, she’s going to have to make those ghosts sing. -- Goodreads

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Photo Source Marion: the new girl. Awkward and plain, steady and dependable. Weighed down by tragedy and hungry for love she’s sure she’ll never find. Zoey: the pariah. Luckless and lonely, hurting but hiding it. Aching with grief and dreaming of vanished girls. Maybe she’s broken—or maybe everyone else is. Val: the queen bee. Gorgeous and privileged, ruthless and regal. Words like silk and eyes like knives, a heart made of secrets, and a mouth full of lies. Their stories come together on the island of Sawkill Rock, where gleaming horses graze in rolling pastures and cold waves crash against black cliffs. Where kids whisper the legend of an insidious monster at parties and around campfires. Where girls have been disappearing for decades, stolen away by a ravenous evil no one has dared to fight… until now. -- Goodreads

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Photo Source Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps. -- Goodreads

#Labyrinth Lost #Zoraida Córdova #The Gilda Stories #Jewelle L. Gómez #zoraida cordova #Jewelle L. Gomez #The Drowning Girl #Caitlín R. Kiernan #Caitlin R. Kiernan #Sawkill Girls #Claire Legrand #The Picture of Dorian Gray #Oscar Wilde #spooky #queer novels #queer books #my list #BIPOC AUTHORS

[averyqueerhalloween]

Horror & Thriller Books with Queer characters: 🏳️‍🌈🎃

The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh

Ace Of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado

Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice

The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling

Murder Takes The High Road by Josh Lanyon

A Dowry Of Blood by S.T Gibson

The Taking Of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

Catherine House by Elizabeth Thomas

Manhunt by Gretchen Felcker-Martin

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

A Lesson In Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Diviners by Libba Bray

Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

The Route Of Ice And Salt by José Luis Zárate

The Dead And The Dark by Courtney Gould

The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros

The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Queen Of Teeth by Hailey Piper

Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher

The Cabin At The End Of The World by Paul Tremblay

It Came From The Closet by Various Authors

House Of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

What Moves The Dead by Ursula Vernon

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

Night Of The Living Queers by Various Authors

Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe

Graveyard Of Lost Children by Katrina Monroe

The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew White

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew White

Dead Flip by Sara Farizan

The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya Macgregor

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

Everything The Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht

White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

The Promise of Lost Things by Helena Dunbar

Prelude For Lost Things by Helena Dunbar

My Dear Henry by Kalynn Bayron

All The White Spaces by Ally Wilkes

As I Descended by Robin Talley

This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau

#autumn #halloween #fall #october #happy halloween #sweather weather #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqa #queer #lesbian #gay #bisexual #transgender #non binary #trans #alphabet mafia #queer horror #horror #books #booklr #queer books #cozy #thriller #graphic novels #all hallows eve #september #november #autumnal #spooky

[bones-clouds]

best books i read in 2024:

"extasia"

claire legrand

rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️, 5

genre: horror, fantasy, wlw

synopsis:

Her name is unimportant.

All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints of Haven. The elders will mark her and place the red hood on her head. With her sisters, she will stand against the evil power that lives beneath the black mountain--an evil which has already killed nine of her village's men.

She will tell no one of the white-eyed beasts that follow her. Or the faceless gray women tall as houses. Or the girls she saw kissing in the elm grove.

Today she will be a saint of Haven. She will rid her family of her mother's shame at last and save her people from destruction. She is not afraid. Are you?

#moodboard #aesthetic #litedit #book moodboard #literature aesthetics #extasia #claire legrand #book recommendations #booklr #books and reading #lgbt books #sapphic literature #wlw books #sapphic books #sapphic #witchcraft #witchcraft aesthetic #horror aesthetic #my moodboard #fantasy aesthetic

[nyaaaaaw]

WOW🔥🔥🔥

#cass #blue playground #zico #g.soul #penomeco #babylon #jay park #gray #loco #aomg #r3hab #fedde legrand #changmo #kim hyo eun #hash swan #dean #170819 #khh #khiphop #clubeskimo #club eskimo #smtm6

[displayheartcode]

have an incomplete list because you want to read more queer romances 

* means the authors have several books 

romcoms

red, white and royal blue by casey mcquiston* (m/m, adult, enemies to friends to lovers)

what if it’s us by becky albertalli and adam silvera* (m/m, ya, hijinks)

written in the stars by alexandria bellefleur* (f/f, adult, fake dating)

she drives me crazy by kelly quindlen* (f/f/, ya, fake dating)

boyfriend material by alexis hall (m/m, adult, fake dating)

conventionally yours by annabeth albert* (m/m, adult, road trip)

check please by ngozi ukazu* (m/m, ya, graphic novel)

the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune* (m/m, adult, sff)

coming of age 

honey girl by morgan rogers (f/f/, adult, accidental marriage) 

we are okay by nina lacour* (f/f, ya, dual timelines)

the henna wars by adiba jaigirdar (f/f, ya, enemies to lovers)

the falling in love montage by ciara smyth* (f/f, ya, also romcom)

you should see me in a crown by leah johnson (f/f, ya, rival prom queens)

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire sáenz* (m/m, ya, historical) 

i’ll give you the sun by jandy nelson* (m/m, ya, dual timelines) 

stay gold by tobly mcsmith (f/m - trans, ya, high school romance) 

only mostly devastated by  sophie gonzales (m/m, ya, summer romance) 

full disclosure by camryn garrett (m/f - bi, ya, heartfelt)

sff

this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone (f/f/, adult, time travel love letters) 

 ash by malinda lo* (f/f, ya, cinderella retelling) 

a universe of wishes edited by dhonielle clayton (everything, ya, anthology)

when the moon was ours by anna-marie mclemore* (f/m - trans, ya, friends to lovers)

the midnight lie by marie rutkoski (f/f, ya, quest)

the dark tide by alicia jasinka (f/f, ya, tam lin retelling)

the river has teeth by erica waters* (f/f, ya, witches)

cemetery boys by aiden thomas* (m/m - trans, ya, brujos)

girls of paper and fire by natasha ngan* (f/f, ya, action)

sawkill girls by claire legrand* (f/f, ya, horror) 

havenfall by sara holland (f/f, ya, portal fantasy) 

in other lands by sarah rees brennan* (m/m, ya, portal fantasy)

the dead and the dark by courtney gould (f/f, ya, horror)

the magpie lord by kj charles* (m/m, adult, historical) 

the watchmaker of filigree street by natasha pulley* (m/m, adult, historical) 

the fell of dark by caleb roehrig* (m/m, ya, vampires)

catfishing on catnet by naomi kritzer* (f/f, ya, mystery) 

labyrinth lost by zoraida córdova* (f/f, ya, brujas)

dreadnought by april daniels* (f/f - trans, ya, superheroes) 

timekeeper by tara sim* (m/m, ya, historical)

witches of ash and ruin by e latimer (f/f, ya, horror) 

these witches don’t burn by isabel sterling* (f/f, ya, witches) 

the fever king by victoria lee* (m/m, adult, action) 

the wise and the wicked by rebecca podos* (f/m - trans, ya, fairytales) 

summer of salt by katrina leno* (f/f, ya, also coming of age)

the spy with the red balloon by katherine locke* (f/f, m/m, ya, historical)

outrun the wind by elizabeth tammi* (f/f, ya, greek mythology) 

they both die at the end by adam silvera* (m/m, ya, angst)

the devouring gray by christine lynn herman* (m/f - bi, ya, horror)

#anyone else need recs?

[sassymajesty]

Hey hiiii, i wanted to ask aside from the raven cycle, what other books do you like/ love and would reccomend? maybe your top 10 or 20?

coming up with these made me realize how little i've been reading lately, but!! here are some books that i really really enjoyed reading

contemporary

malibu rising, by taylor jenkins reid (who also wrote the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, but i feel like i'm a broken record recommending that one already)

one last stop, by casey mcquiston (red, white & royal blue is also a must read!)

the falling in love montage, by ciara smyth (bittersweet ending but god, so good)

radio silence, by alice oseman

we are okay, by nina lacour

sadie, by courney summers

the light between oceans, by m.l. stedman

still alice, by lisa genova (i cried like a gd baby)

water for elephants, by sara gruen

fantasy/magical realism/science fiction/paranormal

the once and future witches, by alix e. harrow

into the drowning deep, by mira grant

compass rose, by anna burke (oh, and thorn!! actually, anything by anna burke)

a thousand pieces of you, by claudia gray

paradox bound, by peter clines

sawkill girls, by claire legrand

memoirs

furiously happy, by jenny lawson (it talks about anxiety and mental health issues, but it the audiobook had me laughing out loud)

born a crime, by trevor noah

#anon #nina's mail #💌

[aroaessidhe]

Character descriptions from Extasia by Claire Legrand, for fanart.

Contains spoilers. link to full database in pinned post!

author pinterest

Amity Rage

my long white dress with tiny blue flowers, my brown wool cloak, my boots

thin, dark-haired

Into the tender skin above my breasts he carves the mark of Saint Amity. Two hooked lines, joined by a small triangle. The letter m

My plain work dress has disappeared, and now I wear a gown as white as the long winter, softer than anything I have touched in my life. The ribboned bodice hugs my torso, and the long lace skirts circle around me like clouds.

He holds my hood in his hands. Cloth dyed red, ties hanging limp from his fingers like a skinned creature.

ribboned yellow dress embroidered with blue flowers

Blessing Hunger

honey coloured hair

Hunger in her deep blue gown

Father

Long legs and long arms and a broad bright smile, sharp dark features like my own.

Patience Barrow

She wears a pale yellow dress with a white collar, her skirts spilled around her legs. She twists a lock of my brown hair around her fingers. I watch her face, trace its soft lines. She showed us how to weave crowns of flowers, and now one sits crooked on her head, blue and white and pink all mashed against our blanket.

beneath the tallest one stands a woman in a fine gray gown, a cloak of wolf skin slung around her thin shoulders. She is pale, as I am, with my sister’s blue eyes and golden hair. Avazel has given me the gift of turning her ghostly face whole, her arms smooth and fair.

Samuel

A smile on his tanned face, even after all he has lost. His winter pallor has already faded. He works hard in the fields. He hunts and runs. The wind tousles his thick dark hair.

his chin is narrow and sharp

Temperance

On Temperance’s right shoulder perches a fright-bird, a Devil’s creature, all the feathers gone from its head. In their place, a single white eye and gleaming scales. Beneath her dark hood,

So different she looks, wearing a gown blue as jay feathers. The sleeves are long and loose and slip from her bare white shoulders. Her dark hair is soft with a silver sheen

Mercy Vengeance

long red hair to her waist, sharp nose, sharp eyes, freckled skin. Beneath their cloaks, they wear the long white dresses saints wear on holy days, with high lace collars and ribbons at their wrists

her dress as deep a green as summer leaves dipped in shadow. She watches me with sharp eyes. Tiny braids hide in the red cascade of her hair,

green dress

Silence Sorrow

Her hair shines white in the faint moonlight.

The scarred mark of Saint Silence pokes up from her collar—four little marks, like stitches, crossing a proud straight line

long fair hair and red hood

one year older than rage

has woven a few thin braids into her hair. Sorrow wraps one of them around her finger until the end softens and curls

Sorrow solemn and pale as snow, wearing a long black dress with loose flowing sleeves.

Malice

She wears a fine low-collared gown the color of blood. Roses bloom on her cheeks, and though the set of her mouth is hard, her eyes shine bright as a spring sky. She could be as young as I or as old as Granny Dale, whose house crawls with grandchildren. Her hair is black as the mud that gathers beneath my fingernails when I work in the garden, her skin pale as the white moon I know.

her blue eyes ablaze beneath her messy cap of short black hair (it is cut short in the book)

Furor

She points to another woman farther back in the trees. Furor is fair and slight with copper hair to her waist. Flowering vines adorn her sky-blue gown. She molds from the dirt a black wolf pup with shining white eyes and a bright pink tongue.

Furor, vines of red flowers trailing from her hair, holds two crooked knives as long as her forearms

Cunning

a woman with deep brown skin and shorn black hair stands beside another white tree not far from us, her eyes closed and a strange song moving across her lips. Some words I know—berry, sky, flesh—but others I do not.  She spreads her arms wide and rises slowly off the dark moss-covered ground, her bare feet pointed and her gown of sunset colors—orange and red and violet—floating in the air around her. In her right hand, she holds a white branch sanded smooth. When she opens her eyes, they are full white too, like my fright-birds’

her body draped in a gown of sunset colors, orange and red and violet.

Ire

a woman, white of skin and hair and eyes, wearing green trousers and a long white tunic hemmed in gold. She stands on a felled tree. Her words are part song and part prayer.

As she sing-speaks, bits of darkness peel away from the black sky and flutter down, forming themselves, until they alight upon her head and arms. Soon Ire wears a cloak of crows, their dark feathers all agleam.

green trousers and a gold-hemmed tunic, a great white-eyed crow on her shoulder

Gall

a pale woman with a light dusting of short black hair, shorter than a man’s. Her gown is sage green and leaves her shoulders bare

Storm

Her ruddy skin is striped with scars. One of her arms, I am shocked to see, is made of metal. Metal joints, metal fingers, as if a blacksmith has forged it for her. It moves as smoothly as my own and is polished to a gleam. I look at the fierce blue light in the woman’s eyes, her wild nest of gray hair.

wrinkled face

Liberty

brown skin and shining black hair tied back with a meadow-green ribbon. Around her are roots and mushrooms, long jagged leaves that glisten with oil. She crushes, tears, mixes, then raises her arm without looking up and murmurs one of those strange chants—part song, part plain speaking.

Jamie

A girl enters the room, closes the door quickly behind her, then turns to look at me. She has smooth skin, a dark brown like Cunning’s, and long black hair kept in many neat braids.

Jamie’s mother

her skin is just the same brown. The same dark eyes, the same black braids. She wears a long pale shirt to her knees, gray trousers, dark boots.

dress is a million shades of blue—royal and peacock, periwinkle and cerulean. Sleeveless with a high collar. Form-fitting bodice, skirts falling around my legs like waterfalls. It’s exactly the kind of dress I’m always drawn to when I browse the archives for old fashion editorials.

gray women etc

Above me towers a woman, silent and gray, thin and bent, five heads taller than any man I have seen. Her long arms trail to the ground, as if they have sprouted from it. The rest of her drifts formless in the air, disappearing into the night. Wild dark hair to her waist, wide toothless mouth hanging open, and though she has no eyes—that gaping mouth is the only thing I can see on what might be her face—I know she is watching me, waiting for me to speak.

Her mouth opens wider, a vast hole, and out of it drift a few buzzing black flies. Deep inside her throat shines a curve of silver, and though I know it is foolish, I cannot help but lean closer. What is that thing?

I hold still and look upon her face, once smooth and now cracking, now peeling away in thin shreds, her mouth widening, her skin stretching around it, and I will remember this, I will always remember this, I will hold it in my heart and mind forever. Then, suddenly, my mother cries out and staggers back from me. She groans, a wordless throaty cry, and looks away, hiding her face. Flesh falls from her body like shredded leaves. Flies buzz out from between her fingers. I know I should not, but I hurry toward her all the same, crying

#extasia #claire legrand #char desc database

[lokiwaffles]

Here is some rough refs for my lil dudes from Cautionary Tale+ an Izzy because I felt bad that he wasn’t in it. Don’t worry. I’ve got some Izzy stuff heading this way soon!

Also yes Holly/Gray are unholily tall thanks to asgardian genes. That makes it fun for when I get around to starting the comic and they get to tower over everyone.

Also I was trying to figure out Izzy’s fashion sense and I think that he wears a looooot of soft fuzzy sweaters with colorful prints on them. That’s gonna be fun to draw, because I tend to stick to pretty muted palettes for the others.

#also #pasta you are inspiring me to do my own Loki/Barton designs #it would be funnnn #who knows? #marvel oc #holly legrand #gray legrand #iris rivers #izzy kranshaw

[kanerallels]

3, 5, 12, and 20 for the New Year's asks?

3: List the top five books you read this year.

1. "Six of Crows", by Leigh Bardugo

2. "Into the Dark", by Claudia Gray

3. The Kanan comics

4. "Thornlight", by Claire Legrand

5. "Cinder", by Marissa Meyer

5: List the top five tv series you binged this year.

1. Agents of SHIELD

2. Star Wars Rebels (I'm working my way through it for the second time)

3. Brooklyn Nine-Nine

4. Lethal Weapon

5. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

12: what are your goals for next year? Finish the second draft of my book, find some beta readers who actually get back to me, post more of the Steve Miller Au

20 is already answered here!

End of year asks

#thanks for the ask!! #original writing #aos #swr #b99 #lethal weapon fox #tfatws #cinder #claire legrand #soc #end of year asks

[bekah-reading]

End of year Book Tag 2021

Best Book you’ve read this year?

Dune by Frank Herbert

Book you were excited about and thought you were going to love more but didn’t?

Firewalkers by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you’ve read this year?

Good way- Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel and The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

Bad Way-Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

Books you’ve pushed the most people to read?

House of Salt and Sorrow by Erin A. Craig

Best series you’ve started this year? Best Sequel? Best Ender?

Started:Dune by Frank Herbert

Sequel: Aliens by Alan Dean Foster

Ender: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

Favourite new author?

Erin A. Craig and Joe Hill

Best book from a genre you don’t typically read/was out of your comfort zone?

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Most action packed/thrilling/unputdownable book you’ve read this year?

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

The book you’ve read this year that you are most likely to re-read?

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Favourite Cover of the year?

Most Memorable Character.

Corien from Furyborn by Claire Legrand

Aleksander from Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Annaleigh from House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

Duke Leto Atreides from Dune by Frank Herbert

Lim from True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik

Birgitta from The Lost Village by Camilla Sten

Lou, Vic, Wayne and Maggie from NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

Most beautifully written book you’ve read this year.

The End of Alice by A.M. Holmes (I LOATHE the fact that this book is the one that has the beautiful writing for the year this book is centred around horrible and ugly subject matter but damn does it flow)

Books you can’t believe you waited to read.

The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

The Martian by Andy Weir

Favourite passage/quote from a book.

“Sometimes I wonder if my secrets are better swallowed than spoken. Perhaps my truths have done enough harm. Perhaps I should take my memories to the grave and let the dead judge my sins.” The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

Shortest Book?

Monster in a Box by Splading Gray

Longest Book?

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

Book that shocked you the most.

You by Caroline Kepnes

OTP of the year.

Jane Lawrence and Dr. Augustine Lawrence from The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling

Duncan Idaho and Alia from Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

Favourite non-romantic relationship.

Paul Atreides and Stilgar from Dune/Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

Vic and her Father from NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

Newest Fictional Crush

Corien from Furyborn by Claire Legrand

Rhysand from A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

Hidden Gem of the Year.

The Lost Village by Camilla Sten

How many books did you read this year?

47 books (I did not meet my goal)

#books #booktok #booklr #end of year

[sobsister]

Cover of @beaccchoussse‘s “Wishes” off of their album Bloom. 

#beach house #beach house baltimore #wishes #bloom #victoria legrand #alex scally #caden gray #sob sister #cover #new music #unsigned

[strangeandforlornbooks]

more lgbt book recs!

lgbt books I have read and enjoyed in the last six months or so..good for curing quarantine boredom!

contemporary

if we were villains by m l rio- dark academia but with theater kids! murder and shakespeare and drugs but what upset me the most was when they hurt each other’s feelings....really really beautiful prose and lovable characters, page turner until the very last paragraph. 5/5

fantasy

girls of paper and fire by natasha ngan- bought this in my college bookstore because it was a) fantasy and b) lesbian. did a very fine job of fulfilling both requirements. gave me a hunger games vibe for some reason even though the plots are totally different. 4/5

the mermaid’s daughter by ann claycomb- irish lesbian opera singer mermaids, what more do you want? the stakes were technically high but really warm and fuzzy vibes idk 4/5

poetry/drama

if not, winter: fragments of sappho trans. by anne carson- the og lesbian poet! fully read this side by side with my crush in the sunshine, picking out our favorite lines...good times. 4/5

angels in america: a gay fantasia on national themes by tony kushner- a gay man dying of aids in nyc starts receiving angelic visions..terrifically funny and heartbreaking, with compassion for all its characters. my life goal is to revive it on broadway and see andrew garfield take the lead again 5/5

horror

sawkill girls by claire legrand- a wildly good time. eldritch entities! evil/redeemed lesbians! ace rep! female friendship literally saving the day! very gothic vibes! a whole lotta fun 4/5

bonus

the iliad by homer- my literature professor was very insistent that this is not lgbt rep and that really we should be looking virgil’s aeneid for gay subtext, but i thought the aeneid sucked while homer was at least original, so. sing, goddess, of the rage of achilles. 4/5

for whom the bell tolls by ernest hemingway- one moment i was caught up in the moral ambiguities of the spanish civil war and the next a character was saying, im not a lesbian, but i am in love with another woman...but i want you to be happy and marry the protagonist instead...so not really lgbt rep but excellent female characters, really really lovely prose, beautiful narration. was shocked the entire time I read it because frankly i had no idea hemingway could write. 5/5

the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde- you already know this one. i read it more to say that i had read it than anything else, but it was a wild ride ig! 3/5

#lgbt books #wlw books #mlm books #lgbt book recs #f/f book recs #f/f books #m/m books #m/m book recs #wlw book recs #mlm book recs #mine #book recs

[asexual-library]

Speculative Fiction with Aromantic/Asexual Rep

Vicious by V. E. Schwab (Adult, Asexual Rep)

Vengeful by V. E. Schwab (Adult, Asexual Rep)

City of Strife by Claudie Arseneault (Adult, Asexual Rep, Aromantic Rep)

Asexual Fairy Tales by Elizabeth and Anna Hopkinson (Adult, Asexual Rep)

An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows (Adult, Aromantic Rep)

Stake Sauce by RoAnna Sylver (Adult, Asexual Rep)

Beyond the Black Door by A. M. Strickland (YA, Asexual Rep)

This Golden Flame by Emily Victoria (YA, Asexual Rep, Aromantic Rep)

Elatsoe by Darci Little Badger (YA, Asexual Rep)

Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie (YA, Asexual Rep, Aromantic Rep)

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (YA, Asexual Rep)

Little Black Bird by Anna Kirchner (YA, Asexual Rep)

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand (YA, Asexual Rep)

Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno (YA, Asexual Rep, Aromantic Rep)

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (YA, Asexual Rep, Aromantic Rep)

Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria (YA, Asexual Rep)

Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody (YA, Asexual Rep)

Mask of Shadows by Lindsay Miller (YA, Aromantic Rep)

The Lost Coast by A. R. Capetta (YA, Gray-Ace Rep)

Quicksilver by R. J. Anderson (YA, Asexual Rep)

The King’s Name by Jo Walton (Adult, Asexual Rep, Aromantic Rep)

Fourth World by Lyssa Chiavari (YA, Asexual Rep)

Banner of the Damned by Sherwood Smith (Adult, Asexual Rep)

The Black Veins by Ashia Monet (YA, Asexual Rep)

(will keep updating)

#asexual #aromantic #asexual books #aromantic books #sff #speculative fiction books #book recommendations

[queerbookcorner]

Okay, kicking off the Pride month rec-party by starting at the beginning of the alphabet and getting some (much needed) Asexual and Aromantic Umbrella Recs up!

Top 3 Picks:

The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee (Book #2 in the Montague Siblings duology) Sassy Summary: Local AroAce who is much more interested in medical procedures than romance finds herself caught up in an adventure with a bisexual Muslim pirate and an aspiring naturalist running from an arranged marriage with her large dog. Sequel to The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, which does feature the AroAce character Felicity in a major role as well.

Rep: Main character is asexual and aromantic and expresses this as explicitly as she can with her historical setting. Secondary lead is a bisexual Muslim lady. And there's a background pairing (from the first novel) of a bisexual guy and his biracial boyfriend.

The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt (Book #1 of the Axiom trilogy)

Sassy Summary: Mass Effect Queer Edition. This space opera balances wise-cracking characters with fast-paced action scenes and never gets too heavy or super serious on you.

Rep: Amongst the cast representation you have Janice who is asexual (in the text, not just hinted), a non-binary crew member with they/them pronouns, two bisexuals (one who later self-identifies as demisexual), and near the end you find out another character is a transwoman just casually. The author himself has also identified as being on the asexual spectrum, making this #ownvoices

We Awaken by Calista Lynn

Sassy Summary: Asexuality: The Novel. This story explores asexuality, what it means to be asexual and romance with asexuality all with a nice paranormal fantasy flavoring to push the plot along.

Rep: Not one, but TWO asexual main characters! Asexual Homoromantic with F/F romance that is also interracial. And this is an #ownvoices title.

The rest of the list:

Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee (Asexual Heteroromantic)

Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria (Asexual Aromantic)

This Song is (Not) For You by Laura Nowlin (Asexual, Polyromantic)

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman (Demisexual)

Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp (Asexual Aromantic)

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand (Asexual)

Vicious and Vengeful by V.E. Schwab (Asexual)

That’s Not What Happened by Kody Keplinger (Asexual Heteroromantic) 

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann (Asexual Biromantic, Demisexual 

The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta (Gray-Asexual Gray-Aromantic)

Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie (Asexual Aromantic)

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan Maguire (Asexual  Heteroromantic)

Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland (Asexual Demiromantic)

#asexuality #queer books #aromantic #rep: asexuality #rep: aromantic #rep: demiromantic #rep: heteroromantic #rep: gray-asexual #rep: gray-aromantic #rep: biromantic #rep: homoromantic #rep: demisexual #queer book recs #rep: asexual and/or aromantic

[booknet]

01. An OwnVoices book with an LGBT+ character.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danfort

Wilder Girls by Rory PowerCrier’s War by Nina Varela

Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour 

When The Moon Was Ours by Anna Marie McLemore

The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman

Docile by K.M. Szpara

Spellhacker by M.K. England

02. A book with a WLW main character.

Crier’s War by Nina Varela

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

These Witches don’t burn by Isabel Sterling

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Ask the Passengers by A.S. King

Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins

Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

Stay and Fight by Madeline Ffitch

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour 

The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera

How To Make A Wish by Ashley Herring Blake

Of Fire And Stars by Audrey Coulhurst

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour 

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova

We Were Promised Spotlights by Lindsay Sproul

03. A book with a trans/non-binary character.

The Black Veins by Ashia Monet

Birthday by Meredith Russo

I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver

Avi Cantor Has Six Months to Live by Sacha Lamb

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Gods With a Little G by Tupelo Hassman

Coffee Boy by Austin Chant 

Every Exquisite Thing by Cassandra Clare

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

04. A historical fiction book with an LGBT+ main character.

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels

05. A fantasy book with a LGBT+ main character.

The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare

Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Crier’s War by Nina Varela 

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan

The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski

More Than This by Patrick Ness

The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare 

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

They Both Die at The End by Adam Silvera

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

The Trials of Apollo by Rick Riordan

#book recs