Recently, I got back into Reading, and would love to get some queer book recommendations.

Especially aiming into stuff about queer history, identities, fiction, etc.

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    21 hours ago

    I also just got back into reading, and was curious about the same thing!

    I HIGHLY recommend Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. That’s the book that sparked my trans realization, and it’s incredibly well illustrated with a wonderful story of eir life (it’s a memoir); I’ve read it 3 times. I actually just bought 5 other queer books, but I have yet to read them:

    • Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun
    • How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
    • Suicide Notes by Michael Thomas Ford
    • Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
    • The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library

    I can update this comment when I finish reading a book to give my thoughts on them if you’d like!

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        I read Suicide Notes. It’s an extremely heavy book with about every trigger possible buried in it, just as a warning. I’m not going to say what exactly it covers from the LGBTQ+ spectrum, but it really let me see into a different world. Someone else’s world. It’s a fiction, but it’s not a fantasy; it feels like living someone’s real life. It’s incredibly moving, but it is very depressing (the name is a good indicator), so keep that in mind before deciding to read it. I learned a lot from it, including things about myself. I’d highly recommend it if you’re willing to get really sad about it; I feel it was very cathartic for me, and it’s a great portal into the queer experience.

        Also, there is a sequel called Every Star That Falls. I’ll be reading that at some point, but likely not especially soon.

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        Just finished Kiss Her Once for Me. I absolutely loved it and would highly recommend it, but only if you’re willing to read a lesbian romance. It’s very queer in general, it has nonbinary characters, trans characters, bis, lesbians, polygamy and monogomy, and demisexuality. It’s a fiction, and it is certainly a romance novel, but if that might be interesting to you, it’s a wonderful queer book! It also deals with some of the issues many of us queer folk have with family and acceptance, but those aren’t the central points of the story; it’s part of being queer, and I think that those aspects add a lot to the story by being only small parts (kind of like acknowledging our problems in a healthy way without focusing on them too much that it becomes depressing). I’ll update you with more as I get to them!