coming-of-age | queerlit50

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki

tamsinwillougby wrote in queerlit50 Jan 10, 2016 20:33

Every summer Rose comes to the same house at a beach with her family. She has always loved being there but this year things have changed, her parents are always fighting and her relatonship with her best friend Windy is strained ( Read more... )

comic books, g: fiction, author of color, coming-of-age

1-9: various authors

sumofparts wrote in queerlit50 Apr 05, 2011 22:18

ETA: Please note that whether Octavia E. Butler was queer is open to debate (see comments).

In this post:
1. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
2. The Long Firm by Jake Arnott
3. Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
4. Clay's Ark by Octavia E. Butler
5. I Say a Little Prayer by E. Lynn Harris
6. Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
7. Parable of the Talents by ( Read more... )

a: gay, short stories, fiction, a: selvadurai shyam, a: poc, fantasy, a: hopkinson nalo, a: butler octavia e, historical novel, young adult, c: gay, a:jin meiling, a: harris e lynn, a: arnott jake, a: maguire gregory, sff, coming-of-age

20. E. M. Forster, "A Room With A View"

el_staplador wrote in queerlit50 Jun 25, 2010 21:56

... and we're back to dead British authors writing about Italy and snobbery. (And, incidentally, earworming me something chronic.) Interesting clustering, given that in my head my ideal Big Happy Queer City is Paris, and nowhere in Italy at all. (Yes, I've already read The Well of LonelinessAs it is, we're back in Florence, perhaps twenty years ( Read more... )

a: forster e. m., 1900s, coming-of-age, britain, a: gay man

13. Violet Trefusis, "Pirates at Play"

el_staplador wrote in queerlit50 Apr 25, 2010 17:16

(12. was Fair Play, by Tove Jansson; again, I refer you to giving_ground's reviewIf I were to sum up this novel in one word, it would be 'outrageous'. It is about people doing exactly as they please - and getting away with it*. It is also about family life - the first two chapters are entitled 'La Famiglia' and 'The Other Family' - in all its screwed-up glory. ( Read more... )

a: trefusis violet, a: lesbian, coming-of-age, britain

3: Christopher Isherwood, "Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties"

emily_shore wrote in queerlit50 Jan 23, 2010 15:40

If you've seen "Cabaret" then you're familiar (at a remove) with the work of novelist Christopher Isherwood, who documented the doings of interwar Berlin in Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to BerlinThis novel, an autobiography so thinly disguised that the narrator is also named Christopher Isherwood, closes just on the eve of his departure for ( Read more... )

public school, university, a: isherwood christopher, britain, autobiography, coming-of-age, 1920s, a: gay man

Ash, by Malinda Lo

holyschist wrote in queerlit50 Jan 21, 2010 11:51

I don't really have a goal of 50 books this year (I read fewer than a hundred books total last year), but I'm trying to read more books by authors of color and queer authors* this year, so I thought I'd start with this one as a step in both directions.

*Although I am realizing reading recs here that I've read way more queer authors in my life than ( Read more... )

young adult, a: lesbian, c: bisexual, fantasy, fairytale, asian writers, a: lo malinda, coming-of-age, sff, c: lesbian, a: chinese american