LGBT+ Books?

[lincolnp]

I have a nephew who is transgender - are there any LGBT books appropriate for YA?

[ALynnPowers]

I have a nephew who is transgender - are there any LGBT books appropriate for YA?

Check out Francesca Lia Block ... I mentioned her before. And probably just about any of the other books mentioned in this thread would be YA appropriate.

[lincolnp]

I have a nephew who is transgender - are there any LGBT books appropriate for YA?

Check out Francesca Lia Block ... I mentioned her before. And probably just about any of the other books mentioned in this thread would be YA appropriate.

Thanks so much. By the way, I love your glasses.

[lolripops]

The Mortal Instruments, one of my favourite young adult series.

[ALynnPowers]

I read a book called The Trans-fer Student, about a transgender girl who moves across the country and starts over at an all girls school. It was all right. Self-published I assume and needed some general editing done to it. Maybe some cleaning up of the plot line to make it flow smoother. But obviously it was based on the author's real life experience and pretty interesting over all.

[Ryan]

I didn't say this before, but this is a great thread

Trumpet by Jackie Kay is another good one that deal with all of these terms.

[ALynnPowers]

Just remember a book I read when I was in middle school!

It's called "Hello," I Lied by M.E. Kerr. Weird title, but I remember loving it when I read it.

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

I remember a NF by Michael Ford called That's MR. ****** To YOU. It was an amazing book full of positive attitude!

[ALynnPowers]

I remember a NF by Michael Ford called That's MR. ****** To YOU. It was an amazing book full of positive attitude!

That title alone makes it sound kind of amazing.

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

I remember a NF by Michael Ford called That's MR. ****** To YOU. It was an amazing book full of positive attitude!

That title alone makes it sound kind of amazing.

It was incredible...definitely full of attitude

[MiloGoethel]

"The Vast Fields of Ordinary," by Nick Burd, is one of my all time favorites. Also, "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan.

[Rabidwerewolfie]

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown is about a young lesbian. She gets involved with a variety of people, some who betray her, some who misunderstand, and her stubborn mother who is hesitant to accept her daughter's orientation. I remember it being decently well written but I read it at least 10 or more years ago. Likely more.

[avid reader28]

Thank you for all of your recommendations, y'all are awesome punch

My recommendations :

Angels in America by Tony Kushner
It's a personal favorite, and I've read it several times.
This monumental work by playwright Tony Kushner — staged on Broadway in two three-hour parts, but collected here in a single volume — is one of the most important pieces of theatre in the last 50 years.

At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill
Jamie O’Neill’s epic novel is a passionate love story that follows two teenage boys and their entanglement with an older man amid the Easter Rebellion in 1916 Dublin.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the self-actualization and sexual awakening of a young black woman caught in the post-Reconstruction South is a beautiful portrait of a nearly forgotten generation of African-American women.


Valencia by Michelle Tea
A bible of sorts for young lesbians in the ’90s who identified more with riot grrrl than Lilith Fair, Tea’s autobiographical novel is the breathlessly told story of a blue-haired girl named Michelle whose life in the Mission is a beautiful mess of drugs, art, and especially women.

[zeldas_lullaby]

I would definitely read Hysteria by Megan Miranda.

[missbookworm]

Patience and Sarah by Isabell Miller

That was my first LGBT book, and I love this book. Plus it's set in the 1800s, which is interesting.