Queereaders discussion

We're now accepting nominations for May - June.

Please read the rules below for nominating BEFORE you create your post!! And check our bookshelves to be sure you are not nominating something we have already read as a group!

Only ONE nomination per person.

Please be sure to post the title and author.

Authors may not nominate their own books.

Please add your selections here. Once we get a sufficient number of titles, I will start up a poll. Each person may choose one title.

Remember, the authors should be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, or feature significant gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender characters in their work. Queer can be interpreted as broadly as we like.

Any genre (SF/fantasy, horror, romance, mystery), non-fiction, and classics are acceptable. Based on this criteria, we should have plenty of books to choose from. If you are nominating a title that is part of a series, please make sure to nominate the first book, unless we have already read it as a group.

The book discussion will start May 1 and continue through the end of June. This should give everyone sufficient time to obtain and read the book.

Great Juniper! I hadn't heard of it, but I just checked the book, and I see one of my other German Goodreads friends rated it highly.

I still haven't read anything by Sarah Waters - time to rectify that; so I nominate Tipping the Velvet.

(edited) Oh darn, looks like the group already read that before my time.

Hi all, the moderators have discussed it, and we've decided that we're going to allow group reads from earlier in the group to be repeated! So feel free to nominate any book we've never read as a group or any book we've read as a group more than 5 years ago.

So I'll restore my nomination of Tipping the Velvet.

I also would love Tipping The Velvet as the May group read.

I'd also love Tipping the Velvet as next month's read.

Raul wrote: "I'd also love Tipping the Velvet as next month's read."

Great Raul - I've heard it's excellent; so I've been wanting to read it!

Hey everyone, nominations are quiet this month! I was planning on setting up the poll tomorrow. If no one else has any more nominations, I think I'll throw in a few of the higher vote getting runner-ups from the last few polls. Right now we only have two nominations.

Anyone have any more books they want to nominate?

I'll nominate Breakfast with Scot by Michael Downing. I've had that book forever and keep meaning to read it. I hadn't heard of it until they made a movie of it, which I also haven't seen!

If this one has already been read, I have another one in mind, which otherwise I'll save until next time.

Andrew wrote: "I'll nominate Breakfast with Scot by Michael Downing. I've had that book forever and keep meaning to read it. I hadn't heard of it until they made a movie of it, whic..."

Great Andrew! No the group hasn't read that one yet. :)

I'll nominate Numbers by John Rechy

Kernos wrote: "I'll nominate Numbers by John Rechy"

Looks good Kernos! I haven't read anything by Rechy yet, but I've certainly heard of him.

Thanks for the nominations everyone who nominated!

Nominations are closed, and the poll for our May/June group read is now open. The polls will run until next Friday. The two books that get the most votes will be our group reads for May and June.

In addition to the four nominated books, I added the runner-up from our last few polls that got the highest number of votes; so there's 5 to choose from.

Link to the poll: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Greg wrote: "Kernos wrote: "I'll nominate Numbers by John Rechy"

Looks good Kernos! I haven't read anything by Rechy yet, but I've certainly heard of him."

City of Night is probably a better novel, but I can past-identify with the Numbers protag.

We had a tie for second place; so we'll be reading three books as a group in May and June. They all sound good to me!

Tipping the Velvet

the highly acclaimed novel by Sarah Waters set in Victorian times with lesbian themes, chosen by both the New York Times and The Library Journal as one of the best books of 1998.

The Center of the World

the German novel by Andreas Steinhöfel with gay themes much praised in the German press and abroad. In the nationwide German newspaper Die Zeit, Konrad Heidkamp praised Steinhöfel for excelling himself: "The flashbacks from the children's point of view that allow room for Steinhöfel's deadpan humor, and the romantic fairytales - from the pond via the black wooden doll to the castle with royal children -, combined with the young literate author's smart way of introducing these two layers into the storyline, make this a book on the tenderness of reading and the risk inherent to strong feelings."

Patience & Sarah

the novel by Isabel Miller that won the very first Stonewall Book Award in 1971. This novel is also coincidentally one of the novels Sarah Waters has cited as a primary influence for her own work.

Wow, I wonder whether I can read the three of them? I can try :)

Bryn wrote: "Wow, I wonder whether I can read the three of them? I can try :)"

Ha ha, I was wondering the same thing Bryn because all three actually look good to me.