Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

I read This is How It Always Is this year which was so good! I know there are many other great books that will work here.

one of my favorite books. I've read it twice. The first time I borrowed it from the library Wed then immediately bought a copy for myself and read it a few months ago again

I don't even know what this means :/

Nikky wrote: "I don't even know what this means :/"

Lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer...and I have no idea what the "+" symbol represents. Anyone?

The "other letters" I usually see are I/A/P - so intersex, asexual, and pansexual. Though books with characters of these identities can (unfortunately) be much harder to find.

Rebecca wrote: "The "other letters" I usually see are I/A/P - so intersex, asexual, and pansexual. Though books with characters of these identities can (unfortunately) be much harder to find."

Dreamland Burning has a character that identifies himself as asexual. I didn't even think about that until you mentioned it.

Thanks :)

I am a huge Outlander fan but haven't read any of the Lord John books yet. Since he is gay I will read one of those.

If Kristin Lepionka comes out with a second book in her fantabulous mystery-detective series (first book: The Last Place You Look), then that's what I'll read. (Rumor has it book two will be What You Want to See and will be published in 2018.). If not .... I'm sure Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Waters have something I'll want to read that will work here.

Marianne wrote: "I am a huge Outlander fan but haven't read any of the Lord John books yet. Since he is gay I will read one of those."

That's a good idea! I've read two of them, but I have two more that are still unread!

i've seen Two Boys Kissing recommended as good YA

Marianne wrote: "I am a huge Outlander fan but haven't read any of the Lord John books yet. Since he is gay I will read one of those."

Do I get it correct a book written by an homosexual author would work as well?

Tig Notaro, Portia DiRossi and Ellen all have great books if people like bio/memoir

Marianne wrote: "I am a huge Outlander fan but haven't read any of the Lord John books yet. Since he is gay I will read one of those."

Lord John and the Private Matter is on sale right now for $1.99 as an ebook: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...

I'm hoping to dive into the less easy to find spectrum. Going to look for a character who is pan, ace, trans etc

Is there a thread yet to start posting reading plans?

Middlesex is an excellent book for this particular prompt.

Also, many books by Sarah Waters have LGBTQ characters. Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith come to mind.

I've had The Song of Achilles recommended to me more than once, so I think I'm going to read that.

I think We Are Okay is my choice for this prompt. Been meaning to read it anyway.

Ed wrote: "Is there a thread yet to start posting reading plans?"

I will create one soon.

I picked up Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman at my library's book sale & couple weeks ago, so that will probably fill that spot for me.

I've also wanted to read Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Here's a listopia of Best Gay Fiction which obviously doesn't include all of the possibilities for LGBTQ+, but it does have some.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

Here's a listopia for Best Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Non-Fiction:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Sara wrote: "Marianne wrote: "I am a huge Outlander fan but haven't read any of the Lord John books yet. Since he is gay I will read one of those."

Lord John and the Private Matter is on sale righ..."

Thank you!

Release by Patrick Ness. Just released last month. Really great book!

Both We Are the Ants and At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson would fit. Those are the only two of his I've read but I'm guessing some of his others would work as well.

Lily and the Octopus also works.

Going for Hero by Perry Moore. Because even superheroes need LGBTQ+ representation...

Nicole wrote: "I've also wanted to read Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx but haven't gotten around to it yet."

Great... I have already started this, so I can't use it next year. This is not something I generally pay attention to, so pretty much the only books I can think of are those that I have already read. I don't really care for romance novels so the sexual preferences of the protagonist rarely matter to me.

Seanan McGuire's Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones would fit for this as well.

My ideas so far:
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Her Name in the Sky
Fingersmith

I second Middlesex and The Song of Achilles as excellent. I also really liked Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe this year.

Ramona Blue (same author as Dumplin') was good lesbian YA. Quick read.

1222 or any in her Hanne Wilhelmson series. Also are Nordic Noir. Very good.

Ellen Hart has written a couple of excellent mystery series that have won Lesbian literature prizes.

Suzanne Brockmann has also featured gay couples in ner romantic suspense - excellent reads.

There is so many to Reccommend. I will be reading a lot of M/M Romance for 2018.

A couple I love is We Are the Ants, Sutphin Boulevard, Strong Signal. Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin is a really good book about a intersex character. So underrated.

Rebecca wrote: "The "other letters" I usually see are I/A/P - so intersex, asexual, and pansexual. Though books with characters of these identities can (unfortunately) be much harder to find."

Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin is a really good book about a intersex character.

A lot of Anne Rice's book could fit, like The Vampire Armand.
Last year I read some really nice LGBTQ+ books. Hero and The Whale: A Love Story where the best.

They Both Die at the End

Kate (KitKat07210) wrote: "They Both Die at the End"

Ohh yay! I wanted to read that! Now I know it fits a prompt!

Under the Udala Trees is on my TBR

I was looking up books for the library/bookstore prompt but I think The Swimming-Pool Library is better for this category

The Dancer Who Flew: A Memoir of Rudolf Nureyev
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Rudolf Nureyev

I have to figure out which one I have not read, but IF you are looking for one for a young person to do this challenge, the FIRST on this list is great! It was written by a close friend of his who was herself a ballerina.

Some of my favorites I haven't seen listed:

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (f/f relationship)
The One Hundred Nights of Hero (f/f relationship)
Here Comes the Sun (f/f relationship)
Peter Darling (m/m relationship, trans protagonist)

Graphic novels:

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Le bleu est une couleur chaude
Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir

If someone is looking for YA novels, my teen daughter is currently reading Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit and up next on her list is The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue. I have not read either of these but I have included here in case someone is looking for something in the YA genre.

Sharmon wrote: "If someone is looking for YA novels, my teen daughter is currently reading Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit and up next on her list is [book:The Gentleman's Guide to Vice a..."

Both are great! Your daughter has wonderful taste :)

I am going to read From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson. It is about a teenage boy and his mother. The mother comes out to him, and he comes to terms with this.

Stefanie wrote: "I think We Are Okay is my choice for this prompt. Been meaning to read it anyway."

I read We Are Okay for this year's challenge and I adored it.

I first read this as a teenager but I re-read it recently and it was still great - Annie on My Mind.

I know people will argue about this until they are blue in the face, but Sherlock Holmes is probably aromantic asexual.

(love) "All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer."


Amanda wrote: "Lily and the Octopus also works."

Currently loving Lily and the Octopus!

poshpenny wrote: "I know people will argue about this until they are blue in the face, but Sherlock Holmes is probably aromantic asexual.

(love) "All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold..."

Maybe a-romantic, but who knows about asexual. (He DID have a thing for that princess (or whatever she was) though, in A Scandal in Bohemia. So maybe he was not a-romantic, just didn't meet many women who caught his fancy.) I wouldn't be surprised if Holmes had a regular appointment with prostitutes. That's just not the sort of thing that would be included in a story back then!

If I Was Your Girl features a trans I think. I haven't read it but I've heard good things.

My pick is Conversations and Cosmopolitans: Awkward Moments, Mixed Drinks, and How a Mother and Son Finally Shared Who They Really Are. It's a memoir about a mother finding out her son is gay.

I found a really interesting article focusing in particular on queer disabled characters, I haven't read any of the ones that are mentioned but I think they would qualify for this prompt!

https://www.bustle.com/p/how-ya-liter...