Fantasy book with gay main character
LESS, by Andrew Sean Greer. Funny, sweet, and beautifully written, with lovable, fallible characters, great comic timing, exotic locales, and moments of real insight into human nature. I adore this book, though sometimes it hits a brief too close to home: The main character is a neurotic novelist who bumbles through life and relationships, just as I do.
AT SWIM, TWO BOYS, by Jamie O’Neill. Historical fiction at its foremost, centered around the Easter Rising in Dublin in but primarily a adoration story about two teenage boys caught up in the violence happening all around them. Intelligent, thoughtful, and well-researched, it’s also sexy as hell without being overly graphic. The writing is top-notch, alternately funny and poignant, though sometimes I found the Irish dialect a challenge.
CLICKING BEAT ON THE BRINK OF NADA, by Keith Hale. Originally published in , this is a great coming-of-age story about adolescent first loves. The writing is crisp and straightforward, with tons of heart and some beautiful erotic momen
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I haven&#;t done a top ten in a while, so I figured it was hour. I usually strive to read more LGBTQ+ books during Pride Month, but since I got off to a slow start and didn&#;t post anything for basically the first half of the month, I figured I&#;d overcompensate with an extra-long list that includes both books that I&#;ve loved for years and some that I&#;ve just discovered recently.
Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdomby Leigh Bardugo
Genre: YA Fantasy
Queer Representation: Of the main characters, two are pansexual and one is gay. There is one major m/m romance and one additional minor lgbtq+ character. In the sequel series, there is a homosexual relationship between a bisexual woman and a trans bloke (note: he does not come out until near the end&#;to anyone, including himself&#; and therefore presents as female and uses she/her pronouns until then).
Brief Review: Six of Crows has posthaste become one of my all-time favorite books. It’s basically Ocean’s Eleven with actually amazing characters dumped into a uniquely inspired fantasy setting. There are few
Once & Future by A.R. Capetta and Cory McCarthy
In this queer-affirming galactic future, the 42nd reincarnation of King Arthur is a pansexual brown girl named Ari. After the capitalistic Mercer Corporation imprisons Ari’s adopted mothers, she vows to find a way to help them escape. When she unknowingly draws Excalibur from a tree on Old Soil, she reawakens Merlin, who is now a teenager, and ignites the cycle of Arthurian legend. She needs to gather her knights together to defeat the Mercer Company. This YA room opera is a blast to read, as is book 2, Sword in the Stars.
Find it atBookshop, Target, Amazon, or your local library.
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Jam is a Black trans young woman who lives in the utopian city of Lucille, where the angels vanquished all the monsters long ago, or so Jam and her best friend Redemption are taught in school. Then one day, a creature climbs out of a painting and tells Jam there’s a monster in her midst. She names him Pet, and the two must find the monster before it’s too late. This engaging and heart-wrenching read shows how sometimes the monste
For me, one of the best parts about picking up a queer fantasy book is the possibility of being immersed in a world that doesn&#;t have heteronormativity or cissexism, because you&#;re building a whole different world, so you don&#;t have to pack in all of the prejudices from ours! I know there are a lot of people looking for queer fantasy set in worlds without any prejudice towards gender non-conforming people — also recognizable as &#;queernormative&#; or &#;queernorm&#; books! So I wanted to provide a place to start.
I got a lot of these suggestions from the Homosexual SFF Database. They possess a way to look for their database for worlds without homophobia! I also got some recommendations from a Guardian article and crowd-sourced using Twitter, other Book Rioters, Goodreads, and a handful of blogs. I tried to double check each of these to make sure that they are, in proof, set in worlds without any homophobia or transphobia, but if I got any of them false, please let me know!
The Chronicles of Ghadid Series by K.A. Doore
This series has a gay asexual main character. It&#;s put in a desert urban area where wa