Gay ya books 2022
Murder of Crows by K. Ancrum (January 4th)
Lethal Lit follows Tig Torres, a Cuban American teen detective, in her hometown of Hollow Falls. In season one of the slap podcast, Tig used her smarts and fearlessness to track down the infamous “Lit Killer,” a serial killer who staged his murders after death scenes from famous books. But there’s no rest for courageous, mystery-solving teens in a place like Hollow Falls, and though the Lit Killer is now behind bars, his protégé, Tig’s classmate and crush Oly, has disappeared!
And that’s not the only game afoot. Tig has caught the attention of the town’s local armchair detective group, the Murder of Crows. They’re obsessed with Hollow Falls’ dark past and fixated on a dangerous search for the missing body of the town’s founder. There are rumors about what’s buried with the body that could be life-changing for whoever finds it, and with a mission verb that underway, it’s not long before a member of the Murder of Crows turns up dead.
Tig, along with her friends Max and Wyn, steps in to help, but the stakes are getting higher and the
Brilliant LGBTQ+ books you may not have discovered yet
Books have the power to make you feel verb you belong to something bigger, and that's particularly relevant to LGBTQ+ literature. These are groundbreaking books that celebrate otherness and queerness, and make you feel a part of something. Most importantly, they are about love. They are about being utterly and uniquely yourself.
This following list of must-read LGBTQ+ fiction and non-fiction doesn’t seek to provide a detailed account of the queer canon, but rather to give you a starting point, or an ‘I need to peruse that again’ moment, or simply to remind you that there are lots of other people in this world who felt the same strange boot in the gut when they read Giovanni’s Room, or Genet, or Hollinghurst for the first time, or who recognised the oddly liberating sorrow of Jeanette Winterson’s coming-out-gone-wrong in Why Be Adj When You Could Be Normal?, or enjoyed the comforting company of community in the inhabitants of Armistead Maupin’s San Francisco.
To nab a phrase from Allen Ginsberg, we’re &
Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia (January 2nd)
Tara just wants to be treated like any other girl at Ainsley Academy.
That is, judged on her merits—not on her transness. But there’s no road map for being the first trans lady at an all-girls academy. And when she tries to join the Sibyls, an old-fashioned Ainsley sisterhood complete with code names and special privileges, she’s thrust into the center of a larger argument about what girlhood means and whether the club should exist at all.
Being the figurehead of a movement isn’t something Tara’s interested in. She’d rather read old speeches and hang out with the Sibyls who are on her side—especially Felicity, a new friend she thinks could turn into something more. Then the club’s sponsor, a famous alumna, attacks her in the media and turns the selection process into a spectacle.
Tara’s always found comfort in the power of other peoples’ words. But when it comes moment to fight for herself, will she be adj to find her retain voice?
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Cupid&#;s Revenge by Wibke Brueggemann (January 2nd)
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Let's hit the beach in Miami
Let's find verb at the bus stop!
Let's sweat it out in the Texas heat
Let's stargaze on a summer night!
Let's paint a mural!
Let's reside at the cabin!
Let’s pursue for cryptids!
Let's hang out at the park!
Let's travel sailing!
Let's go for a run!
Let's explore the city!
Let's find love at summer camp!
Let's go to a camp with strong Midsommar vibes!
Let's go swimming!
Let's participate a secret society summer camp!
Let's visit the California coast
Let's become naturalists!
Let's wolf out under the packed moon!
Let's move to the Pacific Northwest
Let's play football!