I had a new author recommended to me through Kindle Unlimited. I looked at There Goes Sunday School because of the title. The description pulled me in: “In sixteen-year-old Mike Hernandez’s life, only one thing is clear: Gay is NOT […]
Blind Tiger
Blind Tiger (The Pride, #1) by Jordan L. Hawk Setting: Chicago Published on March 19, 2021 Pages: 238 Format: eBook 1924, Chicago. Prohibition is in full swing and gang bosses rule the city with might—and magic. When Sam Cunningham flees […]
Winter’s Orbit
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell Published on February 2, 2021 Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover While the Iskat Empire has long dominated the system through treaties and political alliances, several planets, including Thea, have begun to chafe under Iskat’s rule. When […]
Refocusing My Family
Refocusing My Family: Coming Out, Being Cast Out, and Discovering the True Love of God by Amber Cantorna Published on October 1, 2017 Pages: 268 Format: Hardcover Source: Library In 2012, at the age of twenty-seven, Amber Cantorna came out […]
Any Old Diamonds
Any Old Diamonds (Lilywhite Boys #1) by K.J. Charles Published on January 30, 2019 Pages: 320 Format: eARC Source: From author/publisher Lord Alexander Pyne-ffoulkes is the younger son of the Duke of Ilvar, with a bitter grudge against his wealthy […]
Unfit to Print
Unfit to Print by K.J. Charles Setting: England Published on July 10, 2018 Pages: 145 When crusading lawyer Vikram Pandey sets out in search of a missing youth, his investigations take him to Holywell Street, London’s most notorious address. He […]
A Gentleman Never Keeps Score
A Gentleman Never Keeps Score by Cat Sebastian Setting: England Published on July 10th 2018 Pages: 384 Once beloved by London’s fashionable elite, Hartley Sedgwick has become a recluse after a spate of salacious gossip exposed his most-private secrets. Rarely […]
Book Versus Movie – How to Survive A Plague
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France Setting: New York Published on November 29th 2016 Pages: 640 A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of […]
My Own Country
My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story by Abraham Verghese Setting: Tennessee Published on April 25, 1995 Pages: 432 Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City saw its first AIDS patient in August 1985. Working […]
Symptoms of Being Human
Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin Setting: California Published on February 2nd 2016 Pages: 352 The first thing you’re going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl? Riley Cavanaugh is […]
3 by Hannah Moskowitz
3 by Hannah Moskowitz Setting: Florida Published on October 31st 2016 Pages: 261 Taylor Cipriano had everything figured out, back when she lived with her single mother in Miami. Now, she’s moved upstate for her junior year to live with […]
LGBT Books
What books did I read this year that featured LGBT characters? Lesbian Main Characters The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers You have it all in here. Female-female cross species relationships, polyamorous families, asexual relationships, species […]
Becoming Nicole
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt Setting: Maine Published on October 20th 2015 Pages: 279 Buy on Amazon “The inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American […]
Juliet Takes a Breath
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera Setting: Oregon Published on January 1st 1970 Buy on Amazon “Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn’t sure if […]
Karen Memory
Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear Setting: Washington Published on February 3rd 2015 Pages: 350 Buy on Amazon “Set in the late 19th century—when the city we now call Seattle Underground was the whole town (and still on the surface), when […]
Radio Girls
Radio Girls by Sarah-Jane Stratford Setting: England Published on June 14th 2016 Pages: 384 Buy on Amazon “London, 1926. American-raised Maisie Musgrave is thrilled to land a job as a secretary at the upstart British Broadcasting Corporation, whose use of […]
Smile As They Bow
Smile As They Bow by Nu Nu Yi Setting: Myanmar Published on September 1st 2008 Pages: 146 Buy on Amazon “As the weeklong Taungbyon Festival draws near, thousands of villagers from all regions of Burma descend upon a tiny hamlet […]
Two Boys Kissing
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan Published on August 27th 2013 Pages: 196 Buy on Amazon “David Levithan tells the based-on-true-events story of Harry and Craig, two 17-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing […]
Santa Muerte
Santa Muerte (The Daniela Story #1) by Lucina Stone Published on January 1st 1970 In 2030 college student Daniela Delgado decides to kill herself. Instead of dying though, she is dropped through time to 1923 where her pixie cut and […]
If You Could Be Mine
If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan Published on August 20th 2013 Pages: 247 Buy on Amazon Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They’ve shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. […]
