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Hermes96
February 23rd, 2014, 02:44 PM
Any one no of any good LGBT books?
Elysium
February 23rd, 2014, 02:51 PM
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
I Am J by Cris Beam
Ones I haven't read:
Pretty much anything by David Levithan, though I wasn't very fond of his writing style in Will Grayson, Will Grayson.
When Love Comes to Town by Tom Lennon
The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson (who also may have written other LGBT books, but I haven't read anything by her as of yet)
Also, plenty of LGBT+ shelves/lists on goodreads. Here's (https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/lgbt)one, for example. Although I don't know how accurate this is since The Perks of Being a Wallflower is listed and I don't remember that having much focus on LGBT at all.
Harry Smith
February 23rd, 2014, 02:52 PM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mysterious-Skin-Scott-Heim/dp/0060841699
It was made into a film in 2004 with Joesph Gordon-Levitt but the book is also amazing. About a male teen prostitute who was abused by his baseball coach, it's actually one of the best books I've read. Only took me two days to finish it
Tarannosaurus
February 23rd, 2014, 04:04 PM
These books are good and shouldn't be too hard to find (i.e.you can find them in a small conservative catholic Irish town)
These are lesbian themed:
Wormwood Gate - Katherine Farmar
Flick - Geraldine Meade
Annie On My Mind - Nancy Garden
The Questions Within - Teresa Schaeffer
Brothers (can't remember the author, I'll edit it in later) This is about two gay brothers
The Gone series (Michael Grant) has gay characters, but it's not the main theme and gayness is mentioned from the third book onwards (fantastic books though).
The latest book in Heroes of Olympus (Rick Riordan) has revealed that a character is gay, so there might be something starting there.
As Elysium said, anything by David Levithan, though I'm not a fan of his books either. If you're just looking for gay romance/characters and not fantastic plots they're okay.
CassnovA
March 1st, 2014, 03:04 PM
absolute brightness isnt a romance or anything but the main character is a gay teen
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