It’s a phenomenal thing that some of the biggest titles of the last couple of years have been LGBTQ, from Scott Westerfeld’s Afterworlds, to Nina LaCour’s Everything Leads to You, to Andrew Smith’s Printz Honor–winning Grasshopper Jungle, to Jandy Nelson’s Printz Award–winning I’ll Give You the Sun—not to mention some of this year’s most highly lauded […]
September 23 marks Bi Visibility Day, aka Bisexual Pride Day, and in its honor, we’re talking about our favorite “bi-proud” YAs. These are books with bisexual main characters and/or love interests, some of which actively use the word on the page, others of which show characters having feelings for or relationships with both guys and […]
If you’ve been living in a decidedly unglamorous cave, you may have missed the massive buzz surrounding Julie Murphy’s sophomore novel, Dumplin’, which features a heroine named Willowdean who’s confident, fun, fat, a raging Dolly Parton fan, and entering a beauty pageant in her obsessed hometown. Willowdean is the kind of character we rarely get to see […]
Today’s MASSIVE, GLORIOUS drop of new releases includes doomed love stories, gritty heroines taking to the road, and a poetic exploration of the Fates’ hand in human lives. Here are 13 books worth using up all your sick days for: