Best gay novel 2022
The day after the election, November 6, having spent the previous evening cooking and consuming a healthy meal of grass-fed beef and roasted green beans and quinoa as a form of self-care, I sat at the kitchen table eating every single piece of our leftover Halloween treats. KitKats whose wrappers were red as the electoral map. Bags of popcorn labeled, preposterously, Lesser Evil. Coconut-chocolate bars called Unreal.
Around lunchtime, deep into this who-cares sugar binge, I opened my email and saw a modern Substack post from Patrick Nathan, an excellent writer and an especially astute critic of all the ways—both explicitly and implicitly—our region has embraced authoritarianism. America, he writes in his newsletter, not as a country but as a mythology and set of unifying ideals, is defunct . It’s clearer than ever, he says, that “there is no ‘we’ on a national level, and there won’t be anytime soon.”
And yet, writes Nathan, “if America is dead, our communities survive.” If our national politics has become little more than farcical theater, our towns and city councils and neighborhood
Every year it gets harder and harder to produce this list and, honestly, that is a difficulty I am so grateful to have. There were a huge amount of amazing queer books published this year. I am thrilled to see gender non-conforming lit blossoming within my lifetime. I can&#;t accept that as a new adult I was actually able to read most of and keep path of all the sapphic books coming out. That would be impossible now! And, truly, that&#;s a good thing because in there is something for every queer reader.
Almost every category in this finest of list was very competitive. There are a lot of very excellent books that I had to leave off! Instead of limiting each category to five books, this year I&#;ve included six for most of them because it was too painful to narrow it down any further. Okay, now what you&#;ve all been waiting for: the best queer books of , all 92 of them!
Comics / Graphic Novels or Memoirs
Thieves by Lucie Bryon
Lucie Bryon&#;s gorgeous, expressively drawn romance between two French teenagers is impossibly sweet, fun, and cheerful. Ella and Madeleine both have a tendency to kle
Gay/LGBTQ2IA etc. Series or Stand Alone
Hello,
Firstly, apologies if this is a repeat thread. I tried to filter and search for answers to what I had in mind to ask and my search came up sparse. Admittedly, my librarian and IT skills are incredibly under developed so there may be a section of threads I missed altogether. That said
I really like reading gay sci fi and fantasy series and possess read a few and now wish to consume more. I have tried to navigate Goodreads but the lists are so dated and massive that conclusion anything appealing is difficult. Reddit is also hit or overlook so here I am.
To clarify, I do not browse books with lesbian or sapphic vibes. Similarly, I do not read books with trans MCs. I avoid these POV MCs not because I undervalue their importance rather I just crave to imagine myself as someone else and I only aspire to do that through same-sex attracted or bi usually cis male MCs.
I have read many series about gay men written by female authors and include come to truly feel frustrated by the disconnect I touch when I read flowery language designed to appeal to other women. To that
Publisher Description
Top Ten Same-sex attracted Romance brings together the best-selling short stories published by JMS Books that year.
From first affection to true love, from submission to sensual, from heat to sweet and everything in between, the couples in these stories are sure to retain you turning the pages as you fall in love with them.
With stories by Sarah Hadley Brook, Holly Day, Ofelia Gränd, Nell Iris, Hannah Morse, K.S. Murphy, K.L. Noone, Amy Spector, Ellie Thomas, and Tinnean, this head-over-heels collection goes beyond bedtime reading. Whether happily ever after or content for now, there's an ending for everyone in here!
Contains the stories: Found in the Storm by Sarah Hadley Brook, The Wingman by Holly Day, The Ruby Tooth by Ofelia Gränd, Secrets on a Train by Nell Iris, Hatch by Hannah Morse, Trust with Glittering Eyes by K.S. Murphy, The Snails of Dun Nas by K.L. Noone, How to Play around at Dirty Santa by Amy Spector, The Thrill of the Chase by Ellie Thomas, and Twelve Desserts by Tinnean.
GENRE
Romance
RELEASED
December 31