Annie on my Mind and other books

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What did you think of Annie on my Mind? I really love it. What are your thoughts in general on YA LGBT books? Are there any books of this theme that you enjoy or that are important? I have read other LGBT books but none have I love for to compare with Annie on my Mind.So far. I am halfway through, so I might read the rest and end up hating it. But I don't think so.

I think the only YA LGBT I've read is The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer, a retelling of the Persephone myth, and I thought it was very good. Mostly I read adult LGBT fiction, but I have several YA on my to-read list.

My impression of YA LGBT is that publishers aren't publishing enough of them, but hopefully that is changing.

And here is a list of YA LGBT compiled by one of my favorite YA authors, Tamora Pierce:
LGBTQ YA Books & Links 2011

I'm glad you loved Annie on My Mind so much. Although I haven't read it, I know how wonderful it feels find characters you connect to so well. What do you like best about it? I shall have to add it to my reading list.

Melinda Lo's books have been on my to-read list for quite a while, and I look forward to getting around to them. I love a good fantasy novel. Do you have any genre preferences? Contemporary, fantasy, etc.?

Another YA LGBT on my list besides the above is Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein.

My taste in books is pretty similar to yours. I love fantasy because it allows the author to be very creative, and a really good fantasy author will use the fantasy setting to push character development in a unique way that wouldn't be possible in real-life circumstances. However, I tend to avoid paranormal, perhaps only because I've heard so many bad things about Twilight. I also tend to like Sci-Fi for the same reasons I like fantasy. One nice thing about Sci-Fi and fantasy in LGBT is that the author has more control over how the society percieves LGBT, thus if the author wants to make different sexual and gender orientations completely normal, they can.

Historicals are really my first love, genre wise, as I grew up reading the Little House series. I continue to love them, in pretty much any time period, especially if they are very detailed. I love to get immersed in the sights, noises, textures, and even smells of a past time. I don't mind some deliberate historical inaccuracies, as long as it seems like there is a good reason for those inaccuracies, but if inaccuracies are due to lazy research, then I'm probably not going to like the book.

Outside of LGBT fiction, I rarely read contemporary, and if I do, it tends to be very literary. Within LGBT I've read more contemporary, I think in large part because it is helpful for me to read about how the characters handle common attitudes toward LGB, especially in regards to coming out. However, at some point for me most of these books start to seem very similar to one another and repetitive.

Edit: I just read a review for Silhouette of a Sparrow and it sounds really, really good. Definitely on my list now.

I've recently been wanting to read Annie On My Mind. To be honest, as a gay male, I wasn't as interested in literature with lesbian protagonists as I was with gay male protagonists. Plus, the only LGBT YA books I've read were from the Rainbow Boys series.

[quote="EtherealBallet]Next time I have money and go to the book store I am buying it. [/quote] I am a liar. I have also read Empress of the World and want to read the next book (It used to be in the school library but is gone now ) I treid reading So Hard To Say but my reading pace is way slower than it used to be.

I just finished reading the Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth, which is a young adult coming-of-age story about a teenage lesbian girl growing up in rural Montana in the early 90's. It is a fantastic book and I recommend adding it to your to-read list if you haven't yet.