LGBTQIA Books Reading Challenge

The LGBT challenge I did this year won't be offered next year, so I was glad to see this challenge. I will try to get up to 10 books. Sign up here.

Hi everyone! I was talking with a debut author recently about LGBT books and then suddenly it hit me: I need to do an LGBTQIA Books Reading Challenge. There are so many amazing books out there that fall under this umbrella. By now, I’m sure you guys know what a fierce supporter of LGBTQIA books I am, and it was only a matter of time that I thought of this. Shortly after I posted about this idea on Twitter, my awesome co-blogger, Bekka, threw her support behind it and that’s when I knew I had to do this.

Details

• This challenge will run from January 1st, 2016 to December 31st, 2016.
• The book must contain an LGBTQIA main character.
• Books must be read and reviewed. The review can be any kind of review you want, traditional, a few sentences, a vlog review. Anything goes.
• Backlist books also count as part of this challenge.
• There are going to be different levels that correspond to the colors of the rainbow:
• Red = 5 books
• Orange = 6-12 books
• Yellow = 13-20 books
• Green = 21- 30 books
• Blue = 31- 40 books
• Purple = 41- 50 books

Here is what I am reading:

1. Hiss of Death--Rita Mae Brown
2. Leaves of Grass--Walt Whitman
3. Diving Into the Wreck--Adrienne Rich
4. Six of Crows--Leigh Bardugo
5. Sellevision--Augusten Burroughs
6. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me--Ellen Forney
7. Precious--Sapphire
8. Pink Slip--Rita Ciresi
9. 12 Shades of Surrender
10. Faking 19--Alyson Noel
11. Philomena--Martin Sixsmith
12. On the Count of Three--Maureen Johnson
13. Girl Online--Zoe Sugg
14. Being Jazz--Jazz Jennings
15. The Crown--Kiera Cass
16. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty--A.N. Roquelaure
17. Look Both Ways--Alison Cherry
18. The Bell Jar--Sylvia Plath
19. I Was Here--Gayle Forman
20. Another Brooklyn--Jacqueline Woodson
21. Empress Orchid--Anchee Min
22. Margarita Nights--Phyllis Smallman
23. From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun--Jacqueline Woodson
24. The Genius--Jesse Kellerman
25. Carol--Patricia Highsmith

Challenge completed on December 25