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Saturday, June 27, 2020

Celebrate Pride: Books with LGBTQ+ Characters

The background image of this graphic is creased brown paper. In the top right-hand corner there is a stamp with the Pride flag. In the center, text reads "Celebrate Pride: Books with LGBTQ plus Characters." There are book covers pasted on the graphic, which are listed in the blog post.
Book covers are organized in order of the list below from left to right.

Happy Pride month! Although we should read books celebrating pride all year, I wanted to make a list of books that feature LGBTQ+ characters before June ends! One book on this list, All Boys Aren’t Blue, is a nonfiction book written by a Black queer author. These books represent various experiences on the Pride spectrum and immerse readers into contemporary, fantasy, and drawn worlds. I personally recommend Little & Lion, a story about a bisexual Black and Jewish girl navigating the changing relationship with her brother amidst conversations of mental illness. Clap When You Land also features family relationships as two girls discover they are sisters when their father dies in a plane crash and it is revealed he had two families. Another book on this list I enjoyed is Bingo Love, a comic spanning generations about two women who fell in love as teens and then reconnect as older adults.

I am working on individual reviews of a couple of these books, and I invite you to do the same! Shoot me an email if you’d like to write a review on Uni Reads for any of these books. Have a favorite book not on this list? We’d love to post it.

If you’d like more book lists and content, check out YA Pride, a blog advocating for inclusive and affirming content in YA Lit.

I made note of where you can find online copies through OverDrive and Hoopla via the Champaign Public Library and Urbana Free Library. If you need help finding books at your local library or with anything else, don’t hesitate to ask!

Please note: Books that are available as physical copies through the Uni High Library are noted with a call number in case you reference this list once we are able to return to campus. Some of these books are on order and we will update the call number ASAP.

  • Felix Ever After by Kacen Callendar (Audiobook & eBook on Overdrive)
  • Running with Lions by Julian Winters (eBook on Hoopla)
    • Call # Fiction W736ru
  • Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert (Audiobook & eBook on Overdrive)
    • Call # Fiction C671li
  • Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (Audiobook & eBook on Overdrive)
  • Check, Please! Book 1, #Hockey! by Ngozi Ukazu (eBook on Overdrive)
    • Call # GN Uk1ch
    • You can also find this as a webcomic here.
  • All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson (Audiobook on Hoopla & Overdrive) (eBook on Overdrive)
  • The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow (Audiobook on Hoopla) (eBook on Overdrive)
  • You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson (Audiobook on Hoopla)
  • Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann (eBook on Overdrive)
    • Call # Fiction K1331le
  • Bingo Love by Tee Franklin (eBook on Hoopla)
    • Call # GN F8548b
  • Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (Audiobook & eBook on Overdrive)
    • Call # Fiction Em369pe

Posted by Medrano Torres Cynthia at 10:34 pm