Books that retell classic books with a LGBTQ+ twist

Always open for more book recommendations!

inspired by me watching youtube videos about literary analysis of villains, here is a list full of books in which i believe their villains to be absolutely ghastly and horrifying; bloody and abusive, terrorizing and killing. if you have any to recommend, please put them in the comments! i'd love to make this list large!

Did they make me cry? Yes. Do I suggest you read them and cry too? Yes.

These travelogues give upper middle class white woman on a self discovery journey and I’m all here for it

My list of graphic novels/ comics that I think are examples of stories being more enjoyable/ impactful because of the draw media involved!

Very bias list because I tend to be less critical of this medium then regular text novels.

Moods are all over the place,

🧿👄🧿 List of books that are exceptionally weird, bold, unique and experimental in terms of themes, forms and/or style. Prepare to be thoroughly confused.

Superior and superb male leads that make you wish men like them could be real (not strictly romance genre!)

I had a really fun time reading a bunch about bears and thought someone else might as well

Dystopian matchmaking: romance and love stories that happen against all odds

Books according to people on the internet (reddit/facebook) that scratch a similar itch to the show Desperate Housewives.

This is the list from The Atlantic. "In 1868, a little-known writer by the name of John William DeForest proposed a new type of literature, a collective artistic project for a nation just emerging from an existential conflict: a work of fiction that accomplished “the task of painting the American soul.” It would be called the Great American Novel, and no one had written it yet, DeForest admitted. Maybe soon."

Apocalyptic reads with a big focus on found family. This list meshes all kinds of apocalypses, zombies included.

Recommendations extremely welcome - gimme alllll the found families surviving together! 😍

First of a series only, except in cases where it's further into the series that the found family element really kicks in.

My favourites are the top half of the list, if you want a place to start ;) (There's a few at the very bottom that I haven't yet read myself, so no shade to them!!)

we love a femme with the propension to stab things

Titles not available on PageBound: Descent by Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld Magazine) Novella Novelettes Human Voices by Isabel J. Kim (Lightspeed Magazine) We Begin Where Infinity Ends by Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld) Short Stories Autogas Ferryman by Champ Wongsatayanont (Nightmate Magazine) Because I Held His Name Like a Key - Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons) Commensalism, Or the Labyrinth's Vessels - Albert Nkereuwem (Will This Be a Problem) Ichthyosis by M.L. Krishnan (Fantasy Magazine) The Octopus Dreams of Personhood by Hannah Yang (Diabolical Plots) Poetry After the Storm – Ishita Basu Mallik (The Deadlands) In an attempt to seduce Death my sister starts calling him Love – Karan Kapoor (Strange Horizons) Set It Off (1996) – Fans’ Cut – Nova Cypress Black (Strange Horizons) The Language of Fireflies – Angela Liu (The Deadlands) The oblique light at Kakushima (a memory of persimmons) – Ryu Ando | 安堵 龍 (Strange Horizons) Narrative Non-fiction A Conjuror’s Manifesto: Notes on the Afrosurreal – Shyheim Williams (Strange Horizons) Photon Torpedoes Break the Space Muqarnas: SFF Audiovisuals and Anti-Muslim Violence – Tanvir Ahmed (Strange Horizons) Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler – Susana M. Morris (Amistad) The Outspoken and the Incendiary – Terry Bisson (PM Press) The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction – Gautam Bhatia (Alter Magazine) Other categories not listed include Community Award, Ember Award, Podcasts, Critics

obsession, mental illness, substance abuse, etc