Looking For LGBTQ Lit

Welcome to Episode 3! This week’s episode is about all things LGBTQ literature (with a few bonus questions from listeners on a time crunch). My guest this week is Danika Ellis. Danika runs the lesbian and bisexual women book blog The Lesbrary as well as its tumblr counterpart Fuck Yeah Lesbian Literature. She is also a booktuber and Book Riot contributor. Her day job is running the kids’ section of Russell Books, the largest used bookstore in Canada. Follow her on Twitter @DanikaEllis. This episode is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and Only Ever Yours by Louise O’Neill. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed on the Show! Nevada by Imogen Binnie Burnt Toast B&B by Heidi Belleau and Rachel Hamowitz Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kristin Cronn-Mills George by Alex Gino The Collection edited by Tom Leger Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey “Lizzy & Annie”/A Safe Girl To Love by Casey Plett“ The Unintentional Time Traveler by Everett Maroon Huntress by Malinda Lo Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m danforth Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin Prairie Ostrich by Tamai Kobayashi Adaptation by Malinda Lo Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller The Color Purple by Alice Walker Sphinx by Anne Garreta, translated by Emma Ramadan all of Sarah Waters’s other books, especially Fingersmith The Summer We Got Free by Mia Mckenzie The Last Nude by Ellis Avery The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso Falling In Love With Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie My Education by Susan Choi Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, trans Lisa Dillman Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley (and anything from Melville House’s Art of the Novella) Two Or Three Things I Know For Sure by Dorothy Alison The Story of Ruth and Eliza by Kristen Stone Sisterhood by Julie R Enszer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices