Tag: favourite queer books

• REVIEW: Isaac by Curtis Garner

  

  Set in London across a single, life-altering summer, Isaac interrogates masculinity and queerness in the digital age and offers a fresh take on desire and intimacy, adolescent obsession and dangerous first love. After inexperienced seventeen-year-old Isaac loses his virginity through a dating app – a disappointing yet addictive experience – he spends his final months…

  charkinzie

  11 Nov 2025

  5 stars, Books, diverse characters, grief, lgbtqia content, mental health, part of series, read the trigger warnings, sci-fi / fantasy, self-discovery, sequel, suspense

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• My Favourite LGBTQ+ Reads for #Pride Month!

  

  Happy Pride month everyone! Here on Vancouver Island, the Victoria Pride Parade isn’t until July 7th but I wanted to post this list during Pride month! I’ve been going to Pride parades for well over twenty years. Let me tell you, they’ve changed a lot over the years. The first pride parade I attended was…

  charkinzie

  9 Jun 2019

  lgbtqia content, my faves

  a little life, adam silvera, adib khorram, André Aciman, aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe, Armie Hammer, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, call me by your name, chase taylor hackett, darius the great is not okay, Deposing nathan, diverse characters in novels, drawing the line, elio and oliver, evan fallenberg, favorite books, favorite lgbtq books, favourite lgbtq books, favourite queer books, gay pride, giovanni’s room, hanya yanagihara, how to be a normal person, james baldwin, James Ivory, Laurent Linn, Luca Guadagnino, m.k. england, pride month, pride parade, pride reading, queer lit, t. j. klune, tatiana de rosnay, the disasters, the parting gift, the rain watcher, they both die at the end, Timothée Chalamet, werewolf, werewolves, why you series, wolfsong, Zack Smedley

• Review: The Fever King by Victoria Lee

  The short blurb bit: The first thing I want to write is that “The Fever King” is going straight onto my list of best books of 2019. Yes, I’m that confident. I read a lot of books, always have, and when I read one that has an original concept … presented in a way that…

  charkinzie

  14 Mar 2019

  lgbtqia content, sci-fi / fantasy

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