To celebrate Pride Day, and the week of celebrations that follow, we can do many things. Learn some LGBTQ culture and give thanks to all those pioneers who fought for the rights of the collective; watch one of the many films that have reflected LGBTQ realities or, of course, read a book in which the love stories move away from being the classic heteronormative ones.
We wanted to bring you several books that are very representative of recent LGBTQ literature in different areas: young adult literature, fantasy, a very glamorous novel that tells of homosexual relationships in the last century and, finally, another book that tells how toxic relationships are not exclusive to cisgender people. Enjoy!
‘Heartstopper’ Saga (Alice Oseman)
Crossbooks ‘Heartstopper 1. Two boys together’
This is probably the most famous LGBTQ fiction book of recent years, due to its impact on the community and beyond, its astronomical sales and the huge success of its adaptation into a Netflix series (we are already waiting for the third season). ‘Heartstopper’ (Crossbooks), by Alice Oseman, has five parts and introduces us to Charlie, a boy with the soul of an openly gay philosopher, and Nick, a friendly rugby player, who meet at an all-boys British high school. Friendship blossoms quickly, but could there be something more? Some adorable novels that have helped many come out of the closet and reveal themselves as they are.
‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’ (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
Umbriel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
It’s been more than three years since it was published ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’, by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Umbriel) and it continues to be a real success in sales and on social networks (remember that the novel became especially famous on TikTok). In addition, Netflix recently announced a movie that will adapt the story, so ‘maximum hype’. The novel introduces us to Evelyn Hugo, the Hollywood icon who has gone into seclusion in her middle age, finally deciding to tell the truth about her life full of glamor and scandals. But when she chooses Monique Grant, an unknown journalist, for it, no one is more surprised than Monique herself, that she is not in the best moment of her. Despite her reluctance, she agrees to the job and begins to hear Evelyn’s story firsthand, from her arrival in Los Angeles in the ’50s to her abandonment of her career in the ’80s.
Pages: 386
‘The House on the Bluest Sea’ (TJ Klune)
Crossbooks The house in the bluest sea
The most perfect combination of fantasy, romantic and LGBTQ novels that exists is possibly the beloved novel ‘The House on the Bluest Sea’ (CrossBooks), by TJ Klune. This is a sweet and tender book, perhaps a little juvenile, but it will leave your soul on the surface and will surely bring more than one tear to your eyes. The protagonist is Linus Baker, an ordinary young man, an official of the Department of Magical Youth, who is in charge of supervising a strange orphanage where six most extravagant guests stay (one says he is the Antichrist). And in this surprising mission, Linus will find the meaning of his life.
Pages: 496
‘In the house of dreams’ (Carmen María Machado)
Anagram In the house of dreams
Not all love stories, no matter how great, have a happy ending. And this is what happened to Carmen María Machado, whose relationship with a woman proved to be a very unpleasant toxic relationship from which she fortunately knew how to detach herself to tell us about it in an exceptional way in ‘The house of dreams’ (Anagram). Her ex-partner, a fascinating woman, was her first lesbian relationship, and she went to live with her in a cabin in Bloomington. But that ‘dream house’ turned into a house of terror when her partner turns into a jealous, paranoid and even aggressive monster.
Pages: 320
