Thursday, December 31, 2009

GLBT Reading Challenge


Dates: July 1st through December 31st of 2009

Host: Amanda

For details: Click here.

The challenge (put simply): Read 6 books that somehow fit under the umbrella of GLBT. Fiction and non-fiction. GLBT by topic and/or by author.

My list, which is highly subject to change:

*The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel (doesn't actually count towards the challenge...I couldn't make myself wait for the challenge to start...oops)

*Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

*Freak Show by James St. James

*Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney

*Wide Awake by David Levithan

*Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

And a few extras I'd really love to get to:

*Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger

*Hero by Perry Moore

*The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson

*grl2grl by Julie Anne Peters

*Luna by Julie Anne Peters

*Night Kites by M.E. Kerr

*The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

*Girl Goddess #9 by Francesca Lia Block

*Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block

*The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson

*Thinking Straight by Robin Reardon

*Why I Wake Early: New Poems by Mary Oliver

*Orlando by Virginia Woolf

*The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

*Pedro and Me by Judd Winick

*Normal by Amy Bloom

1 comment:

Amanda said...

Yay Debi, I'm so glad you signed up. I liked the way you made my GLBT umbrella far more concise than I managed...I might have to use your wording when I host this next year!

PS - I wish I could start it in June, too, but I figured I'd give the signups a month before we got going. Then I could say 6 books in 6 months. I'm thinking of doing it March to September next year or something.