Dates: July 1st through December 31st of 2009
Host: Amanda
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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
