Booksology I’ve already mentioned the strange books I read during my 24-hour book club, so I’ll skip that. Below are other queer books I finished reading in October, roughly on a scale of non-horror to horror.
My book club read How to Lose the Time War by Amal El Motar and Max Gladstone. This book has been on my TBR for many years. Most other people in my book club didn’t like this book, but I did. The writing is great and I just read The River Has Roots by Amal El Mortal in September and loved it too, so I feel like I have a new favorite author.
Then I picked up Dan of Green Gables, a queer graphic novel written by Ray Terciello and illustrated by Claudia Aguirre, a retelling of Anne of Green Gables. It was okay, but it didn’t quite get to me. I think other readers will really like it, but be prepared to read about homophobic and neglectful/abusive parents.
Darcy Little Badger’s Shayne Rende does not have a queer protagonist, but it is a prequel to the asexual book Erazzo and has two Sapphic supporting characters. like please advisethis book had some great lines that made me stop and stare into the middle distance for a while. You must get her other books!
I’ve been looking forward to The Pizza Witch by Sarah Graley and Steph Purenins ever since it was first announced. Lesbian Pizza Witch Graphic Novel — Need more? If you like this kind of goofy YA fantasy comics, this one is worth your attention. However, be prepared that this looks like it’s ready for a sequel.
I started reading proper Halloween books and finished Queer Little Nightmares edited by David Lee and Daniel Zomparelli. This is a combination of poetry and short stories on the theme of strange monsters. I enjoyed it, but nothing really stood out.
In the Sapphic Gothic category, I really liked Joanna Van Veen’s My Darling Dreadful Thing. This is a blood-soaked, unexpected love story (but not a capital-R romance).
Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle is a horror book about bisexual erasure and existential fear. This is my second Chuck Tingle horror novel, and it never ceases to amaze me and make me think. I’m not necessarily a fan of the writing style, but the ideas are appealing enough to keep me drawn in.
The book that scared me the most was A Game in Yellow by Hayley Piper, a lesbian erotic horror novel about losing touch with reality after reading a play. king in yellow. I got so caught up in it that I was afraid to read it, but I guess that means it succeeded in what it set out to do!
Just for your information, I ended up reading 5 of the 15 books on my Halloween month TBR. This was more than I honestly expected. TBR can’t contain your Halloween reading mood. In my defense, some of them didn’t come from the library on time.
