Saturday, July 21, 2012

Lesbian YA Fiction By Country & USA State

Ever wondered if there was a lesbian book written about a teen from Florida? How about Canada? Or New Zealand? While this isn't a particularly exciting list, we hope it will be useful. Whether reading about foreigners, or identifying with characters set in your homeland, there are reasons to care about finding books with a diversity of locations.

The vast number of lesbian young adult novels are published and set in the USA, but there are a few from other countries. The books in this list include historical, contemporary, fantasy and science fiction - as long as they are set in a real place. We haven't been able to identify all of them, so if you know any, please tell us!


 Other Lesbian YA book lists: 

Outside the USA

Australia
Canada


England
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Middle East
New Zealand

North America 

Arizona
California
Los Angeles
Colorado
Connecticut

Florida
Hawaii
Illinois
Chicago
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Maine
Massachusetts
Miami
Minnesota
Montana
Nebraska
New York
North Carolina
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
San Francisco
South Carolina
Texas
Toronto 


Road trips (across multiple states)

State unknown/ not stated (USA assumed in some cases)

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7 comments:

  1. Danika @The LesbraryJuly 24, 2012 at 4:20 PM

    For people looking for Canadian lesbian book, I'm loving Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian's blog! http://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com

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    1. Good Lesbian BooksJuly 24, 2012 at 5:33 PM

      Thank you! I keep forgetting about that site. I've added the link above.

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  2. Rie SelavyJuly 27, 2012 at 6:59 AM

    Joanne Horniman also wrote A Charm of Powerful Trouble (lesbian protagonist) and My Candlelight Novel (bisexual protagonist).

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  3. AnonymousJuly 27, 2012 at 8:33 AM

    Great list and thanks for the shout out! I've been working on compiling a Canadian queer women's YA list and this is really helpful. I'm interested that you've classified Zoe Whittall's Bottle Rocket Hearts as YA. It's a truly amazing books that became one of my all-time favourites after reading it, but I never thought of it as YA, although the character is eighteen when the novel opens. I didn't think that it had been/is marketed as YA (ie, you would find it in that section in a store/library). I wonder how you decided certain books were YA or how you found them? (this is maybe the cataloguing librarian in me coming out)

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    1. Good Lesbian BooksJuly 28, 2012 at 5:23 AM

      I wonder how you decided certain books were YA or how you found them?

      If we've read it, then it's easy. Otherwise we rely on other people's lists and reviews - we've usually looked at a book about three times by the time it makes it on here (the first master list got updated a lot!), and had to go through the reviews with toothpicks looking for details (if we can't find one, it usually ends up on our to read list).

      "Bottle Rocket Hearts" is one that keeps coming up as YA, so we went with that. Also, there is a place for older YA in these lists; books that are aimed at teens, whether first coming out, or starting to figure out adult hood. It looked like it fell there. We'll certainly take a harder look at it now! :D

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    2. AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 3:43 PM

      Interesting! Bottle Rocket Hearts would certainly appeal to older teens as well as adults (it's funny that at some point teens magically become adults) but I definitely wouldn't recommend it to younger teens first coming out, because it deals with a hate crime. Thanks again!!

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