Book Hype hosts Jen, Karen, Kyle, and Marama talk about LGBT representation in books.

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What are we reading?
–L8r, G8r by Lauren Myracle
–One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva
–Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
–Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson
–Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling
–The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings
–Solitaire by Alice Oseman
–The Hobbit: Cloaks and Daggers by Daniel Falconer
–Delicious by Ruth Reichl
–The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling
–The Minnow by Diana Sweeney
–Being Audrey Hepburn by Mitchell Kriegman
–Guy in Real Life by Steve Brezenoff
–The Half Life of Molly Pierce by Katrina Leno
–Blackbird by Anna Carey
–Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern

Book Bites
-How do we feel about LGBT representation in children’s novels?
-Is this a risk to authors?
-What are our personal opinions?
-Having more representation of LGBT characters in books could have a lot of added benefits.
-What are some of the different ways LGBT characters are represented?

LGBT
-We give you some stats on LGBT representation.
-Is it hard to find these types of books?
-Should there be a specific LGBT section in bookstores?
-What’s the marketing like for this book?
-Is the LGBT category itself skewed?
-Who are the people reading these books?
-Is there a difference in romantic trends for these books?
-How do these type of books get categorized?
-Do big authors have a responsibility to write LGBT characters?

LGBT Books
–And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
–Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle
–Proxy by Alex London
–Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
–House of Hades by Rick Riordan
–Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
–Ash and Huntress by Malinda Lo
–If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
–Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg
–From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson
–Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
–Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
–Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
-The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare
-The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare
–Ultraviolet and Quicksilver by RJ Anderson
–The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
–Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
–Georgraphy Club by Brent Hartinger
–Empress of the World by Sara Ryan
–Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

Our July Book Club book will be Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen.

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