“Because those things…they say way more about the person who said them than they say about you.” Year published: 2019 Category: Magical realism, YA Representation: Trans boy (side character) Summary: Magpie Lewis started writing in her yellow notebook the day her family self-destructed. That was the night Eryn, Magpie’s sister, skipped town and left her… Continue reading

“Governments didn’t have to listen to the people until the people made it hurt not to listen.” Year published: 2019 Category: YA sci fi/dystopian Representation: gay main character and side characters CW: Torture, grooming, emotional and sexual abuse of minor characters, alcohol and drug abuse, anorexia, suicidal ideation, genocide Summary: In the former United States,… Continue reading

Year published: 2020 Category: YA dystopian/sci-fi Representation: gay main characters and side characters CW: grooming, emotional, physical and sexual abuse of minor characters, addiction to alcohol and drugs, anorexia, genocide Summary: Six months after Noam Álvaro helped overthrow the despotic government of Carolinia, the Atlantians have gained citizenship, and Lehrer is chancellor. But despite Lehrer’s… Continue reading

Year published: 2017 Category: YA horror CW: Sexual assault, physical assault, self-harm, burning, body horror Summary: Bethan is the apprentice to a green healer named Drina in a clan of Welsh Romanies. Her life is happy and ordered and modest, as required by Roma custom, except for one thing: Silas, the son of the chieftain,… Continue reading

“A Woodlands heart always finds its way home.” Year published: 2018 Category: YA fantasy CW: self-harm, discussions of suicide, suicidal ideation, disordered eating Summary: Five years ago, Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell cowered from air strikes in a London bomb shelter. But that night took a turn when the sisters were transported to another realm called… Continue reading

“Not one sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it.”“But the sparrow still falls,” Felipe said. Year published: 1997 Category: sci-fi CW: Rape, body horror, sex trafficking of a child, murder of children, (alien) eugenics  Summary:  In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico… Continue reading

“We are biologically driven to create meaning. And if that’s so, he asked himself, is the miracle diminished?” Year published: 1997 Category: Sci-fi Summary: Mary Doria Russell’s debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into the center of the human soul. A critically acclaimed bestseller, The Sparrow was… Continue reading