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I have been combing through the winners of the Lambda Literary Awards: http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/current_finalists.html . Seems like a good place to start - with books that have been voted by a group of people to be the best of the genre, right? Of course, finding the books at the library has been a different story...
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It is hard. The LAMBDA awards are an excellent place to start though. I also love to look at the lists people make on Amazon. If you can find someone who likes similar books, then chances are you're going to see some other good stuff you like. Look up some of your favortie titles on Amazon and see if you see some worthwhile titles popping up. Happily, there is a lot of range in the LGBT field.
As a librarian I do try to use the LAMBDA awards to help with selection for books that I might have missed because they weren't reviewed in one of my normal sources. Hopefully, at least some other librarians are doing the same!
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Look at the publisher Alyson Books which publishes glbt books.
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I am a big mystery fan, and there's a website called reviewingtheevidence.com which posts mystery reviews. Almost every week there's at least one book reviewed by a GLBT author, or with one or more GLBT characters.
I also look to the Lambda awards, and to reviews in places like The Advocate and Out.
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Bri
- Wednesday, July 25 2007
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A friend of mine has been reading a lot of GLBTQ authors recently and gave me a bunch of author names. One of the names was highly recommended and it was Micheal Nava. Has anyone read his mystery series? The first book is Golden Boy and evidently it has some first book flaws, but supposedly the rest of the series is very, very good.
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You can try reading the Lambda Book Report, which reviews GLBT books. Another thing you can do is find Shelfarians who like what you read and peruse their libraries. For mysteries try the Benjamin Justice series, but read them in order. The first one is called Simple Justice. For romance, anything by MJ Pearson. For something more serious try Christopher Bram. Almost History and The Notorious Dr. August are his best.
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I belong to Inside/Out a GBLT book club that sends me mailers every month complete with descriptions, reviews, and book excerpts.
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Karima
- Monday, August 20 2007
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Is it an online bookclub, and can anyone join?
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If you mean the InsightOut book club, it's in the process of being discontinued from what I hear. They're part of QBP and that group, which had a major layoff recently.
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Oops, I meant QPB book club.
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Oops, yeah, InsightOut. I was half asleep when I wrote that. I haven't heard anything about it going belly up. I hope not. It's a great book club.
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I worked for Borders for a long time, and kept up through that. I also became a member of InsightOut (have been since they began) and that has always been my main source for all things GLBT in books. I am very saddened, and a bit angered, by the forthcoming closure of ISO. There reasoning was to close out "the smaller groups" that were not felt to have enough membership. Now, I can understand 'the Civil War' club or 'Crafter's club", but with a 50,000 person membership I would hardly classify ISO as small. I just look at it as another challenge for Gays and Lesbians though. We will find another place for 'our voice'.
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This topic brought me back to the first book I read with a gay character...Valley of the Dolls...I was 13 and clueless about my sexuality...just knew I was different. A few years later i read The Boys In The Band...another oldie, but goodie in its day...how far we've come in GLBT literature.
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I belong to Golden Crown Literary Society who's mailing list keeps me up to date on new releases in the lesbian category. Some yahoo groups like gaywritersreaders has been a good source as well. If your city has a gay and lesbian bookstore, that is a great place to look. Most of them seem to be going out of business, but some are still in business.
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Insight/Out is still around and is promising a bigger, better ISO in 2008 in their latest mailing. Though they are having a bit of a clearance sale this time 'round, I haven't noticed any hint of them shutting down.
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Anne B
- Thursday, January 24 2008
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You can search the gay fiction review websites - such as http://obsidianbookshelf.com (homoerotic fiction) or http://readrainbow.4.forumer.com/ (gay & lesbian book chats) or http://www.rainbow-reviews.com/ (gay & lesbian book reviews) or for historical gay fiction, try http://speakitsname.wordpress.com/
Enjoy!
A
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Tom A
- Thursday, April 24 2008
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I'm fortunate to live in Philadelphia, which has the second oldest gay book store in the country, Giovanni's Room (www.giovannisroom.com). Sometimes I'll just browse, other times I'll ask the clerks for suggestions, but most convenient of all, they usually put a monthly booklist in the bag with each purchase. It's also a great outlet for LGBTQ movies. Add to all of these conveniences that the markup on my purchase is going toward preserving what I believe is a gay historical treasure, and it's a no-brainer for me.
I do admit, however, that I've been known to peruse the stacks in larger stores like Borders, or online sellers like deepdiscount.com, but they never have the same service that a niche store can provide.
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It is sad, but Lambda Book store in Baltimore closed, a place where I would get lots of ideas. Now I roam around book stores, and the library and find new authors by chance or word of mouth.
I just discovered Lev Rafael, who writes the Nick Hoffman detective series....Fun stuff. Now I have a bunch of his books to purchase!
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