2017 reading (post 2 of X)

 so, thinking that i was going to manage to round up a year of reading in three entries was a bit over optimistic of me *coughhubriscough*    I also intend to do at least one top ten of the year at the end of this, but let me know if I mention anything you'd like an actual review on.

 

My ears prick up for pretty much any shakespeare retelling so I read three of the Hogarth Shakespeare series this year.  Hagseed, Margaret Atwood's retelling of Tempest, Vinegar Girl, Anne Tyler's retelling of Taming of the Shrew and The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson's  telling of Winter's Tale.  I liked Winterson's best, though all of them had wonderful moments.  (51-53)

 

I also read As I descended by Robin Talley, which is a retelling of MacBeth in a modern private school with lesbians and what felt like extra ghosts and one of my favorites of the year The Only Thing Worse Than You Is Me by Lily Anderson, a retelling of Much Ado, with nerd teenagers at a magnet school who quote, among other things, Buffy episodes at each other. (54-55)

 

https://bookriot.com/2017/08/03/100-inclusive-ya-sff-books

 

This list had a lot of old friends, but based on it, I also read 

 

Court of Fives by Kate Elliot

Inherit the Stars by Tessa Elwood

Iron Cast by Destiny Soria

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow

 

(56-61)

 

https://bookriot.com/2017/05/11/100-must-read-lgbtqia-ya-books/

 

Same thing with this list.  

 

None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio 

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo 

Girl Mans Up by M.E. Girard 

Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Noteworthy by Riley Redgate

Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz

Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

 

(62-69)

 

Sidestepping a bit, since (1) our library sometimes had authors from this list but not the specifically recommended books (2) there was a lot of queer YA not on this list and (3) I read some queer fiction (and one auto-bio) that wasn't explicitly YA (4) at least one trans* author and 

 

The upsides of unrequited by Becky Albertalli

Seven Ways we Lie by Riley Redgate

Gena/finn by Hannah Moskowitz

Everfair by Nisi Shaw

I Hate Everyone But You by Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin

Get It Together Delilah by  Erin Gough

Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

Lies My Girlfriend Told Me by Julia Anne Peters

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

Month of Sundays by Yolanda Wallace

She's not there by Jennifer Finney Boylan

 

(70-81)

 

And yeah, I might be Book Riot's bitch

 

https://bookriot.com/2017/04/18/100-must-read-books-witches/

 

The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab

Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather

The Witches of New York by Ami McKay

Witch Child by Celia Rees

 

(82-87)

 

I'm running out of neat groupings, so I think I'll pause here.