so much queer lit the first half of 2024

So, the January 4, 2024, Our Queerest Shelves BookRiot email link list included 3 LGBTQ Reads links:

• Most Anticipated Queer Adult Fiction: January-June 2024
• Most Anticipated Queer Young Adult Fiction: January-June 2024
• Most Anticipated Queer Middle Grade: January-June 2024

I opened all 3 tabs and got overwhelmed. But then the next day I started to go through them (in reverse order).

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So much fantasy in these MG books.

Represented in these books (an incomplete list):

• Tagalog folklore
• trichotillomania
• roller derby
• autism
• a magical connection to the sea

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[Expletive deleted], the YA list is so long. Lots of murder. Lots of fantasy, though I think less than the MG list.

This list includes (but is not limited to):

• "the first trans girl at an all-girls school" (who the cover indicates is a WoC)
• a literal cupid
• "She doesn’t expect her older sister, Elara, forming an unprecedented bond with an enemy dragon—or the gods claiming the only way to break that bond is to kill her sister." ("Jamaican-inspired")
• a trans guy in 1812
• a Jane/Bertha reimagining of Jane Eyre
• a male dryad (a reimagining of The Secret Garden)
• the absinthe fairy is a real live "Green Faerie, trapped in this world."
• an autistic Latino
• "a queer, feminist reimagining of the Fox Maiden legend from Korean mythology" (graphic novel)
• a "fat, nerdy lesbian"
• "a bone familiar"
• "a fat, broke girl with anxiety" -- who catches feelings for a girl while playing a tabletop roleplaying game
• "a YA fantasy graphic novel that’s the political drama of Nimona meets the heartfelt romance of The Princess and the Dressmaker, but this time in a sapphic romance surrounded by a mist of magic."
• a girls only underground fight club (which reminded me I still haven't watched Bottoms)
• a "Korean-inspired Alice in Wonderland retelling"
• a trans guy who "accidentally becomes an animal shelter volunteer under an assumed name―and it’s there among the unconditional acceptance of dogs that he finally receives the affirmation he’s been longing for."
• a queerceañera
• a motorcycle girl and a car girl bond over the Fast & Furious films

There are also 2 books with drag plotlines -- one with a male character and one with a female one.