New Booklist! Rainbow Reads

A list featuring same sex attracted and sex and gender diverse teen reads.

Same sex attracted

Cohn, Rachel        Naomi and Ely’s

& Levithan,           no kiss list

David                  

                            Nick and Norah’s infinite playlist

Collins, B. R.       Love in revolution

Danforth,             The

Emily M.               miseducation of Cameron Post

Garden, Nancy     Annie on my mind

Green, John         Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Horner, Emily      A love story starring my dead best friend

Horniman,            About a

Joanne                 girl

King, A. S.           Ask the passengers

Konigsberg,         Openly straight

Bill

  

Levithan, David    Two boys kissing

                            Boy meets boy

                            Wide awake

Lo, Malinda          Adaptation

Payne, K. E.         365 days

Peck, Dale            Sprout: or my salad days, when I was green in judgement

Peters,                 It’s our prom (so

Julie Anne            deal with it)

She loves you,

                            she loves you not

Sanchez, Alex      The god box

                            Boyfriends with girlfriends

                            Rainbow boys

                            Rainbow High

                            Rainbow road

Telgemeier,          Drama

Raina

Tremayne,            Coda

Emma

Wilkinson, Lili      Pink

Sex and gender diverse

Beam, Chris         I am J

Bray, Libba          Beauty queens

Brugman,             Alex as well

Alyssa

Cronn-Mills,         Beautiful music

Kirstin                  for ugly children

Edwards, Hazel    F2M: the boy

& Kennedy,          within

Ryan

Hyde,                   Jumpstart the

Catherine Ryan    world

Peters,                 Luna

Julie Anne

                          

Some of the titles in this list may be for mature readers.

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Links

ALA Rainbow Books List

http://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/

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Boroondara’s Gay Straight Alliance

www.boroondara.vic.gov.au/residents/youth-services/nqs

Minus18

http://minus18.org.au

Queer YA blog

http://daisyporter.org/queerya

Booklist! Paranormal Romance

Looking for something a little romantic with a paranormal twist? Then try these titles:

Novels...

Austen, Jane                Northanger Abbey

Dokey, Cameron           Sunlight and shadow

Bronte, Emily                Wuthering Heights

Fantaskey, Beth            Jessica's guide to dating on the dark side

Jekel loves Hyde

Hale, Shannon              The goose girl

Hartnett, Sonya             The ghost's child

Jenkins, A.M.               Night Road

Jordan, Sherryl             The raging quiet

Klause,                         Blood and

Annette Curtis               chocolate

Lanagan, Margo            Red spikes

Leavitt, Martine             Keturah and Lord Death

Leroux, Gaston             Phantom of the opera

Lynn, Tracy                   Snow

McKinley, Robin           Sunshine

                                    Beauty

Marillier, Juliet               Wildwood dancing

Marr, Shirley                 Fury

Meyer, Stephenie          The short second life of Bree Tanner

Reeves, Dia                  Bleeding violet

Shelley, Mary                Frankenstein

Smith, Sherwood          Crown duel

Stoker, Bram                Dracula

Summers,                     Never bite a boy on

Tamara                         the first date

Taylor, Laini                  Lips touch: three times

Telep, Trisha                 The eternal kiss: Vampire tales of love and desire

Van Diepen,                 Raven

Allison

Westerfeld, Scott          Love is hell

et al

Series …

Black, Holly                  Modern tale of faerie

Caine, Rachel               The Morganville vampires

Cast, P.C.                    House of night

Clare, Cassandra          The mortal instruments

De la Cruz,                   Blue bloods

Melissa

Fitzpatrick, Becca         Hush, hush

Garcia, Kami &             Beautiful

Stohl, Margaret             creatures

Jones, Carrie                Need

Kate, Lauren                 Fallen

Kizer, Amber                 Meridian

Larbalestier,                  Magic or madness

Justine

Livingston, Lesley         Wondrous strange

McMann, Lisa               Wake

Marr, Melissa                Wicked lovely

Mead, Richelle              Vampire Academy

Meadows, Foz              The rare

Meredith, Amy              Dark touch

Noel, Alyson                 The immortals

Pierce,                         The darkangel

Meredith Ann

Pike, Christopher          Thirst

Shan, Darren                The saga of Darren Shan

Smith,                          Tantalize

Cynthia Leitich

St. Crow, Lili                 Strange angels

Stiefvater, Maggie        Books of faerie

Wolves of Mercy Falls

Verday, Jessca             The hollow

Viguie, Debbie              Wolf Springs chronicles

Vincent, Rachel             Soul screamers

Westerfeld, Scott          Peeps

                                    Uglies

Graphic Novels…

Hino, Matsuri                Vampire knight series

Judal                            Vampire game series

Schreiber, Ellen            Vampire kisses

And watch…

Buffy the vampire slayer (dvd)

Angel (dvd)

Vampire Princess (anime dvd)

What now?

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• Go to the catalogue and reserve it.
• Borrow it as an ebook.
• Review a book yourself.

The Boroondara 150 - how many have you read?

Number	Title	Author
1	Pride and prejudice	Jane Austen
2	To kill a mockingbird	Harper Lee
3	Harry Potter (series)	J.K. Rowling
4	The Millennium trilogy (series)	Stieg Larsson
5	The lord of the rings (series)	J.R.R. Tolkien
6	The faraway tree (series)	Enid Blyton
7	Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy
8	Cloudstreet	Tim Winton
9	Wuthering heights	Emily Bronte
10	Great Expectations	Charles Dickens
11	Alice in Wonderland & Through the looking glass	Lewis Carroll
12	Persuasion	Jane Austen
13	Year of wonders	Geraldine Brooks
14	The Lymond chronicles (series)	Dorothy Dunnett
15	The wind in the willows	Kenneth Grahame
16	The kite runner	Khaled Hosseini
17	The No. 1 ladies' detective agency	Alexander McCall Smith
18	Winnie-the-Pooh	A.A. Milne
19	Anne of Green Gables	L.M. Montgomery
20	The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society	Mary Ann Shaffer
21	The grapes of wrath	John Steinbeck
22	My family and other animals	Gerald Durrell
23	A fortunate life	A.B. Facey
24	The Narnia chronicles (series)	C.S. Lewis
25	Gone with the wind	Margaret Mitchell
26	The catcher in the rye	J.D. Salinger
27	Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte
28	The secret garden	Frances Hodgson Burnett
29	The very hungry caterpillar	Eric Carle
30	Mao's last dancer	Li Cunxin
31	A tale of two cities	Charles Dickens
32	The secret river	Kate Grenville
33	Discworld (series)	Terry Pratchett
34	Where the wild things are	Maurice Sendak
35	War and peace	Leo Tolstoy
36	The Bible	Various editions
37	Dirt music	Tim Winton
38	The book thief	Markus Zusak
39	Little women	Louisa May Alcott
40	Emma	Jane Austen
41	The adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Arthur Conan Doyle
42	Asterix (series)	Goscinny and Uderzo
43	84 Charring Cross Road	Helene Hanff
44	The magic pudding	Norman Lindsay
45	Life of Pi	Yann Martel
46	The time traveller's wife	Audrey Niffenegger
47	Brother Cadfael (series)	Ellis Peters
48	The fortunes of Richard Mahoney	Henry Handel Richardson
49	Jeeves and Wooster (series)	P.G. Wodehouse
50	Arthur & George	Julian Barnes
51	The famous five (series)	Enid Blyton
52	Billabong  (series)	Mary Grant Bruce
53	Molly Moon (series)	Georgia Byng
54	The outsider	Albert Camus
55	The alchemist	Paulo Coelho
56	Charlie and the chocolate factory	Roald Dahl
57	The leopard	Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
58	The red tent	Anita Diamant
59	The Alexandria quartet (series)	Lawrence Durrell
60	Ranger's apprentice (series)	John Flanagan
61	Possum magic	Mem Fox
62	Catch 22	Joseph Heller
63	Biggles (series)	Captain W. E. Johns
64	Tinker tailor soldier spy	John Le Carre
65	Tomorrow, when the war began	John Marsden
66	Now we are six	A.A. Milne
67	Cry, the beloved country	Alan Paton
68	The Gormenghast trilogy (series)	Mervyn Peake
69	Amelia Peabody mysteries (series)	Elizabeth Peters
70	Rebus (series)	Ian Rankin
71	The nine tailors	Dorothy L. Sayers
72	The reader	Bernhard Schlink
73	Perfume	Patrick Suskind
74	The hobbit	J.R.R. Tolkien
75	The age of innocence	Edith Wharton
76	Voss	Patrick White
77	Not a penny more, not a penny less	Jeffrey Archer
78	The camel club (series)	David Baldacci
79	Selby (series)	Duncan Ball
80	Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury
81	People of the book	Geraldine Brooks
82	The twins of Emu Plains	Mary Grant Bruce
83	Ender's game	Orson Scott Card
84	Poirot (series)	Agatha Christie
85	Artemis Fowl (series)	Eoin Colfer
86	Harry Bosch (series)	Michael Connelly
87	Heart of darkness	Joseph Conrad
88	The dark is rising	Susan Cooper
89	Bleak house	Charles Dickens
90	The three musketeers	Alexander Dumas
91	Middlemarch	George Eliot
92	Mill on the Floss	George Eliot
93	Birdsong	Sebastian Faulks
94	The great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald
95	Pillars of the earth	Ken Follett
96	A passage to India	E.M. Forster
97	Where is the green sheep?	Mem Fox
98	Anne Frank: diary of a young girl	Anne Frank
99	The graveyard book	Neil Gaiman
100	Let's get a pup	Bob Graham
101	We of the Never-Never	Aeneas Gunn
102	Tess of the D'Urbervilles	Thomas Hardy
103	All creatures great and small	James Herriot
104	The grand Sophy	Georgette Heyer
105	Dalziel & Pascoe (series)	Reginald Hill
106	A thousand splendid suns	Khaled Hosseini
107	Ulysses	James Joyce
108	Schindler's ark	Thomas Keneally
109	Kim	Rudyard Kipling
110	Seven pillars of wisdom	T.E. Lawrence
111	If this is a man	Primo Levi
112	Twilight (series)	Stephenie Meyer
113	Love in a cold climate	Nancy Mitford
114	The pursuit of love	Nancy Mitford
115	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov
116	The railway children	E. Nesbit
117	Nineteen eighty four	George Orwell
118	The shell seekers	Rosamunde Pilcher
119	Excellent women	Barbara Pym
120	The fountainhead	Ayn Rand
121	Deltora quest (series)	Emily Rodda
122	How I live now	Meg Rosoff
123	A suitable boy	Vikram Seth
124	King Lear	William Shakespeare
125	A town like Alice	Neville Shute
126	The master	Colm Toibin
127	The accidental tourist	Anne Tyler
128	The surgeon of Crowthorne	Simon Winchester
129	The shadow of the wind	Carlos Ruiz Zafon
130	Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy	Douglas Adams
131	Peepo	Janet Ahlberg
132	The adventures of the wishing chair (series)	Enid Blyton
133	True history of the Kelly gang	Peter Carey
134	The witches	Roald Dahl
135	David Copperfield	Charles Dickens
136	Tashi (series)	Anna Fienberg
137	Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert
138	Dog boy	Eva Hornung
139	Brave new world	Aldous Huxley
140	The poisonwood bible	Barbara Kingsolver
141	Wolf Hall	Hilary Mantel
142	Lovesong	Alex Miller
143	Badjelly the witch	Spike Milligan
144	When we were very young	A.A. Milne
145	Swallows and Amazons	Arthur Ransome
146	The lovely bones	Alice Sebold
147	The man who loved children	Christina Stead
148	Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson
149	Dragonkeeper	Carole Wilkinson
150	Veronika decides to die	Paulo Coelho

What now?

• Add your thoughts about in the comments below.
• Go to the catalogue and reserve it.
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