Happy Tuesday! It’s time for Top Ten Tuesday, the weekly feature run by That Artsy Reader Girl where you choose ten books to fit a weekly prompt. This week’s prompt is books for people who like a certain author. I decided to go with TJ Klune. Klune’s books are sweet, queer, and often have touched of fantasy and found family. Here are some others I’ve come across with at least some of these same things.
- Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor – Wholesome and wonderfully fantastical
- Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff – Found family and messages of acceptance
- Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie Dawson – Hints of magic, a good love story, a couple laughs, and a found family of misfits with a few LGBTQ+ characters
- Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian – Strong LGBTQ+ themes in a coming-of-age story
- Heartstopper by Alice Oseman– Wholesome LGBTQ+ adorableness at its strongest
- Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender – Strong LGBTQ+ themes in a coming-of-age story
- Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire – A home for misfit children with fantasy and LGBTQ+ characters
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers – Probably the most wholesome book I’ve read that wasn’t written by Klune
- Saving Seymour by LN Loch – An LGBTQ+ love story in a light fantasy world
- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna – It’s like The House in the Cerulean Sea in so many ways, just beware of the one smutty chapter that is totally out of place in this wholesome story
Susan Lyn Knits and Reads 