Tis the season 🌲

For #DayTwelve of #12GaysofChristmas there's a BONUS BOOK! It's... Apocalypse Cow by me 😇

According to people who know things, it's good. It's been named as a @lovereading4kids.bsky.social book of the year AND nominated for the Carnegie Medals!

Did I miss any of your #QueerYA favourites? 🩷🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

That's a wrap! For #DayTwelve of my #12GaysofChristmas we have Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by @lexcroucher.bsky.social ❤️🫅

This was recommended to me because it's so funny and I was not disappointed, I snorted the whole way through (and it's steamy too 👀 🔥)

#12YAsOfChristmas #QueerYA

For #DayEleven of my #12GaysofChristmas I have to include The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M Danforth 🌈❤️

This book is just one of my all-time favourites (as you can probably tell from the battered cover 😂) - it's so good, heartbreaking and still very funny ❤️

#12YAsOfChristmas #QueerYA

For #DayTen of my #12GaysofChristmas we have Not My Problem by Ciara Smyth (see also Falling in Love Montage also by Ciara) 💅❤️

Both of these books are so funny and so brilliantly written and I will always fan-person them 🌈

#12YAsOfChristmas #QueerYA

#DayNine for my #12GaysofChristmas we've got Afterlove by @tanyabyrne.com ❤️🖤

This is gorgeously written magical realism in a way I hadn't seen it done before, filled with love and grief and gay yearning (we do really know how to yearn) 🌈❤️ it felt very original!

#12YAsOfChristmas #QueerYa #Sapphic

#DayEight of #12GaysofChristmas we have Broken Hearts and Zombie Parts by @whusseyauthor.bsky.social 💔🧟

I read this shortly after my mum had emergency open heart surgery, so it holds a special place in my, well, heart.🩷 It's so funny, sweet and filled with gay panic 🏳️‍🌈

#12YAsOfChristmas #QueerYA

#DaySeven of my #12GaysofChristmas we have Six Times We Almost Kissed (And One Time We Did) by @sharpegirl.bsky.social ❤️🌲

This book yanked my heart clean out of my chest, threw it under a train, then carefully nestled it back in between my lungs like nothing happened. 💔

#12YAsOfChristmas #QueerYa

#DaySix of my #12GaysofChristmas 🌲 we have Wonderland by @junodawson.bsky.social 💅

This book is a wonderful celebration of being a messy teen that happens to be trans 🤍🩷🩵. There is a certain level of queer royalty you can reach and drop a C-bomb in a YA, and she is that level 👑😂

#12YAsOfChristmas

She wore a ✨ raspberry beret ✨ #CatInAHat

#DayFive of my #12GaysofChristmas we have Noah Can't Even by @simonjamesgreen.bsky.social 🌈🍌

So, so funny, and Noah is the perfect depiction of how terminally embarrassing it is to be a teenager 😂 and still a very sweet friends-to-lovers story 🥹❤️.

#12YAsOfChristmas #GayYA #QueerYA

We've had a casualty. The bin has fallen over. Thoughts and prayers in this difficult time. #StormDarragh

#DayFour of my #12GaysofChristmas we have Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar - I loved this book, two really defined funny voices and all the giddy feelings of Definitely Not Having an intense crush and freaking out about it ❤️👀

#12YAsOfChristmas #QueerYA

#DayThree of my #12GaysofChristmas 🌲 we have Lover Birds by fellow Carnegie nominated Leanne Eagan 🐦🐦‍⬛👀

This book is hilarious and so brilliantly heartbreaking, a really true telling of living with ADHD and feeling like you're Too Much because of it ❤️

#12YAsOfChristmas #queerya #sapphicya

For #DayTwo of my #12GaysofChristmas 🌲 we have Cupid's Revenge by Wibke Brueggemann 💘

This is cheating, but I also recommend Love is For Losers, also by Wibke 😎

Both books are hilarious, so much fun, and very sweet. Teen me felt very seen in both of them!

#12YAsOfChristmas #queerya

I've decided to help you with your Christmas shopping and list my #12GaysofChristmas 🌲 YA BOOKS EDITION.

In no particular order, for #DayOne we have The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes. Gorgeously written, hilarious, heartbreaking, wonderful. #queerya #12YAsOfChristmas