Top Ten Tuesdays: Top Ten All Time Favorite Books in LGBT YA and Anthologies

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
This week's topic is our favorite books in a particular genre. We will be the ones choosing what genre we'll use in this post. There were a lot of genres that we have considered but for this post, we decided to choose LGBT YA and Anthologies, just because we think both are genres that people rarely read - at least we hope this isn't true! :)


LGBT YA



Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe My Most Excellent Year Wide Awake Openly Straight Luna Two Boys Kissing

Aristotle and Dante Discover The Secrets of The Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger
Wide Awake by David Levithan
Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg
Luna by Julie Anne Peters
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
  

 LGBT ANTHOLOGIES

Zombies Vs. Unicorns
How They Met, and Other Stories Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd  The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves 

How They Met and Other Stories by David Levithan
Geektastic: Stories From The Nerd Herd by John Green
Zombies vs. Unicorns by Holly Black
The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to Their Younger Selves by Various Artists, Edited by Sarah Moon

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BOOK IN REVIEW: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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Title: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Author: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication date: February 21st 2012
Hardcover: 359 pages
Rating: 5/5 stars

 It's funny how after I finished reading Tell the Wolves I'm Home (will review this next time) I told myself "I don't think I'll ever find a book that will measure up to this perfection", and then a month later stumble upon this impeccable, engrossing, coming-of-age tale of two friends as they go through self-discovery and their exploration of identity and sexuality. Guess I proved myself wrong. I don't even know what to say anymore, except that this story is simply divine, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since I finished it two days ago.

 I have cried over books for as long as I can remember, but never have I cried for more than half the time reading one. Let me just say that with other books, I had to stop reading, let out my feelings, then read again. But with Ari & Dante, I couldn't put the book down. I was probably an amusing sight (if you could've only seen me) - crying while reading from my iPad. I wonder what it would've been like if I was reading from an actual hardcopy book - it probably would have been drenched with my tears.