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Your weird uncle. Your brain-rotted niece. Your financially more successful than you cousin. What do all of these family members have in common? They’re the last people you want to be stuck sitting with around the Thanksgiving dinner table. When you’re tired of your real family (who isn’t at times?)…

Loved The Song of Achilles but still paying therapy bills due to the emotional trauma you sustained while reading it? Girl, same. You know what’s cheaper than therapy? Drowning your sorrows in new books with actually uplifting endings. If you’re tired of getting your tender fantasy heart stomped by a…

These fantasy books might as well have rode the cat bus straight out of Miyazaki's mind.

Fantasy without violence? Whoever heard of such a thing? How else the realm supposed to defeat the Dark Lord no one’s gonna introduce him to the business end of a magic sword? While many fantasy stories feature characters who let their fists do the talking, this list made for readers…

In recognition of LGBT Pride Month, The Conversation reached out to Jonathan Alexander – an English professor with a scholarly interest in the interplay between sexuality and literature – for recommendations of young adult fiction books that feature LGBT characters. What follows is a list that Alexander – who serves…