Also,are there any queer girls book that is shakespeare adaption or has shakespeare taste???? Thanks! (It is a weird ask but i need to knoooow)
Aaaaah, OMG, this is the best ask! *is the hugest Shakespeare nerd*
Unfortunately I don’t really have much for you, which is really sad because there is so much potential for queer Shakespeare retellings. Most of these I haven’t read either, so I can’t give you my personal recommendations. I asked the people in the fab YA LGBT Book Goodreads group for help.
Rosemary and Juliet by Judy Maclean
robintalley has a new book coming out in 2016 called As I Descended which is a re-telling of Macbeth. (I AM SO EXCITED.) You can learn more about it here.
And I’m going to rec some adaptations of other classics as well:
Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block (The Odyssey)
Great by Sara Benincasa (The Great Gatsby)
The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer (The Myth of Persephone)
Seven: A Lesbian Snow White by Jennifer Diemer
And of course Ash by Malinda Lo (Cinderella)
Lastly, I know you’re looking for books, but I’d also like to recommend Nothing Much to Do which is a vlog re-telling of Much Ado About Nothing, much like the Lizzie Bennet Diaries. And while it doesn’t have any queer girls, there are some queer guys, and in their recently confirmed second season Lovely Little Losers (aka Love’s Labour’s Lost), it looks like Costard and Jaqunetta will be re-imagined as queer girls.
SO. I hope this helps! I’m really sorry we didn’t have anything else. If you want to expand on “Shakespeare taste” I might be able to help you there. But seriously, queer Shakespeare re-tellings are now on my wishlist for queer YA— I need this in my life.
-Vee










