Reddit mentions of Beauty Queens

Is there a reason she hasn't read Harry Potter?

Keep going with young-adult books I guess. The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld should do the trick. Libba Bray should work well too, although I've only read short stories by her so far. Her new book looks promising for your girlfriend's taste.

For YA Fiction -

Libba Bray's Beauty Queens has a variety of well-developed LBTQ characters. It's also an absolutely hilarious, super feminist satire that was generally a delight to read.

Sara Farizan's If You Could Be Mine is about a lesbian relationship and the trans community in Iran. It's much more serious, but also well done.

My friend raved about The Miseducation of Cameron Post. I wanted to like it far more than I did - I didn't find the main character that engaging, I guess. But teen lesbians in late-80s/early-90s Montana.

I lovvee YA books, so my current to-read list is basically Lambda Literary's annual YA LGBT fiction winners. You have to go through year by year, but you can see all the nominees and winners.

Also - this list! And this one too!

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray: a plane full of teen beauty pagent contestants get marooned on a desert island. There are also shady government people, undercover journalists, and hot pirates. Super hilarious.

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