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The Guncle Abroad
The Prospects
Knife River
Looking for a Sign
Four Squares
But How Are You, Really

Brand New Queer Fiction

Memory Piece
Hombrecito
Oye
Rise and Divine
Lavash at First Sight
Little Rot

Poignant Books With Trans and Nonbinary Characters

Poignant Books With Trans and Nonbinary Characters

Vagabonds!
The Death of Vivek Oji
Obie Is Man Enough
Lucy, Uncensored
A Shore Thing
Moon Witch, Spider King
Detransition, Baby
A Shot in the Dark
The Wicked Bargain
Boys Weekend
The Borrow a Boyfriend Club
Calvin
Man o' War
Blue-Skinned Gods
Hell Followed with Us
Vagabonds!
Skye Falling
The Black Period
Rainbow Milk
The Color Purple (Movie Tie-In)
The Rivals
Sister Outsider
Mademoiselle Revolution
Hijab Butch Blues
Filthy Animals
Memory Piece
Oye
Hombrecito

Must-Read Books by Queer Writers of Color

How to Live Free in a Dangerous World
Little Rot
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Exhibit
Magical/Realism
Cinema Love
The Prophets
Quietly Hostile
When We Were Sisters
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Gods of Want
All This Could Be Different
All the Flowers Kneeling

Fighting Against Book Bans

Find out what we’re doing – and what you can do – to protect the freedom to read.

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Otherworldly Sci-Fi/Fantasy With Queer Characters

Otherworldly Sci-Fi/Fantasy With Queer Characters

The Diablo's Curse
Practical Rules for Cursed Witches
Queen B
Toto
The Lost Story
Blood & Fury
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Captive Prince
The Grief Keeper
The Taking of Jake Livingston
Chaos & Flame
Iron Widow
Malice
Lucha of the Night Forest
To Shape a Dragon's Breath
The Severed Thread
Another Dimension of Us
The Other Merlin
The Meadows
Hell Followed with Us

Historical Fiction That's a Little Bit Queer

Historical Fiction That's a Little Bit Queer

A Shore Thing
Confessions of the Fox
A Sweet Sting of Salt
All the World Beside
This Rebel Heart
The Wicked Bargain
Cantoras
Rainbow Milk
How to be both
The Prophets
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Belladonna
The Disenchantment
Lucky Red
Let the Dead Bury the Dead
With Teeth
How to be both
Guapa
Detransition, Baby
Nightcrawling
Exhibit
Trust and Safety
Housemates
Lucky Red
Memory Piece
The Prophets
First Time for Everything
All My Mother's Lovers
Speech Team
All This Could Be Different
When Katie Met Cassidy
The Guncle Abroad

Queer Book Club Must-Reads

Oye
Old Enough
Four Squares
Cinema Love
How to Survive a Summer
Skye Falling
Cantoras
A Shot in the Dark
Countries of Origin
Your Driver Is Waiting
The Fake
Dyscalculia
Small Joys
The Skin and Its Girl
I Will Greet the Sun Again
Let the Dead Bury the Dead
We Do What We Do in the Dark
The Late Americans

Thrillers With Queer Characters Who Don’t Die First

Thrillers With Queer Characters Who Don’t Die First

You Can Trust Me
The Rivals
The Last Girls Standing
Knife River
Wander in the Dark
Luda
Tripping Arcadia
A Line in the Dark
Killing Me
Bath Haus
The Spare Room
Long Black Veil
The Schoolhouse
Your Lonely Nights Are Over
Natural Beauty
Bad Cree

Classic Queer Fiction from Trailblazing Authors

Classic Queer Fiction from Trailblazing Authors

Orlando
Giovanni's Room (Deluxe Edition)
Rubyfruit Jungle
Written on the Body
A Boy's Own Story
Romance in Marseille
Olivia
Death in Venice

Bi the Book

Characters in these novels feel attraction towards people of two or more genders.

Anyone's Ghost
But How Are You, Really
Cash Delgado Is Living the Dream
Lavash at First Sight
Exes & Foes
To Shape a Dragon's Breath
Mademoiselle Revolution
Blue-Skinned Gods
Sizzle Reel
Gender Outlaw
She's Not There
Sissy
Take Your Own Advice
Detransition, Baby
Horse Barbie
Unlearning Shame
Burn the Page
Tripping Arcadia
Tomorrow Will Be Different
The Passing Playbook
Beyond the Gender Binary
Dead Collections
The T Guide
Being Jazz
Rules for Ghosting

Books by Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-Conforming Authors

Pretty
The Prospects
Obie Is Man Enough
Old Wounds
Fairest
The Ship We Built
An Accident of Stars
Grace Needs Space!
Little Rot
The Moth Keeper
How to Live Free in a Dangerous World
The Crane Wife
Falling Back in Love with Being Human
All the Flowers Kneeling
Luda
The Borrow a Boyfriend Club
Hell Followed with Us

How To Make a Zine

Jade Levine, a NYC-based writer and zinester, shares a simple guide on how to make your own 8-page zine.

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Feel the Love

These queer romances range from the sweet to the spicy.

Spicy Queer Romances

Spicy Queer Romances

Experienced
Looking for a Sign
Hot Summer
Cash Delgado Is Living the Dream
Blood on the Tide
Written on the Body
A Dash of Salt and Pepper
Something to Talk About
The Disenchantment
Make the Season Bright

Lesbian Love Stories

Lesbian Love Stories

Practical Rules for Cursed Witches
I'll Get Back to You
Rise and Divine
The Lovers
Something About Her
Director's Cut
Lavash at First Sight
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
Belladonna
Iris Kelly Doesn't Date
Off the Record
This Spells Disaster
Something to Talk About
I Think I Love You
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Girl Crushed
Marriage of a Thousand Lies

Gay Romances

Gay Romances

Showmance
We Could Be Heroes
The Prospects
The Breakup Lists
Memorial
Right Where I Left You
The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers
The Prophets
A Dash of Salt and Pepper
Caught in a Bad Fauxmance

LGBTQ+ Love Stories With Happy Endings

LGBTQ+ Love Stories With Happy Endings

The Bump
The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean
Cash Delgado Is Living the Dream
Rules for Ghosting
Juliet Takes a Breath
The Passing Playbook
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
Right Where I Left You
Belladonna
Nate Plus One
19 Love Songs
Melt With You
Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail
Skye Falling
Full Disclosure
Playing the Palace
Girl Crushed
Payback's a Witch
Sizzle Reel
That Summer Feeling
Best Men
Just as You Are
Countries of Origin
Wild Things
Solomon's Crown

Feeling Heard

These books with queer themes are all read by narrators who identify as LGBTQ+.

Gender Queer
Thin Skin
Bath Haus
The Breakup Lists
Pretty
Like Streams to the Ocean
I Was Better Last Night
Be a Triangle
The Language of Seabirds
The Late Americans
Luda
Being You: A First Conversation About Gender
The Wicked Bargain
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Nate Plus One
Payback's a Witch
Untamed
Congratulations, The Best Is Over!
Uncle of the Year

For All Ages

These books introduce queer themes and the gender spectrum to kids.

Queer YA Stories You'll Be Obsessed With

Queer YA Stories You'll Be Obsessed With

Wide Awake Now
The Quiet and the Loud
Just Another Epic Love Poem
The Breakup Lists
Full Shift
The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge
The Wicked Bargain
Boy Meets Boy
Juliet Takes a Breath
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
The Grief Keeper
The Passing Playbook
The Bone Spindle
Wonders of the Invisible World
Melt With You
Date Me, Bryson Keller
The Borrow a Boyfriend Club
Friday I'm in Love
The Rules of Us
Kings of B'more
Right Where I Left You
Another Dimension of Us
Kiss & Tell
Chasing Pacquiao
They Hate Each Other
Man o' War
The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers
More Happy Than Not (Deluxe Edition)
Hell Followed with Us

Books for Kids That Explore Queerness

Books for Kids That Explore Queerness

Blood City Rollers
The School for Invisible Boys
Obie Is Man Enough
The Magic Fish
The Glass Scientists: Volume Two
Our Colors
A Kids Book About Being Transgender
What Was Stonewall?
Answers in the Pages
The Sister Split
Alex Wise vs. the End of the World
The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet
The Nameless Witch
Different Kinds of Fruit
Sex Is a Funny Word
Too Bright to See

Picture Books That Celebrate Being Queer

Picture Books That Celebrate Being Queer

Family is Family
Gorgeously Me!
Olivette Is You
Queer and Fearless
The Broken Heart
Calvin
Kapaemahu
ABC Pride
Twas the Night Before Pride
Pink, Blue, and You!
My Rainbow
Being You: A First Conversation About Gender

Baby's First Queer Books

Baby's First Queer Books

The GayBCs
My Two Moms and Me
Daddy, Papa, and Me
Being You: A First Conversation About Gender
Mommy, Mama, and Me
My Two Dads and Me

Great LGBTQ+ Picture Books for Kids

LGBTQ+ Books for Tweens

Pride and Less Prejudice: LGBTQ+ Books for Teens

Books That Celebrate Transgender & Gender Nonconforming Kids

YA Books That Center on Transgender and Nonbinary Teens

Queer YA Romance Reads Teens Will Love

Reading With Royalty: Drag Story Hour

Get an inside look at Drag Story Hour with Executive Director Jonathan Hamilt.

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Books by Queer Authors To Help You Kick A** at Life

Books by Queer Authors To Help You Kick A** at Life

How to Live Free in a Dangerous World
Not Too Late
Come Out and Win
A Renaissance of Our Own
Working Girls
Right at Home
Like Streams to the Ocean
Old Brand New
Safe and Sound
The T Guide
Son of a Southern Chef
How to Be You
Better Living Through Birding
Be a Triangle
Gay Science
Pick Me Up
Queer Eye
XOXO, Cody
Kung Food

Queer Voices and Verses

These powerful and personal collections by queer poets invite readers to bear witness to their innermost thoughts and feelings.

woke up no light
Life of the Party
Hivestruck
A Hundred Lovers
soulscript
All the Flowers Kneeling
If They Come for Us
Time Is a Mother
Dream of the Divided Field
Take Me With You
Black Girl, Call Home
Love Speaks Its Name
Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara
The Black Period

Comics, Graphic Novels, and Manga That Portray Queerness

Comics, Graphic Novels, and Manga That Portray Queerness

Witchlight
I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
Full Shift
Other Ever Afters
Our Colors
Every Day: The Graphic Novel
Boys Weekend
The Glass Scientists: Volume One
If You'll Have Me
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated
Queer Power!
DC Comics: Bombshells Vol. 1: Enlisted
The DC Book of Pride
Color Me Queer
The Magic Fish

Memoirs That Give Voice to the Queer Experience

Memoirs That Give Voice to the Queer Experience

Coming Home
Pretty
I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles
Sister Outsider
I Heard Her Call My Name
A Product of Genetics (and Day Drinking)
Love Is a Burning Thing
How to Live Free in a Dangerous World
Rage
Gender Outlaw
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Tomorrow Will Be Different
Untamed
We Have Always Been Here
Here for It
A Renaissance of Our Own
I Was Better Last Night
The Rules Do Not Apply
All Down Darkness Wide
All In
A Visible Man
I Felt the End Before It Came
Mama's Boy
Wow, No Thank You.
Burn the Page
We Should Not Be Friends
Diary of a Misfit
Thin Skin
How to Write About Africa
Hijab Butch Blues
Horse Barbie
Broken Horses
Uncle of the Year
One Life
Out Loud
From Here
On Top of Glass
Queer and Loathing
Better Living Through Birding
Mother, Nature

Histories of the LGBTQ+ Movement

Histories of the LGBTQ+ Movement

Legendary Children
We Are Everywhere
The Stonewall Reader
A Queer History of the United States
How to Survive a Plague
The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
From the Closet to the Courtroom
Stonewall
Speak Now
Transgender Warriors
Torch Song Trilogy
Unbound
White Girls
The Queering of Corporate America
Hi Honey, I'm Homo!

The Ultimate LGBTQ+ Pride Book List

Must-Read Queer Writers of Color

Queer YA and Adult Romance Novels To Read Right Now

Queer Fantasy Books We Love

The Queer History Book List

Poetry Collections by Queer Authors

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