Books like Curious Wine by Katherine V. Forrest

Set in 1950s Paris, James Baldwin’s novel follows an American expatriate entangled in a doomed love triangle, confronting desire, morality, and sexual identity with stark honesty.

Stone Butch Blues follows a butch lesbian’s life in 1970s America, blending historical detail with personal experience to explore gender, sexuality, and community within the LGBTQ movement.

A cunning con man teams with an orphaned apprentice to swindle a wealthy heiress, but when the apprentice grows attached, the plot spirals into betrayal, deception and unexpected affection in a grim London slum.

Jeanette Winterson's debut novel follows a young woman's journey of faith and self-discovery.

In the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, Aster, a dark‑skinned sharecropper aboard a space vessel resembling the antebellum South, contends with brutal overseers and relentless labels, discovering a possible way to spark a civil war and change her fate.

Cameron Post, a gay teen from a conservative Montana ranch town, is sent to a conversion therapy center after her family demands she change her sexual orientation.

A romantic novel about a talented woman of aristocratic background who defies Victorian expectations and commercial success while pursuing her love for other women.

A seventeenth‑year college girl falls in love with a female graduate‑student teacher, discovering a deeper connection than she expected.

A story of Rediscovery and Romance. Nothing exciting ever happens in East Quay, a quaint New England coastal town. Not until its most celebrated daughter returns for one last performance. Four women, Manon, Eryn, Vivian and Mike, whose lives unexpectedly intersect in a small town by the sea share one thing in common--they all have secrets. Despite tragedy, past and present, each learns that life holds more than they dared dream. Manon Belmont, socialite and president of a wealthy foundation, leads a closeted life. She thrives helping others, but denies herself happiness for reasons she shares with no one. Nothing is the same after she meets Eryn Goddard, a reporter who has lost track of her dream of a grand writing career years ago. Eryn is suddenly rescued from her mundane assignments at the local paper when Vivian Harding, East Quay's only world famous celebrity, returns for a farewell performance. Vivian carries with her a secret that she fears has not only ended her career, but will also destroy her life. She finds an unexpected source of understanding in Michaela "Mike" Stone, a street smart and brilliant café owner. Mike, in turn, works hard developing her business, and even harder at overcoming the shadows of her past. She feels utterly protective of Vivian, but will she dare to eron her heart again?

Rose Salino is living the perfect lesbian-chic lifestyle in San Francisco. But then she loses both her lover and her job on the very same day. Twenty-four hours later, her grandmother dies and so Rose must journey home for the funeral. Once there, she meets up with Jessie, her best friend from childhood - and her very first love. Through the crises she faces, Rose is forced to look at her life and find the courage to create a future that is true to her self and to her heart. Will Rose take the risks necessary to create the life she wants—rather than the life she thinks she's "supposed to have"? —Back cover

Rich attorney Sydney Van Allen and devoted professor Faith Fitzgerald, engaged in a complex love triangle, discover a passionate romance that challenges their careers and personal lives.

Marty Jamison's Broadway show may be a mistake when an unexpected meeting with author Liz Chandler brings the help she needs, but a young actress threatens to steal her lead role.

An earl’s quest for an English bride intertwines with a servant’s longing for love, as romance blooms between Brodick McJames and Lady Mary in a tale of class, inheritance, and unexpected passion.

When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men. Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising--and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink--The Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age.

An LGBTQ+ romance revolving around a corporate attorney and a high‑power commodities trader.