Top 100 LGBTQ+ Fiction Books

📘 A Little Life

A Little Life is a 2015 novel by American novelist Hanya Yanagihara. The novel was written over the course of eighteen months. Despite the length and difficult subject matter, it became a bestseller.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Red, White & Royal Blue

**What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales?** **W**hen his mother became President of the United States, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius--his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe

Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Heartstopper, Volume 3

The third volume in the poignant and sweet Heartstopper series, featuring beautiful two-color artwork! Now streaming on Netflix! Charlie didn't think Nick could ever like him back, but now they're officially boyfriends. Nick has even found the courage to come out to his mom.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Maurice

Maurice is a novel by E. M. Forster. A tale of homosexual love in early 20th-century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays through university and beyond. It was written in 1913–1914, and revised in 1932 and 1959–1960.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Queer Contemporary Fiction

📘 The house in the Cerulean Sea

Linus is an uptight caseworker with a heart of gold working for the department in charge of magical youth. When he goes to investigate an orphanage on an island with supposedly dangerous children and an enigmatic leader Arthur, he’s expecting the worst. But it turns out he might be falling in love with Arthur and his charges.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Will Grayson, Will Grayson

One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both named Will Grayson—are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s most fabulous high school musical.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 Annie on My Mind

This groundbreaking book is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 Rubyfruit Jungle

Born a bastard, Molly Bolt is adopted by a dirt-poor Southern couple who want something better for their daughter. Molly plays doctor with the boys, beats up Leroy the tub and loses her virginity to her girlfriend in sixth grade. As she grows to realize she's different, Molly decides not to apologize for that.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 My policeman

A tale of forbidden love and the repressive society of 1950s England.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Rojo, blanco y sangre azúl

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Boyfriend Material

Luc O'Donnell is tangentially--and reluctantly--famous. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Oranges are not the only fruit

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

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 The Sluts

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and told through the postings, emails, and conversations of several dozen unreliable narrators, The Sluts chronicles the evolution of one young escort's date with a satisfied client into a metafiction of pornography, lies, half-truths, and myth.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Call Me by Your Name

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Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Confessions of a Mask

Confessions of a Mask is Japanese author Yukio Mishima's second novel. Published in 1949, it launched him to national fame though he was only in his early twenties.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Written in the Stars

A love story set on an imaginary planet and through the lens of an astrologer who’s in love with a man who never exists in this world, but who is as real as the one she loves most... and one day will be her own twin sister's best friend.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 The well of loneliness

Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parentsa fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 If I Was Your Girl

Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she’s determined not to get too close to anyone. But when she meets sweet, easygoing Grant, Amanda can’t help but start to let him into her life.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Transgender Fiction

📘 Drôle de garçon

Arjie is funny. The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Two Boys Kissing

Based on true events—and narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS—Two Boys Kissing follows Harry and Craig, two seventeen-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness World Record.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Last Exit to Brooklyn

A gritty portrayal of life on the streets and in the projects of New York City, featuring characters from the LGBTQ community and their struggles with addiction and obsessions.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Queer Contemporary Fiction

📘 Keeping You a Secret

A fantastically written book that follows the life of student Holland Jaegar in her last year of high school. Holland begins her last semester of school by meeting CeCe Goddard, a transfer student from Washington Central. As the days progress Holland learn about CeCe and the fact that she is a lesbian.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 Girl, Woman, Other

*Girl, Woman, Other* follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 The Line of Beauty

It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby--whom Nick had idolized at Oxford--and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions, who becomes both a...

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 City of Night

When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac, even as Rechy was personally attacked by scandalized reviewers.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Lie With Me

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 The city and the pillar

The City and the Pillar is the third published novel by American writer Gore Vidal, written in 1946 and published on January 10, 1948. The story is about a young man who is coming of age and discovers his own homosexuality.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Dancer from the Dance

A vivid depiction of New York's gay scene and its quest for love, featuring memorable literary creations like the beautiful and flamboyant Sutherland.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Nightwood

"At Nightwood's center are the love affairs of Robin Vote - a character based on Barnes's lover, Thelma Wood. Robin marries Felix Volkbein, an eccentric aristocrat, whom she meets in Paris, and whom she abandons years later for the American Nora Flood.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 Written on the Body

A captivating tale of forbidden romance between a transgender woman and a married woman.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 The Raven King

The Foxes are a fractured mess, but their latest disaster might be the miracle they've always needed to come together as a team. The one person standing in their way is Andrew, and the only one who can break through his personal barriers is Neil. Except Andrew doesn't give up anything for free and Neil is terrible at trusting anyone but himself.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 The desert of the heart

Possibly Jane Rule's best known novel, The Desert of the Heart is the story of a free spirited woman falling for a repressed older woman. Evelyn Hall is taking respite at a ranch for women as she seeks a divorce after years of marriage.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 If You Could Be Mine

In this stunning debut, a young Iranian American writer pulls back the curtain on one of the most hidden corners of a much-talked-about culture. Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They’ve shared stolen kisses and romantic promises.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 Faggots

It is a portrayal of 1970s New York's very visible gay community in a time before AIDS. Graphically sexual and one of the best-selling gay novels of all time, Faggots is the story of Fred Lemish, who at thirty-nine has built up his body into a fatless state of being in Great Shape. Finally he is ready to find Mr. Right.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs

Our Lady of the Flowers (Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs) is the debut novel of French writer Jean Genet, first published in 1943. The free-flowing, poetic novel is a largely autobiographical account of a man's journey through the Parisian underworld.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 When Haru Was Here

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Queer Contemporary Fiction

📘 Young Mungo

Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow’s housing estates where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 A single man

Classic fiction. The best prose writer in English' Gore Vidal Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Missionary no more

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 George

When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl.George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Transgender Fiction

📘 Openly straight

Rafe has been out since eighth grade, and he's fine with it, and so is everyone else. But sometimes he just wants to be a regular guy, not the gay guy. So when he transfers to an all-boys' boarding school in New England, he decides to become "openly straight" instead.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

Author Mariko Tamaki and illustrator Rosemary Valero-O’Connell bring to life a sweet and spirited tale of young love in Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, a graphic novel that asks us to consider what happens when we ditch the toxic relationships we crave to embrace the healthy ones we need.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 Llamame Por Tu Nombre

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Chokehold

ONE MOMENT. TWO MASKS. THREE CHASES INTO THE NIGHT. They’re supposed to be enemies. It takes one night with a masked man to change that all. They crave the next touch of the person they hate the most. Desperate for that next taste of the person they can’t stand. Waiting for that anonymous text message to accelerate their heartbeats.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Whipping Girl

A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Transgender Fiction

📘 Freshwater

Both a recounting of trauma and its impacts, as well as a retelling of a Nigerian fable. The main character's multiple experiences of trauma are retold and the author unflinchingly explores how they are impacted (e.g., self-harm, dissociation). The character's psychology is viewed through a non-Western lens.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Queer Contemporary Fiction

📘 Honey Girl

With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 Detransition, Baby

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Queer Contemporary Fiction

📘 The Persistent Desire

Surveys a decade of the attempt to reconstruct and understand the meaning and value of butch-femme relations for the contemporary lesbian, drawing on oral history, fiction, poetry, and fantasy

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 Fire from heaven

Fire from Heaven is a 1969 historical novel by Mary Renault about the childhood and youth of Alexander the Great. It reportedly was a major inspiration for the Oliver Stone film Alexander.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 The King's Men (All for the Game #3)

Neil Josten is out of time. He knew when he came to PSU he wouldn't survive the year, but with his death right around the corner he's got more reasons than ever to live. Befriending the Foxes was inadvisable. Kissing one is unthinkable.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Flamer

*I know I’m not gay. Gay boys like other boys. I hate boys. They’re mean, and scary, and they’re always destroying something or saying something dumb or both.* *I hate that word. Gay. It makes me feel . . . unsafe.* It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Kinjiki

Forbidden Colors (禁色, Kinjiki) is a 1951 novel (禁色 Part 2 秘楽 (Higyō) "Secret Pleasure" was published in 1953) by the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, translated into English in 1968. The name kinjiki is a euphemism for homosexuality. The kanji 禁 means "forbidden" and 色 in this case means "erotic love", although it can also mean "color".

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 The Death of Vivek Oji

One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Transgender Fiction

📘 Symptoms of Being Human

Riley is a gender fluid teen living with anxiety. They're at a new school just trying to fit in when they start a blog under the name Alix. They write about what their gender means to them and the blog quickly gains popularity.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Transgender Fiction

📘 Dance on my grave

Hal's summer affair with Barry Goldman ends tragically when Hal discovers he is much more committed to the relationship than his friend.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Trumpet

At its center is Joss Moody, a celebrated jazz trumpeter who created music that convinced everyone who heard it that they knew the man who made it. But Joss's death has proved them all wrong: Joss Moody lived his life inside a stunning secret. His wife, Millie, had known about it.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Transgender Fiction

📘 When the Moon Was Ours

As their deep friendship turns to love, Latina teenager Miel, who grows roses from her wrist, and Italian-Pakistani Samir, a transgender boy, fear their secrets will be exposed by the beautiful Bonner girls, four sisters rumored to be witches.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Transgender Fiction

📘 Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy is a powerful exploration of the journey of a naive Texan who seeks a glamorous life in New York, but finds himself and his dreams compromised.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Best Lesbian Erotica 2000

The bestselling lesbian erotica series in America! Capturing the hottest, freshest lesbian erotica of the year. "For me, the best erotic stories closely resemble the people who make my skin flush hot pink and send my head into overdrive. They're fiercely intelligent, confident and intricate. They can sweep me off my feet or catch me off guard.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 I prefer girls

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 Pages for You

Seventeen-year-old Flannery Jansen develops a lusty obsession for a female graduate student teacher and by chance ends up in one of her classes, but as the two become closer, Flannery learns more about Anne than she ever wanted to.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 In One Person

A New York Times bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love—tormented, funny, and affecting—and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Queer Contemporary Fiction

📘 The Swimming-Pool Library

A literary sensation and bestseller in both England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of gay life before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with total impunity.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 This is how it always is

"This is how a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after...until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change...and then change the world.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Transgender Fiction

📘 Beyond Magenta

In Beyond Magenta, six teens tell what it is like for them to be members of the transgender community. Portraits and family photographs grace the pages, adding immediacy to the emotional and physical journeys of these unwaveringly honest young adults.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Transgender Fiction

📘 Heated Rivalry

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 At swim, two boys

Set during the year preceding the Easter Uprising of 1916—Ireland’s brave but fractured revolt against British rule—*At Swim, Two Boys* is a tender, tragic love story and a brilliant depiction of people caught in the tide of history. Powerful and artful, and ten years in the writing, it is a masterwork from Jamie O’Neill.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Luna

Regan's brother Liam can't stand the person he is during the day. Like the moon from whom Liam has chosen his female namesake, his true self, Luna, only reveals herself at night. In the secrecy of his basement bedroom Liam transforms himself into the beautiful girl he longs to be, with help from his sister's clothes and makeup.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Transgender Fiction

📘 Convict's Candy

Ever wonder if the man in your life who’s been incarcerated, turned to another with an alternative lifestyle for comfort? Meet Candy Sweets, a teenaged, pre-op transsexual who gets arrested and sent to federal prison, exactly one week before “her” scheduled sex-change operation.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Transgender Fiction

📘 These Violent Delights

*The Secret History* meets *Lie with Me* in Micah Nemerever's compulsively readable debut novel—a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 The Great Believers

In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDs epidemic grows around him.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 The paying guests

It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 Female Masculinity

Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Queer Contemporary Fiction

📘 Volúpia do pecado

A historical romance novel exploring forbidden love in a repressive society.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 B-boy blues

**From Amazon.com:** ***A B-Boy Blues Novel #1*** Hardy's debut novel about the lives of black gay men in New York City is unabashedly and unapologetically written for the African-American male. Rough, sexy, humorous, and authentic, B-Boy Blues is a first-rate love story.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 The Soft Machine

In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Geography Club

Russel Middlebrook is convinced he's the only gay kid at Goodkind High School.Then his online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other than Kevin, the popular but closeted star of the school's baseball team. Soon Russel meets other gay students, too.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Queer Contemporary Fiction

📘 Hero

Funny, exciting novel about a teenage boy growing up with two secrets: one, that he has superpowers - two, that he's gay. And he gets to save the world... Even though Thom Creed's a basketball star, his high school classmates keep their distance. They've picked up on something different about Thom.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Curious Wine

The intimacy of a cabin at Lake Tahoe provides the combustible circumstances that bring Diana Holland and Lane Christianson together in this passionate novel of first discovery. Candid in its eroticism, intensely romantic, remarkably beautiful, *Curious Wine* is a love story that will remain in your memory.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 The prick and his prince

It’s Desmond’s last year in high school. After transferring to Ivory High, he’s met his three best friends and boyfriend. Despite the joy and laughter they bring into his life, he fears what the future holds for them. Brothers, friends, lovers, and a whirl of events leave him confused and lost.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Jay's Gay Agenda

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 The Girls in 3-B

An honest, explosive novel that turns conventional ideas of 1950s feminity upside down, The Girls in 3-B reveals in page-turning detail the hidden world of mid-century America, showcasing predatory Beatnick men, workplace intrigues, drug hallucinations, repressed family secrets, and clandestine lesbian trysts.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 Closer

Physically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles becomes the object of his friends' passions, and, one after another, they ransack him for love or anything else they can trust in the mindlessness of middle America.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 You Exist Too Much

A novel of self-discovery following a Palestinian-American girl as she navigates queerness, love addiction and a series of tumultuous relationships' The Millions, One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year Told in vignettes that flash between the US and the Middle East, Zaina Arafat's powerful debut novel traces her protagonist's progress fro...

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 Like a Love Story

It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He's terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 The Black Flamingo

Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he’s navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican—but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael’s coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 gay of fire

its a gay book

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Tell me how long the train's been gone

At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 A Place for Us

In the early nineteenth century, in a puritanical New England town, two women fall in love. With no one to guide or support them, Patience and Sarah try to follow their hearts. Defying society and history, they buy a farm and discover they can live together, away from the world that had sought to limit them and their love.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Lesbian Fiction

📘 Contract Bound

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Real life

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 A home at the end of the world

Presents two decades of American life - Bobby and gay Jonathan, growing up together in a small town in the 1970s; Jonathan's mother Alice; and, unconventional Clare, with whom the two grown-up men form a family.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 The Charioteer

After enduring an injury at Dunkirk during World War II, Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' hospital in England to convalesce. There he befriends the young, bright Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 Other Voices, Other Rooms

Other Voices, Other Rooms is a 1948 novel by Truman Capote. It is written in the Southern Gothic style and is notable for its atmosphere of isolation and decadence. Other Voices, Other Rooms is significant because it is both Capote's first published novel and semi-autobiographical.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Gay Fiction

📘 You know me well

Mark and Kate sit next to each other in school but are barely acquainted until they meet at a San Francisco club during Pride Week and connect over each one's forbidden love.

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction Subgenre: Queer Contemporary Fiction