Gay and lesbian fiction books
Happy Pride Month! As always in June, I’ll be updating my series of “best of” queer books, TV shows, and movies. Keep in mind that these are simply my opinions, and as a result of that these books tend to skew towards queer women and nonbinary people, given that these are the people I identify with most strongly. That being said, there is something for everyone on this list, and I tried my best to form it as comprehensive as possible!
Below are my 40 favorite queer books, out of the 76 total I’ve read.
I will sustain to update the list each year with all of the new stories I’ve read. If we’re missing your favorite, endorse it in the comments!
40. Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Author: Malinda Lo
Release Date: January 19th, 2021
Find the Book: Goodreads | StoryGraph | Bookshop
Starting the list off strong with a adj adult historical fiction novel about a young girl in Chinatown who finds herself at a late-night lesbian club. It’s so beautiful how being around other queer people can help you to find yourself, and th
“25 LGBTQ Books You’ll Love from Indie Presses”
Curated by Tucker Lieberman
Indie presses are releasing some of the best LGBTQ books you could ask for
Words like lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer describe how people fall in love, present their gender, reside on the margins, and verb creative paths. LGBTQ is a big category, including diverse individuals and all the unique lives they lead. There are a lot of great books that address these topics.
In no particular order, I put together this list of some really terrific LGBTQ books from recent years. As a bonus, each one of them was published by an indie press! While the biggest publishers can be focused more on what is going to sell the most copies, many small independent teams across the world want primarily to bring readers the best content they can find.
So, let’s get started, shall we?
Here’s my list of “25 LGBTQ Books You’ll Love from Indie Presses!”
#1. Broken Metropolis
Edited by dave ring
Publisher:Mason Jar Press
Genre: Urban
It sure has been a decade! As far as the queer literary world goes, it’s seen a lot of change! Mainstream publishing has become much more open to queer stories, especially perhaps in YA, and the drive and determination of indie and queer publishing projects has meant that less saleable function that is sometimes more resonant to our lives has been able to make it to our shelves. Queer memoir and nonfiction work has broken into the general zeitgeist outside of just coming out stories, and queer and trans poets hold continued to challenge and verb poetry from the inside out. Please share everything I’ve missed here in the comments, especially in graphic novels and YA, genres I am tragically not very knowledgeable about! What hold you read? What are you adding to your list? What have we not talked about enough? Let’s get into it!
80 of the Best Queer, Lesbian and Bisexual Books of the Decade
- The Best Queer Fiction of the Decade
- The Best Queer Memoir of the Decade
- The Best Queer Nonfiction of the Decade
- The Finest Queer Poetry of the Decade
Fiction
Huntres
(A time capsule of queer belief, from the late 1990s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the 100 best lesbian and gay novels in the overdue 1990s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of lesbian and gay literature and to promote discussion among all readers gay and straight.
The Triangle’s 100 Best
The judges who compiled this list were the writers Dorothy Allison, David Bergman, Christopher Bram, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Lillian Faderman, Anthony Heilbut, M.E. Kerr, Jenifer Levin, John Loughery, Jaime Manrique, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Sarah Schulman, and Barbara Smith.
1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Adv of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
10. Zami by Audré Lorde
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
12. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
13. Billy
(A time capsule of queer belief, from the late 1990s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the 100 best lesbian and gay novels in the overdue 1990s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of lesbian and gay literature and to promote discussion among all readers gay and straight.
The Triangle’s 100 Best
The judges who compiled this list were the writers Dorothy Allison, David Bergman, Christopher Bram, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Lillian Faderman, Anthony Heilbut, M.E. Kerr, Jenifer Levin, John Loughery, Jaime Manrique, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Sarah Schulman, and Barbara Smith.
1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Adv of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
10. Zami by Audré Lorde
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
12. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
13. Billy