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Queer Literature

General Fiction

  • Sarahland by Sam Cohen
  • Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
  • On a Woman's Madness by Astrid Roemer
  • Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada

TBR
  • Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
  • Boulder by Eva Baltasar
  • Naamah by Sarah Blake
  • Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
  • Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
  • Mouth by Puloma Ghosh
  • Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman
  • Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim
  • Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy
  • Fair Play by Tove Jansson
  • Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh
  • When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O'Neill
  • Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde
  • The Weeds by Katy Simpson Smith
  • Blackouts by Justin Torres
  • Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
  • Written On the Body by Jeanette Winterson
  • Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis

Classics

  • Passing by Nella Larsen
  • Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

TBR
  • Another Country by James Baldwin
  • Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
  • Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
  • Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir

Biographies & Memoirs

  • Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss
  • Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina
  • In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
  • Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton

TBR
  • Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown
  • Dear Senthurian: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
  • The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
  • Diary of a Misfit by Casey Parks
  • De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
  • The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch

Sci-Fi/Fantasy

  • Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
  • Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
  • The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
  • The Singing Hills Cycle (series) by Nghi Vo
  • The Tensorate Series by Neon Yang

TBR
  • Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
  • A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
  • Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
  • X by Davey Davis
  • Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
  • A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
  • Fruiting Bodies by Kathryn Harlan
  • Tentacle by Rita Indiana
  • Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
  • The Daughter of Redwinter by Ed McDonald
  • The Seep by Chana Porter
  • The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-ran
  • The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
  • Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo
  • An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
  • The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei
  • The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

Horror

  • The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica
  • Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
  • Jawbone by Monica Ojeda
  • White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

TBR
  • The Sluts by Dennis Cooper
  • Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
  • Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
  • Walking Practice by Dolki Min
  • The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza
  • The Lamb by Lucy Rose
  • Monstrilio by Gerardo Samano Cordova
  • Bonding by Maggie Siebert
  • Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

History & Theory

  • Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare

TBR
  • Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan
  • Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality by Hanne Blank
  • Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
  • Undoing Gender by Judith Butler
  • Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex by P. Califia
  • Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures ed. by Martin Duberman
  • Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care by Marty Fink
  • Men in Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century by George Haggerty
  • Spaces Between Us (Series - First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) by Scott Lauria Morgensen
  • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
  • It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery
  • Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by José Esteban Muñoz
  • The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr by Jack Parlett
  • Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
  • Queer Necropolitics (Series - Social Justice) ed. by Silvia Posocco, Adi Kuntsman, & Jin Haritaworn
  • Permanent Revolution: Essays by Gail Scott
  • Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment by Michael D. Snediker
  • Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law by Dean Spade
  • Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on Environment and Nature ed. by Douglas A. Vakoch
  • It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror ed. by Joe Vallese
  • Raving (Series - Practices) by McKenzie Wark

Middle Grade & Young Adult

  • Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
  • Wilder Girls by Rory Power

TBR
  • Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
  • A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
  • Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Graphic Novels & Comics

  • Putty Pygmalion by Lonnie Garcia
  • Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
  • Baptism in the Mud by Cam McCafferty

TBR
  • A Guest in the House by E.M. Carroll
  • My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Nagata Kabi
  • The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
  • The Summer Hikaru Died (series) by Mokumokuren
  • Catch These Hands! by murata
  • River's Edge by Kyoko Okazaki
  • On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

Poetry

  • Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
  • The works of Robert Duncan
  • The works of Mary Oliver
  • The works of Sappho

TBR
  • Soft Science by Franny Choi
  • Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi
  • Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco by K. Iver
  • Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones
  • The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde
  • Crush by Richard Siken
  • Homie by Danez Smith