Boys of Alabama
By: Genevieve Hudson
3.35
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
In this bewitching debut novel, a sensitive teen, newly arrived in Alabama, falls in love, question…
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1. Since I Laid My Burden Down
By: Brontez Purnell
4.08
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Whiting Award winner Brontez Purnell’s debut novel is an uninhibited portrait of growing up gay in … read more
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- contemporary
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
2. Transgender History
By: Susan Stryker
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more
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3. Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History
By: Hannah McElhinney
4.54
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
As seen on Tiktok, Rainbow History Class is your entry into LGBTQ+ history, covering queer and tr… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
4. Summer Sons
By: Lee Mandelo
3.80
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddi… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- queer
"It's a choice I made, getting in this thing with you, whatever it is. But don't mistake me, I'm not interested in filling in for a ghost."-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons
"His face twisted through several contradictory emotions and he said, "For fuck's sake Andrew. Is there anything in this scenario that feels heterosexual or well-adjusted to you?"-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons
"I’m sorry he died before you figured it out. For what it’s worth, I think you might’ve eventually, without me there to displace your bullshit onto. He was head over heels for you, and everyone knew b…"-Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons
5. Pew
By: Catherine Lacey
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
6. Brutes
By: Dizz Tate
3.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"to be loved, was just to be watched"-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
7. Golden Ax (Penguin Poets)
By: Rio Cortez
4.02
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a p… read more
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- audiobook
8. We Were the Universe
By: Kimberly King Parsons
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe
9. The Woods All Black
By: Lee Mandelo
3.81
Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition
The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more
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- fantasy
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black
10. Ziggy, Stardust and Me
By: James Brandon
4.15
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
The year is 1973. The Watergate hearings are in full swing. The Vietnam War is still raging. And ho… read more
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- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"How was a feeling be so bad if it makes me feel so good?"-James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me
"Warm chairs. I don't know, like I'm sitting on someone's leftover germs."-James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me
"He looks at me. And smiles. "Just us remember?To the moon," he whispers."-James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me
"Your imagination is your safe space, an escape pod to another dimension where you're free to be."-James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me
11. Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
By: Taylor Brorby
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terr… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- queer
"I wanted to be that open with others. Be able to express myself without fear. Spare emotions fester in a landscape where the only way capitalism has made sense of the American West is to fence it in.…"-Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
"The American West is the playground for the country's obsession with exploitation and destruction, with most extractive economies near Native American reservations. There are increased rates of birth…"-Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
"The prairie I grew up on teaches you to notice, to pay attention. The yolk of the sun as it slides across the dome of the sky streaking the world orange and indigo. The swish of grass in afternoon br…"-Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
"My grip loosened on the wheel. Or was it, the world? It was such a small, passing moment. Which is where many of our monumental shifts happen. It is not the grand stage, but the quiet kitchen, the si…"-Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
12. Icarus
By: K. Ancrum
4.08
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- queer
13. You Get What You Pay For: Essays
By: Morgan Parker
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman… read more
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- audiobook
14. Godshot
By: Chelsea Bieker
3.77
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourte… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"The loneliness of a monster can only become sentimental after it is dead."-Chelsea Bieker, Godshot
15. Providence
By: Craig Willse
3.27
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An introverted English professor falls for an enigmatic sophomore and is lured into a web of chaos … read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
"He reminded me of a scene from a movie, any movie: men standing in doorways, filling the space with their silence."-Craig Willse, Providence
16. Manywhere: Stories
By: Morgan Thomas
3.81
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Morgan Thomas's Manywhere features lush and uncompromising stories about characters crossing geogra… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
17. Breeze Spells and Bridegrooms
By: Sarah Wallace
4.14
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Roger not only had to prove himself to the Council, he also had to prove himself to Wyndham Wrenwhi… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- fantasy
- queer
18. Boys of Alabama
By: Genevieve Hudson
3.35
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
In this bewitching debut novel, a sensitive teen, newly arrived in Alabama, falls in love, question… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- lgbt
- coming of age
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
- queer
19. Your Lonely Nights Are Over
By: Adam Sass
4.03
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Scream meets Clueless in this YA horror from Adam Sass in which two gay teen BFFs find their friend… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
20. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
By: T. Fleischmann
4.01
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that decla…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a bette…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
21. Ponyboy
By: Eliot Duncan
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
