#lgbtq+ book list

[queerbookmasterlist]

How to Use the Queer Book Master List

I have created a master list of queer fiction books which can be sorted and filtered by your preferences.  However, many have asked how to use it - so I have created a quick guide below!

This is not like google sheets - any filters you create will only be shown to you and will disappear when you exit that screen. So feel free to mess around! I promise you won’t ruin anything.

Step 1: Open the database

Step 2: Select the “Create Your Own Filter” view on the left-hand side.

Step 3: Click “filter” on the top bar.

Step 4: Input any filters you would like to organize the files by. The screen will automatically update with books that fit into all of your specifications.

[sapphicbookclub]

Pride Flag Book Recs! #3🌈

Need more diverse books for pride month? I’m bringing you some colorful suggestions for your rainbow shelves aesthetic! 

Feel free to check out my previous posts as well here and here! 

The Devotion of Delflenor by R. Cooper, The Devil Wears Tartan by Katia Rose, The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe, The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart, These Feathered Flames by Alexandra Overy

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite, Say You'll Love Me Again by Kiki Archer, The Key to You and Me by Jaye Robin Brown, The Secret of You and Me by Melissa Lenhardt, The Valkyrie's Daughter by Tiana Warner

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker Chan, Welcome To Paradise by Lise Gold, A Flight in the Heavens by Gabrielle Gagne-Cyr, The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri, Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard

Candidly Cline by Kathryn Ormsbee, Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour, The Noble and the Nightingale by Barbara Ann Wright, Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Sisters of Shadow by Katherine Livesey

I Think I Love You by Auriane Desombre, Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur, The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Uncharted by Ali Temple, The Winter Duke by Claire Eliza Bartlett

Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler, It Goes Like This by Miel Moreland, Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley, Girls at the Edge of the World by Laura Brooke Robson, A Scheme of Sorcery by Ennis Rook Bashe

Happy Pride Month Reading!  ❤️💛🧡💚💙💜

[ajibooks]

Published books I've read & recommend with a nonbinary main character or love interest in which you never learn the character's AGAB or too many details about their presentation.

Note that I'm not saying this quality is good or bad; it's just one way of writing nonbinary characters. Queer & trans identities are pretty much completely incidental in all these books.

Short list today - please add to it if you know of more:

Infernal Affairs by Jordan L. Hawk - Paranormal romance novella in which a male demon falls in love with a nonbinary human. This book is very funny and a little sexy, but the sex is not too explicit. This is the only one on today's list in which the nonbinary character does not have any point-of-view sections.

American Hippo by Sarah Gailey - Fantasy and alt-history about hippo-riding cowboys in the 1800s American South. This is primarily an action-adventure novel (with explicit violence) but the m/nb romance plot is fairly prominent. There is another nonbinary character as well (genderfluid).

The Heartbreak Handshake by JR Hart - Contemporary romance, m/nb pairing. Cute fake-dating plot, engaging characters, and a sweet small-town setting. Both characters are also ace-spectrum. Disclaimer: I beta-read this book.

Also of possible interest: Lock In series by John Scalzi - The main character's gender is not given, and you can imagine them any way you'd like. Their physical body is (sort of) separate from their consciousness, due to a disability accomodation. These are fun near-future sci-fi mystery novels and they don't have romance plots.

My previous book lists:

Books with trans men as main characters (x)

Books with aromantic and/or asexual main characters (x)

Books with grumpy/sunshine pairings (x)

[themoonrambles]

Hi folks, Im looking for any LGBTQ fantasy books/comics to fixate on hahaha. Especially any with lesbians or wlw as their leading main characters, I just want someone to project onto 😔✊Im all too familiar with quite a few mlm books, but now Im just looking for something to closely identify with.

Would love to hear any recommendations! Im a sucker for enemies to lovers!

Thank you in advance ♡

[wannabe-british-fangirl]

~ books read in 2022 ~

#22: The Deep by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes

“It was like dreaming,” said Yetu, throat raw.

[nooo-im-not-weird]

Please Interact

if you

- like/make art

- are queer in any way

- like rainbow rowell or alice oseman

- love simon snow and baz pitch

- watch the umbrella academy

- are funny

[andrasta14]

Me today, tomorrow, and always...cause of death: deeply homoerotic prose

[yaworldchallenge]

Bisexual YA Books around the world

It's Bisexual Visibility Month!! 💗💜💙 So I thought I would put together some Bi rep books that take place in, or are inspired by, non-anglo-US cultures. I'm going by reviews and labels since I have not read any of these yet! Please reblog and feel free to add more titles!

Ida by Alison Evans (🇦🇺Australia) Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar (🇧🇩🇬🇧 Bengali-British) The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson (🇧��Brazil) Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (🇨🇳China) Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee (🇨🇳🇻🇳Chinese-Vietnamese) All the Invisible Things by Orlagh Collins (🇬🇧England) The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (🇪🇺 Europe) Last Night in Nuuk by Niviao Korneliussen (🇬🇱 Greenland)* Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (🇺🇸Latinx-American) Kynship by Daniel Heath Justice (🌎Native American)* Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (🇳🇱Netherlands) For Sizakele by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene (🇳🇬🇨🇲Nigeria / Cameroon)* Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley (🇲🇽Mexico) Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust (🇮🇷Persia) Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins (🇬🇧Scotland) Flip the Script by Lyla Lee (🇰🇷 South Korea)

* adult/NA/literary book, not quite YA

[neopronounsmybelovaed]

sometimes i feel kinda sad because like. i cant actually read things with characters who use neos?? or use neos for other ppl and myself?? i know that's why auxiliary pronouns exist but. it just feels like shit tbh. i also use neos as well so i feel double bad :/

It does suck, but after a Lot of digging, I found some books with neos!I haven't, in the strictest sense, read most of these books, but here are some books that include neopronoun rep. Here you are, for all of your bookworm neopronoun validation needs.

A Voyage To Arcturus, David Lindsay. I have read this one, and honestly enjoyed it (most of my reactions are on the blog way back in like july). The OG ae/aer pronouns. Set around 1920, a man from Earth arrives on and travels a new planet and encounters a lot of aliens (most of whom are probably cisn't.)

No Man Of Woman Born, Ana Mardoll. A collection of short stories that subverts your typical gendered prophecies, including "A quiet fisher mourning the loss of xer sister to a cruel dragon." Chapters also include neopronoun pronunciation guides in the beginning (as well as trigger warnings.)

Nine Of Swords, Reversed, Xan West. Novella about a genderfluid/genderfluid romance facing some (magical and realistic) relationship issues. The main character uses xe/xym pronouns.

The Spy Who Never Grew Up, Sarah Brennan. An alternate version of Peter Pan, which includes an intersex fairy who uses zie/zir pronouns.

Dawn, Octavia Butler. Post apocalyptic, set centuries in the future, saving the planet after a nuclear war. It/its aliens. Vague dehumanization of gender diversity but there are neos.

Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie. Sci-fi quest, exploring planets and fighting evil. Major character who is genderfluid and rotates with he/him, she/her, and ze/hir. Several other side characters use ze pronouns.

Nearly Roadkill, Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan. Cyberpunk exploration of gender and feminism. Co-writer Bornstein coined the beloved term "gender outlaw." Two protagonists use ze/hir. It does contain graphic sex scenes so do keep that in mind.

Distress, Greg Egan. Scientists explore the Theory Of Everything and have to deal with a new disease known as the Distress. Uses science fiction to explore gender and has an asexual (not the orientation, but lacking physical sex) character who uses ve/ver pronouns.

@quayilme, @hopeless-bisexual-queen,

[cheshirelibrary]

5 Witchy Books Full of Trans & Nonbinary Magic 

[via Book Riot]

There’s been a small explosion of trans and nonbinary witch books recently, especially in YA. These books are either about trans and nonbinary witches (I’ve defined witches and witchery broadly), written by trans and nonbinary authors, or both.

The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu

I’m a Gay Wizard by V.S. Santoni

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore

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Click through to view more titles.

[a-rivederlestelle]

book rec list in honor of the start of pride month 🏳️‍🌈

some of my favorite lgbt+ novels!!

the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon (high fantasy, lesbian mc, bisexual mc, gay mc, asexual mc, f/f)

the locked tomb trilogy by tamsyn muir (horror sci-fi space opera, literally so many lesbian main characters)

giovanni’s room by james baldwin (literary fiction, gay mc, m/m)

the last true poets of the sea by julia drake (young adult fiction, bisexual main character, f/f)

music from another world by robin talley (historical fiction, epistolary, bisexual mc, lesbian mc, f/f)

tell it to the bees by fiona shaw (historical fiction, wlw main characters, f/f)

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin ailre sáenz (young adult fiction, gay main characters, m/m)

this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone (sci-fi time travel novella, epistolary, wlw main characters, f/f)

on earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong (literary fiction/autofiction, epistolary, gay main character)

plus two im currently reading: 

one last stop by casey mcquiston (contemporary romance novel, new adult, bisexual mc, lesbian mc, trans supporting character, gay supporting character, f/f)

left hand of darkness by ursula k. le guin (science fiction, trans/gnc characters)

plus two im hoping to read this month:

confessions of the fox by jordy rosenberg (historical fiction, trans mc)

last night at the telegraph club by malinda lo (historical fiction, young adult, wlw main characters)

[queerbookdom]

🌈 2022 September Queer Releases 🌈

Nota Bene: an asterisk (*) is added near the titles to mean that the book DOES NOT feature queer characters on page (to my knowledge), but the author is queer and therefore still in need of our support as those book are intrinsically queer (or at least I think so, everyone else is absolutely free to feel otherwise). TitleAuthor/EditorCategory/GenrePublication DateThe Dating DisasterSaxon…

[bookaddict24-7]

AUTHOR FEATURE:

﹒Danez Smith﹒

Four Books Written By this Author:

Don’t Call Us Dead

Homie

Black Movie

[Insert] Boy

___

Happy reading!

[ajibooks]

Do you like Jim/Oluwande, the canon OFMD ship? Do you have no idea who those people are? Either way, maybe you're a fan of the trope called "the grumpy one is soft for the sunshine one." Here are some published romance novels you might enjoy. Asterisk indicates there is not on-page sex.

Be aware that (as with Jim) this trope often involves bad experiences in one or both characters' pasts, so please take a look at content warnings, if you usually do. My messages & ask box are always open for any book questions! These are all books I really loved, and I recommend them with enthusiasm.

The Soldier's Scoundrel by Cat Sebastian - M/m romance between two gay men set in Regency England. Lots of gentle humor and a light mystery plot. This author has written this trope often.

Honey and Pepper by AJ Demas - M/m romance between two young gay men set in a fantasy world based on the ancient Mediterranean (specifically Rome, in this novel). The grumpy one is a little softer in this one than in some of the others.

*Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell - M/m romance between two men, with a sci-fi mystery adventure plot. Also features the arranged marriage and only one bed (tent) tropes. It's both very plotty and very romance-y.

*Magic in Manhattan series by Allie Therin - M/m romance between a gay man and a bi man, set in Prohibition-era NYC and other cities, with an urban fantasy action-adventure plot. Lots of fun. The first book does not end on a cliffhanger, but there's a continuing plot throughout the trilogy.

*The Heartbreak Handshake by JR Hart - M/nb romance set in a fictional contemporary town. Both characters are neurodivergent and asexual. The male character is much more cheerful than his love interest, a nonbinary crafter. Also features the fake dating trope (extremely clever title for it, too). Disclaimer: I beta-read this book. It stands alone and is only loosely linked to the other books in the series.

Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins - M/f (cishet) romance between a man and woman set in the Old West. This author is one of the greatest romance novelists, and she writes Black romance, mainly historical. The female character here is the grumpy one, an accomplished horse-tamer. The author writes this trope often. Night Hawk is the book of hers I usually see recommended, and I loved it too; it has a grumpy male lead and sunshine-y female lead.

Her Big City Neighbor by Jackie Lau - M/f (cishet) romance between a white woman and an Asian man set in contemporary Toronto. The man is the grumpy one and the woman is exceptionally cheerful. This author loves to write detailed food descriptions!

Proper English by KJ Charles - F/f romance between two women set in early 20th century England, with a murder mystery plot. Both characters have hidden depths, which is part of the romance, but I'd loosely categorize the book this way.

Shake Things Up by Skye Kilaen - Polyamorous romance, bi characters, contemporary setting (starts in Austin and the characters take a road trip to Colorado). One of the female leads is grumpy by nature, and both of her partners (m and f) are pretty sunshine-y. Disclaimer: I beta-read this book. This author has written this trope a few times as well.

[falldorry]

I just want to say

How I love you with your hair down

Baby, you don't gotta fight

I'll be here til the end of time

Wishing that you were mine

Pull you in, it's alright

[skylilac]

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