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lgbtqia+ book recs
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items these stories celebrate the diverse spectrum of human experience through lgbtqia+ storytelling and narrators
funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
literally one of my favorite reads, the prose is so beautiful <3 agents red and blue travel back and forth through time, altering the history of multiple universes on behalf of their warring empires, they leave each other secret messages
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
coming-of-age novel about a young palestinian american woman who struggles with her identity as she navigates her cultural, religious, and sexual identities
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
leda has no fixed abode and bounces between male and female lovers while earning a bit of cash from low paid jobs in metal work and kitchens. fascinating snapshot of gay london life from that period in the time leading up to the Sexual Offences Act o...
Love, Leda by Mark Hyatt
nine stories from frequently ignored voices. one is about leah, an orphan who suffered daily horrors growing up. now she struggles to integrate into society as a gay woman and now tries to confront her trauma by volunteering at the orphanage and to a...
Four Minutes by Nataliya Deleva and Izidora Angel
in a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, jo finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh through this a heady and hyper-sensual po...
Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, dorian gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. influenced by his friend henry, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of ...
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
eileen is trapped between caring for her verbally abusive alcoholic father and her dead-end job as a secretary at a juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys and dreams of escape. soon, a new therapist arrives at the facility and things begin t...
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
two college students and the strange, unexpected connection they forge with a married couple
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
a millennial irish expat becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
the lives of three women—transgender and cisgender—collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
coming-of-age novel about two girls growing up in a working-class neighborhood in the Canary Islands in 2005
Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu
tells the story of two women brought together by horror and tragedy, and is based on real-life murders that occurred in america in the 1970s
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
seven, who works as a cleaner at a chiropractor’s office, reencounters cecilia, a woman who has obsessed her since their school days. as the two of them board the same bus—each dubiously claiming not to be following the other—their chance meeting spu...
Cecilia by K-Ming Chang
a widow is attempting writes a biography of her late wife, X, an iconoclastic artist who kept her life story a secret. the quest to learn more about X's life leads her to discover secrets, betrayals, and destruction of what she thought she knew about...
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
greta is a transcriber for a sex therapist. she becomes infatuated with a patient she refers to as “big swiss.” when they eventually meet and become close, she is riddled with guilt but desperate to maintain the relationship.
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin