Modern gay novels
60 LGBTQ+ Books That Reaaally Deserve a Spot on Your Shelf
This gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 's film Taxi Driver follows a rideshare driver who is barely holding it together on the track for love, dignity, and financial securityuntil she decides she's done waiting.
When magazine reporter Monique Grant is summoned by aging and reclusive Hollywood film icon Evelyn Hugo, she's determined to use this opportunity to jump-start her career. Evelyn is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life, which includes tales of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great love she's kept secret for decades. Monique begins to build a real connection to the legendary star, but as her story nears a conclusion, it becomes shockingly clear why Evelyn chose her.
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The Fantastic Believers weaves the stories of a Chicago art gallery assistant who loses his friend (and soon everything he knows) to the s AIDS epidemic and his friend’s sister, who grapples with her own loss 30 years later in Paris.
What happens when a detransitioned guy discovers that he’s expecting a baby with his girlfriend (who also happe
A confession: I very nearly quit putting this list together.
Throughout the year I keep a running list, adding new names whenever I learn about an upcoming queer book—from Tweets, publicist pitches, endless NetGalley scrolls—and I usually commence writing the blurbs for each book a several months before the list is due. Let me also add that, because I am a novelist myself, someone who works very hard to set words on the page in a good-enough command for someone to respond to them, I endeavor and read at least a little of each book featured. And here’s an incredible truth that’s both deeply satisfying and makes my job surprisingly difficult: there are more and more queer books published every year. There was a time when I could complete a list like this in an afternoon; I was lucky to find a dozen explicitly queer titles. Now there’s a lovely solid chance I suffer from a good number of them.
In mid-December—at the half-way point, and a couple days after my birthday—I looked at the list, halfway done then, and thought, “There’s no way I can do this. There’s no way I can finish putting together this list in a way that does each book justice.” Partly it was the volume, yes, and partly it was the amb
It was another great year for LGBTQ books, as evidenced by the sprawling list of 65 standout titles across every genre published by Casey Stepaniuk earlier this month. Her list is a excellent display of the range and depth of the year&#;s top queer books. But I wanted to zoom in a bit and offer a personal list, one narrowed down from my own stack of queer books I worked my way through over the past year. I thought it would be fun to perform a ranked list of the 12 queer novels that stood out to me this year. And by &#;fun,&#; I signify pleasurably agonizing. This was not an easy list to put together. There are several novels that almost made the trim and might even be just as worthy of a spot on the list but were nudged out for some abstract reason that would be difficult for me to perfectly explain. What I like about this last 12 is that they&#;re all very distinct novels from one another, even as some of them can easily be position into conversation with one another. Together, they establish a thrilling tapestry of my year in gay reading.
Many of the novels on the list undertake not have standalone reviews on Autostraddle yet, as I regrettably fell behind on books coverage this summer. But one of my go
The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena is a love story for our time and a propulsive journey through the lives of two women trying to find somewhere, or someone, to call home.
In , the bookshop I work for decided to start a couple of book clubs, and I offered to become the host and organise these meetings. They became something to bring people together (online) during a pandemic, and they provided a way to continue to learn in community.
For Train Yourself Book Club — where we read books on subjects like racism, feminism, LGBTQIAP+ identity, fatphobia, and ableism — we pick fiction and nonfiction books we want to read together, and then we discuss what we have learned, bringing the books and our personal stories to the table.
No one in this team is an expert; we stay respectful and uncover to learning, using the tools at hand, and exchanging stories. It’s a humbling and interesting way to spend more period thinking about social matters, our own privileges, and how we can aim to open the horizons of those who build part of our circles.
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