Books Written by LGBTQIA+ Authors
- Teen Coming of Age, Teen Contemporary Romance, Teen Romance, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
Buckle up for a wild ride with this cheeky and charming rom-com where one girl’s quest across India to seal her first kiss turns into finding first love in the...
- Fiction, LGBTQ+ Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2026
An all-new, stand-alone sci-fi caper from the author of Hammajang Luck: a bored hacker is forced by vicious gangsters to take down a crooked politician…only to find herself up against...
- Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
A debut about the uncomfortable, unbreakable ties of family as four adult siblings come home to confront the state of their own lives and each other. The Longe siblings are...
- by Neon Yang
- Fiction, Science Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
An immersive, electrifying space-fantasy, Neon Yang’s debut novel The Genesis of Misery is full of high-tech space battles and political machinations, starring a queer and diverse array of pilots, princesses,...
- by Cindy Pham
- Teen Fantasy, Teen Legends, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
A lush and immersive queer “Sleeping Beauty” retelling about escapism, grief, and dreaming of a better world, as imagined by YouTube star Cindy Pham. One hundred years have passed since...
- by Ryka Aoki
- Fiction, Science Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
A defiantly joyful adventure set in California’s San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil:...
- Alternate History Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2022
She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything. “I...
- Alternate History Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2024
The sequel and series conclusion to She Who Became the Sun, the accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping across an epic alternate China. How much would you give...
- Coming of Age, Family Life, Fiction, LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, a modern saga of family, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son and his mother. In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja...
- by Tiana Clark
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2025
The striking sophomore poetry collection from award-winning author Tiana Clark. Dive between the borders of ruined and radical love with this lyrical poetry collection that explores topics as expansive as...
- Fiction, LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washington. In Tokyo, the son works as an English tutor and drinks his nights...
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2025
From award-winning Driftpile Cree poet Billy-Ray Belcourt, a dazzling exploration of love, anguish, queerness, and Indigenous resistance in the 21st century. Queer Indigenous poet Billy-Ray Belcourt offers up a powerful...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A thrilling book about the abounding queerness of the natural world that challenges our expectations of what is normal, beautiful, and possible. Growing up, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian felt most at...
- by Daniel Black
- Fiction, LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A poignant, emotionally exuberant novel about a young queer Black man finding his voice in 1980s Chicago—a novel of family, forgiveness and perseverance. Isaac is at a crossroads in his...
- Fiction, LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
The story of a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity. New York simmers with heat and unrest as Wyeth, a painter, finds himself at an...
- Family Life, Hispanic American Literature
- Publication Year: 2023
A lush and atmospheric novel about three generations of a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias. Costa Rica, 1968. When a...
- Teen Coming of Age, Teen LGBTQ+ Fiction, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A queer YA coming-of-age set during the rigged Honduran presidential election.
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- by Angela Chen
- Demographic Studies, Nonfiction, Sociology
- Publication Year: 2020
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire...
- Biographies, Demographic Studies, Literary Criticism & Theory, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde. We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Sports
- Publication Year: 2024
From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner...
- by Danez Smith
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2024
Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing. In Another Word for Love, Carvell Wallace excavates layers of his own history, situated...
- Fiction, LGBTQ+ Romance, Murder Thrillers, Romance, Science Fiction
- Publication Year: 2025
Ocean’s 8 meets Blade Runner in this trail-blazing debut science fiction novel and swashbuckling love letter to Hawai’i about being forced to find a new home and striving to build...
- by Geena Rocero
- Immigrant Stories, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
As a young femme in 1990s Manila, Geena Rocero heard, “Bakla, bakla!,” a taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the tiny universe of her eskinita. Eventually, she...
- by Samira Habib
- Biographies, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2019
How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don’t exist? Samra Habib has spent most of their life searching for the safety to be themself. As...
- by Zaina Arafat
- Coming of Age, Fiction, LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2020
A novel of self-discovery following a Palestinian-American girl as she navigates queerness, love addiction and a series of tumultuous relationships. Told in vignettes that flash between the US and the...
- by Elias Jahsan
- Demographic Studies, Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers – some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. Here, we find heart-warming connections and moments of celebration...
- Demographic Studies, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2021
When Madian Al Jazerah came out to his Arab parents, his mother had one question. ‘Are you this?’ she asked, cupping her hand. ‘Or are you this?’ she motioned with...
- by Natalie Diaz
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2020
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s...
- LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Set in a country where being gay is punishable by law, These Letters End in Tears is the heart-wrenching forbidden love story of a Christian girl with a rebellious heart...
- Coming of Age, Family Life, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2020
What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew? One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to...
- Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2021
A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times bestselling author, “a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self” (Esquire) In...
- Black Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Fiction, Romance
- Publication Year: 2022
A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and “one of our greatest living writers” (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a...
- Memoir, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Publication Year: 2018
an aunt teaches me how to tell an edible flower from a poisonous one. just in case, I hear her say, just in case. From a co-creator of the Emmy-nominated...
- Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2019
Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden’s raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of...
- Coming of Age, Family Life, LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, the acclaimed author of If They Come for Us traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die,...
- by Noʻu Revilla
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2022
Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares everything that breaks between “seed” and “summit” of a life—the body, a people,...
- Teen Contemporary Romance, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
From Talia Hibbert, the bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud story about a quirky content creator and a clean-cut athlete testing their abilities to survive the...
- Contemporary Romance, Fiction, Multicultural Romance, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2021
In Talia Hibbert’s newest rom-com, the flightiest Brown sister crashes into the life of an uptight B&B owner and has him falling hard—literally. Eve Brown is a certified hot mess....
- Contemporary Romance, Fiction, Multicultural Romance, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2020
Bestselling author Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him “rescuing” her from their...
- Contemporary Romance, Fiction, Multicultural Romance, Romance
- Publication Year: 2021
Two best friends. Seven years of pining. One explosive summer… Romance is weakness, and Jasmine Allen doesn’t have time for either. Lifelong cynic Jas is the queen of one-night things—until...
- Fiction, Multicultural Romance, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2023
He’s in love. She’s faking it. Footballing legend Nik Christou leads a charmed life. Rich, successful, and internationally adored, no woman (or man) has ever rejected him—until a tattooed goddess...
- Poetry
- Publication Year: 2022
A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips’s Then the War. Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an “ongoing...
- Fiction, Hispanic American Literature, LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
“Like no book I have ever read.” ―Ari Shapiro, NPR’s All Things Considered Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying...
- Contemporary Romance, Multicultural Romance, Romance
- Publication Year: 2018
From bestselling author Talia Hibbert comes a story of wicked royals, fake engagements, and the fed-up office worker trapped in the midst of it all… Cherry Neita is thirty, flirty,...
- by Leah Johnson
- LGBTQ+ Fiction, Teen LGBTQ+ Fiction, Teen LGBTQ+ Romance, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2020
Liz Lighty has always believed she’s too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it’s okay — Liz has a plan that...
- by Larissa Lai
- Fiction, LGBTQ+ Fiction, Science Fiction
- Publication Year: 2008
Salt Fish Girl is the mesmerizing tale of an ageless female character who shifts shape and form through time and place. Told in the beguiling voice of a narrator who...
- Contemporary Romance, Multicultural Romance, Romance, Romantic Comedy
- Publication Year: 2019
A witty, hilarious romantic comedy about a woman who’s tired of being “boring” and recruits her mysterious, sexy neighbor to help her experience new things—perfect for fans of Sally Thorne,...
- by Gabby Rivera
- LGBTQ+ Fiction, Teen Contemporary Romance, Teen LGBTQ+ Fiction, Teen LGBTQ+ Romance, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2019
Juliet Milagros Palante is a self-proclaimed closeted Puerto Rican baby dyke from the Bronx. Only, she’s not so closeted anymore. Not after coming out to her family the night before...
- by Saeed Jones
- Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2019
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives—winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award—is a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” (The New York Times Book...
- Activism and Social Justice, Essays, Nonfiction, People with Disabilities
- Publication Year: 2018
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers...
- Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2022
From National Book Award finalist Akwaeke Emezi comes a companion novel to the critically acclaimed PET that explores both the importance and cost of social revolution—and how youth lead the...
- LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2023
The author of the Booker Prize finalist Real Life and the bestselling Filthy Animals returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In...
- Short Stories, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction
- Publication Year: 2021
A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfying new work of fiction from the author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life In...
- LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Publication Year: 2021
A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice. Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern...
- by Sonora Reyes
- Romance
- Publication Year: 2022
A sharply funny and moving debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love and learning to celebrate her true self. Perfect for fans...
- Culture and Heritage, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2020
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia....