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LGBTQ+ Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors

The Obake Code

The Obake Code

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...

I Love You Don’t Die

I Love You Don’t Die

Acclaimed author Jade Song (Chlorine) returns with her latest literary exploration: a lyrical, poignant, and heartfelt novel about the meaning of love, friendship, debt, depression, and death in New York...

Hold Me Like a Grudge

Hold Me Like a Grudge

When a fierce rivalry between two professional wrestlers grows increasingly heated, neither man can fight the attraction burning between them, in this dazzling debut romance. From dramatic character gimmicks to...

I Live to Serve the Witch

I Live to Serve the Witch

“I only know of true love because of the witch.” Ceciline lives to serve her Mistress—the wise, warm, and mysterious witch who raised her. Together, they live a peaceful life...

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

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...

The South

The South

A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer―about family, desire, and what we inherit. When his grandfather dies, Jay travels...

Palaver

Palaver

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...

Isaac’s Song

Isaac’s Song

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...

Minor Black Figures

Minor Black Figures

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...

Sister Snake

Sister Snake

A glittering, bold, darkly funny novel about two sisters—one in New York, one in Singapore—who are bound by an ancient secret. Sisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads...

The Emperor of Gladness

The Emperor of Gladness

Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. One late summer evening in the post-industrial town...

I Think They Love You

I Think They Love You

With his funny, big-hearted adult rom com debut, bestselling, award-winning YA author Julian Winters shows sometimes fake dating your ex can turn into a second chance. When Denzel “Denz” Carter’s...

These Letters End in Tears

These Letters End in Tears

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...

Martyr!

Martyr!

A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to...

All Friends Are Necessary

All Friends Are Necessary

Efren “Chino” Flores has just moved back to the Bay Area from Seattle, jumping from sublet to sublet. In Washington, he was an adored middle school biology teacher with a...

Whenever You’re Ready

Whenever You’re Ready

“Is it okay to say that Rachel Runya Katz’s characters are always so hot to me? The slow burn tension between Jade and Nia was off the charts.” – Alicia...

A Crane Among Wolves

A Crane Among Wolves

June Hur, bestselling author of The Red Palace, crafts a devastating and pulse-pounding tale that will feel all-too-relevant in today’s world, based on a true story from Korean history. Hope...

So Let Them Burn

So Let Them Burn

Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who’s forced to choose between saving her sister or protecting her homeland—perfect for fans of Iron Widow and The Priory...

The Late Americans

The Late Americans

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...

Fake Dates and Mooncakes

Fake Dates and Mooncakes

Heartstopper meets Crazy Rich Asians in this heartfelt, joyful paperback original rom-com that follows an aspiring chef who discovers the recipe for love is more complicated than it seems when...

Blackouts

Blackouts

“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...

Nuclear Family

Nuclear Family

Things are looking up for Mr. and Mrs. Cho. Their dream of franchising their Korean plate lunch restaurants across Hawaiʻi seems within reach after a visit from Guy Fieri boosts...

When We Were Sisters

When We Were Sisters

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,...

Love in the Big City

Love in the Big City

A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest-selling debuts of recent years in Korea, Love in the Big City tells the story of a young...

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