LGBTQ+

Download the brochure LGBTQ+ (PDF) highlighting lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, and queer authors in our collection.

Fiction

Leave the World Behind By Rumaan Alam
F ALAM Rumaan 
Two families, strangers to each other, are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.
Gods of Want By K-Ming Chang
F CHANG K-Ming 
 
Tripping Arcadia By Kit Mayquist
F MAYQUIST Kit
While working for a rich family, Lena discovers they are responsible for the ruin of her own family. She embarks on a quest for revenge where she must decide how much she is willing to risk for payback. 
Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body By Megan Milks
F MILKS Megan 
A queer coming-of-age novel about a girlhood interrupted by an eating disorder, only to twist into a genre-bending excavation of gender, identity, and literary mystery. 
These Violent Delights By Micah Nemerever
F NEMEREVER Micah
In 1970s Pittsburg, a painfully insecure artist falls in love with a charming, student before their relationship spirals into an all-consuming obsession.
Vagabonds! By Eloghosa Osunde
F OSUNDE Eloghosa
In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters--some haunted, some defiant--navigate danger, demons, and love in a quest to lead true lives.
Tell Me How To Be By Neel Patel
F PATEL Neel 
The love story of a mother and son each trying to figure out how to be in the world.
Detransition, Baby By Torrey Peters
F PETERS Torrey 
A trans woman, her detransitioned ex and his cisgender lover build an unconventional family together in the wake of heartbreak and an unplanned pregnancy.
Confessions of the Fox By Jordy Rosenberg
F ROSENBERG Jordy
A love story set in the eighteenth-century London of notorious thieves and queer subcultures, this genre-bending debut tells a profound story of gender, desire, and liberation. 
Young Mungo By Stuart Douglas
F STUART Douglas
A portrayal of working-class life and the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James.
Filthy Animals By Brandon Taylor
F TAYLOR Brandon 
A series of linked stories set among young creatives in the American Midwest.
Memorial By Bryan Washington
F WASHINGTON Bryan
Two men begin reevaluating their stale relationship in the wake of a father's death and the arrival of an acerbic mother-in-law.

Mystery

Dirt Creek By Hayley Scrivenor
M SCRIVENOR Hayley 
When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Australia, the community is thrown into a maelstrom of suspicion and grief. 

Romance

Count Your Lucky Stars By Alexandria Bellefleur
R BELLEFLEUR Alexandria 
While touring a wedding venue with her engaged friends, Margot comes face-to-face with Olivia Grant—her childhood friend and her first love. Will Margot get ditch her no-strings- attached rule and give love a second chance?
Queerly Beloved By Susie Dumond
R DUMOND Susie
A people-pleasing bridesmaid-for-hire falls for the crushable new lesbian in town. Will she finally find her happily ever after—and her own voice?
D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding By Chencia Higgins
R HIGGINS Chencia 
To elevate her brand, a closeted social media influencer goes on a reality TV show where she must convince her family and friends she's getting married to the love of her life in six weeks.
One Last Stop By Casey McQuiston
R MCQUISTON Casey 
Cynical August starts to believe in the impossible until running into Jane on the subway, who is literally displaced in time from the 1970s and is trying to find her way back.

Fantasy and Science Fiction

A Psalm for the Wild-Built By Becky Chambers
SF CHAMBERS Becky MONK 1 
In a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?
The Unbroken By C.L. Clark
FAN CLARK C.L. MAGIC 1
Touraine and Luca will haggle over the price of a nation. But some things aren't for sale.
The Jasmine Throne By Tasha Suri
FAN SURI Tasha BURNING 1 
A captive princess and a servant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies.
She Who Became the Sun By Shelley Parker Chan
FAN PARKER-CHAN Shelley RADIANT 1 
After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu takes the chance to claim another future altogether: her brother's abandoned greatness.

Graphic Novels

Stone Fruit By Lee Lai
ADULT GN LAI
Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun aunties to Ray's niece. Their playdates reveal tensions and the journey Ray and Bron go through for gaining self acceptance.

Non-Fiction

Punch Me Up To The Gods By Brian Broome
306.76 BRO 
A memoir in essays about sexuality, blackness, masculinity, and addiction.
Before We Were Trans By Kit Heyam
306.76 HEY
This global history of gender nonconformity examines the stories of people from antiquity to the present who defied categorization and looks to the past to uncover new possibilities for possible trans futures. 
Bi By Julia Shaw
306.765 SHA 
The science of sexuality beyond gender from an internationally bestselling psychologist.
Let the Record Show By Sarah Schulman
362.196 SCH
Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today's activists.
David Bowie Made Me Gay By Darryl W Bullock
780.866 BUL 
Bullock covers the history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community, and it’s influence on the music we listen to today.
In the Dream House By Carmen Maria Machado
813.6 MAC 
Machados account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse.
Dear Senthuran By Akwaeke Amezie
823 EME
Interweaving candid, intimate letters to friends, lovers, and family, Emezi reveals their journey through love, intimacy, literary recognition and a peaceful, joyous home.