Suggested LGBTQIA+ Authors/Titles
FICTION AND POETRY
James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
Zaina Arafat - You Exist Too Much
Andrew Sean Greer - Less
Bryan Washington - Memorial
Nicole Dennis-Benn - Patsy
Meredith Russo - Birthday
Julián Delgado Lopera - Fiebre Tropical
Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous; Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Adam Silvera - History is All You Left Me
Torrey Peters - Detransition, Baby
Akwaeke Emezi - The Death of Vivek Oji
Shira Erlichman - Odes to Lithium
Zeyn Joukhadar - The Thirty Names of Night
ESSAYS AND SHORT STORIES
Samantha Irby - Wow, No Thank You
Edgar Gomez - High-Risk Homosexual
Alexander Chee - How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Christopher Gonzalez - I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat
Isaac Oliver - Intimacy Idiot
Brandon Taylor - Filthy Animals
John Paul Brammer - Hola Papi
MEMOIR
Saeed Jones - How We Fight for Our Lives
Meredith Talusan - Fairest
George M. Johnson - All Boys Aren't Blue
Jonathan Van Ness - Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
Carmen Maria Machado - In the Dream House
Maia Kobabe - Gender Queer
Alison Bechdel - Fun Home (Graphic Memoir)
Garrard Conley - Boy Erased
T Kira Madden - Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
ROMANCE
Meryl Wilsner - Something to Talk About
David Levithan - Boy Meets Boy
Casey McQuiston - Red, White, & Royal Blue; One Last Stop
Lana Popovic Harper - Payback's a Witch
Erica Ridley - The Perks of Loving a Wallflower
YOUNG ADULT
Gabby Rivera - Juliet Takes a Breath
Leah Johnson - You Should See Me in a Crown
Becky Albertalli - Kate in Waiting
Adeba Jaigirdar - The Henna Wars
Abdi Nasemian - Like a Love Story
FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION
Tehlor Kay Mejia - We Set the Dark on Fire
Charlie Jane Anders - All the Birds in the Sky
T.J. Klune - The House in the Cerulean Sea; Under the Whispering Door
Becky Chambers - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Laura Pohl - The Last 8
C.B. Lee - Not Your Sidekick
Alex Harrow - Empire of Light
Malinda Lo - Adaptation
Rivers Solomon - An Unkindness of Ghosts
NONFICTION
Angela Chen - Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
Michelle Bowdler - Is Rape a Crime?
Lama Rod Owens - Love and Rage
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein - The Disordered Cosmos
Elon Green - Last Call