Contemporary Fiction

  • “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” by Ocean Vuong
  • “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • “Less” by Andrew Sean Greer
  • “Call Me By Your Name” by André Aciman
  • “Memorial” by Bryan Washington
  • “Real Life” by Brandon Taylor
  • “Detransition, Baby” by Torrey Peters
  • “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” by Malinda Lo
  • “The Heart’s Invisible Furies” by John Boyne
  • “Under the Udala Trees” by Chinelo Okparanta

Memoirs & Biographies

  • “Fun Home” by Alison Bechdel
  • “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe
  • “How We Fight for Our Lives” by Saeed Jones
  • “In the Dream House” by Carmen Maria Machado
  • “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson
  • “Tomorrow Will Be Different” by Sarah McBride
  • “The Fixed Stars” by Molly Wizenberg
  • “Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story” by Jacob Tobia
  • “Over the Top” by Jonathan Van Ness
  • “The Natural Mother of the Child” by Krys Malcolm Belc

Young Adult

  • “The House in the Cerulean Sea” by TJ Klune
  • “Felix Ever After” by Kacen Callender
  • “Cemetery Boys” by Aiden Thomas
  • “Red, White & Royal Blue” by Casey McQuiston
  • “I Wish You All the Best” by Mason Deaver
  • “They Both Die at the End” by Adam Silvera
  • “You Should See Me in a Crown” by Leah Johnson
  • “The Black Flamingo” by Dean Atta
  • “Heartstopper” series by Alice Oseman
  • “If I Was Your Girl” by Meredith Russo

Classic Literature

  • “Giovanni’s Room” by James Baldwin
  • “Orlando” by Virginia Woolf
  • “The Price of Salt” by Patricia Highsmith
  • “Maurice” by E.M. Forster
  • “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker
  • “The Well of Loneliness” by Radclyffe Hall
  • “Tales of the City” by Armistead Maupin
  • “Rubyfruit Jungle” by Rita Mae Brown
  • “Our Lady of the Flowers” by Jean Genet
  • “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde

Non-Fiction & Essays

  • “The Argonauts” by Maggie Nelson
  • “Sister Outsider” by Audre Lorde
  • “Ace” by Angela Chen
  • “Trans Like Me” by CN Lester
  • “The Stonewall Reader” edited by New York Public Library
  • “Transgender History” by Susan Stryker
  • “Queer: A Graphic History” by Meg-John Barker
  • “Love Lives Here” by Amanda Jette Knox
  • “Beyond the Gender Binary” by Alok Vaid-Menon
  • “Gay New York” by George Chauncey

Poetry

  • “Crush” by Richard Siken
  • “Night Sky with Exit Wounds” by Ocean Vuong
  • “The Tradition” by Jericho Brown
  • “Slingshot” by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
  • “Homie” by Danez Smith
  • “Don’t Call Us Dead” by Danez Smith
  • “Lord of the Butterflies” by Andrea Gibson
  • “Nepantla: An Anthology” edited by Christopher Soto
  • “If They Come For Us” by Fatimah Asghar
  • “Feed” by Tommy Pico

Graphic Novels & Comics

  • “Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me” by Mariko Tamaki
  • “Are You My Mother?” by Alison Bechdel
  • “On a Sunbeam” by Tillie Walden
  • “The Magic Fish” by Trung Le Nguyen
  • “Bloom” by Kevin Panetta
  • “Spinning” by Tillie Walden
  • “My Brother’s Husband” by Gengoroh Tagame
  • “Blue Is the Warmest Color” by Julie Maroh
  • “Bingo Love” by Tee Franklin
  • “The Bride Was a Boy” by Chii

Historical Fiction

  • “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller
  • “The Paying Guests” by Sarah Waters
  • “Fingersmith” by Sarah Waters
  • “The Great Believers” by Rebecca Makkai
  • “Tell It to the Bees” by Fiona Shaw
  • “At Swim, Two Boys” by Jamie O’Neill
  • “As Meat Loves Salt” by Maria McCann
  • “The Mercies” by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
  • “The Pull of the Stars” by Emma Donoghue
  • “Days Without End” by Sebastian Barry

Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet” by Becky Chambers
  • “Gideon the Ninth” by Tamsyn Muir
  • “Black Sun” by Rebecca Roanhorse
  • “Phoenix Extravagant” by Yoon Ha Lee
  • “An Unkindness of Ghosts” by Rivers Solomon
  • “The Unbroken” by C.L. Clark
  • “Light From Uncommon Stars” by Ryka Aoki
  • “The Priory of the Orange Tree” by Samantha Shannon
  • “A Memory Called Empire” by Arkady Martine
  • “Sorrowland” by Rivers Solomon

Romance

  • “Written in the Stars” by Alexandria Bellefleur
  • “Honey Girl” by Morgan Rogers
  • “One Last Stop” by Casey McQuiston
  • “Something to Talk About” by Meryl Wilsner
  • “The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics” by Olivia Waite
  • “Get It Right” by Skye Kilaen
  • “Perfect Rhythm” by Jae
  • “Count Your Lucky Stars” by Alexandria Bellefleur
  • “Meet Cute Club” by Jack Harbon
  • “I’m So (Not) Over You” by Kosoko Jackson