LGBTQIA+ Books

When I'm trying to find new books to read, I usually find myself paging through tons of Reddit threads or reading a handful of articles titled something like "Best 5 Books on..." So, here, I've just listed all the books I have read or had recommended to me. Hopefully that makes it a little easier to find something new to read.

This is just a tiny slice of the books out there written by and about queer folx, from baby queers to elder queers. If you have other books I should add, please reach out! I'd love to hear from you.

Books are arranged in alphabetical order by author last name. They are also divided into fiction & non-fiction.

Fiction

• Ashley Herring Blake novels

• Haley Cass novels

• Alison Cochrun novels

• This Princess Kills Monsters, Ry Herman

• The Art Gallery, Marcello Kline

• Big Gay Wedding, Byron Lane

• The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai

• Monica McCallan novels

• Alice Oseman books, including Heartstopper graphic novels

• It's Not the End of the World, Jonathan Parks-Ramage

• Some of Tamora Pierce's books

• A Treachery of Swans, A.B. Poranek

• Heated Rivalry books, Rachel Reid

• The Tiger's Daughter, Arsenault K. Rivera

  
  

• Allison Saft's books

• V.E. Schwab's books

  
  

• Death-Cast books, Adam Silvera

Non-Fiction

• Meg-John Barker books

• Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture, Matt Baume

• The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood, Krys Malcolm Belc

• Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard, Alex Bertie

• Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, Angela Chen

• I Hardly Knew Me: Following Love, Faith, and Skittles to a Transgender Awakening, Nia Chiaramonte

• This Heart Holds Many: My Life as the Nonbinary Millennial Child of a Polyamorous Family, Koe Creation

• Gender Euphoria: Stories of Joy from Trans, Non-Binary, and Intersex Writers, Laura Kate Dale

• Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Shiri Eisner

• Touch Me, I'm Sick, Margeaux Feldman

• Being (Sick) Enough, Jessica Graham

• We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, Samra Habib

• Black. Fat. Femme.: Revealing the Power of Visibly Queer Voices in Media and Learning to Love Yourself, Jonathan P. Higgins

• Samantha Irby books

• Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy, Rachel Krantz

• A Short History of Queer Women, Kristy Loehr

• Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line, Elizabeth Lovatt

• Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer, Dylan Mulvaney

• A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution, Marty Padgett

• Pageboy: A Memoir, Elliot Page

• The Book of Non-Binary Joy: Embracing the Power of You, Ben Pechey

• Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha books

• Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives, Amelia Possanza

• Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality, Julia Shaw

  
  

• Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, Susan Sontag

  
  

• Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities, Nick Walker

• The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline that Listened, Tash Walker & Adam Zmith