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The Best LGBTQ+ Fiction : Here are their top recommendations

If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. This tough but tender novel is about understanding yourself and queerly demanding to be heard. This new story is a gay take on the book that inspired so many of us. Browse books by LGBTQ+ authors to books featuring LGBTQ characters.

The book explores coming out to family, medical trauma that comes as existing as a visible trans person and coming out as asexual. Actor Elliot Page recounts his journey to understanding his gender in this New York Times bestseller. Celebrate with the best LGBTQ books and books with gay characters or from LGBTQ authors.

Additional reporting by Lizz Schumer. In college, Bechdel comes out as a lesbian, at which time she realizes that her father was also gay. Instead of just reading gay books during Pride, challenge yourself to expand the diversity of books you read all year long.

There have been few experiences more powerful for me as an author than visiting high school and college classrooms and hearing queer students reflect on how meaningful it was to see their lives and stories on the page. Consider giving them this book to read and let it open the conversation for you.

With a full cast of compelling gay characters, this story is one that will pull you in, and leave you literally begging for the next books in the series. We've been independently researching and testing products for over years. This book is full of intimate stories of his experience starring in the movie Junogoing to a queer bar for the first time, coming out as transgender and the backlash he experienced in Hollywood.

Discover the best LGBTQ fiction books including bestsellers, award winners, and more. As an out author of fiction and nonfiction books, it is an unnerving time to be writing books about queer and trans lives and experiences. Learn more about our review process.

In this book novel, a son writes a letter to his mother, who cannot read. But this largely corporate visibility during Pride month, known as rainbow washingshouldn't be a day limited engagement, especially as our rights are under attack. Add them all to your own TBR list, or pick up a handful as the perfect gift for the book-lover in your life.

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This book is sure to inspire you to live authentically, regardless of what others say. This is a well-written novel centering beautiful consensual kink. Empower yourself by adding these inspiring books to your reading list. It explores his love for her and unpacks the deepest secrets of masculinity, race and class.

Exploring your own identities or trying to explain who you are to friends or family? This is what makes the current wave of book bans targeting queer books even more dangerous. The book also explores themes of desire and belonging.

And once you're done here, head on over to the GH Book Club to check out even more feel-good reads. Books shelved as gay: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston, The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman, Aris.

This is a book about self discovery, family secrets and overcoming family trauma and legacies to build your own life. These books inspire us, give us hope and show that our literary worlds can and should! In this beautiful memoir, readers follow a queer Muslim immigrant coming to understand her own identity and sense of gender.