Books with LGBT themes and characters
LGBTQ+
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There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories
by Ruben Reyes
Hardcover: Aug 2024
Paperback: Jul 2025
An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own.
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These Heathens: A Novel
by Mia McKenzie
Hardcover: Jun 2025
In this vibrant, gratifying novel, a pious, small-town teenager travels to Atlanta to get an abortion and finds herself smack in the middle of the civil rights movement and the secret lives of queer Black people.
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Bury Your Gays
by Chuck Tingle
Hardcover: Jul 2024
Paperback: Jun 2025
Bury Your Gays is a heart-pounding new novel from USA Today bestselling author Chuck Tingle about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead.
Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell.
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
by Victoria E. Schwab
Hardcover: Jun 2025
From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.
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The Slip: A Novel
by Lucas Schaefer
Hardcover: Jun 2025
For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Nathan Hill comes a haymaker of an American novel about a missing teenage boy, cases of fluid and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing.
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The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
by Melissa Febos
Hardcover: Jun 2025
From the national bestselling author of Girlhood, an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes Melissa Febos discovered during a year of celibacy. A wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge.
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The Palace of Eros: A Novel
by Caro De Robertis
Hardcover: Aug 2024
Paperback: Jun 2025
Perfect for fans of Circe and Black Sun, this bold and subversive feminist retelling of the Greek myth of Psyche and Eros explores the power of queer joy and freedom.
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The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl
by Bart Yates
Hardcover: Jul 2024
Paperback: Jun 2025
Both sweeping and exquisitely intimate, award-winning author Bart Yates blends historical fact and fiction in a surprising, thought-provoking saga spanning 12 significant days across nearly 100 years in the life of a single man, beginning in 1920s ...
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The Night of Baba Yaga
by Akira Otani, Sam Bett
Hardcover: Jul 2024
Paperback: Jun 2025
A fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment to the yakuza princess she's been forced to protect in this explosive queer thriller: Kill Bill meets The Handmaiden meets Thelma and Louise.
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Spent: A Comic Novel
by Alison Bechdel
Hardcover: May 2025
The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of autofiction.
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Exhibit: A Novel
by R O. Kwon
Hardcover: May 2024
Paperback: May 2025
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between her desires and her life.
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So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
by Caro De Robertis
Hardcover: May 2025
Award-winning novelist Caro De Robertis offers a first-of-its-kind, deeply personal, and moving oral history of a generation of queer and trans elders of color, from leading activists to artists to ordinary citizens to tell their stories of ...
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