Literature

Author interviews, guides to the best LGBT Literature, Gay and Lesbian Novels and Memoirs and more!

movie lists

All 100+ Queer Women of the Star Wars Universe, Ranked

Unlike Luke Skywalker in the swamps of Dagobah, I’m no quitter. I’m ranking all one hundred plus canon queer women…

Nic Anstett

May 28, 2026

The cover of Adrienne Tooley's The Third Daughter, a blue and black cover with various magical items illustrated behind the text.

lgbt book reviews

“The Third Daughter” Is Sapphic Slow-Burn Fantasy and Feminist Rage

What turned it into an auto-buy was the Post-It note attached to the shelf. A flimsy lime-green placeholder for one of the voicey, detailed recommendation cards that are always tucked…

Heather Hogan

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Aug 26, 2023

Free Them All: A Feminist Call to Abolish the Prison System by Gwénola Ricordeau

lgbt book reviews

“Free Them All” Makes a Feminist Argument for Prison Abolition

Gwénola Ricordeau has written an ideal academic text. It is, at once, simple to read and complex in its ideology.

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Aug 24, 2023

The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan

lgbt book reviews

YA Favorite Jennifer Dugan’s Queer Thriller Debut Is a Lesson in Trauma

The Last Girls Standing gave me big Yellowjackets vibes.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Aug 23, 2023

lgbt book reviews

Jenn Shapland’s “Thin Skin” Will Make You Believe Another Life Is Possible

Shapland never purports to have all of the answers here, and why would she?

Stef Rubino

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Aug 17, 2023

book features

EXCERPT: In “Thin Skin,” Jenn Shapland Considers What It Means to Live a Childfree Queer Life

In an excerpt from her new essay collection Thin Skin, Jenn Shapland examines childfreedom.

Jenn Shapland

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Aug 15, 2023

An illustration of two women's soccer players facing each other in their purple uniforms on the cover of Meryl Wilsner's Cleat Cute

lgbt book reviews

Cleat Cute’s Sapphic Soccer Romance Will Fill the World Cup-Shaped Hole in Your Heart

It can’t be good for your body to cut off lesbian soccer drama cold turkey.

Heather Hogan

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Aug 14, 2023

The following books: Outwrite, Some of Us Did Not Die, How To Write an Autobiographical Novel, and Body Work

book lists

9 LGBTQ+ Books Every Queer Writer Should Read

I’ve been thinking a lot about the queering of craft.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Aug 6, 2023

book features

Things I Read That I Love #332: Massage Parlors, Daily Harvest, Climbing, Branson, Britney and More

Topics include the late shift at a Toronto massage parlor, Baptist Vegas, the New Ken circa 2017 by Caity Weaver, Buy Nothing, Daily Harvest, a missing girl in the Ozarks,…

Riese

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Aug 4, 2023