Literature

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

Things I Read That I Love #346: Bama Rush, Celebrity Memoirs, Laptop Boyfriends, Leaving LA and More

An elite rescue squad in the Great Smokey Mountains, the museum at the Pennhurst Asylum, a liberal journalist gets hired…

Riese

Jan 17, 2026

Four different book covers, all with their color desaturated to look like blue tones, overlapping over a blue background that says 15 (for Autostraddle's 15th Birthday)

book lists

Top 15 Books That Gave Me Weird Ideas About Sex and Pregnancy

2. It would be some years before I got to a place where I truly believed that accidental formaldehyde poisoning was not a main concern when making my foray into…

Nico

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Mar 10, 2024

1. The Default World by Naomi Kanakia. 2. Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg. 3. Cecilia by K-Ming Chang. 4. Sluts: Anthology edited by Michelle Tea. 5. Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé. 6. Thunder Song by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe. 7. I Want You More by Swan Huntley. 8Bad Seed by Gabriel Carle. 9. Perfume & Pain by Anna Dorn. 10. Like Love by Maggie Nelson. 11. Memory Piece by Lisa Ko. 12. Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk

book lists

69 Most Anticipated Queer Books for Spring 2024

What’s on the horizon for queer books in March, April, and May? New work from Judith Butler, K-Ming Chang, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and so much more.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

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Mar 4, 2024

lgbt book reviews

This New Queer YA Book Is for the Sports Gays AND the Newspaper Nerds

If you’re looking for a fun frenemies-to-lovers story, this is it.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Feb 28, 2024

lgbt book reviews

Sapphic Basketball Romance “How You Get the Girl” Is a Slam Dunk

Imagine you are coaching a girl’s basketball team and the retired WNBA player you used to crush on shows up as the foster parent of one of your team members…

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Feb 15, 2024

The 'Godzilla Valentine's Day Special' #1 cover art, by Dani Pendergast and M. Smith, is in shades of black, blue, and blush pink. In one cover a sapphic couple make heart eyes with each other while Godzilla is in the background. In the second cover a brunette femme has heart shaped sunglasses and we can see Godzilla in the reflection.

lgbt book reviews

The Godzilla Valentine’s Day Comic Book Special Is a Sweet Sapphic Story of Love and Compromise

Written by trans lesbian comic book writer Zoe Tunnell, the Godzilla Valentine’s Day Special tells the story of Piper, a queer woman who decides to become a kaiju researcher after…

Latonya Pennington

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Feb 14, 2024

Be Gay Do Crime collection: cut out letters like from a ransom note spell out be gay do crime pulled from the IG announcement

book features

Dzanc Books Announces “Be Gay, Do Crime” A Short Fiction Collection Featuring Your Queer Faves

This anthology of stories exploring chaotic queer characters breaking the law includes work from Priya Guns, Sam Cohen, our very own Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, and more!

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Feb 13, 2024

Portrait of a Body book cover times three

lgbt book reviews

Julie Delporte Wanted To Be a Lesbian Even Before She Was Sexually Attracted to Women

At 35, Delporte’s acceptance of her sexuality serves as a catalyst that helps her understand her relationships, her interests, her experiences with boys and young men as a young woman,…

Stef Rubino

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Feb 9, 2024

literature

Things I Read That I Love #334: Group Chats, Polycules, Data Free Disney, Iron Claws and Pretty Faces

Patricia Lockwood meets the pope, Leslie Jamison has a baby and gets divorced. Also: going to Disneyworld but not giving up your data, the reborn doll community, the Iron Claw,…

Riese

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Feb 9, 2024