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

lgbt book reviews

Short Fiction Collection “Girlfriends” Presents Expansive, Nonlinear View of Transition and Dysphoria

The trans women in Girlfriends often find themselves stuck in the spiderweb of someone else’s drama or self-implosion.

Nic Anstett

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Dec 28, 2023

lgbt book reviews

Sapphic Yearning, Horror, and K-Pop Blend Perfectly in “Gorgeous Gruesome Faces”

I’ve never really been a horror girlie, but in recent months, I’ve found myself intrigued by YA books that have a horror element.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Dec 27, 2023

book features

LGBTQ Fiction Sales Are Up, but We Still Urgently Need Creative Ways To Fight Book Bans

What does the LGBTQ book landscape look like right now? It’s complicated.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Dec 27, 2023

Beautiful young woman is having breakfast in the kitchen

book features

Things I Read That I Love #333: Erewhon, Melrose Place, The Bowel Unit, Blurred Lines and Crosswords

Ruby Tandoh on selling the seaside, nobody knows what’s happening online anymore, Caity Weaver looks for Tom Cruise near the airport, Patricia Lockwood takes her husband to the Bowel Unit,…

Riese

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Dec 22, 2023

lgbt book reviews

“Yours for the Taking” Review: Matriarchy Won’t Save Us

The novel explores queer romance, corporate feminism, and reimagined community at the end of the world.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Dec 14, 2023

The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet by Avery Dame-Griff

book features

Avery Dame-Griff Is Archiving the Trans Internet

“The history of trans life online is one of sedimentation, with each subsequent change leaving its remains behind to settle and eventually solidify into a mass of images, text, and…

Lauren Herold

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Dec 12, 2023

Eight of the 65 best queer books of 2023: Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky, The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi, Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens, Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante, Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H, The Fake by Zoe Whittall, Freedom House by KB Brookins, and Sorry Bro by Taleen Voskuni

book lists

65 of the Best Queer Books of 2023

Particularly impressive categories this year include memoir/biography, horror — queer and trans horror writers are appropriately giving us their all these days — and comics.

Casey

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Dec 12, 2023

book features

Sex Scenes Belong in Novels: An Interview with Author Ruth Madievsky

“I’ve been working on a new novel which is — you guessed it — about women behaving badly. Or, as my beloved Goodreads prudes will probably think of it: ‘disgusting…

Gen

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Dec 11, 2023