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

Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield features an ocean against a pink background.

lgbt book reviews

This Gay Ocean Horror Book Is So Good I Want To Scream

Our Wives Under The Sea is queer horror at its finest.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Jul 12, 2022

Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin features a white girl with short blonde hair sitting on bleachers. The image is repeated three times.

lgbt book reviews

This Sporty Queer YA Novel Is the Best Book I’ve Read in Years

In last year’s Like Other Girls, Britta Lundin creates a heartwarming depiction of queer mentorship and intergenerational queer friendship.

Casey

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Jul 11, 2022

The author Chris Belcher is a white lesbian with brown shoulder length hair and bangs, and she is wearing a black shirt under a white blazer.

book features

Chris Belcher on “Pretty Baby,” Dungeon Dynamics, and the Expansiveness of Queer Sex

“I always envisioned this book as something that would allow me to talk about how I got to know masculinity as an adult through sex work and reflect back on…

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Jul 11, 2022

book lists

12 Self-Published LGBTQ Books To Bring to the Beach This Summer

Find sweet, steamy, and escapist reads in this list of self-published romance books to throw in your beach or pool bag this summer.

Sarah Wallace

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Jul 10, 2022

Dead Flip by Sara Farizan, These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall, All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews, Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens, Pretty Baby by Chris Belcher, Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang, Knocking Myself Up by Michelle Tea, Youngblood by Sasha Laurens, Can't Resist Her by Kianna Alexander, Ask the Brindled by No'u Revilla, Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress, and Wash Day Diaries.

book lists

49 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Out Summer 2022

Queer science fiction, fantasy sequels, horror YA, experimental books, short stories, a memoir on (in)fertility, and so much more are heading your way this summer.

Casey

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Jul 8, 2022

literature

WHAT?? There’s an A+ Book Club?!

Announcing the NEW A+ book club which features an author Q&A just for our members!

Nico

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Jul 7, 2022

Vera Kelly: Lost and Found by Rosalie Knecht features a cartoon woman with black curly hair pulled back, red lips, and red framed glasses. She's holding a steering wheel.

lgbt book reviews

Gay History, Mystery, and Romance Abound in Latest Thrilling Vera Kelly Adventure

Set in 1971, Vera Kelly: Lost and Found takes the series’ titular P.I. from post-Stonewall NYC to the sprawling land of Southern California, where she must solve her most personal…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Jul 6, 2022