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

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Lez Liberty Lit: Discipline Is Part of Creation

On writing regularly, an approach for overwhelm, a book of botanical drawings and more.

Ryan Yates

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Jul 15, 2021

One Last Stop review: The cover of One Last Stop: A queer Asian woman in ripped jeans, a white t-shirt, a leather jacket, and red sneakers stands on the Q train. A white bisexual woman with red hair, carrying a cup of coffee, wearing black boots and a black jumper-dress walks by and notices the woman in the train. The cover says "One Last Stop."

lgbt book reviews

Casey McQuiston’s “One Last Stop” Is an Unmissable Queer Rom-Com Full of Hope, Humor, and Heart

In Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop, Jane and August fall in love in the all-consuming, omniscient, dramatic, lifelong lusty way only queers and fan fiction characters do.

Heather Hogan

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Jul 9, 2021

pic of the book "What Fresh Hell is This"

lgbt book reviews

Heather Corinna Makes Menopause Accessible, Hilarious, and Queer AF in “What Fresh Hell Is This?”

Come for the Victorian menopause psychoanalysis mad lib; stay for the ode to cooling pillows. Heather Corinna has gifted us the queer and trans-inclusive book about menopause you didn’t know…

KaeLyn

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Jul 9, 2021

A photo of author Vic Liu in a lavender sheer sleeve dress propping her head on her fist and looking directly into the camera next to a stack of copies of Bang!

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How and Why I Wrote Bang!: A Masturbation Sex-Ed Book for Everyone

I made Bang! Masturbation for People of All Genders and Abilities because it profoundly made sense to me, because there was a gaping hole in that plastic wall where there…

vforvicliu

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Jul 7, 2021

the cover of the new babysitter's club anthology repeated three times, a yellow book on a purple background

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‘We Are the Baby-Sitters Club’ Succeeds in Both Praising and Critiquing the Books of Our Childhoods

No topic is off limits in this guide about the young adult book series that shaped the way so many of us interacted with our worlds as children, and the…

the team

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Jul 6, 2021

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: James Baldwin’s Record Collection

James Baldwin’s record collection as a playlist, procrastination and writer’s block and whether or not they’re value neutral and more.

Ryan Yates

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Jul 1, 2021

A collage of LGBT book covers on a purple background with hand-drawn stars.

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Check Out the A+ Community Bookshelf!

We bring you for the first time the first time the A+ Community Bookshelf: a crowdsourced project where A+ members can share the LGBTQ book recs that they want the…

Rachel

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Jun 29, 2021

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Things I Read That I Love #320: Remember How Reckless Karaoke Seemed so recently?

Topics include Zola, the rise in Black homeschooling, the return of FOMO, online stalking, “Friends,” why meetings, Generation X, racism in The Bachelor, Mare of Easttown and more!

Riese

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Jun 25, 2021