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

Jenn Shapland Names What Needs Naming in “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers”

It has taken over 50 years for us to get the full, queer truth about Carson McCullers’s life, and now I know why. We were waiting for Jenn Shapland.

Kate Gorton

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Jan 7, 2020

literature

Things I Read That I Love #305: How Various Plaid Shirts Made Their Way Into My Closet

Topics include hangovers, ArtPrize, the George Foreman Grill, Patriotic Millionaires, The Talented Mr Ripley, 100 books that defined the decade, fair food, the year in pivoting to video and so…

Riese

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Jan 3, 2020

woman in a mustard sweater blowing confetti off an open book at the camera

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Don’t Read A Book A Week

Reading goals as a personal hell, memes as a new kind of formalism, a dare to not be productive and more.

Ryan Yates

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Jan 2, 2020

literature

Things I Read That I Love #304: I Want to Pretend That I’m Cooler Than Crying About The Velveteen Rabbit

It’s really hot in Phoenix, Tinder as small talk purgatory, Anna Delvey, Millennials not afraid of death, Instagram face, Hallmark Movies, racism in banking and more!

Riese

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Dec 20, 2019

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: The Word of the Year

“They” is the word of the year! Plus: when languages die, when bookstores unionize, when Hilton Als writes on Joan Didion and more.

Ryan Yates

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Dec 19, 2019

book lists

8 Cute Queer Holiday Romances to Snuggle up with this Holigay Season

More than one book involves lesbians falling in love while bonding over a cute festive pet.

Casey

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Dec 17, 2019

book lists

80 of the Best Queer, Lesbian and Bisexual Books of the Decade

It sure has been a decade! Mainstream publishing has become much more open to queer stories, especially perhaps in YA, and the drive and determination of indie and queer publishing…

Rachel

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Dec 16, 2019