I can guarantee there is something for everyone on this list of fall 2022 queer and feminist books, whether your jam is graphic novel fairy tales, memoirs about queer family, or anything in between.
When I read Middlesex, I felt that tinge of recognition I think a lot of queer and trans people look for when they realize something is different about themselves.
Back-to-school time is my favorite time of the year now that I’m an adult.
I learned about the concept of chosen family from a heterosexual uncle I don’t talk to anymore.
Enjoy Me Among My Ruins bypasses the expectation to tell one’s story in a neatly contained narrative.
What is most compelling about Diary of a Misfit is how brilliantly organized it is. All at once, we get a biography, a memoir, a family history, and the active history of a place that most people are unfamiliar with.
We Are Flowers, a Queer Nigerian anthology, is defiant and audacious. It has no choice but to be.
Jules Ohman paints the harsh, sharp-angled modeling industry with soft, tender prose and tells many queer narratives at once in the novel.
I have never lived anywhere that wasn’t in Pennsylvania. This state is my home, but I’m ready to move on from it.
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“I was excited to talk about rest for children, to talk about how even rest can be an adventure.”
Whether she’s writing about Gantt charts or economic turmoil or oysters or blue and green or sex or hunger, Sarah Thankam Mathews’ sentences seduce and swathe.
“Somebody told me that pretty much everyone who grew up queer, especially in our generation, is a secretive person or has an ability for secrecy.”
Do you need a summery queer book to pack in your beach bag?
All of these stories feature: magic and/or melee, quests, chosen families, and queer characters.
Putsata Reang’s memoir “Ma and Me” grapples with what it means to carry intergenerational trauma not only as an Asian American, immigrant, and refugee but also as a queer person.
I’m finally getting to write the sex scenes of my dreams — some really weird, some really tender, and others in between.
Amelia Possanza’s debut memoir Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in the Archives is everything I’ve wanted: intimate and voracious and utterly magnetic.
“Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder” features work by Leah Johnson, Z Brewer, and more.
Body Language — a new anthology from Catapult — is one of the best essay collections I’ve read in a long time.