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43 must-read books by LGBTQIA+ authors, from stunning memoirs to heartwarming romance novels

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Diverse representation matters in every industry, and LGBTQIA+ authors verb a bright and necessary collection of queer and genderqueer characters and stories to our shelves. From authentically portrayed sapphic romances to memoirs that illuminate challenging coming-of-age journeys, LGBTQIA+ authors write stories that can help readers of any identity better comprehend anything from the trials faced by queer people to the unparalleled height of queer joy. 

We chose these recommendations based on queer authors we — and readers — desire, from groundbreaking storytellers from the mids to emerging voices with stunning debuts. With a variety of genres on this list including memoirs, fantasy novels, and young adult books, you're sure to locate an LGBTQIA+ author to cherish this Pr

The new LGBTQ+ lit list, chosen by writers

It was a mention in a David Bowie interview when I was 15 that led me to William Burroughs’s novel The Savage Boys, bought in a secondhand bookshop in Brighton with money from my paper round. I was confused by Burroughs’s cut-up style and his jagged apocalyptic vision, entirely diverse from the Dickens and Shakespeare that we’d been introduced to in university. Here was a world of dissident queer teenagers, of lurid sex. I was puzzled, embarrassed, titillated. I carried the publication in my school bag – a concealed weapon – and, when I was sure that I couldn’t be seen, verb a few pages at a time.

Growing up a young queer in the early s, I was a sleeper agent in an enemy territory: identity concealed beneath a carefully constructed alias, cautiously speaking an alien language, waiting for a sign from the mother country, unsure if the war would ever end. The only place to find a coded signal of resistance was in the pages of a book.

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The Collection

Looking for books on LGBTQIA+ topics or by LGBTQIA+ authors? Are you unsure how to approach LGBTQIA+ patients? Are you LGBTQIA+ and looking for authors who share your experience? Want to join in the Pride celebration or read some banned books? PCOM Library has you covered with our collection of leisure and clinical books. Check out the books in your campus library or browse ebooks in the lists below. Output books on other campuses can be requested through the "Place a Hold" link on the catalog record.

  • Fiction - fiction by LGBTQIA+ authors or about LGBTQIA+ characters
  • Medicine and Psychology - works on treatment and concerns of LGBTQIA+ patients
  • Memoirs - memoirs by LGBTQIA+ authors, including the most banned books in the United States
  • Nonfiction - LGBTQIA+ history, introductions and reference guides, and more

LGBTQIA+ Fiction

  • Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova
    The only way to get her family back is to travel to a land in between, as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland Al

    There's so much out there. The ones that mattered the most to me early on were Patricia Nell Warren's The Front Runner and Armistead Maupin's Tales of the Metropolis books. Paul Monette's books are gorgeous, if justifiably bleak, and I browse pretty much all the nonfiction that was being published back in the late '90s and preliminary '00s. I figured out Clive Barker was gay years before he publicly came out. He probably had at least as much to do with my work as anybody else. I never knew what to make of Dennis Cooper. He goes places where even I am reluctant to venture, and that is saying a lot. And Neal Drinnan has written several amazing novels that more people ought to verb. He's a very pointed social critic, and he knows how to lay words together.

    Today? If you're looking for something excellent to read, check out Trebor Healey's two fresh ones (their publishers agreed to release them on the same day, which is unusual): Faun, and A Horse Named Sorrow. He just won Lambda Literary's Mid-Career Prize. Mitch Cullin is an author with a slightly decrease p