Lists and Suggestions
List: Own Stories: LGBTQ Fiction
That Certain Something
Clare Ashton
"Love or money? Follow the head or heart? Pia and Cate seem to be flip sides of a coin. But whe...
Giovanni
James Baldwin
"Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds hims...
Confessions of the Fox
Jordy Rosenberg
"Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines th...
Less: A Novel
Andrew Sean Greer
Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of ...
Tipping the Velvet
Sarah Waters
Nancy Astley, a fishmonger in Whitstable, becomes smitten by male impersonator Kitty Butler and atte...
The House of Impossible Beauties
Joseph Cassara
1980, New York City. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball cultu...
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
"When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, th...
Under the Udala Trees
Chinelo Okparanta
Ijeoma, a young Nigerian girl displaced during their civil war, begins a powerful love affair with a...
The Well of Loneliness
Radclyffe Hall
Originally published in 1928, Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness is the timeless story of ...
A Single Man
Christopher Isherwood
"George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner...
This Is How It Always Is
Laurie Frankel
"This is Claude. He's five years old, the youngest of five brothers. He also loves peanut ...
Maurice: A Novel
E. M. Forster
"Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master nov...

Rubyfruit Jungle
Rita Mae Brown
Born a bastard, Molly Bolt is adopted by a dirt-poor Southern couple who want something better for t...
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home ...
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, fin...

Orlando: A Biography
Virginia Woolf
Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful tribute to Vita Sackville-West, this novel'...
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson
"The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God's elect, b...
The Price of Salt
Patricia Highsmith
A chance encounter between two lonely women leads to a passionate romance in this lesbian cult class...
New Beginnings
KC Richardson
Jordan Roberts has been content with the one-night stands she's been having for the past seven ...
Call Me By Your Name
Andr� Aciman
The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents' hou...