Lists and Suggestions

List: Own Stories: LGBTQ Fiction

Clare Ashton

"Love or money? Follow the head or heart? Pia and Cate seem to be flip sides of a coin. But whe...

James Baldwin

"Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds hims...

Jordy Rosenberg

"Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines th...

Andrew Sean Greer

Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of ...

Sarah Waters

Nancy Astley, a fishmonger in Whitstable, becomes smitten by male impersonator Kitty Butler and atte...

Joseph Cassara

1980, New York City. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball cultu...

Hanya Yanagihara

"When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, th...

Chinelo Okparanta

Ijeoma, a young Nigerian girl displaced during their civil war, begins a powerful love affair with a...

Radclyffe Hall

Originally published in 1928, Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness is the timeless story of ...

Christopher Isherwood

"George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner...

Laurie Frankel

"This is Claude. He's five years old, the youngest of five brothers. He also loves peanut ...

E. M. Forster

"Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master nov...

Rita Mae Brown

Born a bastard, Molly Bolt is adopted by a dirt-poor Southern couple who want something better for t...

Alan Hollinghurst

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home ...

Jeffrey Eugenides

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, fin...

Virginia Woolf

Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful tribute to Vita Sackville-West, this novel'...

Jeanette Winterson

"The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God's elect, b...

Patricia Highsmith

A chance encounter between two lonely women leads to a passionate romance in this lesbian cult class...

KC Richardson

Jordan Roberts has been content with the one-night stands she's been having for the past seven ...

Andr� Aciman

The sudden and powerful attraction between a teenage boy and a summer guest at his parents' hou...