Best LGBTQ Books

Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019Teeming with life and crackling with energy ? a love song to modern Britain and black womanhoodGirl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through t...

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The Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, ...

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family.Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genrebending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the a...

The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he was not...

From awardwinning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning comingofage memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power._x0093_People don_x0092_t just happen,_x0094_ writes Saeed Jones. _x0093_We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The _x0091_I_x0092_ it seems doesn_x0092_t exist until we are able to say, _x0091_I am...

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Upon its first publication twenty years ago, And The Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigatve reporting. An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts' expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80's w...

"We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story." At first, Jude and her twin brother Noah, are inseparable. Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude wears redred lipstick, cliffdives, and does all the t...

From the creator of Elle 's "Eric Reads the News," a poignant and hilarious memoirinessays about growing up seeing the world differently, finding his joy, and every awkward, extraordinary stumble along the way. R. Eric Thomas didn't know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went?whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburb...

Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born _x0097_ a histor...

Don't miss this spectacular debut novel... Can a girl who risks her life for books and an alien who loves forbidden pop music work together to save humanity This road trip is truly out of this world! A beautiful and thrilling read for fans of Marie Lu and Veronica Roth.Two years ago, a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading...

The people of Uztar have long looked to the sky with hope and wonder. Nothing in their world is more revered than the birds of prey and no one more honored than the falconers who call them to their fists.Brysen strives to be a great falconerwhile his twin sister, Kylee, rejects her ancient gifts for the sport and wishes to be free of falconry. Sh...

Charlie, a highlystrung, openly gay overthinker, and Nick, a cheerful, softhearted rugby player, meet at a British allboys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more...Charlie Spring is in Year 10 at Truham Grammar School for Boys. The past year hasn't been too great, but at least he's not being bullied anymor...

Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through spaceand one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universein this lighthearted debut Space Opera, from a rising scifi star.Rosemary Harper doesn?t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patchedup ship has seen be...

When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl.George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she can't even try out for ...

Seventeenyearold Molly PeskinSuso knows all about unrequited love_x0097_she_x0092_s lived through it twentysix times. She crushes hard and crushes often, but always in secret. Because no matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can_x0092_t stomach the idea of rejection. So she_x0092_s careful. Fat girls always have to be careful.Then...

A landmark comingofage novel that launched the career of one of this country?s most distinctive voices, Rubyfruit Jungle remains a transformative work more than forty years after its original publication. In bawdy, moving prose, Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirtpoor Southern couple who boldly forges he...

Henry Rios meets Hugh Paris when Paris is arrested for drug possession and being high on PCP. A burntout public defender battling alcoholism, Rios has reached a crossroads in his life. While interviewing Paris in jail, Rios goes through the motions, but notices that Paris is far more polished and welloff than the usual drug suspects. Paris is mys...

_x0093_[Rechy_x0092_s] tone rings absolutely true, is absolutely his own. . . . He tells the truth, and tells it with such passion that we are forced to share in the life he conveys. . . . This is a most humbling and liberating achievement._x0094__x0097_James BaldwinWhen John Rechy_x0092_s explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gav...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around LGBTQTeen, Young, Adult, Fiction, Teen lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Nick has a threelegged dog named Lucky, some pet fish, and two moms who think he's the greatest kid ever. And he happens to think he has the greatest Moms ever, but everything changes when his birth mom and her wife, Jo, start to have marital problems. Suddenly, Nick is in the middle, and instead of having two Moms to turn to for advice, he has no...

When Handong, a ruthless and wealthy businessman, is introduced to Lan Yu, a naïve, workingclass architectural student_x0097_the attraction is all consuming.Arrogant and privileged, Handong is unsettled by this desire, while Lan Yu quietly submits. Despite divergent lives, the two men spend their nights together, establishing a deep connection. When loy...

Razia Mirza is a Pakistani woman from Corona, Queens, who grew up in a tight Muslim community surrounding the first Sunni masjid built in New York City. When a rebellious streak leads to her excommunication, she decides to hit the road. Corona moves between Razia?s childhood and the comedic misadventures she encounters on her journey, from a Purit...

Tomato Rodriguez hops on her motorcycle and embarks on the ultimate seatoshiningsea allgirl adventure a story that combines all the best parts of Alice in Wonderland and Easy Rider as Tomato crosses the country in search of the meaning of life, love, and the perfect post office. Flaming Iguanas is a hilarious novel that combines text, line d...

Early in the 19th century, in a puritanical New England town, two women fell in love with one another. And with nothing and no one to guide or support them, Patience and Sarah tried to follow their hearts. "A remarkable story".Publishers Weekly....

A stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, and tragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between the World Wars.Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avantgarde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young American nam...

Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony has lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit Jeep_x0096_and its forces find themselves fighting f...

Caroline Murphy is a Hurricane Child.Being born during a hurricane is unlucky, and 12yearold Caroline has had her share of bad luck lately. She's hated and bullied by everyone in her small school on St. Thomas of the US Virgin Islands, a spirit only she can see won't stop following her, and worst of all Caroline's mother left home one day a...

Where does friendship stop and love beginAt just 19, Kendall Bettencourt is Hollywood?s hottest young starlet with the world at her feet ? but behind the glamour and designer dresses is a girl who longs for normal. Payton Taylor is Kendall?s best friend since childhood, and the one person who reminds her of who she really is ? her refuge from the ...

When Suzette comes home to Los Angeles from her boarding school in New England, she isn't sure if she'll ever want to go back. L.A. is where her friends and family are (along with her crush, Emil). And her stepbrother, Lionel, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, needs her emotional support.But as she settles into her old life, Suzette fin...

From the awardwinning author of Break and Teeth comes a raw and honest exploration of complicated identities in a novel about a girl living on the fringe of every fringe group in her small town.Etta is tired of dealing with all of the labels and categories that seem so important to everyone else in her small Nebraska hometown. Everywhere she turns...

Three thousand years ago, a god told a lie. Now, only a goddess can tell the truth. Persephone has everything a daughter of Zeus could wantexcept for freedom. She lives on the green earth with her mother, Demeter, growing up beneath the everwatchful eyes of the gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus. But when Persephone meets the enigmatic Hades, s...

In 1955, eighteenyearold Janet Jones keeps the love she shares with her best friend Marie a secret. It?s not easy being gay in Washington, DC, in the age of McCarthyism, but when she discovers a series of books about women falling in love with other women, it awakens something in Janet. As she juggles a romance she must keep hidden and a newfound...

In this richly developed Fantasy,, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decadeold trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards for an unknown fate still haunts her. Now, the guards are back and this time it's Lei they're after...

Frozen meets Mad Max in this epic teen Fantasy, duology bursting with starcrossed romance, immortal heroines, and elemental magic, perfect for fans of Furyborn.Generations of twin goddesses have long ruled Aeon. But seventeen years ago, one sister_x0092_s betrayal defied an ancient prophecy and split their world in two. The planet ceased to spin, and a G...

Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole DennisBenn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival, Margot is ruthles...

In a nearfuture New York City in which both global warming and a tremendous economic divide are making the city unlivable for many, a huge superstorm hits leaving behind only those those who had nowhere else to go and no way to get out. Here Makayla, a 24yearold woman who works at the convenience store chain that's overtaken the city, and Jesse,...

Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of eighteenthcentury London. Yet no one knows the true story; their confessions have never been found.Until now. Reeling from heartbreak, a scholar named Dr. Voth discovers a longlost manuscript_x0097_a genderdefying exposé of Jack and Bess_x0092_s adventures. Is Conf...

Betrothed since childhood to the prince of Mynaria, Princess Dennaleia has always known what her future holds. Her marriage will seal the alliance between Mynaria and her homeland, protecting her people from other hostile lands. But Denna has a secret. She possesses an Affinity for fire?a dangerous gift for the future queen of a kingdom where magic...

In this young Adult, debut, a teen must try to uncover his missing girlfriend's secrets without revealing his own. Flynn's girlfriend, January, is missing. The cops are asking questions he can't answer, and her friends are telling stories that don't add up. All eyes are on Flynnas January's boyfriend, he must know something.But Flynn is harboring ...

Behrouz Gets Lucky is a romantic, literary, kinky, and political novel about two older San Francisco queers a butch dyke gardener named Lucky and a genderqueer librarian named Behrouz. A coffee date at Café Flore in the Castro, sparks a fiery trans masculine relationship that ends with the couple eating falafel in bed at 3 am half way around the ...

I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself . . . 'New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dan...

A showrunner and her assistant give the world something to talk about when they accidentally fuel a ridiculous rumor in this debut romance.Hollywood powerhouse Jo is photographed making her assistant Emma laugh on the red carpet, and just like that, the tabloids declare them a couple. The socalled scandal couldn't come at a worse timethreatening...

The breakneck thriller that inspired TV sensation Killing Eve, starring Sandra Oh.Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the world's richest and most powe...

Plucked from her life on the streets of postapocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a Santería prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean ? and humanity ? from disaster. But first she must become the man she always was ? with the help of a sacred anemone. Tentacle is an electric novel ...

A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding. The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a nineteenyearold college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced...

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in postwar IrelandCyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is heBor...

A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the wellbeing of children in governmentsanctioned orphanages.When Linus is unexpected...

"A brave, powerful memoir" (People) that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country, from the activist running to become the first openly transgender state senator in U.S. history"The energy and vigor Sarah has brought to the fight for equality is ever present in this book."Senator Kamala Harris, New York Times bestselli...

Paris, at the dawn of the modern age:Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion!Sebastian_x0092_s ...

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and what we can all learn about desire and identity by using an ace lens to see the worldWhat exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through the world not experiencing it What does asexuality reveal about consent, about comprom...

Woman or man This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Goldberg, a masculine girl growing up in the "Ozzie and Harriet" McCarthy era and coming out as a young butch lesbian in the preStonewall gay drag bars of a bluecollar town. Stone Butch Blues traces a propulsive journey, powerfully evoking history and p...

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Once upon a time, in an alleyway in the slums of the City of Lockes, a young and somewhat lonely boy named Sam Haversford turns a group of teenage douchebags into stone completely by accident.Of course, this catches the attention of a higher power, and Sam's pulled from the only world he knows to become an apprentice to the King's Wizard, Morgan of...

From the author of Fun Home the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, Lois, Sydney, Sparrow, Ginger, Stuart, Clarice, and othersFor twentyfive years Bechdel?s pathbreaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in awardwinning volumes (with a quarter of a million copies in print), syndicated in fifty alternative newsp...

Just because you?re through with your past, doesn?t mean it?s through with you.Margaret Beringer didn?t have an easy adolescence. She hated her name, was less than popular in school, and was always cast aside as a ?farm kid.? However, with the arrival of Courtney Carrington, Margaret?s youth sparked into color. Courtney was smart, beautiful, and pu...

Pop star Leontyne Blake might sing about love, but she stopped believing in it a long time ago. What women want is her image, not the real her. When her father has a stroke, she flees the spotlight and returns to her tiny Missouri hometown.In her childhood home, she meets smalltown nurse Holly Drummond, who isn?t impressed by Leo?s fame at all. Th...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, Perestroika?Glorious. A monumental, subversive, altogether remarkable masterwork?Details of specific catastrophes may have changed since this Reaganera AIDS epic won the Pulitzer and the Tony, but the re...

For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded itJune 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising the most significant event in the gay liberation movement and the catalyst for the modern fight for LGBTQ rig...

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One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter.One moment that changes both of their lives forever.If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the ...

Named one of the Top 11 Most Challenged Books of 2018 by American Library Association (joined by Two Boys Kissing by David Leviathan, The Absolutely True Diary of a PartTime Indian by Judy Sherman Alexie, Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner, This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Captain...

Three years ago, Tanner Scott_x0092_s family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. Now, with one semester of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and outofstate college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah.But when his best frien...

Covering American transgender history from the midtwentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism a...

Small Beauty tells the story of Mei, who in coping with the death of her cousin abandons her life in the city to live in his now empty house in a small town. There she connects with his history as well as her own, learns about her aunt?s longterm secret relationship, and reflects on the trans women she left behind. She also brushes up against some...

Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen.That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right.Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a...

Actress Caidence Harris is living her dreams after landing a leading role among the starstudded, veteran cast of 9th Precinct, a hot new police drama shot on location in glitzy LA. Her sometimescostar Robyn Ward is magnetic, glamorous, and devastatingly beautiful, the quintessential AList celebrity on the fasttrack to superstardom. When the tw...

What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of WalesWhen his mother became President, Alex ClaremontDiaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius?his image is pure millennialmarketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual pri...

The founders of Babeland, the nation's most popular sextoy boutique, offers a realworld guide to getting satisfied, with frank answers to frequently asked questionsand lots of sexy color photographs of attractive real people When Babeland opened its doors in 1993 in Seattle, it filled the need for a "toy store" that made customers feel comfortab...

Seventeen is nothing like Codi Teller imagined.She?s never crashed a party, never stayed out too late. She?s never even been kissed. And it?s not just because she?s gay. It?s because she and her two best friends, Maritza and JaKory, spend more time in her basement watching Netflix than engaging with the outside world.So when Maritza and JaKory sugg...

The heartrending autobiographical manga that?s taken the internet by storm!My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is an honest and heartfelt look at one young woman?s exploration of her sexuality, mental wellbeing, and growing up in our modern age. Told using expressive artwork that invokes both laughter and tears, this moving and highly entertain...

Welcome to The Club?leave your inhibitions and your everyday cares at the door and indulge yourself in an evening of anonymous, nostrings, womanonwoman action.For many of the women who visit The Club this is exactly what they are looking for and what they get. For others the emotions run high, and one night of sex can change their lives in ways ...

In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate workings of the human heart and mind and offers a triumphant tale of loving deception and lasting devotion.The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret, one that enrages his adopted son, Colman, leading him to collude wi...

A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" (New York Times Book Review) narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states, offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America. Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suitandtiewearing Mormon missionary. Now she's a GLAAD Awardwinning journalist...

The Whole Lesbian Sex Book was the firstever sex guide to offer information and encouragement for all women who desire women lesbian, bisexual, butch, femme, androgynous, and transgender. First published in 1999, it's been lauded for its thoroughness, enthusiastic tone, and creative, nonjudgmental approach to lesbian sex in all its rich variety...

With a New Afterword by the AuthorIn this fascinating, personal journey through history, Leslie Feinberg uncovers persuasive evidence that there have always been people who crossed the cultural boundaries of gender. Transgender Warriors is an eyeopening jaunt through the history of gender expression and a powerful testament to the rebellious spiri...

The story of Christine Jorgensen, America_x0092_s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other midcentury trans narratives_x0097_ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figu...

When it was first published in 1988, Patrick Califia's Macho Sluts, a collection of S/M stories set in San Francisco's dyke bathhouses, sex parties, and S/M gay bars, shocked the lesbian community and caused an upheaval in the field of queer publishing. Nobody had ever written so frankly about the kinky potential of womantowoman sex (and nobody h...

Take a journey through time and genres and discover a past where queer figures live, love and shape the world around them. Seventeen of the best young Adult, authors across the queer spectrum have come together to create a collection of beautifully written diverse historical fiction for teens. From a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set in warto...

When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they'll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.But that relief doesn't last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her wellintentioned but hopelessly oldfashioned grandmother. She knows that fr...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Teen, Young, Adult, LGBTQ lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Maurice is heartbroken over unrequited love, which opened his heart and mind to his own sexual identity. In order to be true to himself, he goes against the grain of society?s often unspoken rules of class, wealth, and politics.Forster understood that his homage to samesex love, if published when he completed it in 1914, would probably end his car...

Unknown to regular citizens, nightmarish creatures lurk in the dark underbelly of human civilization. The presence of these supranormals ("supras")?werewolves, vampires, demons?is a closely guarded government secret, as is the existence of a cadre of specially engineered Hunters charged with exterminating them. Codenamed Malice, Hunter Mary Alice ...

Emma Donoghue examines how desire between women in English literature has been portrayed, from schoolgirls and vampires to runaway wives, from crossdressing knights to contemporary murder stories. She looks at the work of those writers who have addressed the "unspeakable subject," examining whether samesex desire is freakish or omnipresent, holy ...

Nishat doesn_x0092_t want to lose her family, but she also doesn_x0092_t want to hide who she is, and it only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life. Flávia is beautiful and charismatic, and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Flávia and Nishat decide to showc...

With a steady boyfriend, the position of Student Council President, and a chance to go to an Ivy League college, high school life is just fine for Holland Jaeger.At least, it seems to be. But when Cece Goddard comes to school, everything changes. Cece and Holland have undeniable feelings for each other, but how will others react to their developing...

This Is Not For You, perhaps Jane Rule's most selfconsciously literary and philosophical novel, tells the story of a young woman in the late 1950s and early 1960s as she negotiates her lesbian sexuality. The Insomniac Library is proud to reissue Jane Rule's second novel more than thirty years after its original appearance in 1970, and more than fi...

Stella's class is having a Mother's Day celebration, but what's a girl with two daddies to do It's not that she doesn't have someone who helps her with her homework, or tucks her in at night. Stella has her Papa and Daddy who take care of her, and a whole gaggle of other loved ones who make her feel special and supported every day. She just doesn'...

"Fans of Beverly Cleary's Quimbys, Judy Blume's Hatchers, and, more recently, Jeanne Birdsall's Penderwicks will fervently hope that more Fletcher misadventures are yet to come." School Library Journal, Starred The start of the school year is not going as the Fletcher brothers hoped. Each boy finds his plans for success veering off in unexpected ...

Practical Magic meets Nova Ren Suma?s Imaginary Girls and Laura Ruby?s Bone Gap in this lush, atmospheric new novel by acclaimed author Katrina Leno.A magic passed down through generations. An island where strange things happen. A summer that will become legend.Georgina Fernweh waits impatiently for the tingle of magic in her fingers?magic that has...

Life is going damned well for Blair Spencer. She's a very successful real estate agent, happily married to a man who encourages her to live the independent life she loves; and they're actively working to have a baby.The wrench in the works is that Blair favors adoption, while her husband David desperately wants to have a biological child. The fates...

Each of these stories is original, each is by a noted author for young Adult,s, and each honestly portrays its subject and themegrowing up gay or lesbian, or with gay or lesbian parents or friends. Includes:"Michael's Little Sister" / C. S. Adler"Dancing Backwards" / Marion Dane Bauer"Winnie and Tommy" / Francesca Lia Block"Am I Blue" / Bruce Covi...

There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads.When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything chan...

This delicious, steamy debut novel chronicles the adventures of Nan King, who begins life as an oyster girl in the provincial seaside town of Whitstable and whose fortunes are forever changed when she falls in love with a crossdressing musichall singer named Miss Kitty Butler. When Kitty is called up to London for an engagement on "Grease Paint A...

Oddmannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remained of her world, save for sto...

Medic Ryon Drake has never been good at following protocol, so she doesn't think twice about rendering emergency care when a young girl's life is at stakeeven if the girl is in the throes of Werefever and any sane mortali should know better. It isn't the bright shining pain of the bite or even the wrenching agonies of the fever that convinces her...

Seventeenyearold Marisol Morales and her little sister Gabi are detainees of the United States government. They were caught crossing the U.S. border, to escape the gang violence in their country after their brother was murdered. When Marisol learns that the old family friend who had offered them refuge in America has died and they are going to be...

In this frank, funny and poignant book, transgender activist Juno Roche discusses sex, desire and dating with leading figures from the trans and nonbinary community. Calling out prejudices and inspiring readers to explore their own concepts of intimacy and sexuality, the firsthand accounts celebrate the wonder and potential of trans bodies and pu...

In a community that isn't always understanding, an HIVpositive teen must navigate fear, disclosure, and radical selfacceptance when she falls in loveand lustfor the first time. Powerful and uplifting, Full Disclosure will speak to fans of Angie Thomas and Nicola Yoon. Simone GarciaHampton is starting over at a new school, and this time thing...