LGBTQ+ books

Color Purple

by Alice Walker

The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book A…

Orlando

by Virginia Woolf

In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. Born in the Elizabethan …

Mrs. Dalloway (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

by Virginia Woolf, Ulrich Baer

Virginia Woolf’s novel chronicles a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a politician’s wife in 1920s London, as she prepares to host a party th…

Tono-Bungay a Novel

by H. G. Wells

George Ponderovo's quiet young life is changed forever when he is forced to leave home and is apprenticed to his dynamic Uncle Edward in his chem…

Against Nature

by Joris-Karl Huysmans

À rebours (French pronunciation: [a ʁ(ə).buʁ]; translated Against Nature or Against the Grain) is an 1884 novel by the French writer Joris-Karl H…

Leaves of Grass

by Malcolm Cowley, Walt Whitman

**Leaves of Grass** is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman. First published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life wr…

Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

**The Picture of Dorian Gray** is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1…

Satyricon by Petronius

by Petronius

An incomplete Roman novel believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius Arbiter. What remains of the novel is a picaresque story concerning th…

Club of Queer Trades Annotated

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown.

Carol

by Patricia Highsmith, María Alonso Seisdedos, Sonia Pulido

THE PRICE OF SALT is the famous lesbian love story by Patricia Highsmith, written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author became notorious …

Queer Little Folks

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Castle Gay Illustrated

by John Buchan

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, *Brideshead Revisited* looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It t…

Seraphita

by Honoré de Balzac

In a castle in Norway near the fjord Strømfjord, Séraphitüs, a strange and melancholic being, conceals a terrible secret. He loves Minna, and she…

Lucy Gayheart

by Willa Cather

Fervently pursuing the life of an artist, a young music student leaves behind her small midwestern town existence and comes to know the elation a…

The sealed letter

by Emma Donoghue

Emily 'Fido' Faithfull hasn't seen her friend Helen for years. After bumping into her on the streets of Victorian London, Fido finds herself relu…

Sparrow, The

by Mary Doria Russell

The Sparrow is a novel about a remarkable man, a living saint, a life-long celibate and Jesuit priest, who undergoes an experience so harrowing a…

Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures

by João Florêncio

This book analyses contemporary gay "pig" masculinities, which have emerged alongside antiretroviral therapies, online porn, and new sexualised p…

Just Kids illustrated

by Patti Smith

In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, B…

The Left Hand of Darkness (Penguin Galaxy)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

"A deluxe hardcover edition of the queen of science fiction's trailblazing novel about a planet full of genderless beings--part of Penguin Galaxy…

Michael Tolliver Lives

by Armistead Maupin

Cassandra Dügünde

by Dorothy Baker

Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to…

This Book Is Gay

by Juno Dawson, David Levithan

"Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for…

Better Nate Than Ever

by Tim Federle

Nate Foster has big dreams. His whole life, he’s wanted to star in a Broadway show. (Heck, he’d settle for seeing a Broadway show.) But how is Na…