Gay fiction books 2020
(A time capsule of queer opinion, from the adj s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the best lesbian and gay novels in the delayed s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of lesbian and gay literature and to promote discussion among all readers gay and straight.
The Triangle&#;s Best
The judges who compiled this list were the writers Dorothy Allison, David Bergman, Christopher Bram, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Lillian Faderman, Anthony Heilbut, M.E. Kerr, Jenifer Levin, John Loughery, Jaime Manrique, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Sarah Schulman, and Barbara Smith.
1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni&#;s Room by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Adequately of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Zami by Audré Lorde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
A Boy&#;s Own S
The 42 Best LGBTQ Books of
1
13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins
Dedicated in part to a lover who died of AIDS, Bibbins's heart-wrenching (yet still wistfully humorous) memoir-in-verse lays bare the large and small griefs of gay life in the shadow of an epidemic: "Strange to look vainly for oneself in history/and stranger to realize/that there is a chance/one might find oneself there."
2
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
Imagine a bisexual Olive Kitteridge and you'll get a sense of Astrid Strick, a once-hardened matriarch who is the beating heart of Straub's sublimely profound (and fun!) follow-up to 's Modern Lovers. Confronting her own mortality after an old acquaintance's fatal accident, Astrid wants to drag the skeletons out of the Strick clan's closet, including a few of her own: namely, that for the past few years, Astrid, a widow in her late
Pub Date: 1/7/
&#; multiple queer MCs
&#; mad scientist&#;s apprentice Jack is in require of saving, and who&#;s to help her but a school of children searching for their doors?
&#; 5th in the Wayward Children series
Pub Date: 1/7/
&#; lesbians, everywhere lesbians
&#; historical fantasy inspired by Henry IV with royalty making bad decisions and being gay about it
Pub Date: 1/14/
&#; start of a very queer series
&#; &#;punk YouTuber on a mission to bring down witches&#; UM
&#; seriously glance at that fucking cover
Pub Date: 1/14/
&#; normalized bisexuality, multiple genders, polyamory
&#; are there even any cishet characters??
&#; third publication in the Worldbreaker saga, a bloodsoaked multiple universe epic fantasy
Pub Date: 1/21/
&#; f/f with a trans MC
&#; creepy utopian specfic a la VanderMeer
&#; all about grief, alienation, and the ache of moving on ❤
The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena is a love story for our time and a propulsive journey through the lives of two women trying to find somewhere, or someone, to call home.
In , the bookshop I work for decided to start a couple of book clubs, and I offered to become the host and organise these meetings. They became something to bring people together (online) during a pandemic, and they provided a way to continue to learn in community.
For Coach Yourself Book Club — where we read books on subjects like racism, feminism, LGBTQIAP+ identity, fatphobia, and ableism — we pick fiction and nonfiction books we want to read together, and then we discuss what we have learned, bringing the books and our personal stories to the table.
No one in this group is an expert; we stay respectful and reveal to learning, using the tools at hand, and exchanging stories. It’s a humbling and interesting way to spend more second thinking about social matters, our own privileges, an