This is a wide ranging list of the very best in LGBTQIA+ literature with something for every taste, touching on anything from intimate personal journeys to heartbreaking romances, fantasy or dystopian fiction. The one thing they all have in common is being at the top of their genres. For people who enjoy their literature in ebook and audio form.
Rep: Gay. This latest novel by Garth Greenwell is unlike his earlier work in the best way. Our protagonist, a poet alone in an American hospital bed at the height of the COVID pandemic spends two weeks recovering from emergency surgery. The…
Rep: Gay, Transgender. Tom and Ming’s love blossomed at a university drag night and the rest was history. However, the status quo shifts when Ming decides to transition. They travel the world, living across various landscapes whilst the dynamics of…
Rep: Lesbian. Welcome to a world where, for the entertainment of the masses, there are prison death matches that allow prisoners to fight their way to freedom while also earning the state money. This is the story of two female lovers who are…
Rep: Non-Binary, Transgender. Co-winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019. This contemporary novel follows twelve interconnected (but very different) characters across time as they deal with everything from family, friendships, and relationships, to…
Rep: Transgender. A classic fake girlfriend theme with a twist. Luna O'Shea is a proud trans woman with a wonderful life. That is until she is fired and in desperate need of a new job. Jean-Pierre, heir to a restaurant empire and proud trans man…
Rep: Gay. Oliver Park has finally gotten his life back on track. No longer an addict, he is in a loving relationship with an older man and he has a quiet life. So why would he risk everything and go to Haus; a gay bath house. And why follow a…
Rep: Bisexual, Gay. A fascinating fiction within a fiction, The house of doors is set in Kuala Lumpur in the 1920s. It revolves around an ex pat couple, Robert and Leslie, and their colourful friend 'willie', the great Somerset Maugham. Lellie and…
Rep: Lesbian. Devotion is set in the late 1830s and in true Hannah Kent style, is well researched and lyrically written. Devotion is about two women, one , Hanne, from a strict Lutheran community that has relocated to Australia from Prussia, and…
Rep: Gay, Queer. A famous Australian artist is forced into the diabolical act of writing a memoir in a desperate attempt to rescue his public image after a disastrous incident on live TV. Peek into the life of celebrities and the egotistical culture…
Rep: Bisexual, Transgender, Queer. This debut by Sascha Stronach (Ngāi Tahu) is a recipe for a great fantasy novel. A dash of steampunk, a large pinch of weird, some gods and monsters, and a half cup of queer. Mixed together in a detailed fantasy…
Rep: Lesbian. Told in a series of vignettes, After sappho is a sapphic historical fiction based around the lives of familiar characters such as Virginia Wolfe and Gloria Stern, as well as other less well known women. It is innovative in its style…
Rep: Bisexual, Queer, Transgender, Lesbian. Cynical August does not believe in love or even friendship. She lives with an assortment of colourful room mates and takes the tube every night to her night shift job. Then on the train she meets Jane.…
Rep: Bisexual. Ada hates to say no, but this leads her into a love triangle with Sadie and Stuart creating absolute millennial chaos. Attempting to navigate their bisexual crisis, Ada begins to question her sense of self pivoting between Sadie and…
