Top gay fiction

If you buy through our links, we may top a commission. This is a book about self discovery, family secrets and overcoming family trauma and legacies to build your own life. In this poetic novel, a son writes a letter to his mother, who cannot read.

These are the LGBTQ-led reads you won’t want to miss this year. These books inspire us, give us hope and show that our literary worlds can and should! Empower yourself by adding these inspiring books to your reading list.

Exploring your own identities or trying to explain who you are to friends or family? This Sri Lanka-set coming-of-age memoir has a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction to its name, and rightfully so; Selvadurai’s depiction of gay protagonist Arjie Chelvaratnam’s journey.

This tough but tender novel is about understanding yourself and queerly demanding to be heard. This new story is a fresh take on the book that inspired so many of us. There have been few experiences more powerful for me as an author than visiting high school and college classrooms and hearing queer students reflect on how meaningful it was to see their lives and stories on the page.

As always in June, I’ll be updating my series of “best of” queer books, TV shows, and movies. This book is full of intimate stories of his experience starring in the movie Junogoing to a queer bar for the first time, coming rollerblading gay as transgender and the backlash he experienced in Hollywood.

The book also explores themes of desire and belonging. It explores his love for her and unpacks the deepest secrets of masculinity, race and class. And once you're done here, head on over to the GH Book Club to check out even more feel-good reads.

In college, Bechdel comes out as a lesbian, at which time she realizes that her father was also gay. Actor Elliot Page recounts his journey to understanding his gender in this New York Times bestseller. Celebrate with the best LGBTQ books and books with gay characters or from LGBTQ authors.

As an out author of fiction and nonfiction books, it is an unnerving time to be writing books about queer and trans lives and experiences. Keep in mind that these are simply my opinions, and as a result of. In this beautiful memoir, readers follow a queer Muslim immigrant coming to understand her own identity and sense of gender.

Add them all to your own TBR list, or pick up a handful as the perfect gift for the book-lover in your life. We've been independently researching and testing products for over years. The Best Queer Books of (So Far) The queer literary landscape is flourishing in spite of near-constant threats.

Additional reporting by Lizz Schumer. This is what makes the current wave of book bans targeting queer books even more dangerous. Learn more about our review process. Whether set in the US, Canada, the Northeast of England or South Africa, these must-read LGBTQ fiction books continue to educate, comfort, and remind us.

Happy Pride Month! The book explores coming out to family, medical trauma that comes as existing as a visible trans person and coming out as asexual. This fiction is sure to inspire you to live authentically, regardless of what others say.

But this largely corporate visibility during Pride month, known as rainbow washingshouldn't be a day limited engagement, especially as our rights are under attack. Instead of gay reading gay books during Pride, challenge yourself to expand the diversity of books you read all year long.

Consider giving them this book to read and let it open the conversation for you.