New Literature

The City of Palaces (2014) – Michael Nava

Gideon the 9th (2019) – Tamsyn Muir

Witch Boy series (2017) – Molly Knox Ostertag

Cemetery Boys (2020) – Aiden Thomas

Rage: A Love Story (2009) – Julie Anne Peters

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children (2012) – Kirstin Cronn-Mills

Pet (2019) – Akwaeke Emezi

Fun Home (2006) – Alison Bechdel

Tell the Wolves I’m Home (2012) – Carol Rifka Brunt

Transgender

Redefining Realness (2014) – Janet Mock

Tranny (2016) – Laura Jane Grace

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children (2012) – Kirstin Cronn-Mills

Pet (2019) – Akwaeke Emezi

Stories with a Happy Ending

Nightrunner series (1996) – Lynn Flewelling

Tamir Triad series (2001) – Lynn Flewelling

Annie on my Mind (1982) – Nancy Gardener

Redefining Realness (2014) – Janet Mock

Tranny (2016) – Laura Jane Grace

Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) – Rita Mae Brown

Black Literature

Pet (2019) – Akwaeke Emezi

Redefining Realness (2014) – Janet Mock

British Literature

Maurice (1913) – E.M. Forster

The Well of Loneliness (1928) – Radclyffe Hall

The Line of Beauty (2004) – Alan Hollinghurst

Chicana/o Literature

The City of Palaces (2014) – Michael Nava

What Night Brings (2013) – Carla Trujillo

Classics

Brideshead Revisited (1945) – Evelyn Waugh

The Shore of Women (1986) – Pamela Sargent

Stone Butch Blues (1993) – Leslie Feinberg

Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) – Rita Mae Brown

Annie on my Mind (1982) – Nancy Gardener