Queer

Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities that are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning "strange" or "peculiar", queer came to be deployed pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late-19th century. Beginning in the late-1980s, queer scholars and activists began to reclaim the word to establish community and assert a politicized identity distinct from the gay political identity. Queer identitites may be adopted by those who reject traditional gender identities and seek a broader, less conformist, and deliberately ambiguous alternati ...more

Nothing Tastes as Good
Hell's Heart
Spoiled Milk
Almost Life
The Fox and the Devil
That's What Friends Are For
The Dreadfuls
Ruins
Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories
She Drinks the Light
A Lady for All Seasons
The Adjunct
Robbie McNeil's Hit List
Wretch: or, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw
This Will Be Interesting: A Novel (This Will Be, #2)
We Used to Live Here
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Blue Sisters
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
気になってる人が男じゃなかった Vol. 1 [Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Vol. 1]
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
Razorblade Tears
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Wayward Girls
The Emperor of Gladness
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
A Family Matter
All the Way to the River
Feral Sins by Suzanne WrightGo Fetch! by Shelly LaurenstonPack Challenge by Shelly LaurenstonA Hunger Like No Other by Kresley ColeWicked Cravings by Suzanne Wright
Best Werewolf Erotica
540 books — 1,121 voters

Tell Me It's Real by T.J. KluneI'll Be Your Drill, Soldier by Crystal RoseShattered Glass by Dani AlexanderCut & Run by Madeleine UrbanFish & Chips by Abigail Roux
The Best Humorous Gay Romances
926 books — 1,690 voters
Change of Heart by Mary CalmesWith Caution by J.L. LangleyWithout Reservations by J.L. LangleyWolfsong by T.J. KluneDuck! by Kim Dare
Best Gay Shifters
1,373 books — 1,757 voters

Bareback by Chris OwenFaith & Fidelity by Tere MichaelsCut & Run by Madeleine UrbanKeeping Promise Rock by Amy LaneBear, Otter, and the Kid by T.J. Klune
Best Gay Tear Jerker with a Happy Ending
628 books — 869 voters
Luck in the Shadows by Lynn FlewellingCaptive Prince by C.S. PacatMagic's Pawn by Mercedes LackeyStalking Darkness by Lynn FlewellingThe Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Best Fantasy Books with Gay Main Characters
1,282 books — 2,678 voters

The Song of Achilles
Red, White & Royal Blue
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
This Is How You Lose the Time War
One Last Stop
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)
Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
Giovanni’s Room
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

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