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

The Disappearers
Bodies of Magic
She's a Doll
Espíritu (Cemetery Boys #2)
Astarion: Baldur's Gate 3
A Snake Among Swans (The Wing and the Ways, #1)
A Thousand Monstrous Forms
Take a Chance, Sasha Sinclair (Clover Lake, #3)
With All My Haunted Heart
Damned If I Do
As the Snow Gathers
The Weight of Angels
Roots & Wrath
The Housekeeper
The Need
Fruit Fly
We Used to Live Here
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
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]
The Lamb
Blue Sisters
A Trade of Blood (Ana and Din Mysteries, #3)
Stitched
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
The Tainted Cup (Ana and Din Mysteries, #1)
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
Our Wives Under the Sea
The Disappearers
Public Access Afterworld
Villa Coco
Hot Head by Damon SuedeFaith & Fidelity by Tere MichaelsPromises by Marie SextonTry by Ella FrankWithout Reservations by J.L. Langley
Best Gay For You Romance
943 books — 1,986 voters
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
546 books — 1,123 voters

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Best Lesbian Fiction
2,164 books — 2,709 voters

Change of Heart by Mary CalmesWith Caution by J.L. LangleyWolfsong by T.J. KluneWithout Reservations by J.L. LangleyDuck! by Kim Dare
Best Gay Shifters
1,386 books — 1,771 voters
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzThe Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerCall Me By Your Name by André Aciman
Best LGBTQIA literature
1,959 books — 2,232 voters

The Song of Achilles
Red, White & Royal Blue (Red, White & Royal Blue, #1)
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)
Giovanni’s Room
Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
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)
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)

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