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

There's Always Next Year
Needle Lake
Sparks Fly
The Book of Luke
A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope
Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot (Winner Bakes All, #3)
Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
This Brutal Moon (The Kindom Trilogy, #3)
Snowy Skies and Puppy Eyes (Back to Belleville #1)
Laurie (Hazelthorn, #0.5)
John Wilder Gets Schooled (Goose Run, #2)
On Dancer (An Annabeth Albert Christmas)
Try Again Later (Try for Love, #2)
光が死んだ夏 8 [Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu 8]
We Used to Live Here
Blue Sisters
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
The Emperor of Gladness
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
All the Way to the River
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #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]
Razorblade Tears
The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
Hollow
Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)
Crash & Burn by Abigail RouxTrust by Ella FrankRise & Fall by Charlie CochetNot So Innocent by Dani AlexanderAgainst the Grain by Charlie Cochet
Can't Wait M/M Romance of 2015
258 books — 879 voters
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi LeeThey Both Die at the End by Adam SilveraHistory Is All You Left Me by Adam SilveraThe Upside of Unrequited by Becky AlbertalliThe Love Interest by Cale Dietrich
2017 YA Books with LGBT Themes
280 books — 887 voters

Change of Heart by Mary CalmesCut & Run by Madeleine UrbanSticks & Stones by Abigail RouxWith Caution by J.L. LangleyTiming by Mary Calmes
Best Gay Alpha Males
822 books — 922 voters
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzSimon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky AlbertalliCarry On by Rainbow RowellThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyRed, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
LGBTQ for YA
1,242 books — 2,149 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
Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
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)
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

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