3.53 avg rating — 824 ratings

"Kinky queers building family and home in the best way they know how to without help from those too responsibly grown up to understand."

3.71 avg rating — 5,795 ratings

"Wish-fullfilment for any wronged, unstable queer, but also, in many ways, a realistic portrayal of the mental & emotional realities many of us have to contend with."

4.26 avg rating — 132 ratings

"Explorations of the radicalness of queer | black | female | body/-ness & the limitations + freedoms that language and art can lend it."

4.15 avg rating — 1,246 ratings

"Building a life is hard work, but can be done."

3.63 avg rating — 1,869 ratings

"Adult recently divorced lesbian woman gets diagnosed with RRMS, deals with ableism. I am amazed and over the moon enough people thought this interesting enough to really get it out in the world. You should definitely pick it up if the topic is unfamiliar to you or you're looking for representation of yourself or both."

4.23 avg rating — 30 ratings

3.88 avg rating — 669 ratings

"Fictional predecessor of "How Poetry Saved My Life"."

3.84 avg rating — 1,070 ratings

"As another reviewer put it: about lesbians being unaccountable to each other in 1980s NYC; but also, about a life lived without protection from men and under the radar of mainstream society."

4.22 avg rating — 1,249 ratings

"Everybody in the queer community should be aware of Piepzna-Samarasinha's work, but especially queers of color, survivor queers, and queers with disabilities."

4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings

"I think?"

3.96 avg rating — 67 ratings

"Obvious. Happy this exists."

4.25 avg rating — 52,130 ratings

"There's too little about race on this list, but this is one excellent collection to start fixing the problem with."

4.40 avg rating — 55 ratings

"Gender-variant, genre-variant, form-variant, queer, lived, true."

3.56 avg rating — 7,463 ratings

"Mid-apocalyptic bending of boundaries. Not a perfect story by any means, but ticks a lot of the boxes that potential users of this list are guaranteed to have."

3.95 avg rating — 1,844 ratings

"Less queer and more a reminder that there are many ways to fall into the "underclass", but also many ways out of the pit; and an honest relation of hardships on the way. A memoir."

3.66 avg rating — 2,165 ratings

"Check: queerness, disability, sex work, cultural chasms... Fiction."

4.19 avg rating — 17,590 ratings

"One of the many reasons I started this list. A memoir."

4.43 avg rating — 3,849 ratings

3.70 avg rating — 784 ratings

"Native, African American & mixed race women grappling with the complexities of their histories & identities. WLW and het romance on the side, among other things."

4.05 avg rating — 15,047 ratings

"YA/NA tale of not-so-wealthy peeps &, I think, their experiences w/the US Army. Haven't read yet, so please alert me if I'm wrong & it doesn't belong on this list!"

4.28 avg rating — 215 ratings

"Coping, or not, with mental illness & having a body in the world & expressing it with words. Poetry."

4.03 avg rating — 34 ratings

4.07 avg rating — 46 ratings

3.51 avg rating — 1,889 ratings

"Drop-outs make do?"

3.90 avg rating — 170 ratings

3.65 avg rating — 2,039 ratings

4.45 avg rating — 333 ratings

"No, this list isn't male-exclusive. ;)"

4.36 avg rating — 58 ratings

"Everything I have read of this, I have loved. "

3.59 avg rating — 948 ratings

3.71 avg rating — 241 ratings

"clear-eyed female rage as you've never seen it."

3.91 avg rating — 1,288 ratings

4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings

4.25 avg rating — 1,249 ratings

"Indigenous general queerness - what else could be asked for?"

4.12 avg rating — 240 ratings

"NA romance, one lead battling physical disability and addiction, the other mental illness - and yes, it is a real romance, ie not a half-baked tragedy. Exactly the kind of realistic yet heartwarming story I thought I'd never see."

3.99 avg rating — 7,399 ratings

"North Korean literature from within the system."

4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings

"Again - queers building family."

3.67 avg rating — 559 ratings

"#ownvoices trans lit for the plotters and revenge fantasists."

3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings

"MC is a Jewish lesbian."

4.07 avg rating — 174 ratings

4.01 avg rating — 121 ratings

4.11 avg rating — 250 ratings

4.15 avg rating — 17,125 ratings

3.82 avg rating — 227 ratings

4.05 avg rating — 1,218 ratings

3.93 avg rating — 33,663 ratings

"WONDERFUL YA/NA representation of disability. Otherwise flawed as hell."

4.03 avg rating — 14,906 ratings

3.91 avg rating — 920 ratings

4.20 avg rating — 135 ratings

4.24 avg rating — 6,008 ratings

4.13 avg rating — 1,845 ratings

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 571 ratings

3.93 avg rating — 19,082 ratings

"Kind of everywhere when trans lit is being talked about, but still stands out for not offering an easy tale."

3.69 avg rating — 150 ratings

4.45 avg rating — 1,017,905 ratings

"Not necessarily "rarely told" per se, but rarely from this perspective and with such authenticity."

3.77 avg rating — 393 ratings

"omg wish-fulfillment romance centering trans readers' reality - why did I not read this sooner"

3.97 avg rating — 227,573 ratings

4.01 avg rating — 121 ratings