Vanishing Monuments

By John Elizabeth Stintzi
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

A brilliant novel whose lead character returns home to their long-estranged mother who is now suffering from dementia.

Alani Baum, a non-binary photographer and teacher, hasn't seen their mother since ...

We Had No Rules

By Corinne Manning
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Women's Literature, Fiction

A defiant, beautifully realized story collection about the messy complications of contemporary queer life.

A young teenager stays a step ahead of her parents' sexuality-based restrictions by running away ...

There Has to Be a Knife

By Adnan Khan
Categories: Fiction

For readers of Brother by David Chariandy and Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez, Adnan Khan's blistering debut novel investigates themes of race, class, masculinity, and contemporary relationships.

Omar ...

Shut Up You're Pretty

By Tea Mutonji
Categories: Women's Literature, Fiction, BIPOC, Black Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature
Series: VS. Books

Finalist, Rogers Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize

In Tea Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for ...

The Walking Boy

By Lydia Kwa
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Lesbian Literature, Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature

The Walking Boy is a quest novel set in early eighth-century Tang Dynasty China, in the final days of the rule of the first Female Emperor Wu Zhao. The ailing hermit monk Harelip sends his disciple Baoshi ...

Synchro Boy

By Shannon McFerran
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Youth Culture, Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult

Sixteen-year-old Bart Lively desperately wants to feel comfortable in his own skin. Being a jock doesn't mean he isn't the target of gay jokes, and the macho culture of his swim team is wearing him down. ...

Sketchtasy

By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

Lambda Literary Award finalist

Sketchtasy takes place in that late-night moment when everything comes together, and everything falls apart: it's an urgent, glittering, devastating novel about the perils ...

The Tiger Flu

By Larissa Lai
Categories: Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Women's Literature

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award

In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai -- her first in sixteen years -- a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go ...

Jonny Appleseed

By Joshua Whitehead
Categories: Fiction, Youth Culture, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction

Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg ...

Little Fish

By Casey Plett
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Women's Literature

WINNER, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction

Finalist, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award

A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

It's the dead of winter in ...