A Dream of a Woman

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

Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize

Award-winning novelist Casey Plett (Little Fish) returns with a poignant suite of stories that center transgender women.

Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won ...

Nowadays and Lonelier

By Carmella Gray-Cosgrove
Categories: Women's Literature, Fiction

A vibrant debut story collection about loneliness and love, privilege and poverty, addiction and isolation - the search for connection and meaning in a workaday world.

For fans of Heather O'Neill's Daydreams ...

Butter Honey Pig Bread

By Francesca Ekwuyasi
Categories: BIPOC, Black Literature, Women's Literature, Fiction, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

2021 CANADA READS FINALIST

Longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize; finalist, Governor General's Literary Award; finalist, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; finalist, Lambda Literary Award

An intergenerational ...

Love after the End

Edited by Joshua Whitehead
Categories: BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Fiction

Lambda Literary Award winner

A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by the author of Jonny Appleseed.

This exciting and groundbreaking fiction collection showcases ...

We Had No Rules

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

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

A young teenager runs from her family's conservative home to her sister's NY apartment to learn ...

Vanishing Monuments

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

Amazon Canada First Novel Award finalist

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 ...

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

Winner, Trillium Book Award and Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; Finalist, Rogers Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

In Tea Mutonji's disarming debut story ...

The Walking Boy

By Lydia Kwa
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Gay 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: Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, Fiction, Youth Culture, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

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. ...