Shut Up You're Pretty

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

Disintegrate/Dissociate

By Arielle Twist
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Poetry, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature

In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relationships after death and metamorphosis. In these spare yet powerful poems, she explores, with both rage ...

The Walking Boy

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

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 ...

Tonguebreaker

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Poetry, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queer brown femme survivorhood and desire. ...

Synchro Boy

By Shannon McFerran
Categories: Youth Culture, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Fiction, 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. ...

Care Work

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature, Health, Social Issues

Finalist, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah ...

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: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Fiction

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 ...

Forward

By Lisa Maas
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction

American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book

A moving and intimate LGBTQ graphic novel about two women, both of whom are trying to put the pieces of their lives back together.

Still smarting years ...

Jonny Appleseed

By Joshua Whitehead
Categories: BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Fiction, Youth Culture, 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 ...