Green Glass Ghosts

By Rae Spoon
Illustrated by Gem Hall
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult

From writer and musician Rae Spoon: a rollicking yet introspective young adult adventure about screwing up, finding yourself, and forging a new life on your own.

At age nineteen in the year 2000, the ...

Our Work Is Everywhere

By Syan Rose
Foreword by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: Social Issues, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Trans Literature, Gay Literature, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction

A visually stunning graphic non-fiction book on queer and trans resistance.

Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who ...

How to Fail as a Popstar

By Vivek Shraya
Foreword by Brendan Healy
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature

The first play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya, about fame and personal transformation.

Described as "cultural rocket fuel" by Vanity Fair, Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art, music, novels, ...

Iron Goddess of Mercy

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

Iron Goddess of Mercy by Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (for the novel The Tiger Flu) is a long poem that captures the vengeful yet hopeful movement of the Furies mid-whirl and dance with them ...

Like a Boy but Not a Boy

By andrea bennett
Categories: Biography & Memoir, Social Issues, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

A revelatory book about gender, mental illness, parenting, mortality, bike mechanics, work, class, and the task of living in a body.

Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author ...

Butter Honey Pig Bread

By Francesca Ekwuyasi
Categories: Women's Literature, BIPOC, Black 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 ...

Kimiko Does Cancer

Text by Kimiko Tobimatsu
Illustrated by Keet Geniza
Categories: Health, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

A moving and honest graphic memoir about the unexpected cancer journey of a young, queer, mixed-race woman.

At the age of twenty-five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer, mixed-race woman with no history ...

Love after the End

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

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 ...

Burning Sugar

By Cicely Belle Blain
Categories: Women's Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Poetry
Series: VS. Books

The latest from Vivek Shraya's VS. Books: a poetic exploration of Black identity, history, and lived experience influenced by the constant search for liberation.

In this incendiary debut collection, activist ...

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 ...