Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person

By Daniel Zomparelli
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Fiction

Finalist, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)

A YouTube star becomes famous after he documents his breakup online. An anxious, lactose-intolerant office worker obsesses over a stranger who says ...

Rough Patch

By Nicole Markotic
Categories: Youth Culture, Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Fiction

A YA novel about Keira, a figure skater just entering high school who's intrigued about kissing both boys and girls.

In this compelling novel for young adults, Keira is a quirky but shy teen entering her ...

Arabian Nights

By Michael Moon
Series edited by Thomas Waugh, & Matthew Hays
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Film & Media
Series: Queer Film Classics

A Queer Film Classic on 1974's Arabian Nights by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the controversial Italian director who was murdered under mysterious circumstances in 1975.

Already internationally distinguished as ...

Conflict Is Not Abuse

By Sarah Schulman
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Politics, Women's Literature, Cultural Studies, History, Social Issues

Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Non-Fiction winner

From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. ...

The Remedy

Edited by Zena Sharman
Categories: Anthologies, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Social Issues, Trans Literature, Lesbian Literature, Health

Lambda Literary Award winner

To remedy means to heal, to cure, to set right, to make reparations.

The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving ...

Tomboy Survival Guide

By Ivan Coyote
Categories: Biography & Memoir, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Social Issues

Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction; Longlisted for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction; Stonewall Book Award Honor Book winner; Longlisted for Canada ...

Candyass

By Nick Comilla
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

Arthur is a young gay man in Montreal at a crossroads. He gets lost in a blizzard of boys and endless possibilities--looking to fall in love and to experience devotion--but finds himself increasingly ...

The Case of Alan Turing

By Eric Liberge, & Arnaud Delalande
Translated by David Homel
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, History, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir

Lambda Literary Award finalist

Alan Turing, subject of the Oscar-winning 2014 film The Imitation Game, was the brilliant mathematician solicited by the British government to help decipher messages sent ...

Weekend

By Jane Eaton Hamilton
Categories: Women's Literature, Fiction, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

Prize-winning writer Jane Eaton Hamilton's novel explores the complexities of contemporary queer love.

On her fiftieth birthday, crazy-in-love Ajax visits her mercurial lover Logan, who trails their tarnished ...

even this page is white

By Vivek Shraya
Categories: Women's Literature, Poetry, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature winner

Lambda Literary Award finalist

Longlisted for Canada Reads

As a writer, musician, performance artist, and filmmaker, Vivek Shraya ...