Disintegrate/Dissociate

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

Winner, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers (Writers' Trust of Canada) and the Indigenous Voices Award; finalist, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

In her powerful ...

Tonguebreaker

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

Finalist, Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry

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

The Walking Boy

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

Care Work

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

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: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Fiction

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: Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

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: Fiction, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Youth Culture

2021 CANADA READS FINALIST

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; ...

Little Fish

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