Books with LGBTQ+ characters
Books with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer characters at their centre, across genres and eras. Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo reveals the true love of a Hollywood star, Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo come from working-class Glasgow, and Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer is a memoir in comics. Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Patti Smith's Just Kids fit here too.
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- 1The Fifth Season
8.78.7 / 10 - 2A Drop of Corruption
8.78.7 / 10 - 3In the Dream House
8.78.7 / 10 - 4Gender Queer
8.68.6 / 10 - 5The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
8.68.6 / 10 - 6In Memoriam
8.58.5 / 10 - 7The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
8.58.5 / 10 - 8The House in the Cerulean Sea
8.58.5 / 10 - 9Giovanni's Room
8.58.5 / 10 - 10Heartstopper: Volume Six
8.58.5 / 10 - 11Godsgrave
8.58.5 / 10 - 12The Song of Achilles
8.58.5 / 10 - 13Shuggie Bain
8.58.5 / 10 - 14Just Kids
8.48.4 / 10 - 15The Great Believers
8.48.4 / 10 - 16The Color Purple
8.48.4 / 10 - 17Atmosphere
8.48.4 / 10 - 18Swimming in the Dark
8.48.4 / 10 - 19Young Mungo
8.48.4 / 10 - 20Fun Home
8.48.4 / 10 - 21A Memory Called Empire
8.38.3 / 10 - 22Bookshops & Bonedust
8.38.3 / 10 - 23Cemetery Boys
8.38.3 / 10 - 24For Whom the Belle Tolls
8.38.3 / 10 - 25The Spear Cuts Through Water
8.38.3 / 10 - 26Chain of Gold
8.28.2 / 10 - 27When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
8.28.2 / 10 - 28Gideon the Ninth
8.28.2 / 10 - 29A Gathering of Shadows
8.08.0 / 10 - 30Game Changer
7.57.5 / 10