Research Guides: LGBTQ+ Resources: Fiction &amp; Poetry

Fiction

This list just scratches the surface of the poetry and fiction the Fulton Library has in its collection written by LGBTQ+ authors and/or featuring LGBTQ+ characters. To find more LGBTQ+ literature, use OneSearch (see below).

Adult Fiction

Call Me by Your Name (Print Book) by André Aciman
Publication Date: 2007
Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera.
Essential Dykes to Watch Out For (Print Books) by Alison Bechdel
Publication Date: 2008
For twenty-five years Bechdel's path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For strip has been collected in award-winning volumes (with a quarter of a million copies in print), syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. Now, at last, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For gathers a "rich, funny, deep and impossible to put down" (Publishers Weekly) selection from all eleven Dykes volumes.
Frankissstein (Print Book) by Jeanette Winterson
Publication Date: 2019
Frankissstein...is an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and queer love.
God in Pink (Print Book) by Hasan Namir
Publication Date: 2016
A revelatory novel about being queer and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in 2003. Ramy is a young gay Iraqi struggling to find a balance between his sexuality, religion, and culture.
House of Impossible Beauties (Print Books) by Joseph Cassara
Publication Date: 2018
A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and '90s, inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is Burning. It's 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city's glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ball scene, where seventeen-year-old Angel first comes into her own.
Latter-Gay Saints (Print Book) by Gerald Argetsinger (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013
Latter-Gay Saints brings together twenty-five exemplary short works depicting a variety of perspectives of what it means to be both Mormon and queer.
We Are Water (Print Book) by Wally Lamb
Publication Date: 2013
Anna Oh, a middle-age wife, mother and artist, divorces her husband after 27 years of marriage to marry Vivica, the Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success.

Young Adult Fiction

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Print Book) by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Publication Date: 2012
A lyrical novel about family and friendship from critically acclaimed author Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship--the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be.
Miseducation of Cameron Post (Print Book) by Emily M. Danforth
Publication Date: 2012
When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they'll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl. But that relief doesn't last, and Cam is forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different.
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel (Print Book) by Sara Farizan
Publication Date: 2014
Leila has made it most of the way through Armstead Academy without having a crush on anyone, which is something of a relief. As an Iranian American, she's different enough; if word got out that she liked girls, life would be twice as hard. But when beautiful new girl Saskia shows up, Leila starts to take risks she never thought she would, especially when it looks as if the attraction between them is mutual.
This Book Is Gay (Print Book) by Juno Dawson
Publication Date: 2015
Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who's ever dared to wonder. This book is for YOU.
Two Boys Kissing (Print Book) by David Levithan
Publication Date: 2015
Based on true events--and narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS--Two Boys Kissing follows Harry and Craig, two seventeen-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness World Record. While the two increasingly dehydrated and sleep-deprived boys are locking lips, they become a focal point in the lives of other teens dealing with universal questions of love, identity, and belonging.

Poetry

Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems (Print Book) by James Baldwin
Publication Date: 2014
This new collection presents James Baldwin the poet, including all nineteen poems from Jimmy's Blues, as well as all the poems from a limited-edition volume called Gypsy, of which only 325 copies were ever printed and which was in production at the time of his death.
Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry (Print Book) by Emanuel Xavier (Editor)
Whether straight, bisexual, closeted or openly gay, Latino voices have made a deep mark in the poetry scene...Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino is a ground-breaking poetry collection edited by Emanuel Xavier. The collection features the work of 17 poets from across the United States and Buenos Aires.
Thief in the Interior (Print Book) by Phillip B. Williams
Publication Date: 2016
Phillip B. Williams investigates the dangers of desire, balancing narratives of addiction, murders, and hate crimes with passionate, uncompromising depth.

Finding More Books

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