LGBTQ Fiction
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When Katie met Cassidy by Camille Perri A romantic comedy about gender and sexuality follows the experiences of a traditionally minded Midwesterner who, in the For similar-themed fiction, go to our aftermath of an ended engagement, catalog, click on Full Display and look for finds herself in a transformative Read-Alikes and these Story Elements: relationship with a self-assured New York businesswoman. Character: LGBTQIA - Diverse Genre: LGBTQIA - Fiction Theme: Engendering Gender The great believers by Rebecca Makkai A 1980s Chicago art gallery director LGBTQ Fiction loses his loved ones to the AIDS epidemic until his only companion is his daughter, who, decades later, grapples with the disease's wrenching impact on their family. A Gentleman Never Keeps Score by Cat Sebastian Once beloved by London's fashionable elite, Hartley Sedgewick has become a recluse after a spate of salacious gossip exposed his most private secrets. Rarely venturing from his house, he's captivated by the exceedingly handsome man who seeks to rob him. Worth the Wait by Karelia Stetz-waters For fifteen years, Avery Crown has tried to forget her best friend Merritt Lessing. The late night studying, the whispered confidences, and the little touches that never turned into something more. So when she runs into Merritt at their high school reunion, Avery asks for one night with the woman she's always wanted. Call me by your name Landing Less by André Aciman by Emma Donoghue by Andrew Sean Greer The sudden and powerful attraction From their first meeting at Heathrow Receiving an invitation to his ex- between a teenage boy and a Airport and over the course of the boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed summer guest at his parents' house following year, the lives of two very novelist on the eve of his fiftieth on the Italian Riviera has a profound different people--Sile, a veteran birthday, embarks on an and lasting influence that will mark flight attendant and world traveler, international journey that finds him them both for a lifetime, in a novel of and Jude, a young archivist falling in love, risking his life, obsession, passion, fear, and desire. stubbornly attached to the tiny town reinventing himself, and making of Ireland, Ontario--intersect, in a romantic comedy that connections with the past Giovanni's room reveals the joys and sorrows of a long-distance relationship. by James Baldwin Ash Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of by Malinda Lo the 1950s, where a young American Middlesex Forced into becoming an indentured expatriate finds himself caught by Jeffrey Eugenides servant when her family dies, Ash between his repressed desires and Calliope's friendship with a lives a lonely and desperate life with conventional morality. With sharp, classmate and her sense of identity no hopes for the future, until she probing insight, James Baldwin's are compromised by the adolescent meets Kaisa, the King's royal classic narrative delves into the discovery that she is a Huntress, who teaches her to love, mystery of love and tells an impassioned, deeply moving hermaphrodite, a situation with live, and dream once again. story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the roots in her grandparents' desperate human heart. struggle for survival in the 1920s The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall White houses Mr. Loverman : a novel As a little girl Stephen Gordon by Amy Bloom by Bernardine Evaristo always felt different. A talent for A novel inspired by the life of Lorena Barrington Jedidiah Walker is 74 and sport, a hatred of dresses and a Hickok, and by her love affair and leads a double life. A flamboyant, preference for solitude were not enduring friendship with First Lady wisecracking character with a considered suitable for a young lady Eleanor Roosevelt. dapper taste in retro suits and a of the Victorian upper-class. But fondness for Shakespeare, when Stephen grows up and falls in Barrington is a husband, father, love with another woman, her standing in the county grandfather—and also secretly gay, and her place at the home she loves become untenable. A home at the end of the lovers with his childhood friend, Morris. With an world abundance of laugh-out-loud humor and wit, Evaristo explodes cultural myths and shows the extent of what Who is Vera Kelly? by Michael Cunningham can happen when people fear the consequences of being by Rosalie Knecht Friends since the age of thirteen, true to themselves. Navigating the underground gay Jonathan and Bobby live troubled scene of 1962 Greenwich Village, lives that eventually take them to quick-witted Vera Kelly is recruited New York, where they meet the for the CIA and infiltrates a group of romantically troubled Clare, and the student activists in Buenos Aires three embark on a new life together before a coup leaves her stranded in hostile territory. Original..