Anyone have any queer lit recommendations? Bonus points if it’s sci-fi/fantasy.
Anyone have any queer lit recommendations? Bonus points if it’s sci-fi/fantasy.
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Anyone have any queer lit recommendations? Bonus points if it’s sci-fi/fantasy.
Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic by David J. Schwartz
The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Holding Still for As Long As Possible by Zoe Whittall
Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction, Brit Mandelo
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Dust Devil on a Quiet Street, Richard Bowes
God in Pink, Hasan Namir
The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves The World Again by A.C. Wise
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin broke my heart. I also love Fun Home by Alison Bechdel.
Giovanni’s Room is so sad!
Less by S.A. Greer
Fantasy comes out in February: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. Reeeeally good epic fantasy. Or Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seannan McGuire if you want something short. The Nevernight trilogy by Jay Kristoff is also great!
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion and The Barrow Will Send What it May by Margaret Killjoy in the Tor Novella series.
I just finished reading the second book in the Dr. Greta Helsing series by Vivian Shaw, even better than the first. Greta Helsing is a doctor for supernatural beings such ad vampires. Her good friend Ruthven is gay. I wouldn’t call it queer lit, but the books are certainly inclusive, and beautifully written. Expect a bit of gore — vampires, surgery, etc.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula le Guin.
That’s what I was going to suggest. I haven’t read it yet, but got it in Kindle version a couple of days ago for just $1.99 and I think it’s still at that price. A SciFi classic by Ursula Le Guin. “A lone human ambassador is sent to Winter, an alien world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants can change their gender whenever they choose.”
I’ve been considering diving into some LeGuin but I’m so unsure where to start! Isn’t this one technically book 2 in a series?
@Missy, as I mentioned, I haven’t read it yet, but I found this discussion on Goodreads that seems to agree that while it’s part of a book cycle, it also stands alone.
https://www.goodreads.com/questions/5681-can-this-book-be-read-as-a-stand-alone
Not sci fi but good, The Dime by Kathleen Kent. Lesbian cop and her lover move from Brooklyn to Texas.
saving this post. Great question, ty!
Jeanette Winterson as a writer. Not all her stories or characters are queer (Written on the Body may be closest) but all her stories are fantastical and take the reader on a journey. Her book Tanglewreck, for teens, deals with time travel.
Again, not fantasy/sci-fi but:
oldie is Rubyfruit Jungle.
Stone Butch Blues
Tom Spanbauer novels. James Kirkwood novels. Stephen Fry’s The Liar. Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex.
Giovanni’s Room broke my heart, sad and beautiful.
Jean Genet’s Querelle of Brest
The Captive Prince Trilogy by C.S. Pacat. Strange that I saw this post as I completed the third book less than 10 minutes ago
Kushiel’s Dart by Jaqueline Carey. I loved it. It is fantasy. There are 3 trilogies about the world Ms. Carey creates.
Shoot now I got to go look some of these authors up!
The Tigers Daughter! Great fantasy with lesbian romance, The Devourers a great overall LGBT fantasy book about shapeshifters
Also SAGA a great graphic novel series with a bunch of LGBT characters
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell!!!!
Not sci-fi but a brilliant book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prize-Tw-goes-Colombia-cocaine/dp/1983161314
Did you ever read Tanith Lee? Check out the Flat Earth series.
Xena and Gabrielle lesbian fan fiction is still on the internet. Some of them are amazing!
I think it is called Ammonite by Nicola Griffith. Pretty good.
Lynn Flewelling’s Nightrunner series. Fantasy and LGBT!
The Gilda Stories
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon. The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden.
https://blog.kristenburns.com/10-lgbt-sci-fi-fantasy-books-by-lgbt-authors/
The Last Herald Mage trilogy by Lackey. The first book is Magic’s Pawn.
It’s an old book and I don’t know the authors name at this moment. Daughters of a Coral Dawn.
To add to your question more specifically by women authors… ?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17751274-ascension
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2353644.Dust?ac=1&from_search=true
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20646731-the-mirror-empire?ac=1&from_search=true
The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Confessions of the Fox: A Novel by Jordy Rosenberg
I love Chambers’ books so so much.
@Nathan I can’t wait to read the rest of the series. I only recently read the first one and loved it.
Some of Jacqueline carey.
City of Night by John Rechy