Queer Your Year 2023 - hosted by laura_sackton

A classic
This is an incredible list of 100 of the most influential queer books of all time—lots of classics!
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Oreo by Fran Ross

Oreo

Fran Ross

212 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

fiction classics race challenging funny reflective medium-paced
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Whistle Stop, AL #1

Fannie Flagg

11 hours, 27 minutes • first pub 1987 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

Confessions of a Mask

Yukio Mishima

256 pages • first pub 1949 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ reflective slow-paced
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

The Gilda Stories

Jewelle Gomez

288 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror lgbtqia+ emotional reflective slow-paced
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde

3 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

Babel-17

Samuel R. Delany

311 pages • first pub 1966 (editions)

fiction classics science fiction speculative fiction adventurous challenging fast-paced
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde

190 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism lgbtqia+ sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

All About Love: New Visions

Love Trilogy #1

bell hooks

267 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction essays gender informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

272 pages • first pub 1953 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Collected Poems by Norma Millay, Edna St. Vincent Millay

Collected Poems

Norma Millay, Edna St. Vincent Millay

738 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

fiction classics poetry emotional reflective slow-paced