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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Thérèse and Isabelle by Violette Leduc

Thérèse and Isabelle

Violette Leduc

152 pages • first pub 1954 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ emotional reflective fast-paced
Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin

Notes of a Crocodile

Qiu Miaojin

242 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Truman Capote

208 pages • first pub 1948 (editions)

fiction classics reflective slow-paced
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

224 pages • first pub 1925 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective slow-paced
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

197 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

fiction classics literary romance emotional medium-paced
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel

240 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction graphic novel lgbtqia+ memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

Call Me By Your Name

Call Me By Your Name #1

André Aciman

248 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ literary romance emotional reflective sad slow-paced
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

128 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

nonfiction classics essays memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

Written on the Body

Jeanette Winterson

192 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Stone Butch Blues

Leslie Feinberg

431 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced