This year for Pride month, we wanted to put a selection of LGBTQ+ books by LGBTQ+ authors on sale, at a time when the community — and its literature — are under siege. The books in this sale are as diverse, joyful, and vibrant as the community: from memoir manifestos to fairy tale retellings, from pseudo-biographies to horror anthologies, from coming-of-age stories to novels about queer love and obsession. There is so much on this list to love, and we’ve put it all on sale, just for you.
Offer good on new and used copies of select titles, in the featured edition only.
Putsata Reang
“This beautiful story of struggling to reconcile love, family, and identity with generational trauma belongs on every queer immigrant’s shelf. For those of us who know how it is to always fall between two worlds, Ma and Me is not heartbreaking but heart-healing.” – Nicola Griffith
Zachary Zane
“Zachary Zane is a FABULOUS queer writer and thinker who’s doing the Lord’s work by promoting bi-visibility, teaching the children about polyamory, and helping the LGBTQ+ community — and really, all people — learn how to become their best authentic selves.” – Billy Porter
Toshio Meronek and Miss Major
“The rarest of gifts, like sitting at the feet of a wise, no-fucks-given elder, listening to her testimony, and being fortified by her brilliance. A monument to the life’s work of Miss Major and the liberation movements she’s shaped.” – Janet Mock
Gigi Gorgeous and Gottmik
“Covering the spiritual and emotional sides of transitioning as well as practical concerns like undergoing surgeries and using public restrooms, the authors embrace vulnerability, their own and readers’, and assure that they aren’t here to gatekeep. It all adds up to an accessible, welcoming, and beyond-useful guide.” – Booklist
William Lee Adams
“Wild Dances is an unlikely whirlwind: a globe-trotting memoir about a biracial queerdo from Atlanta who somehow becomes the world’s foremost expert on Eurovision — the bedazzled talent show that launched the careers of Celine Dion, ABBA, and Olivia Newton-John. Wild Dances is also about death and grief. Which isn’t the thematic pairing one might expect. But nothing about William Lee Adams’s heartfelt journey is predictable. Your heart WILL go on!” – Mickey Rapkin
Lamya H
“Hijab Butch Blues treats gender and devotion with a thrilling sense of multiplicity and expansiveness. Lamya H moves with curiosity, humor, and vulnerability, divining new sources of hope and of life.” – Seán Hewitt
Munroe Bergdorf
“Bergdorf is proof that speaking up for what you believe in can provoke real change.” – Vogue
Archie Bongiovanni
“Mimosa is a delightful, messy, passionate, frustrating, and loving glimpse into the way our found families both nourish and force our growth. It overflows with familiarity for anyone who is lucky enough to live a life surrounded by queer people, and it speaks with compassion about the ebb and flow of the relationships that sand us down into ourselves.” – Rosemary Valero-O'Connell
Helen Elaine Lee
“Helen Elaine Lee has brought such a deep and beautiful world of people to the page, I found myself already missing them even as I continued to read. In their survival, we find ours and are left grateful, different, better.” – Jacqueline Woodson
Ann Claycomb
“A sharp, sassy, searing novel, where life is like fairy tales and fairy tales are like life... where those fairy tales are of the most dark and dangerous kind, of course. I loved it.” – A. J. Elwood
Richard Mirabella
“Richard Mirabella’s debut novel Brother & Sister Enter the Forest doesn’t so much seek understanding as it does carve indelible and brave circles into the depths of desire, violence, loss, and belonging that keep us alive, connected, heartbroken and in love, despite logic or consequence. This novel makes the world bigger.” – Madeline Ffitch
Thomas Mallon
“In this funny, vicious tale of ambition and moral corrosion, Thomas Mallon turns his rapier intelligence and seismographic sense of the workings of power to the worlds of Hollywood and Broadway. Among imperishable legends and declining stars, he chronicles desperate competition and half-open secrets, the longing for the next new thing and the lure of the past. Up With the Sun is a novel as stark as a Greek drama and as delicious as gossip.” – Garth Greenwell
Casey Plett
“Plett’s stories show kindness at the same time as they show clear-eyed judgment, both of which we need. She writes beautifully about dressing rooms, balcony plants, house parties, the paramount importance of keeping your obligations to your cats. She takes us into the knot of really accurately rendered bonds of old friendships, families, queer solidarities, and she shows us how we can live there.” – Jeanne Thornton
Catherine Lacey
“Biography of X is the most ambitious book I’ve ever read from a writer of my own generation. Epic world-building revealed through intimate emotion and dangerously honed sentences; a story that mixes fact and fiction to create a new register of truth, a register that belongs entirely to Catherine Lacey. I’m awed.” – Torrey Peters
Viola Di Grado
“Blue Hunger is a devastating study of the ways in which grief renders everything, even the self, foreign. A gorgeous grotesquerie of lust and despair backdropped by the writhing rhythms of Shanghai.” – Rachel Yoder
Zain Khalid
“A novel with the polish and warmth of a stone smoothed in the hand after a lifetime of loving worry — original, darkly witty, sometimes bitter, and so very wise. And certainly the debut of a major new writer.” – Alexander Chee
Jenny Fran Davis
“A hilarious, astute, and captivating tour of a young femme’s interior life over the course of one long weekend upstate. Dykette is a portrait of a certain corner of queer culture that is part satire, part ode, and full of delightful cringe. Davis’s unrelenting scrutiny is a consummate pleasure; I gasped with laughter and delight on nearly every page.” – Melissa Febos
Edmund White
“As ever, White is a master of social comedy and wry observations . . . Readers will delight in this immersion into a lurid world of passion.” – Publishers Review (starred review)
Liv Little
“A wonderfully fresh, zesty, and sexy debut novelist who is putting Black queer lives, loves, and longings center stage, where they belong.” – Bernardine Evaristo
Alexandria Bellefleur
“Outrageously clever and unbearably sexy, The Fiancée Farce is the sapphic romance of my dreams. Like every Alexandria Bellefleur book, I was hooked from page one and couldn’t put it down. With delicious prose and gripping storytelling, Bellefleur is a rom-com master, and I’ll read anything she writes.” – Mazey Eddings
Sidney Karger
“Bursting with laughs and so much love, Sidney Karger’s debut novel delivers a truly refreshing spin on the romantic comedy. It’s full of funny, flawed and poignant characters, set in the dreamy, sharply-observed New York City that we love. Best Men is a big-hearted, feel-good summer escape.” – Anderson Cooper
James Kirchick
“Kirchick takes us from the FDR administration to Bill Clinton with a thoroughness and eye for detail that astonish. Lovers of Washington lore will enjoy the depiction of gay life in the nation’s capital when it was entirely underground, and lovers of justice will take pleasure in the fact that some of the most repulsive characters in modern political history who ruined so many lives and careers are brought to justice in the only way they can be now: the historical record.” – Andrew Holleran
Kit Heyam
“Before We Were Trans enlarges our understanding of trans histories and highlights the beauty, complexity, and contradictions of doing historical work — all in a voice that invites the reader in, and not only teaches us what to think about trans lives in the past, but how to think about them.” – Hugh Ryan
edited by Joe Vallese
“What is the monstrous and what does it mean to us? It Came from the Closet collects twenty-five takes on twenty-five horror films that make us cringe, crack up, turn away and turn back again — each piece lavishly queer in its intelligence, vulnerability, and wit.” – Paul Lisicky
Hugh Ryan
“I was shocked to not be familiar with this institution that is so deeply tied to queer persecution and liberation in New York City. It was eye-opening, and rage-inducing, and I’m so glad I got to read it.” – Ashley C. Ford