100 MUST-READ BOOKS BY QUEER AUTHORS

1.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,140 ratings
2.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,196 ratings
3.
Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues 4.53 avg rating — 34,585 ratings
4.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 3.99 avg rating — 116,838 ratings
5.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches 4.53 avg rating — 39,726 ratings
6.
The Line of Beauty
The Line of Beauty 3.77 avg rating — 30,644 ratings
7.
The Hours
The Hours 3.96 avg rating — 146,854 ratings
8.
Giovanni’s Room
Giovanni’s Room 4.34 avg rating — 226,071 ratings
9.
What Belongs to You
What Belongs to You 3.78 avg rating — 14,938 ratings
10.
Maurice
Maurice 4.08 avg rating — 55,447 ratings
11.
Passing
Passing 3.92 avg rating — 76,700 ratings
12.
Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.27 avg rating — 6,083 ratings
13.
Boy Meets Boy
Boy Meets Boy 3.81 avg rating — 76,171 ratings
14.
Skim
Skim 3.76 avg rating — 17,088 ratings
15.
Babel-17
Babel-17 3.72 avg rating — 19,539 ratings
16.
Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3)
Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3) 4.37 avg rating — 21,511 ratings
17.
Howl and Other Poems
Howl and Other Poems 4.13 avg rating — 117,397 ratings
18.
Difficult Women
Difficult Women 3.95 avg rating — 30,034 ratings
19.
The Rest of Love
The Rest of Love 3.98 avg rating — 240 ratings
20.
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 4.07 avg rating — 4,645 ratings
21.
Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 4.13 avg rating — 597 ratings
22.
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 4.15 avg rating — 850 ratings
23.
The Argonauts
The Argonauts 4.02 avg rating — 54,647 ratings
24.
The Waves
The Waves 4.14 avg rating — 51,037 ratings
25.
When My Brother Was an Aztec
When My Brother Was an Aztec 4.39 avg rating — 4,586 ratings
26.
The Well of Loneliness
The Well of Loneliness 3.76 avg rating — 18,800 ratings
27.
Confessions of a Mask
Confessions of a Mask 3.95 avg rating — 37,115 ratings
28.
The Berlin Stories
The Berlin Stories 4.04 avg rating — 12,571 ratings
29.
Lost Souls
Lost Souls 3.90 avg rating — 18,831 ratings
30.
The Master
The Master 3.84 avg rating — 11,580 ratings
31.
Salt Fish Girl
Salt Fish Girl 3.73 avg rating — 1,670 ratings
32.
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today 3.94 avg rating — 3,618 ratings
33.
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More 4.30 avg rating — 16,467 ratings
34.
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Night Sky with Exit Wounds 4.18 avg rating — 47,848 ratings
35.
Here Comes the Sun
Here Comes the Sun 3.85 avg rating — 11,629 ratings
36.
Rubyfruit Jungle
Rubyfruit Jungle 3.91 avg rating — 45,993 ratings
37.
Ash
Ash 3.63 avg rating — 37,572 ratings
38.
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 19,433 ratings
39.
Trumpet
Trumpet 4.06 avg rating — 7,265 ratings
40.
Beyond the Pale
Beyond the Pale 4.33 avg rating — 1,162 ratings
41.
Food and Spirits
Food and Spirits 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
41.
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination 4.18 avg rating — 2,507 ratings
43.
The Big Sea
The Big Sea 4.22 avg rating — 1,980 ratings
44.
The Dream of Doctor Bantam
The Dream of Doctor Bantam 4.05 avg rating — 145 ratings
44.
A Map of Home
A Map of Home 3.78 avg rating — 1,835 ratings
46.
The Summer We Got Free
The Summer We Got Free 4.35 avg rating — 1,493 ratings
47.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh 4.12 avg rating — 5,479 ratings
48.
The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship
The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship 4.10 avg rating — 576 ratings
49.
Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities
Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities
by: Kazim Ali
4.27 avg rating — 268 ratings
50.
Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma
Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma 4.17 avg rating — 446 ratings
51.
The Gilda Stories
The Gilda Stories 3.95 avg rating — 4,243 ratings
52.
The Dream of a Common Language
The Dream of a Common Language 4.32 avg rating — 6,772 ratings
53.
Push
Push
by: Sapphire
3.87 avg rating — 58,129 ratings
54.
Kiss of the Fur Queen
Kiss of the Fur Queen 3.89 avg rating — 2,924 ratings
54.
Depending On The Light
Depending On The Light 4.16 avg rating — 49 ratings
54.
Way to Go
Way to Go
by: Tom Ryan
3.45 avg rating — 534 ratings
54.
Mr Loverman
Mr Loverman 4.19 avg rating — 17,202 ratings
58.
The Jungle Around Us
The Jungle Around Us 3.96 avg rating — 45 ratings
58.
If You Could Be Mine
If You Could Be Mine 3.71 avg rating — 10,298 ratings
58.
Juliet Takes a Breath
Juliet Takes a Breath 4.16 avg rating — 16,965 ratings
61.
Drew (Changers, #1)
Drew (Changers, #1)
by: T. Cooper
3.64 avg rating — 1,160 ratings
61.
Luna
Luna 3.83 avg rating — 21,973 ratings
61.
Jazz Moon
Jazz Moon 3.92 avg rating — 254 ratings
64.
Invisible Life
Invisible Life 4.31 avg rating — 6,791 ratings
64.
Uptown Thief (Justice Hustlers Book 1)
Uptown Thief (Justice Hustlers Book 1) 3.66 avg rating — 343 ratings
66.
Lightless (Lightless, #1)
Lightless (Lightless, #1) 3.46 avg rating — 2,786 ratings
66.
No Other World
No Other World 3.58 avg rating — 318 ratings
66.
The Coffins of Little Hope
The Coffins of Little Hope 3.09 avg rating — 1,433 ratings
66.
Ode to Lata
Ode to Lata 3.58 avg rating — 53 ratings
66.
Disappearing Moon Cafe
Disappearing Moon Cafe
by: Sky Lee
3.18 avg rating — 2,110 ratings
66.
The Ordinary (Irion/Hormling, #2)
The Ordinary (Irion/Hormling, #2) 3.51 avg rating — 220 ratings
66.
Any Other Love
Any Other Love 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
73.
Not Your Sidekick (Sidekick Squad, #1)
Not Your Sidekick (Sidekick Squad, #1)
by: C.B. Lee
3.87 avg rating — 8,706 ratings
74.
Oola
Oola 3.32 avg rating — 367 ratings
75.
Mind Your Own Life
Mind Your Own Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
76.
The Other Side of Paradise
The Other Side of Paradise 4.20 avg rating — 2,131 ratings
77.
Black Lesbian in White America
Black Lesbian in White America 4.23 avg rating — 47 ratings
78.
Born Both: An Intersex Life
Born Both: An Intersex Life 3.87 avg rating — 881 ratings
79.
Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man 4.24 avg rating — 1,646 ratings
80.
Boy Erased
Boy Erased 3.62 avg rating — 21,380 ratings
81.
White Girls
White Girls 3.87 avg rating — 4,182 ratings
82.
I Rise - The Transformation of Toni Newman
I Rise - The Transformation of Toni Newman 3.76 avg rating — 42 ratings
83.
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
by: Gad Beck
3.94 avg rating — 448 ratings
84.
Abandon Me: Memoirs
Abandon Me: Memoirs 4.20 avg rating — 3,096 ratings
85.
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Fire Shut Up in My Bones 4.01 avg rating — 4,779 ratings
86.
Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry 4.49 avg rating — 281 ratings
87.
Walking With Ghosts: Poems (Earthworks Series)
Walking With Ghosts: Poems (Earthworks Series) 4.48 avg rating — 154 ratings
88.
When The Chant Comes
When The Chant Comes 4.48 avg rating — 116 ratings
89.
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems 4.56 avg rating — 478 ratings
90.
Portrait of the Alcoholic
Portrait of the Alcoholic 4.42 avg rating — 802 ratings
91.
Salvation on Mission Street
Salvation on Mission Street 4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
92.
i be, but i ain't
i be, but i ain't 4.28 avg rating — 83 ratings
93.
Mannish Tongues
Mannish Tongues
by: Jayy Dodd
4.62 avg rating — 32 ratings
94.
Bite Hard
Bite Hard 3.97 avg rating — 121 ratings
95.
Prelude to Bruise
Prelude to Bruise 4.25 avg rating — 2,678 ratings
96.
BENDING THE MIND AROUND THE DREAM'S BLOWN FUSE
BENDING THE MIND AROUND THE DREAM'S BLOWN FUSE 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
97.
This Way to the Sugar
This Way to the Sugar 4.11 avg rating — 802 ratings
98.
Marys of the Sea
Marys of the Sea 4.80 avg rating — 49 ratings
99.
Written in Water: The Collected Prose Poems
Written in Water: The Collected Prose Poems 4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings
100.
Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns
Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns 4.46 avg rating — 2,799 ratings