Fiction - Diverse Reads

“An extraordinary book that transcends gender and race and culture and sexual identity to speak to our universal humanity and the quest we all sh...

This novel of a young lesbian addict in ’90s NYC “recalls Naked Lunch” with “dreamy, impressionistic, and rapturous” prose—“an ecstatic love stor...

A high school jock and nerd fall in love senior year, only to part after an amazing summer of discovery to attend their respective colleges. They...

Winner of the Northern California Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, and the Arab American Book Award for Fiction “An elegy f...

“A moving and deeply felt tribute to a love that dared to speak its name." —André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your NameA new edition of the belo...

Originally published in Europe in the 1950s to avoid prosecution for obscenity, The Gaudy Image is one of the most important "lost" gay novels. S...

Lambda Literary Award winner, Best Gay Fiction A revelatory novel about being queer and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in 2003. Ramy is a young g...

Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its ...

Graphically sexual and one of the best-selling gay novels of all time, Faggots is the story of Fred Lemish, who at thirty-nine has built up his b...

"The work of an exceptional artist working close to the peak of his powers." —Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times Set in the elegant Edward...

When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a b...

“A gay coming-of-age story that’s rip-roaringly funny and sympathetic.”—People David Sedaris and Sandra Bernhard rolled into one, Mike Albo offer...

Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Deepa Mehta—coming to Netflix December 10, 2020! An evocative coming-of-age novel about growing up ...

A stand alone edition of Annie Proulx’s beloved story “Brokeback Mountain” (in the collection Close Range)—the basis for the major motion picture...

Notes From Your BooksellerIn case anyone thinks “swoonworthy” can only be applied to contemporary Rom Coms… KJ Charles is for you! This book brin...

The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix orig...

A literary cause célèbre when first published in 1948, Gore Vidal’s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay exp...