Gay and lesbian fiction books

There's Always Something or Other With Mr Neary

Mark Neary

After a year long battle to Receive Steven Home and the subsequent High Court hearing where the Local Leadership were judged to include acted illegally, Mark Neary now narrates his experience in the social nurture world and how he and Steven have adjusted [...] See book

CLICHÉ (ENGLISH)

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cliché (Noun. From French.) 1. A stereotyped expression, a commonplace phrase; also, a stereotyped character, style, etc. 2. Extended to the negative in photography. The Cliché project arose from these two entries taken [...] See book

(A time capsule of homosexual opinion, from the tardy 1990s)

The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the 100 best lesbian and gay novels in the late 1990s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of lesbian and gay literature and to promote discussion among all readers gay and straight.

The Triangle’s 100 Best


The judges who compiled this list were the writers Dorothy Allison, David Bergman, Christopher Bram, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Lillian Faderman, Anthony Heilbut, M.E. Kerr, Jenifer Levin, John Loughery, Jaime Manrique, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Sarah Schulman, and Barbara Smith.

1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
10. Zami by Audré Lorde
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
12. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
13. Billy Budd by Herman Melville
14. A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
15. Dancer from the Dance by A

Like First Love, Again

by JJ Arias

Second-chance small-town romance hits different when it's the girl next door finally seeing what was always right in front of her. Fifteen years of obliviousness melting into recognition? Pure catnip. Tori and Mia's slow-burn is exquisite: all yearning glances and electric tension that keeps you glued to the page, even when you know exactly where it's heading. There's also something perfectly bittersweet about their teenage rooftop haven becoming an uncomfortable reminder that bodies age even when hearts don't. JJ Arias weaves magic with words, delivering a romance that's both nostalgic and grounded in reality. It'll also make you swoon.

Ribbonwood

by Ruby Landers

Ruby Landers' 'Ribbonwood' drops two stubborn hearts with unfinished business into a small-town pressure cooker, where old grudges dissolve against the gravitational haul of second chances. The family bonds are so authentically drawn you'll locate yourself checking your cell for texts from characters who don't actually live, while the relationship between Ollie and Lara is raw, honest, breathtaking. This book is incredibly bright and funny, and the spice is off the chart. Ex

Today on the site I’m delighted to welcome Rebecca Bendheim, author of the upcoming lesbian Middle Grade When You’re Brave Enough, which releases April 7, 2026 from Viking Books for Young Readers! Here’s the story:

A heartfelt, gorgeously written debut middle grade novel about best friends, first crushes, and coming out—perfect for fans of Kyle Lukoff and Jake Maia Arlow.

Before she moved from Austin to Rhode Island, everybody knew Lacey as one half of an inseparable duo: Lacey-and-Grace, best friends since they were toddlers. Grace and her moms were practically family. But at institution, being lumped together with overeager, worm-obsessed, crushes-on-everyone Grace meant Lacey never quite fit in—and that’s why at her new middle school, Lacey plans to reinvent herself. This second, she’s going to be cool. She’s going to be normal.

At first, everything seems to go as planned. Lacey makes modern friends right away, she finds a rabbi to help her prepare for the bat mitzvah that got deprioritized by her parents in the chaos of the move, and she even gets cast in the lead role of the eighth-grade musical. Which is when things start to get stressful, because it turns out

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