New and favourite LGBTQIA+ fiction

Frontier

Grace Curtis

Frontier is a heartfelt queer romance in a high noon standoff with Earth’s uncertain future, full of love, loss, and laser guns.

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Orphia and Eurydicius

Elyse John

A stunning, enthralling story about unconventional love, the power of creativity and the courage of women who struggle to make their voices heard.

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Couplets

Maggie Millner

An electrifying love story about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming-undone.

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The Prize

Kim E. Anderson

When two artists enter the 1943 Archibald Prize, a scandal erupts that grips not only the art world, but the nation. A poignant love story with shattering consequences, inspired by…

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Your Driver Is Waiting

Priya Guns

A spiky, blackly funny reboot of the classic Taxi Driver, in which Travis Bickle is a woman of colour, left behind by the big city and out for revenge.

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In the Lives of Puppets

TJ Klune

Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E in the woods in this new standalone fantasy from beloved bestselling author TJ Klune.

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Just as You Are: A Novel

Camille Kellogg

Equal parts witty and steamy, this debut rom-com brings a healthy dose of queerness and a whole lot of heart to a Pride and Prejudice-inspired enemies to lovers romance.

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Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl

Andrea Lawlor

Transposing Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to 90s San Francisco, this novel of transgender metamorphosis is a wild, sexy, funny and moving story of living on the edge.

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Rosewater

Liv Little

The sensational debut novel by Liv Little, founder of gal-dem. Rosewater asks, what happens when you fall through the cracks?

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Love Me Tender

Constance Debre, Holly James (trans.)

A provocative and fierce novel about motherhood, self-discovery and defiance

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Milk Fed

Melissa Broder

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex and god from the Women’s Prize longlisted author of The Pisces

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Nevada

Imogen Binnie

The cult classic that inspired the new wave of transgender fiction - widely available in Australia for the first time.

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Afterparties

Anthony Veasna So (author)

A debut story collection about Cambodian-American life - immersive, comic and unsparing - by an indisputable talent.

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Blue Hunger

Viola Di Grado, Jamie Richards (trans.)

From one of Italy’s most electrifying voices, a powerful and original writer (Michael Cunningham), a fearless story of queer love and obsession set against the glassy surfaces of Shanghai.

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With Teeth

Kristen Arnett

A tense, funny and moving story of two mothers, their difficult son, and the limitations of marriage, parenthood and love.

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Legends & Lattes

Travis Baldree

A cosy, heartwarming slice-of-life fantasy about found families and fresh starts.

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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a warm, witty and daring novel that gives voice to irrepressible desire. Meet ten of literature’s most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits…

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Young Mungo

Douglas Stuart

The second powerful and heart-rending novel, set in 80s Glasgow, from Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize- and British Book Award-winning author of Shuggie Bain.

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Men I Trust

Tommi Parrish

Tommi Parrish’s sophomore graphic novel establishes them as one of the most exciting voices in contemporary literature.

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You Exist Too Much

Zaina Arafat

Set between the US and the Middle East, this is an electrifying coming-of-age story about love, identity and sexual desire against the backdrop of traditional values and religious views.

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We Play Ourselves

Jen Silverman (author)

We Play Ourselves is a wildly entertaining debut novel of female rage, self-sabotage, the pursuit of fame and the costs of artistic ambition.

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Nona the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir

Tamsyn Muir’s New York Times and USA Today bestselling Locked Tomb Series continues with Nona …the Ninth?

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After Sappho

Selby Wynn Schwartz

A literary reimagining of some of history’s greatest queer women.

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The Membranes: A Novel

Chi Ta-wei, Ari Larissa Heinrich (trans.)

First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes-heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies-into a…

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Swimming in the Dark

Tomasz Jedrowski

Poland, 1980. Shy, anxious Ludwik has been sent along with the rest of his university class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and together they spend a…

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The Dawnhounds

Sascha Stronach

A queer fantasy debut about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with preventing an attack on her city.

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Margaret And The Mystery Of The Missing Body

Megan Milks

A queer coming-of-age novel about a girlhood interrupted by an eating disorder, only to twist into a genre-bending excavation of gender, identity, and literary mystery.

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Manhunt

Gretchen Felker-Martin

Manhunt is a timely, powerful response to every gender-based apocalypse story that failed to consider the existence of transgender and non-binary people, from a powerful new voice in horror.

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The Guncle

Steven Rowley

A warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer.

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All of You Every Single One

Beatrice Hitchman

An exhilarating queer love story set in early twentieth-century Vienna.

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Fever

Jonathan Bazzi, Alice Whitmore (trans.)

A multi-award winning Italian debut, from a bold new voice in contemporary queer literature.

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Detransition, Baby

Torrey Peters

A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can’t quit.

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Winter’s Orbit

Everina Maxwell

Ancillary Justice meets Gideon the Ninth in this thrilling space opera from a debut author.

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Outlawed

Anna North

A feminist Western about a world in which women’s worth and right to live are determined by the vagaries of fertility.

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The Jasmine Throne

Tasha Suri

Set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies

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The Charm Offensive

Alison Cochrun

In this witty and heartwarming romantic comedy an awkward tech wunderkind on a reality dating show goes off-script when sparks fly with his producer.

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The Airways

Jennifer Mills

A powerful, inventive, and immersive novel from award-winning author Jennifer Mills.

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Filthy Animals

Brandon Taylor

A hotly charged new work of fiction from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Real Life.

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Nancy Business

R.W.R. McDonald

Tippy, Uncle Pike and Devon are back for another camp cozy crime mystery from the award-winning author of The Nancys.

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Your Love is Not Good

Johanna Hedva

Falling in lust with a gorgeous white model could be a great career move for a Korean American painter, unless it's the surest route to self-destruction. Your Love Is Not…

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The Magician

Colm Toibin

In The Magician, Colm Toibin captures the profound personal conflict of a very public life, and through this life creates an intimate portrait of the twentieth century.

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How to Make a Basket

Jazz Money

A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award.

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The Boy from the Mish

Gary Lonesborough

A funny and heart-warming queer Indigenous YA novel, set in a rural Australian community, about seventeen-year-old Jackson finding the courage to explore who he is, even if it scares him.

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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street: The International Bestseller

Natasha Pulley

An enchanting new literary historical fantasy with the spark and wit of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street plunges readers into a magical past.

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Permafrost

SJ Norman

Visual and performance artist, and winner of the inaugural Kill Your Darlings Manuscript Award, SJ Norman turns their hand to fiction with spectacular results.

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Frankissstein: A Love Story

Jeanette Winterson

A young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love - against their better judgement - with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI.

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Several People Are Typing

Calvin Kasulke

It’s working from home as you’ve never seen it before, as Gerald finds himself at ones and zeros inside his company’s Slack chat in this hilarious debut novel.

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The Death of Vivek Oji

Akwaeke Emezi

The astonishing new novel from the author of Freshwater - Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Wellcome Book Prize.

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New and favourite LGBTQIA+ fiction

Frontier

Orphia and Eurydicius

Couplets

The Prize

Your Driver Is Waiting

In the Lives of Puppets

Just as You Are: A Novel

Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl

Rosewater

Love Me Tender

Milk Fed

Nevada

Afterparties

Blue Hunger

With Teeth

Legends & Lattes

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

Young Mungo

Men I Trust

You Exist Too Much

We Play Ourselves

Nona the Ninth

After Sappho

The Membranes: A Novel

Swimming in the Dark

The Dawnhounds

Margaret And The Mystery Of The Missing Body

Manhunt

The Guncle

All of You Every Single One

Fever

Detransition, Baby

Winter’s Orbit

Outlawed

The Jasmine Throne

The Charm Offensive

The Airways

Filthy Animals

Nancy Business

Your Love is Not Good

The Magician

How to Make a Basket

The Boy from the Mish

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street: The International Bestseller

Permafrost

Frankissstein: A Love Story

Several People Are Typing

The Death of Vivek Oji