In Jay Carmichael’s novel "Marlo", two gay men navigate their relationship in Melbourne, Australia, in the conservative 1950s. Christopher has just moved to the big city, seeking a fresh start and reprieve from his small homophobic... Read More

A teenage girl and a sea creature find love in "The Sea in You", an inspired, modern LGBTQ+ twist on The Little Mermaid. In Ocean City, Maryland, Corinth encounters a creature that resembles a mermaid, except with fangs and bad... Read More

As much a tragic romance as it is a war drama, the historical novel "Wild with All Regrets" delves into sensitive topics with grace and tact. In E. L. Deards’s historical novel "Wild with All Regrets", an Irish World War I veteran is... Read More

Stênio Gardel’s slim novel "The Words That Remain" includes fragments of sentences, memories, and moments, recounted by an aging, illiterate gay man whose struggle for self-acceptance leads him from self-hatred to finding a chosen... Read More

In Emma Batchelor’s semiautobiographical novel "Now That I See You", a thirty-year-old woman processes her reactions after her partner tells her they are transgender. When her partner, Jess, reveals that they are femme, the narrator is... Read More

In Astrid Roemer’s novel On a Woman’s Madness, a Black woman struggles to find happiness in a world designed to push her down. Noenka, already a misfit because of her race and family history, becomes a true outcast when she leaves... Read More

A staged relationship blooms into love in Waverly Decker’s lighthearted LGBTQ+ romance novel "The 30-Day Engagement". Emory and Mari broke up eight years ago, so Emory is surprised when Mari, who works as an actress in Hollywood,... Read More

"The Queering" is a riveting novel in which an older lesbian makes a delayed choice to shout out the truth, no matter the consequences. A seventy-year-old closeted lesbian writer faces her past in Brooke Skipstone’s intense,... Read More