At first glance, some readers might assume that the title of this book is a typo and that it is actually some sort of modern updating or possibly a feminist reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy about that guy who goes around...

Rules of Civility is the first novel published by author Amor Towles. The novel was accepted for publication but without excessive expectations for its success. After all, he had enjoyed a successful career in the banking industry since 1991 upon...

Red, White and Royal Blue is a romantic novel by American author Casey McQuiston. The cover art was designed by American illustrator Colleen Reinhart. Published in 2019 by St. Martin's Griffin and Macmillan, the novel explores the romantic...

Laurence Yep published his children’s historical novel Dragonwings in 1975. In light of subsequent sequels published over the next few decades, it would come to be known as the volume which commenced the author’s wildly popular Golden Mountain...

Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher is a heartfelt young adult novel that delves into the complexities of love, identity, and self acceptance. The story is centered around Logan Witherspoon, a high school senior student who struggles to move on after...

More Happy Than Not is Adam Silvera’s young adult novel highlighting the challenges experienced by the queer group. The book reflects Silvera’s own experiences as a gay boy. The protagonist is a young boy called Aaron Soto living in a small...

Published in 2007, Nineteen Minutes was written by American author Jodi Picoult, and is her fourteenth novel. Upon its release, Nineteen Minutes instantly reached the New York Times Bestseller list, as Picoult's following of loyal readers...

Published in 2014 in the United States, I Am Jazz focuses on American Jazz Jennings, a transgender woman who gained national attention for being part of the LGBTQ+ community. Co-written by Jennings and Jessica Herthel, the book is geared towards...

Initially published in 2015, George is a children's novel featuring a main character who is a transgender girl. In 2021, the author of the novel, Alex Gino, announced that it would be published under the new title Melissa beginning in April of...

Originally published in 2010 by American author Emily Jenkins, who uses the pen name E. Lockhart, Real Live Boyfriends is a young adult fiction novel in which the main character Ruby Oliver deals with the problems life throws at her when it comes...

The Vincent Boys is a young-adult romantic novel by American author Abbi Glines. Published in 2011 by Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, the novel is the first book in The Vincent Boys series.

Sawyer Vincent is a handsome young man who is...

Two Boys Kissing is a gay romance novel by David Levithan involving the lives of eight young boys in the late 20th century at the peak of HIV/AIDS. The novel explores the difficulties of living as a homosexual during the 1980s when the world was...

West with Giraffes by Lynda Routledge is a novel based on one those strange and idiosyncratic true stories that came out of the desperation for uplifting stories during the Great Depression which wreaked havoc around the world in the 1930’s. The...

Imagine wanting to write an auto-biography but being reluctant to let strangers into your world. It was from this precise spot, between a rock and a hard place, that Maia Kobabe decided to write Gender Queer, an auto-biographical graphic novel,...

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo is a young adult novel focusing on the challenges of transgender students. The book is partly based on the author’s experience as a young trans girl. Most trans teens pass through difficult times due to the...

Little, Brown, the publisher of L.C. Rosen's Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) (2018), described Rosen's book as "Riverdale meets Love, Simon." Jack of Hearts follows the eponymous Jack, a young man who enjoys having sex. Despite the ostracization...

We Are Not Broken is a memoir by George Matthew Johnson, published in 2021. Johnson self-identifies as a queer Black American author. He is a writer of journalism, history, and fiction as well as an activist for both LGBTQ and Black American...

All Boys Aren't Blue is a memoir published by George M. Johnson in 2020. Johnson is a self-described queer Black American whose pronoun preference is "they." Johnson is a published author, a working journalist, and a liberal activist supporting...

Rendezvous with Rama is the work which brought author Arthur C. Clarke back fully into the spotlight of science fiction writing after several years of relative inactivity. Indeed, the novel brought the legendary writer back with a bang as it won...

“Tempest”, by Julie Cross, is a young adult science fiction novel. Its main theme is the exploration of time travel wrapped within the young adult romance and angst tropes.

The novel is set in 2009 and follows a boy called Jackson, who has the...

“Robopocalypse” is a science fiction novel written by Daniel H. Wilson. The novel explores the very realistic fear of artificial intelligence, that has been plaguing humanity for decades. The novel is set in a world overrun by war that is being...

“Sleeping Giants” by Sylvain Neuvel, is a science fiction novel and a first part of the series called the “Themis Files”. What’s interesting about this novel is its atypical style of narration. The plot is told through dialogues and documents...

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is considered to be one of legendary science fiction writer Robert Heinlein’s greatest novels. Originally appearing in serialized form in Worlds of If between December 1965 and April 1966, it was ultimately published...