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...

Published in 1921, W. Somerset Maugham's "Rain" is a short story about a fanatical Christian missionary who commits suicide after trying to save the soul of a defiant sex worker.

Set in Pago Pago Harbor in American Samoa, the story is told from...

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...

Twilight in Delhi was Ahmed Ali’s first novel, set around 1911 to 1919, giving a descriptive image of India’s changing social, political, and cultural climate post colonialism, and recounting the state of Muslims in India during that time....

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...

Logan’s Run is a novel co-written by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Originally published in 1967, it is a work of science fiction portraying a dystopic future in which nobody lives past the age of twenty-one. This self-imposed mass...

“Saying Goodbye to Yang” is a short story by author Alexander Weinstein found in his collection titled Children of the New World. The story is the opening tale in that 2016 volume and takes place in a futuristic America where both...

Way Station is a novel by Clifford D. Simak published in 1963 that first appeared under the title Here Gather the Stars as a two-part submission to Galaxy Magazine in the summer of that same year. Simak had already published multiple short stories...