✮ chaotic queer readers!!! ✮ discussion

Please give me your best recommendations for your favorite queer books! (:

Especially good WLW books, our library has literally one and it's not good lol

P.S.: We are all over 18, so NSFW is totally okay! I would love some spicy books hahah

I have only read the popular queer books but I am going to expand my horizon
Some of my favorites are
-Red white and royal blue
-Heartstopper
-Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
-Girls of paper and fire
-We set the dark on fire
-She drives me crazy
-They both die in the end
-The song of Achilles

Lola wrote: "I have only read the popular queer books but I am going to expand my horizon
Some of my favorites are
-Red white and royal blue
-Heartstopper
-Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the uni..."

Thank you so so much!! It's on the list! (:

this is basically half my bookshelf of queer books

-Last Night at the Telegraph Club- sapphic
-Ander and Santi Were Here- nb and m/m
-Cemetery Boys- trans and m/m
-Felix Ever After- trans and m/m
-Carry On- m/m
-What If It's Us- m/m
-We Deserve Monuments- sapphic
-The Darkness Outside Us- m/m
-Some Girls Do- sapphic
-Only Mostly Devastated- m/m
-I'll Give You the Sun- m/m (not rlly a romance but has some queer representation)
- Six of Crows- m/m (has queer representation and is also my fav book)

The Heartbreak bakery-boyflux and Agender
Camp-m/m
The art of being normal- trans
Loveless-aro ace
Gwen and Art are not in love- m/m and sapphic

Here's my recs for filling your queer library!

Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
both sapphic and achillean rep, lesbian main character and gay main character

Gideon the Ninth
lesbian main character

You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight
sapphic rep, lesbian main character

What Moves the Dead
gender queer main character

The Taking of Jake Livingston
achillean rep, gay main character

Carry On
achillean rep, gay main characters

Red, White & Royal Blue
achillean rep, bisexual main character

I'll Give You the Sun
achillean rep, gay main character

Hell Followed With Us
achillean rep, gay main characters, trans main character

imma recommend it until i’m purple. HEARTSTOPPER!!!! and allll of the novellas!!!! they are so adorable

i kissed shara wheeler
- contemporary mystery/romance/coming of age
- sapphic mc + li, queer friend groups, mc has two moms, so so much rep, explores growing up queer in a religious space

the 7 husbands of evelyn hugo
- contemporary/historical/fictional biography (?) you've probably heard of it
- bi mc + lesbian li (sapphic relationship), complex/flawed sapphic relationship, gay (mlm) side character, explores being lgbtq + in old hollywood

what stalks among us
- contemporary thriller
- two bi mcs who are bffs (NOT a romance - rly sweet friendship tho), also includes adhd, anxiety & fat rep

last night at the telegraph club
- historical coming of age/romance
- sapphic mc + li, explores being sapphic in the 1950s as a chinese american (mc is chinese american) in san francisco

the gentleman's guide to vice and virtue
- historical fiction/fantasyish/romance
- bi mc + gay li (mlm), li is biracial (Black & white) and has epilepsy

the honeys
- contemporary horror (at a summer camp)
- genderfluid mc, explores being genderqueer in a stifling, gender-binary-based institution

little thieves
- fantasy/romance/adventure
- heteroromantic demisexual main couple !! + side sapphic relationship

loveless
- contemporary/coming of age
- aroace mc, side sapphic couple, side queer characters

she drives me crazy
- contemporary fake-dating sports romance (very adorable)
- sapphic mc + li

the sunbearer trials
- fantasy/romance/adventure based on mexican mythology
- transmasc mc + gay li (mlm), side queer & trans characters

sofi and the bone song
- fantasy/romance/adventure w/ a musical element!
- sapphic mc + li

this poison heart
- fantasy/romance/adventure/coming of age w/ greek mythology + secret garden vibes
- sapphic mc + li, mc has two moms, main cast is black

you should see me in a crown
- contemporary/romance/coming of age
- sapphic mc + li, black mc, explores growing up queer, poor, & black in a prom-obsessed town

ophelia after all
- contemporary/romance/coming of age
- sapphic mc + li, cuban american mc, queer side characters, explores questioning identity (also in a prom-obsessed town lol)

girl, serpent, thorn
- fantasy/romance based on persian mythology
- sapphic mc + li (who's also a demon lol)

the bone spindle
- fantasy/romance/adventure (genderbent sleeping beauty retelling)
- 2 main romances - 1 m/f, 1 f/f

elatsoe
- urban fantasy/magical realism based on lipan apache mythology
- aroace mc !!!

they both die at the end- dystopian/romance (very sad)
- achillean mc + li, mc is puerto rican american and li is cuban american

mooncakes
- cute witchy/fantasy/magical realism graphic novel w/ autumnal vibes
- pan mc (she/her) + (werewolf) nb li, mc has sapphic grandmas, mc has hearing aids & both mc + li are chinese american

simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda
- contemporary romance/coming of age
- achillean mc + li, side queer characters

this is how you lose the time war
- sci-fi/speculative/romance
- sapphic mc + li

Idk if ur still looking but im bored so here are some that I’ve read or own:

-Heartstopper (gay, lesbian, trans, nonbinary, bi,aroace)
-Carry On (gay and lesbian but Ive just started it so maybe others)
-She Gets the Girl(lesbian but I haven’t read it so obviously there could be more representation)
-I Kissed Shara Wheeler(gay, lesbian, trans, nonbinary, bi(?), it’s set at a catholic school so homophobia is kinda a given)
-Solitaire(aroace, gay)
-pride and prejudice and Pittsburgh (bi, lesbian)
-6 times we almost kissed and one time we did(bi,lesbian)
-the lesbiana’s guide to catholic school(lesbian, gay, bi)
-most ardently(trans, gay)
- Breathe(nonfiction about binding safely. It really called me out uuuuh)
-The T in LGBT+(nonfiction about everything trans written by a trans YouTuber who is super cool and has a PhD in gender studies)

- Every Word You Never Said by Jordon Greene
- Looking for Group by Alexis Hall
- Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg
- Honestly Ben by Bill Konigsberg
- Loveless by Alice Oseman
- Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland