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Seattle Picks: LGBTQIA+ Fiction 2023
3 users like thisFrom literary fiction to mystery, romance to sci-fi and beyond, here's a wide variety of recently published LGBTQIA+ fiction from 2023 recommended by our librarians. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. (Created December 2023)
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- A woman in upstate New York who works transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach becomes infatuated with one of his clients, a repressed married woman from Switzerland who has a refreshing attitude towards trauma.
- Best friends and chosen family Chris, Elise, Jo, and Alex work hard to keep themselves afloat. Their regular brunches hold them together even as the rest of their lives threaten to fall apart. In an effort to avoid being the oldest gays at…
- In the Kentish moors of the early 19th century, smuggling boss Joss Doomsday, head of the formidable Doomsday clan, and Sir Gareth Inglis, whose absent father’s death has lately conferred the baronetcy on him, commence a tumultuous but…
- When a professionally creative, erotically adventurous and very dysfunctional 20-something lesbian couple is invited to the country home of older, richer and more prominent lesbians for the holidays, a complex web of infatuation and…
- An unnamed trans woman is looking for a sense of belonging, a better relationship with her son, and friends that aren't imaginary in this playful and aching short novel.
- Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young Black writer whose world is turned upside down when she loses her coveted job in media and pens a searing manifesto about racism in the…
- Two queer men who hit it off during their university's drag night begin a relationship and eventually plan a life together face a momentous challenge when one of them announces an intention to transition.
- A chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, Sister Holiday, when Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, launches her own investigation, which turns her against colleagues, students and fellow Sisters as…
- Phoebe Forde has a new home, a new name, and is newly thirty. An Irish transplant and PhD candidate, she's overeducated and underpaid, but finally settling into her new life in Copenhagen. Almost three years into her gender transition,…
- For the first time ever, Damani, who drives for an app, starts dating a white girl with money, but when their romance intensifies and she finally lets her guard down, her girlfriend does something unforgivable, setting off an explosive…
- A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates a fever dream of a novel.
- Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of devastating ruthlessness, unseemly femininity, dangerous philosophies, and ungovernable gender who are ready to make history—or tear it apart.
- In a kingdom that slaughtered the gods and criminalized their worship, two god-slayers—a mercenary and a knight—join forces on a pilgrimage to save two other lives. (Kirkus)
- Alexei Lebedev has only been hiking the Pacific Coast Trail for a few miles when he meets Ben Caravalho. Awkward and quiet, Alexei intended to do the trail solo, but Ben creeps under his guard with kindness and, well, hotness... Hiking…
- K, an Iranian American boy named after a Persian king, grapples with gay or bisexual feelings towards his closest friend, Johnny, while navigating life as the dutiful son of immigrant parents he is trying to make proud.
- When a famous iconoclastic artist and shape-shifter dies suddenly, her widow, CM, begins writing her wife's biography and opens a vast Pandora's box of secrets and explores the history of the fascist theocracy where she lived.
- After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving widower with a grim secret is drawn into a dangerous ritual of dark magic by a powerful and mysterious older gentleman named Heart Crowley. Meanwhile, a member…
- Newly-out trans artist’s assistant Sammie is invited to an old friend’s bachelor weekend in El Campo, a hedonistic wonderland of a city floating in the Atlantic Ocean's international waters—think Las Vegas with even fewer rules. Arriving…
- Using a neurological interface to translate animal's perceptions through her own mind, a scientist becomes obsessed with seeing the world through the eyes of a wolf, endangering her marriage and threatening her mind and body.
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