LGBT Fiction

Great books featuring LGBT characters and relationships.

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Annabel
Artist/Author/Cast:
Winter, Kathleen
Call Number:
F Winter
Description:

Born in frigid Labrador, Canada, an intersex child raised as a boy must contend with two genders struggling for dominance.

The Binding
Artist/Author/Cast:
Collins, Bridget
Call Number:
F Collins
Description:

Emmett learns to hand-craft the elegant leather-bound volumes. Within each one they will capture something unique: a memory.

Brokeback Mountain
Artist/Author/Cast:
Proulx, E. Annie
Call Number:
F Proulx
Description:

Set in Wyoming'€™s high country, two men forge an intensely emotional and physical attachment that endures hardship and separation.

Call Me by Your Name
Artist/Author/Cast:
Aciman, André
Call Number:
F Aciman
Description:

Set in the Italian countryside, a casual friendship between Elio and an American student develops into a passionate, clandestine affair.

The Color Purple
Artist/Author/Cast:
Walker, Alice
Call Number:
F Walker
Description:

Growing up during the 1920'€™s in the American South, Celie overcomes poverty, abuse, and desolation to find love and acceptance.

The Danish Girl
Artist/Author/Cast:
Ebershoff, David
Call Number:
F Ebershoff
Description:

This poignant novel provides an intimate portrayal of Einar Wegener, the first man to medically transform his gender.

Fingersmith
Artist/Author/Cast:
Waters, Sarah
Call Number:
F Waters
Description:

Sue and a rogue named Gentleman scheme to swindle Maud of her inheritance until Sue develops unexpected feelings for Maud.

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Artist/Author/Cast:
Flagg, Fannie
Call Number:
F Flagg
Description:

Two small-town, depression-era Alabama women share a romantic love, complete with courtship and infidelity, while managing a local cafe.

Frog Music
Artist/Author/Cast:
Donoghue, Emma
Description:

During the summer of 1876, an exotic dancer navigates Chinatown’s disreputable underworld to discover the killer of her crossdressing partner.

Giovanni`s Room
Artist/Author/Cast:
Baldwin, James
Call Number:
F Baldwin
Description:

A great American novelist reveals the complex and controversial struggle of a young man caught between desire and conventional morality.

The Gods of Tango
Artist/Author/Cast:
De Robertis, Carolina
Description:

In the early 1900's, Leda immigrates to Argentina and conceals her true gender to become a suitable tango instructor.

The Gracekeepers
Artist/Author/Cast:
Logan, Kirsty
Description:

This haunting fantasy centers on Callanish, a solitary gracekeeper, who protects the souls of those who have died at sea.

Artist/Author/Cast:
Dennis-Benn, Nicole
Call Number:
F Dennis-Benn
Description:

Caught in the corrupt and opulent Jamaican lifestyle, Margot struggles to protect her young sister while obscuring her secret lover.

In One Person
Artist/Author/Cast:
Irving, John
Call Number:
F Irving
Description:

The unique tale of Billy's unconventional life plays out though his childhood crushes, awkward adolescence, and his adult bisexual relationships.

The Last Nude
Artist/Author/Cast:
Avery, Ellis
Call Number:
F Avery
Description:

Filled with female sensuality, this novel highlights the life of painter Tamara de Lempicka and her beautiful muse, Rafaela.

Maurice: A Novel
Artist/Author/Cast:
Forster, E. M.
Call Number:
F Forster
Description:

Written in the early 1900's, this heroic book voices the challenges of the then unmentionable subject of homosexuality.

Middlesex
Artist/Author/Cast:
Eugenides, Jeffrey
Call Number:
F Eugenides
Description:

Cal Stephanides's story begins generations before his birth, in a small Greek village, when his grandparents succumb to incestuous desires.

Artist/Author/Cast:
Golding, Michael
Call Number:
F Golding
Description:

With the charm of a Persian fairytale, this story follows Nouri, a boy born with four ears instead of two.

The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell
Artist/Author/Cast:
Klaber, William
Call Number:
F Klaber
Description:

Based on true life events, this tale follows Lucy's life from hardscrabble childhood, to married gentleman, to wild mountain man.

Artist/Author/Cast:
McQuiston, Casey
Call Number:
F McQuiston
Description:

Delight in this endearing, fast-paced romance between the brilliant son of American’s first female president and the charming Prince of Wales.

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