LGBTQ+

Rural Cyprus, 1925. Despo is recently married, heavily pregnant and deeply afraid. The twelve days of Christmas are beginning – the time when, according to local folklore, creatures known as kalikantzari come up from Hell to wreak havoc...

A young patrolman harbors secret feelings for a middle-aged shop owner on his beat!Shin Nakamoto was a troubled youth until a local patrolman saved him from a nasty beatdown one night. Inspired by the patrolman’s heroism and good looks, Shin...

ONE OF THE BOSTON GLOBE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR.A love story about what it means to be an outsider from the most imaginative new voice in international fiction. In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but...

Heartstopper meets Derry Girls in this wonderfully hilarious rom-com about finding your first love when your personality might be too big for the world around you. Patch Simmons has decided that this is the year he will get a boyfriend, so it's goodbye...

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time.Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this...

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and Pen Faulkner prize. Made into an Oscar-winning film, ‘The Hours’ is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, taken from her...

Kohei Sugihara, college student with hearing loss, and Taichi Sagawa, his ever-optimistic former classmate, met in a chance encounter that ignited an undeniable spark that would eventually blossom into love. Now it’s spring and as Kohei nears...

Kohei Sugihara, a college student with hearing loss, and Taichi Sagawa, his ever-optimistic former classmate, met in a chance encounter that ignited an undeniable spark that would eventually blossom into love. Summer has at last arrived, but...

Sparks and fists fly in this Boys' Love omegaverse spin on the “how I met your father” trope!As teenagers, Kuroga Akane and Shirosaki Aoi couldn’t have been more different. An alpha and an omega from rival schools, their initial meeting...

An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly acclaimed collection Second Empire. “A book of love poems that consciously and subversively hearken back to Shakespeare’s sonnets, marking...

A dramatic, funny, and painful romance manga between two women about how, sometimes, you need to run away in order to find where you truly belong. Perfect for fans of coming-out yuri like How Do We Relationship? and masters of adult drama like Akiko...

If the world was ending, we know where we'd want to be. Dystopian, haunting and stunningly original, The Last Bookstore on Earth explores life and love on the brink of survival.This searing YA debut follows two teen girls as they fall in love and fight...

From bestselling and award-winning author Traci Chee comes a stand-alone fantasy set against a war-ravaged world where kindling warfare—the use of elite, magic-wielding teenage soldiers—has been outlawed. In this rich and evocative novel,...

Monsters hide. Love divides. The dead will rise. They say that when the world is out of balance, the Guardians of Dawn are reborn. Li Ami is an exile. Exiled from friendships, from ordinary magic, and from her own family, Ami is sent to the outermost...

"A wily thriller-fantasy . . . Each discovery sounds like the voice of a storyteller reminding us of how the gods play with our fates."—New York Times.Winner of the Finlandia Award, Troll: A Love Story is an enchanting novel that has become an...

THE JAPANESE CRIME FICTION CLASSIC: A prize-winning railway murder mystery set in 1960s Japan—for fans of Agatha Christie and Seicho Matsumoto!Full of devious twists and turns, this brilliant puzzle mystery is considered to be one of the greatest...

Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson—a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo.On a Greek island rich with ancient beauty, a lonely woman in her...

An erotic, surreal novella from the author of Organ Meats and Bestiary.Seven, who works as a cleaner at a chiropractor’s office, reencounters Cecilia, a woman who has obsessed her since their school days. As the two of them board the same...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024. Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, suppressing not only her heritage but her growing desire for her best friend Fran. Yuki leaves the...

"Music is the second most important thing," I say. That was something my mother would always say. We've stopped saying it out loud, but I think it all the same. The most important thing is love. From the author of the New York Times and USA Today...