Queer

Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities that are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning "strange" or "peculiar", queer came to be deployed pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late-19th century. Beginning in the late-1980s, queer scholars and activists began to reclaim the word to establish community and assert a politicized identity distinct from the gay political identity. Queer identitites may be adopted by those who reject traditional gender identities and seek a broader, less conformist, and deliberately ambiguous alternati ...more

A Harvest of Hearts
Blood on Her Tongue
They Bloom at Night
Fable for the End of the World
The River Has Roots
I Leave It Up to You
What Wakes the Bells
Blood Beneath the Snow (Blood & Souls, #1)
Killer Potential
Stag Dance
Serial Killer Support Group
Nowhere
The Hymn to Dionysus
The Prince Without Sorrow (Obsidian Throne, #1)
Go Luck Yourself (Royals and Romance, #2)
All Fours
Blue Sisters
We Used to Live Here
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Our Infinite Fates
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
The Knight and the Butcherbird
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
The Unworthy
気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.1 [Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Vol. 1]
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
The Safekeep
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
The River Has Roots
Ball & Chain by Abigail RouxKings Rising by C.S. PacatNot So Innocent by Dani AlexanderTake by Ella FrankCross & Crown by Abigail Roux
Can't Wait M/M Romance of 2014
294 books — 1,022 voters
Tell Me It's Real by T.J. KluneI'll Be Your Drill, Soldier by Crystal RoseShattered Glass by Dani AlexanderCut & Run by Madeleine UrbanFish & Chips by Abigail Roux
The Best Humorous Gay Romances
894 books — 1,663 voters

Luck in the Shadows by Lynn FlewellingThe Song of Achilles by Madeline MillerKushiel's Dart by Jacqueline CareyMagic's Pawn by Mercedes LackeyThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
LGBTQ Science Fiction and Fantasy
2,018 books — 1,901 voters
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,404 books — 3,408 voters

Crash & Burn by Abigail RouxTrust by Ella FrankRise & Fall by Charlie CochetNot So Innocent by Dani AlexanderAgainst the Grain by Charlie Cochet
Can't Wait M/M Romance of 2015
253 books — 883 voters
Try by Ella FrankThe Magpie Lord by K.J. CharlesCaptive Prince by C.S. PacatGlitterland by Alexis  HallCaptive Prince by C.S. Pacat
Best M/M Book by a Debut Author of 2013
116 books — 784 voters

The Song of Achilles
Red, White & Royal Blue
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)
One Last Stop
Heartstopper: Volume Two (Heartstopper, #2)
This Is How You Lose the Time War
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
They Both Die at the End (Death-Cast, #1)
Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1)
Giovanni’s Room

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