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)
De krater
Blue Sisters
We Used to Live Here
Our Infinite Fates
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
The Knight and the Butcherbird
The Unworthy
The Safekeep
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
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]
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
Hot Head by Damon SuedeTigers and Devils by Sean KennedyBear, Otter, and the Kid by T.J. KluneSomething Like Summer by Jay BellLatakia by J.F.  Smith
M/M Books Written By Men
1,490 books — 998 voters

Cowgirl Up and Ride by Lorelei JamesLong Hard Ride by Lorelei JamesRough, Raw, and Ready by Lorelei JamesTied Up, Tied Down by Lorelei JamesAll Jacked Up by Lorelei James
SAVE A HORSE RIDE A COWBOY
925 books — 924 voters

Change of Heart by Mary CalmesWith Caution by J.L. LangleyWithout Reservations by J.L. LangleyWolfsong by T.J. KluneDuck! by Kim Dare
Best Gay Shifters
1,354 books — 1,734 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 — 1,903 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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