Our Favorite Queer Books!

‘Patternmaster’ by Octavia E. Butler is the final book in her Patternist series but also works as a standalone novel. Set some hundred years in the future, the story takes place in a world divided into three groups: Patternists, who are telepaths connected to each other through the pattern; Clayarks, who are animal-like descendants of humans carrying a highly infectious disease; and mutes, who are humans without telepathic abilities.

‘Auf See’ (~at sea) by Theresia Enzensberger is an intelligent dystopian novel, set in the near future, about an artificial island in the...

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears. ‘Cloud Atlas’ by David Mitchell is a...

‘To Paradise’ by Hanya Yanagihara is brilliant. And I didn’t expect anything less from her. The book is divided into three sections, all...