Our Favorite Queer Books!

‘Wild Dark Shore’ by Charlotte McConaghy is set on the fictional Shearwater Island, located somewhere between Tasmania and Antarctica, in 2025, right after the publication of the book. And although it is set in the present, the story focuses on the future—a future that seems insecure due to climate change. The story is told from several perspectives: Rowan, Dominic, Raff, Fen, Orly, and, at one point, Alex.

‘Sea of Tranquility’ by Emily St. John Mandel could be seen as a sequel to ‘The Glass Hotel,’ but it works perfectly well as a standalone novel. The plot spans roughly five centuries. The story begins in 1912, but moves as far ahead as the year 2401. It’s set on Earth, primarily in North America, as well as on various moon colonies. And pandemics play a role.

‘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...