Our Favorite Queer Books!

‘Dschinns’ by Fatma Aydemir is a German book (English: ‘Djinns,’ translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi) about an immigrant family from Turkey and their struggles with life in Germany and in general.  Set in 1999, it begins with Hüseyin in his new condo in Istanbul. After 30 years of hard work in Germany, he finally got this condo and a well-deserved retirement. And a heart attack.

‘Shuggie Bain’ by Douglas Stuart is the author’s debut novel, inspired by his own life. And as hard as it was to read, it was just as...

‘Carol’ (originally published as ‘The Price of Salt’) by Patricia Highsmith is a novel about the relationship between Therese Belivet and...

‘Under the Udala Trees’ by Chinelo Okparanta is a moving account of Ijeoma’s live in the Nigeria, mostly from the 1960s to the 1980s....

‘The Paris Bookseller’ by Kerri Maher is based on the life of Sylvia Beach, the American who opened ‘Shakespeare and Company’ in Paris in...

Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. ‘The Prophets’ by Robert Jones Jr. is set against the brutal backdrop of a cotton plantation...

‘Cantoras’ by Carolina De Robertis is a beautiful story of friendship and love between women during and after the Uruguayan dictatorship...

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

‘In Memoriam’ by Alice Winn isn’t a particularly beautiful book. It’s gory at times. But it’s a fabulous one and completely on point....

‘Das Summen unter der Haut’ [~the buzzing under the skin] by Stephan Lohse is set in Hamburg (Germany) in 1977. Sexual relations between...

‘The Schoolhouse’ by Sophie Ward tells three stories. Or not. Set in the early 1990s and the mid-1970s, this book tells the story of...