Our Favorite Queer Books!

‘The Happy Couple’ by Naoise Dolan is set in Dublin and London. It follows the events leading up to Celine and Luke’s wedding, told from several perspectives—and all of them are queer. Celine is a professional pianist who is brilliant at what she does. Although the piano is her true love, she is nevertheless set on marrying Luke. Despite all of his infidelity, which she artfully ignores.

‘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.

‘The Final Revival of Opal & Nev’ by Dawnie Walton is set in the 1970s and the mid-2010s. Written like an oral history, it chronicles the musical journey of the unlikely punk duo, Opal and Nev. A few weeks after finishing ‘Utopia Avenue’ by David Mitchell, I stumbled upon this book and simply had to read it. I had unfair expectations of this book that it did not meet. But I’m glad it didn’t. Opal & Nev is its own story, and it's good!

‘Utopia Avenue’ by David Mitchell is brilliant! It follows the short career of the fictitious psychedelic folk rock band Utopia Avenue with folk singer and keyboardist Elf Holloway, divine guitarist and singer Jasper de Zoet, blues bassist and singer Dean Moss, jazz drummer Griff Griffin, and their Canadian manager Levon Frankland.

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