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.

‘Kingdomtide’ by Rye Curtis is set in the Bitterroot Range (Montana) in 1986. The story alternates between Cloris's account twenty years later in her unique voice and the life of Ranger Lewis and the people around her, who are often weird. Cloris and her husband take a small plane to the mountains for a few days. The plane crashes, and only Cloris, who is 72 years old, survives. She is in the middle of nowhere with nothing around her. Still, she tries to find her way home.