Below is a list of some books and novels by LGBTQ authors or about LGBTQ concerns.
Please note this is not a complete list.
-Adam & Steve: A Novel by Craig Chester
-Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
-The Brothers Bishop by Bart Yates
-Calm Before the Storm by Peggy Herring
-Clay’s Way: A Novel by Blair Mastbaum
-The Color Purple by Alice Walker
-Does Your Mama Know? An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories by Lisa Moore (ed.)
-Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley
-Eight Bullets by Claudia Brenner
-Everybody Loves You: Stonewall Inn by Ethan Mordden
-For the Boys by Joe Phillips & Bruno Gmunder
-The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren
-Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
-God Jr. by Dennis Cooper
-Hunter’s Way by Gerri Hill
-It Had to be You by Timothy James Beck
-Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
-The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
-The Lost Language of the Cranes by David Leavitt
-Love in the Balance by Marianne K. Martin
-Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
-Orlando by Virginia Woolf
-Naked by David Sedaris
-Nasty by Simon Doonana
-Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim
-Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
-Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
-Seeing Dell by Carol Guess
-Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
-Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
-Three Junes by Julia Glass
-A Time of Doves by Merce Rodoreda
-A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan
-You Can Say You Knew Me When by K. M. Soehnlein
-Zami by Audre Lorde