Publication year 2023
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Coming of Age, Family, Friendship, Loyalty & Betrayal, Power & Greed
Tags Historical Fiction, Fantasy, LGBTQ+
LGBTQ Literature
From Christopher Isherwood's enduring 20th-century classic Goodbye to Berlin to contemporary titles like Janet Mock's Redefining Realness, the titles in this study guide collection explore a range of ideas, issues, genres, and forms that speak to the LGBTQ community.
The Fragile Threads of Power
The Future
The Garden of Eden
The Gilda Stories
The Glass Menagerie
The Great Believers
The Guncle
The Guncle Abroad
The Hammer of Thor
The Heart's Invisible Furies
The Hidden Oracle
The History of Sexuality
The History of Sound
The Honey Witch
The Hours
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The House of Doors
The House of Hades
The Humans
The Hungry Woman
Publication year 2023
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Coming of Age, Family, Friendship, Loyalty & Betrayal, Power & Greed
Tags Historical Fiction, Fantasy, LGBTQ+
Publication year 2023
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Future, Appearance & Reality, Order & Chaos, Power & Greed, Science & Technology
Tags Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror & Suspense, LGBTQ+
Publication year 1986
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Gender Identity
Tags Romance, Classic Fiction, LGBTQ+, American Literature, French Literature, World History
The Garden of Eden is a novel by American author Ernest Hemingway, who is regarded as one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Hemingway had worked on the novel for 15 years at the time of his death in 1961. It was published posthumously in 1986. Though controversial, the novel has been heralded as an important example of Hemingway’s work and was adapted into a film of the same name in 2008... Read The Garden of Eden Summary
Publication year 1991
Genre Novel, Fiction
Tags Horror & Suspense, LGBTQ+, Science Fiction, World History, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Religion & Spirituality
The novel follows the adventures of an immortal vampire named Gilda over eight chapters, each set in a different location and year in the United States. Spanning the 200 years between 1850 and 2050, the novel charts African American history from the period of enslavement through abolition, segregation, the Black Power movement, and into an imagined dystopian future of economic and environmental collapse. Told by an omniscient narrator, the stories in each chapter have their... Read The Gilda Stories Summary
Publication year 1945
Genre Play, Fiction
Tags Southern Gothic, LGBTQ+, American Literature, Education, Education, Dramatic Literature, Classic Fiction
Tennessee Williams, who wrote The Glass Menagerie in 1944, refers to the work as a “memory play” (750). Now recognized as one of the greatest American playwrights in history, The Glass Menagerie launched Williams’s career. The play is heavily influenced by Williams’s own life. The character of Laura is based on Williams’s older sister, Rose (alluded to by Laura’s nickname, Blue Roses), who was subjected to a botched lobotomy that rendered her mentally disabled and... Read The Glass Menagerie Summary
Publication year 2018
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Sexual Identity, Family
Tags LGBTQ+, Modern Classic Fiction, World History, Historical Fiction
The Great Believers (2018) is the fourth novel by Chicago-based writer Rebecca Makkai. The novel alternates between the stories of a group of friends—most of them gay men diagnosed with AIDS—in Chicago during the mid-80s to the early 90s—and the story of a woman searching for her estranged daughter in Paris, 30 years later. The Great Believers won several awards, including the ALA Carnegie Medal, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, ALA Stonewall Award, and the... Read The Great Believers Summary
Publication year 2021
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Family, Grief, Loneliness, Love, Sexual Identity, Death
Tags LGBTQ+, Humor, Realistic Fiction, Grief & Death, Parenting, American Literature, Modern Classic Fiction, Romance
Publication year 2024
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Grief, Love, Aging, Family, Marriage
Tags LGBTQ+, Modern Classic Fiction, Humor, Romance
Publication year 2016
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Gender Identity, Good & Evil, Religion & Spirituality, Family, Friendship
Tags Fantasy, Mythology, Action & Adventure, LGBTQ+, Children`s Literature
Publication year 2017
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Race, Family, Friendship
Tags Historical Fiction, LGBTQ+, Modern Classic Fiction, World History, Irish Literature
The Heart’s Invisible Furies is a novel written by John Boyne, author of 14 novels and a short story collection. Originally published in 2017, this historical fiction chronicles of the life of a gay man living in Ireland in the 20th and 21st centuries. It won the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award in 2018.Other works by this author include The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, All the Broken Places, and A Ladder to the Sky.This... Read The Heart's Invisible Furies Summary
Publication year 1976
Genre Book, Nonfiction
Themes Sexual Identity, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Science & Technology, Community
Tags Sociology, Philosophy, Love & Sexuality, Psychology, LGBTQ+, Postmodernism, Education, Education, French Literature, World History, Psychology, Philosophy
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and theorist whose most significant works were first published in the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout his career, he examined the mechanisms of power and challenged accepted historical narratives, working to show how institutional power shapes the field of possible knowledge to its own advantage. The History of Sexuality, published in three volumes between 1976 and 1984—with a fourth volume published posthumously, in draft form, in 2018—examines the development of... Read The History of Sexuality Summary
Publication year 2024
Genre Short Story Collection, Fiction
Themes Memory, Hope, The Past, Self Discovery
Tags LGBTQ+, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Science & Nature
Publication year 2024
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Conflict, Love, Femininity, Sexual Identity, Animals, Good & Evil
Tags Fantasy, Romance, LGBTQ+
Publication year 1998
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Sexual Identity, Mental Health, Femininity, Fate, Literature, Memory
Tags Historical Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gender & Feminism, Love & Sexuality, Modern Classic Fiction, World History, Classic Fiction
The Hours is a 1998 novel by the American author Michael Cunningham. It is an homage to Virginia Woolf’s 1923 novel Mrs. Dalloway (of which the working title was “The Hours”). Mimicking Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness narrative style, Cunningham re-situates her characters and themes within a modern context, making them his own. The story follows three different women, in three different decades, affected by Mrs. Dalloway over the course of one June day in each of their... Read The Hours Summary
Publication year 2020
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Nature Versus Nurture, Family, Equality, Community, Sexual Identity
Tags Fantasy, Magical Realism, Romance, LGBTQ+
The House in the Cerulean Sea (2020) is a queer fantasy novel by TJ Klune, Lambda Award-winning author of The Extraordinaires and the Green Creek series. Klune is a queer author whose works often explore supernatural elements. Many mythological species feature in this novel, while other books focus on werewolves, ghosts, and the like. The book explores themes of Nature Versus Nurture, The Perpetuation of Prejudice, and Found Family.Klune’s work, particularly The House in the... Read The House in the Cerulean Sea Summary
Publication year 2023
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Memory, Grief, Love, Loyalty & Betrayal, Race, Gender Identity, Equality
Tags Historical Fiction, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Asian Literature, World History
Publication year 2013
Genre Novel, Fiction
Themes Good & Evil, Fate, Friendship
Tags Mythology, Fantasy, Action & Adventure, LGBTQ+, Love & Sexuality, Relationships, Children`s Literature, Romance
The House of Hades is the fourth of five books in the Heroes of Olympus series, which follows seven Greek and Roman demigods on a quest to prevent the rise of the earth goddess Gaea, who is bent on destroying the world.The House of Hades was written by Rick Riordan, a New York Times bestselling author who explores Roman and Greek Mythology in these two series. Riordan is the publisher of an imprint with Disney... Read The House of Hades Summary
Publication year 2015
Genre Play, Fiction
Themes Family, Fear, Social Class, Economics
Tags Drama, Comedy & Satire, LGBTQ+
Publication year 2001
Genre Play, Fiction
Themes Hate & Anger, Hope, Love, Revenge, Gender Identity, Indigenous Identity, Language, Mental Health, Race, Sexual Identity, Death, Mothers, Self Discovery, Social Class, Community, Nation, Politics & Government, Equality, Justice, Loyalty & Betrayal, Religion & Spirituality
Tags Drama, LGBTQ+, Gender & Feminism, Science Fiction