LGBTQIA+ Fiction
Rabble's LGBTQIA+ picks from across Biography, General Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Comics. You should be able to see the original category under the title. Feel free to let us know about any titles you think should be included!
*Work in progress*
When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff
$39.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
This sweet #ownvoices picture book celebrates the changes in a transgender boy's life, from his initial coming-out to becoming a big brother.When Aidan was born, everyone thought he was a girl. His parents gave him a pretty name, his room looked like a girl's room, and he wore clothes that other girls l ...Show more
Whisper Me a Love Song (#1) by Eku Takeshima
$22.99 AUD
Category: Comics | Series: Whisper Me a Love Song Ser.
An adorable yuri manga for fans of Kase-san and Yamada and Bloom Into You. One day, high school girl Himari sees a girl, Yori, sing in a band, and it awakens feelings she doesn't understand... but Yori does!Bubbly, energetic first-year high school student Himari falls head over heels for her senpai Yori ...Show more
Winner's Kiss by Marie Rutkoski
$15.99 AUD
Category: LGBTQIA+ Books for Young People | Series: The Winner's Trilogy
Following the intrigue and danger of The Winner's Curse and the revolution and romance of The Winner's Crime, Kestrel finds herself in the tundra's mines and Arin has sailed home. The empire seems unstoppable. Lies will come undone, and Kestrel and Arin will learn just how much their crimes will cost th ...Show more
Winter in the Air by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a cafe before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend’s kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, ...Show more
With Teeth by Kristen Arnett
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'With Teeth is a wonderfully sticky novel about motherhood, partnership, sex and love. Kristen Arnett lets her characters have the run of the place, and it's delicious fun to watch them do, say, and think things they'll regret' Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here'Sublimely weird, fluently paced, braz ...Show more
Wolfsong (#1 Green Creek) by TJ Klune
$34.99 AUD
Category: SFF Sci-Fi / Fantasy | Series: Green Creek
Ox Matheson was twelve when his father taught him a lesson: Ox wasn't worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. Ox was sixteen when the energetic Bennett family moved in next door, harbouring a secret that would change him forever. For the family are shapeshifters, who can tran ...Show more
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by torrin a. greathouse
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Poetry A CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist in Poetry A Bustle Best Book of 2020 A Refinery29 Best New Book of Fall 2020 "Some girls are not made," torrin a. greathouse writes, "but spring from the dirt." Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a W ...Show more
Written In The Stars (Written In The Stars #1) by Alexandria Bellefleur
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
I was hooked from the very first page " - Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of In a Holidaze With nods to Bridget Jones and Pride & Prejudice, this debut is a delightful #ownvoices queer rom-com about a free-spirited social media astrologer who agrees to fake a relationship with an ...Show more
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't k ...Show more
Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery tha ...Show more
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Button Poetry Ser.
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate c ...Show more
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her ...Show more