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*
The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish by Lil Miss Hot Mess
$29.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Playing off The Wheels on the Bus, this nursery rhyme book from a founder of Drag Queen Story Hour is a fun, freewheeling celebration of being your most fabulous self. The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish encourages readers to boldly be exactly who they are. Written by a founding member of ...Show more
10 Things That Never Happened (Material World #1) by Alexis Hall
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Material World Ser.
FAKE AMNESIA. REAL FEELINGS? REAL PROBLEMS. Sam Becker loves -- or, okay, likes -- his job. Sure, managing a bed and bath retailer isn't exactly glamorous, but it's good work and he gets on well with the band of misfits who keep the store running. He could see himself being content here for the long hau ...Show more
300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World by Seán Hewitt, Luke Edward Hall
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few, famous narratives are widely known - yet there's a rich literary tradition of Greek and Roman love that extends far beyond this handful of stories. Here, the poet Sean Hewitt and painter Luke Ed ...Show more
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly ...Show more
About Ed by Robert Gluck
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A moving story about love, AIDS, grief and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come out of San Francisco's LGBTQ+ scene. "I was a writer, but not the writer I needed to be. For that I had to become a different person," Robert Gluck, widely acclaimed as a novelist and as a theorist of "the ...Show more
Adrienne Rich Selected Poems, 1950-2012 by Adrienne Rich; Albert Gelpi; Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi; Brett C. Millier
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation, bringing discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse. This generous selection from all nineteen of Rich's published poetry volumes encompasses her best-known work--the clear-sighted and passionate feminist poems of ...Show more
All About Romance by Daniel Tawse
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Roman Bright has always loved love stories. But being a non-binary teenager in a small northern town means their dating pool is limited and they haven't had their own sweeping romance ... yet.Roman Bright appears assured and confident, but in reality, school is a tricky space for them. Finding love - or ...Show more
All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir by Seán Hewitt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a fearless exploration of queer identity and trauma.A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a fearless exploration of qu ...Show more
Antiquity by Hanna Johansson
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson - a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo. Antiquity follows its unnamed narrator, a lonely woman in her thirties who becomes enamoured of a chic older artist, Helen ...Show more
Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (#2 Bright Falls) by Ashley Herring Blake
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Bright Falls Ser.
For Astrid Parker, failure is unacceptable. Ever since she broke up with her fiance a year ago, she's been focused on her career. So when Pru Everwood asks her to be the designer for the Everwood Inn's renovation, which will be featured on a hugely popular home makeover show, Astrid is thrilled. Not onl ...Show more
Atana and the Firebird by Vivian Zhou
$19.99 AUD
Category: Junior Comics
A mermaid, a firebird, and a witch become entangled with the mysterious and powerful Witch Queen, who may hold the key to each of their past in this epic middle grade fantasy by debut author Vivian Zhou. Atana’s island may be quiet and peaceful, but mostly, it’s lonely. With the outside world full of ma ...Show more
Be Dazzled by Ryan La Sala
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
From bestselling author Ryan La Sala, there's nothing like a little dazzling competition to heal a broken heart. When I see him, I see us. How we came together, what we created, what we ruined. The only way to understand how we fell apart is to understand what we were made of in the first place. Raffy c ...Show more