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*
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
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
A delightful, decadent romance, and a joyful celebration of Black excellence, from an award-winning author. It's the opportunity of a lifetime: Feyi is about to be given the chance to escape the City's blistering heat for a dream island holiday: poolside cocktails, beach sunsets, and elaborate meals. An ...Show more
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Becky Albertalli meets Jenny Han in a smart, hilarious, black girl magic, own voices rom-com by fantastic debut talent, Leah Johnson. Liz has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkwardto shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed town. But Liz has an escape plan to attend an uber-elite college, ...Show more
You'll Be a Wonderful Parent: Advice and Encouragement for Rainbow Families of All Kinds by Jasper Peach
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sexuality and Gender
You'll Be a Wonderful Parent by Jasper Peach provides a practical and emotional guide for LGBTIQA+ families around the arrival of a new baby. Becoming a parent is already a challenging time, even more so if you don't see yourself reflected in mainstream parenting resources, culture or even language. But ...Show more
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain. Douglas Stuart's first novel Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. Published or ...Show more