Diverse Books for a Neighborhood of Readers

We here at Big Blue Marble remember the days when there were only a handful of “LGB” books, and we each took personal pride in owning most of them. 2024 is an entirely different universe, with a deluge of diverse books, in all genres and formats, documenting lesbian, bisexual, gay, queer, intersex, trans, nonbinary, and something-beyond-labels-we-have lives. This page is a small selection of the best of the newest of these books. Look for our lists of LGBTQ books for kids, middle grade, and YA!

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Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Copy)

$18.36

Tamsyn Muir, Locked Tomb Trilogy

Tamsyn Muir, Locked Tomb Trilogy

from $20.51

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T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

from $20.51

Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

$19.43

Ocean Vuong, "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"

Ocean Vuong, "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"

$18.36

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Madeline Miller, Song of Achilles

$19.43

Casey McQuiston, The Pairing, 8/6/2024 (Copy)

Casey McQuiston, The Pairing, 8/6/2024 (Copy)

$21.60

Ashley Herring Blake, Bright Falls Series

Ashley Herring Blake, Bright Falls Series

from $18.36

Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays, 7/9/24

Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays, 7/9/24

$29.15

Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

$18.35

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Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

$18.35

Temim Fruchter, City of Laughter

Temim Fruchter, City of Laughter

$29.16

Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

$31.32

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Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

$19.44

Rupaul, The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

Rupaul, The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

$32.39

Glennon Doyle, Untamed

$30.24

Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir

$26.99

Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

from $19.44

Hanya Yanagihara, Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara, Little Life

$19.43

Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan, Mad Honey

Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan, Mad Honey

from $19.44

The World of Samantha Irby

The World of Samantha Irby

from $18.31

Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart

$20.51

Andrew Sean Greer, Less

$19.43

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Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

$18.36

TJ Alexander, Second Chances in New Port Stephen

TJ Alexander, Second Chances in New Port Stephen

$19.43

Mia McKenzie, Skye Falling

$18.36

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Kirstin Valdez Quade, Five Wounds

$19.39

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Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

$18.36

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Briona Simone Jones, ed, Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought

$24.83

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Ivan Coyote, Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures

$21.60

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Josephine Donovan, The Lexington Six

$26.95

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Lydia Rogue, ed, Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers

$16.15

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Dave Ring, ed, Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die

$19.43

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Sarah Schulman, Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT Up New York, 1987-1993

$25.92

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Pamela Sneed, Funeral Diva

$18.31

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Chana Porter, The Seep

$17.28

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Judy Grahn, Eruptions of Inanna: Justice, Gender, and Erotic Power

$19.39

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Rikke Villadsen, Cowboy

$21.59

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Queer (Words of Change Series): Powerful Voices, Inspiring Ideas

$18.31

Bryan Washington, Memorial

Bryan Washington, Memorial

$18.36

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Steven Rowley, The Guncle

$19.44

Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

$21.60

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Alison Bechdel, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For

$21.59

Nicole Dennis-Benn, Patsy

$18.31

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Noam Sienna, A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969

$32.39

Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir

Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir

from $19.43

Bryan Washington, Lot: Stories

$19.44

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Rivers Solomon & Clipping, The Deep

$18.35

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Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

$19.44

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Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

$21.60

Roy G Guzmán, Catrachos: Poems

$17.28

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Mark Doty, What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life

$17.23

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Juli Delgado Lopera, Fiebre Tropical

$19.39

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Jilian Christmas, The Gospel of Breaking

$13.99

Danez Smith, Homie

$17.28

Paul Lisicky, Later: My Life at the Edge of the World

$17.28

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Jeff Man and Julia Watts, ed, LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia

$32.39

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Nikky Finney, Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts

$32.35

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Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir

$18.31

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Brandon Taylor, Real Life

$19.44

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Cameron Esposito, Save Yourself

$19.43

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Iris Gottlieb, Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression

$29.70

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Meg-John Barker, Queer: A Graphic History

$30.23

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Hillery Glasby, ed, Storytelling in Queer Appalachia: Imagining and Writing the Unspeakable Other

$32.39

Vivek Shraya, The Subtweet

$18.31

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Vivek Shraya, Death Threat

$16.15

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Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

$17.28

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Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

$29.15

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Ashley Molesso, The Gay Agenda: A Modern Queer History & Handbook

$21.59

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Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

from $18.35

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Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted

$22.67

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Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name

$18.35

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TJ Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

from $20.51

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Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

$18.31

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Nino Cipri, Finna

$15.11

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R. Eric Thomas, Here for It, or How to Save Your Soul in America

$18.36

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Kay Ulanday Barrett, More Than Organs

$19.44

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Twist, Vincent, et al., eds, Non-Binary Lives: : An Anthology of Intersecting Identities

$23.71

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Joshua Whitehead, ed, Love After the End

$20.47

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Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

$18.36

Samantha Shannon,Roots of Chaos Series, A Day of Fallen Night in paper 3/5/24 (Copy)

Samantha Shannon,Roots of Chaos Series, A Day of Fallen Night in paper 3/5/24 (Copy)

from $21.60

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Hil Malatino, Trans Care

$10.80

Hanya Yanagihara, Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara, Little Life

$19.44

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Emma Copley Eisenberg, The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

$21.59

Tamsyn Muir, Locked Tomb Trilogy - Nona the Ninth coming 9/13/22

Tamsyn Muir, Locked Tomb Trilogy - Nona the Ninth coming 9/13/22

from $19.43

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C. Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills is Gold

$19.44

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Dennis Staples (Ojibwe), This Town Sleeps

$18.31

Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

$19.44

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Shira Spector, Red Rock Baby Candy

$32.39

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Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

from $20.71

Becky Chambers, Monk & Robot series (Copy)

$22.67

Adam Haslett, Mothers and Sons, 1/7/25

Adam Haslett, Mothers and Sons, 1/7/25

$31.32