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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!

Jilian Christmas, The Gospel of Breaking

Jilian Christmas, The Gospel of Breaking

$13.99

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In The Gospel of Breaking, Jillian Christmas confirms what followers of her performance and artistic curation have long known: there is magic in her words. Befitting someone who "speaks things into being," Christmas extracts from family history, queer lineage, and the political landscape of a racialized life to create a rich, softly defiant collection of poems.


Christmas draws a circle around the things she calls "holy" the family line that cannot find its root but survived to fill the skies with radiant flesh; the body, broken and unbroken and broken and new again; the lover lost, the friend lost, and the loss itself; and the hands that hold them all with brilliant, tender care. Expansive and beautiful, these poems allow readers to swim in Jillian Christmas's mother-tongue and to dream at her shores.

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Kay Ulanday Barrett, More Than Organs

$19.44
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Nikky Finney, Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts

$32.35
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Mark Doty, What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life

$17.23
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Jeff Man and Julia Watts, ed, LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia

$32.39
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Pamela Sneed, Funeral Diva

$18.31