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

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

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

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

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

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

Nicole Dennis-Benn, Patsy

$18.31

Bryan Washington, Lot: Stories

$19.44

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Rivers Solomon & Clipping, The Deep

$18.35

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Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

$21.60

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Juli Delgado Lopera, Fiebre Tropical

$19.39

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

$32.39

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Brandon Taylor, Real Life

$19.44

Vivek Shraya, The Subtweet

$18.31

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Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

$29.15

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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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Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

$18.36

Hanya Yanagihara, Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara, Little Life

$19.44

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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