Seattle Picks: LGBTQIA+ Fiction 2023
From literary fiction to mystery, romance to sci-fi and beyond, here's a wide variety of recently published LGBTQIA+ fiction from 2023 recommended by our librarians. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. (Created December 2023)
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Can't Let Her Go
Friends to lovers? There’s a lot to consider, a lot to hope for, and a lot at risk in a steamy and emotional romance.
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Big Swiss
A woman in upstate New York who works transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach becomes infatuated with one of his clients, a repressed married woman from Switzerland who has a refreshing attitude towards trauma.
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Mimosa
Best friends and chosen family Chris, Elise, Jo, and Alex work hard to keep themselves afloat. Their regular brunches hold them together even as the rest of their lives threaten to fall apart. In an effort to avoid being the oldest gays at the party, the crew decides to put on a new queer event called Grind--specifically for homos in their dirty thirties.
Format: Graphic Novel
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The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen
In the Kentish moors of the early 19th century, smuggling boss Joss Doomsday, head of the formidable Doomsday clan, and Sir Gareth Inglis, whose absent father’s death has lately conferred the baronetcy on him, commence a tumultuous but tender affair while dodging a rival smuggling gang’s hunt for 10,000 guineas owed them by Gareth’s father and navigating a handful of troublesome relatives on both sides. (Publishers Weekly)
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Dykette
When a professionally creative, erotically adventurous and very dysfunctional 20-something lesbian couple is invited to the country home of older, richer and more prominent lesbians for the holidays, a complex web of infatuation and jealousy emerges
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OKPsyche
An unnamed trans woman is looking for a sense of belonging, a better relationship with her son, and friends that aren't imaginary in this playful and aching short novel.
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Homebodies
Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young Black writer whose world is turned upside down when she loses her coveted job in media and pens a searing manifesto about racism in the industry.
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Bellies
Two queer men who hit it off during their university's drag night begin a relationship and eventually plan a life together face a momentous challenge when one of them announces an intention to transition.
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Scorched Grace
A chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, Sister Holiday, when Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, launches her own investigation, which turns her against colleagues, students and fellow Sisters as she pieces together the clues to solve this explosive mystery.
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Wild Geese
Phoebe Forde has a new home, a new name, and is newly thirty. An Irish transplant and PhD candidate, she's overeducated and underpaid, but finally settling into her new life in Copenhagen. Almost three years into her gender transition, Phoebe has learned to move through the world carefully, savoring small moments of joy. After all, a woman without a past can be anyone she wants. But an unexpected visit from her ex-girlfriend Grace brings back memories of Dublin and the life she thought she'd left behind.
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