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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Walking Practice
An alien's hunt for food that transforms into an existential crisis about what it means to be human.
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The Terraformers
As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, Destry is dedicated to terraforming the planet Sask-E until she discovers a city full of people that shouldn't exist, and as she uncovers more about their past, she starts to question the mission she's devoted her life to.
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The Mimicking of Known Successes
Combining planetary resettlement SF with steampunk, mystery, climate fiction, and a touch of romance, Older's newest moves from a remote train station over a gas giant planet to the halls of academia as a case of a missing scholar reunites investigator Mossa with her former lover Pleiti. (Library Journal)
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The Thick and the Lean
Two young women living on a distant planet are linked by an ancient book whose protagonist serves as a role model as they struggle to overcome their individual circumstances. (Kirkus)
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And Then He Sang A Lullaby
The 23-year-old Nigerian author and queer liberation activist explores what love and freedom cost in a society steeped in homophobia.
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Chlorine
Part body horror, part science fiction, part queer teenage romance, Song’s debut novel dives into the deep end of bodily and psychological metamorphosis—but it’s not for the faint of heart. (Kirkus)
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Enlightened Transsexual Comix
The definitive collection of Sam Szabo's "ETC" comics series, serving up a psychedelic stew of social satire and gonzo gender theory! The year is 2023. The astral plane has entered a tailspin. Fortunately, an ancient cosmological entity is on a mission to spread her fluidity across the galaxy. Our raw, uncut heroine roams the wasteland in defense of trans rights and trans wrongs. Will the Enlightened Transsexual convince humanity to chill out at last? Or will the planet choke on her filthy gags? (Publisher)
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Roaming
Spring Break, 2009: Five days, three friends, and one big city.
Format: Graphic Novel
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Camp Damascus
Situated high up in the mountains, Camp Damascus offers a sin-free and "saved" life to its ultra-conservative Christian patrons as the self-proclaimed "most effective" gay conversion camp in America, while hiding a host of very unholy secrets.
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Blackouts
Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly, but who has haunted the edges of his life.
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