55 Must-Read LGBTQ+ Books

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Red, White & Royal Blue
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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Red, White & Royal Blue
4.3
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
4
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
4
In the Dream House
4.7
Brokeback Mountain
4.1
Call Me by Your Name
4.2
Boy Erased
3.5
When Katie Met Cassidy
2.9
A Little Life
4.1
Zami
4.5
Rubyfruit Jungle
4.1
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
3.9
She's Not There
3.8
Stone Butch Blues
4.3
A Single Man
4.3
Out East
3.6
Sissy
4.3
This Is How It Always Is
4.4
Leading Men
3.7
On Swift Horses
3
If I Was Your Girl
4.1
What If It's Us
3.7
The Hours
3.9
Giovanni's Room
4.2
The Swimming-Pool Library
3.8
Orlando
3.7
The Price of Salt
3.8
Becoming Nicole
4
Leah on the Offbeat
3.6
Borrowed Time
3.6
Middlesex
3.8
Boy Meets Boy
3.7
How We Fight for Our Lives
4.5
Mostly Dead Things
3.2
Real Queer America
4.3
When Brooklyn Was Queer
4.2
Patsy: A Novel
4.1
The Stonewall Reader
4.2
Over the Top
4
Find Me
3.4

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