Who says queer lit is just for June? In our latest episode we talk about some queer titles and authors that we'd recommend reading all year round. Plus, we walk through some queer literary milestones and of course chat about what we've been reading recently and what we're looking forward to picking up next.

Book News

The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya

Winter Animals by Ashani Lewis

Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood In Black Gay Britain by Jason Okundaye

Food For The Dead by Charlotte Shevchenko Knight

Current reads

The Coin by Yasmin Zaher

The Story Of A Heart by Dr. Rachel Clark

Queer literature

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin 

Joseph And His Friend by Bayard Taylor 

The Picture Of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde 

The Well Of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

Death In Venice by Thomas Mann 

The City And The Pillar by Gore Vidal 

The Price Of Salt by Patricia Highsmith 

‘Carol’ by Todd Haynes 

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Loving Her by Ann Shockley 

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Stag Dance by Torrey Peters

Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt 

Song Of Achilles by Madeline Miller

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Who’s Afraid Of Gender? by Judith Butler

Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly

A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White 

Love Me Tender / PlayBoy by Constance Debré 

The End Of Eddy by Edouard Louis 

Love In Exile by Shon Faye

Girlhood / Abandon Me: Memoirs by Melissa Febos

A Short History Of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson

The Best Of Me by David Sedaris

This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson

Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester

Our Pride picks

The Lost Past Of Billy McQueen by Neil Alexander

Valencia by Michelle Tea

Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield

Tiepolo Blue by James Cahill

And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts

Nevada by Imogen Binnie

What We’re Reading Next

The Wax Child by Olga Ravn

The Employees by Olga Ravn

Helm by Sarah Hall 

Close To Home by Michael Magee

The Names by Florence Knapp 

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