LGBTQ+ Fiction | Newcastle Libraries

41) Felix ever after

Author

Callender, Kacen

42) Flamingo

Author

Elliott, Rachel

43) Frankissstein

Author

Winterson, Jeanette

44) The ghost ship

Author

Mosse, Kate

45) Girl meets boy

Author

Smith, Ali

46) Girl, woman, other

Author

Evaristo, Bernardine

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Welcome to Newcastle, 1905. Ten-year-old Grace is an orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Cornwall, 1953. Winsome is a young bride, recently arrived from Barbados, realising the man she married might be a fool. London, 1980. Amma is the fierce queen of her squatters' palace, ready to Smash The Patriarchy with a new kind of feminist theatre. Oxford, 2008. Carole is rejecting her cultural background (Nigeria by way of...

47) Girlcrush

Author

Given, Florence

48) Goodbye to Berlin

Author

Isherwood, Christopher

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Christopher Isherwood is the narrator of Goodbye to Berlin. His story evokes the gathering storm in Berlin before and just after the rise to power of the Nazis, as seen through the eyes of a series of individuals.

49) Gwen & Art are not in love

Author

Croucher, Lex

50) The happy couple

Author

Dolan, Naoise

51) Heartstopper: Vol. 1

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Staff Picks: This book is absolutely adorable! It is so fun and feels very true to the queer teenage experience. A must read! Picked by Lily

52) Here comes the sun

Author

Dennis-Benn, Nicole

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At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to send her younger sister, Thandi, to school. Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival, Margot is ruthlessly determined to shield Thandi from the same fate. When plans for a new hotel threaten their village, Margot sees not only an opportunity for her own financial independence but also perhaps a chance to admit a shocking secret: her forbidden love for another woman. As they face the...

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55) The house in the Cerulean Sea

Author

Klune, Tj

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Staff Pick: A beautiful and funny story about found family. All the characters are so endearing, and the love story is so special Picked by Erin

56) The house of doors

Author

Tan, Twan Eng

57) The house on Half Moon Street

Author

Reeve, Alex

Formats:

Adult Audiobook, Adult Book

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The start of an enticing new historical series set in Victorian London; introducing Leo Stanhope: a transgender coroner's assistant who must uncover a killer without risking his own future. Leo Stanhope. Avid chess player; assistant to a London coroner; in love with Maria; and hiding a very big secret. For Leo was born Charlotte, the daughter of a respectable reverend. But knowing he was meant to be a man - despite the evidence of his body - and unable...

58) How much of these hills is gold

Author

Zhang, C Pam

59) How to be both

Author

Smith, Ali

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Adult Book, eBook

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This is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths, and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional...

60) I kissed Shara Wheeler

Author

McQuiston, Casey