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Brilliant LGBTQ+ books you may not contain discovered yet
Books hold the power to make you experience like you pertain to something bigger, and that's particularly relevant to Homosexual literature. These are groundbreaking books that celebrate otherness and queerness, and create you feel a part of something. Most importantly, they are about adore. They are about being utterly and uniquely yourself.
This obeying list of must-read LGBTQ+ fiction and non-fiction doesn’t explore to provide a detailed account of the queer canon, but rather to give you a starting point, or an ‘I depend on to read that again’ moment, or simply to remind you that there are lots of other people in this world who felt the similar strange kick in the gut when they read Giovanni’s Room, or Genet, or Hollinghurst for the first time, or who recognised the oddly liberating sorrow of Jeanette Winterson’s coming-out-gone-wrong in Why Be Joyful When You Could Be Normal?, or enjoyed the comforting company of society in the inhabitants of Armistead Maupin’s San Francisco.
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Looking for LGBT books that will make you cry? I&#;ve got you covered! But we&#;re not talking devastating, heartbreaking tears. We&#;re talking bittersweet tears, glad tears, and overflowing-with-emotion tears. Sure, there are plenty of LGBT books that will make you sob because horrible, sad, upsetting things happen. And there&#;s nothing wrong with books like that, stories that delve into queer suffering. We need all the queer books about all the queer experiences there are, both good and bad. But I&#;m not always up for super intense books, even when I want something sentimental. Sometimes what I desire is a good, cathartic cry. That&#;s where these books come in.
This list includes books in a range of genres, with a focus on romance. We&#;ve got contemporary romance and contemporary fiction, historical fiction, some YA romances in various genres, and a sprinkling of fantasy and sci-fi titles. Most of the non-romance books include romantic subplots, because there&#;s nothing beat than a book that makes you swoon and makes you cry.
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