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LGBTQ Books for Adults

We here at Big Blue Marble remember the days when there were only a handful of “LGB” books, and we each took personal pride in owning most of them. 2024 is an entirely different universe, with a deluge of diverse books, in all genres and formats, documenting lesbian, bisexual, gay, queer, intersex, trans, nonbinary, and something-beyond-labels-we-have lives. This page is a small selection of the best of the newest of these books. Look for our lists of LGBTQ books for kids, middle grade, and YA!

Lou Sullivan, "We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan"

Lou Sullivan, "We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan"

$21.55

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"Celebratory, even radical"―The New Yorker

"Monumental"―Hyperallergic

We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan narrates the inner life of a gay man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical mores of the second half of the 20th century. Sullivan kept comprehensive journals from age 11 until his AIDS-related death at 39. Sensual, lascivious, challenging, quotidian and poetic, the diaries complicate and disrupt normative trans narratives. Entries from twenty-four diaries reveal Sullivan’s self-articulation and the complexity of a fascinating and courageous figure

Richie Jackson, "Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son"

Richie Jackson, "Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son"

$26.99
Paul Lisicky, "Later: My Life at the Edge of the World "

Paul Lisicky, "Later: My Life at the Edge of the World "

$17.28
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Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World, paperback 6/11/24

from $19.44
Samra Habib, "We Have Always Been Here: a Queer Muslim Memoir"

Samra Habib, "We Have Always Been Here: a Queer Muslim Memoir"

$20.47
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Mohsin Zaidi, "A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of Secrets, Lies and Family Love"

$19.39