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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!

Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir

Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir

$18.31

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While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson and a woman named Annemarie--letters are that are tender, intimate, and unabashed in their feelings.

Shapland recognizes herself in the letters' language--but does not see Carson as history has portrayed her. And so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the full narrative and language of Carson's life: She wades through the therapy transcripts; she stays at Carson's childhood home, where she lounges in her bathtub and eats delivery pizza; she relives Carson's days at her beloved Yaddo. As Shapland reckons with the expanding and collapsing distance between her and Carson, she sees the way Carson's story has become a way to articulate something about herself.

The results articulate something entirely new not only about this one remarkable, walleyed life, but about the way we tell queer love stories. In genre-defying vignettes, Jenn Shapland interweaves her own story with Carson McCullers's to create a vital new portrait of one of America's most beloved writers, and shows us how the writers we love and the stories we tell about ourselves make us who we are.

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Twist, Vincent, et al., eds, Non-Binary Lives: : An Anthology of Intersecting Identities

$23.71
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Cameron Esposito, Save Yourself

$19.43
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Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir

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Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir

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

$17.28