LGBTQIA+ Fiction
Rabble's LGBTQIA+ picks from across Biography, General Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Comics. You should be able to see the original category under the title. Feel free to let us know about any titles you think should be included!
*Work in progress*
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (#1 Wayfarers) by Becky Chambers
$22.99 AUD
Category: SFF Sci-Fi / Fantasy | Series: Wayfarers | Reading Level: very good
The beloved debut novel that will restore your faith in humanity. When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The ship, which has seen better days, offers her everything she could possibly want: a small, quiet spot to call home for a while, adventure in far-off corners ...Show more
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
$24.99 AUD
Category: SFF Sci-Fi / Fantasy | Series: The Roots of Chaos Ser.
An enthralling, epic fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons - and the women who must lead the fight to save it. A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conc ...Show more
The Witch Boy (The Witch Boy #1) by Molly Knox Ostertag
$29.99 AUD
Category: Junior Comics | Series: The Witch Boy Ser.
From the illustrator of the web comic Strong Female Protagonist comes a debut middle-grade graphic novel about family, identity, courage and magic. In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Anyone who dares cross those lines is e ...Show more
Throat by Ellen van Neerven
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
not in Aus, matebad things don't happen here our beaches are open they are not places where bloodied mattresses burn 'Throat' is the explosive second poetry collection from award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven. Exploring love, language and land, van Neerven flexes their distinctive ...Show more
10 Things That Never Happened (Material World #1) by Alexis Hall
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Material World Ser.
FAKE AMNESIA. REAL FEELINGS? REAL PROBLEMS. Sam Becker loves -- or, okay, likes -- his job. Sure, managing a bed and bath retailer isn't exactly glamorous, but it's good work and he gets on well with the band of misfits who keep the store running. He could see himself being content here for the long hau ...Show more
300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World by Seán Hewitt, Luke Edward Hall
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few, famous narratives are widely known - yet there's a rich literary tradition of Greek and Roman love that extends far beyond this handful of stories. Here, the poet Sean Hewitt and painter Luke Ed ...Show more
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly ...Show more
About Ed by Robert Gluck
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A moving story about love, AIDS, grief and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come out of San Francisco's LGBTQ+ scene. "I was a writer, but not the writer I needed to be. For that I had to become a different person," Robert Gluck, widely acclaimed as a novelist and as a theorist of "the ...Show more
Adrienne Rich Selected Poems, 1950-2012 by Adrienne Rich; Albert Gelpi; Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi; Brett C. Millier
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation, bringing discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse. This generous selection from all nineteen of Rich's published poetry volumes encompasses her best-known work--the clear-sighted and passionate feminist poems of ...Show more
All About Romance by Daniel Tawse
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
Roman Bright has always loved love stories. But being a non-binary teenager in a small northern town means their dating pool is limited and they haven't had their own sweeping romance ... yet.Roman Bright appears assured and confident, but in reality, school is a tricky space for them. Finding love - or ...Show more
All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir by Seán Hewitt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a fearless exploration of queer identity and trauma.A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a fearless exploration of qu ...Show more
Antiquity by Hanna Johansson
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson - a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo. Antiquity follows its unnamed narrator, a lonely woman in her thirties who becomes enamoured of a chic older artist, Helen ...Show more