LGBTQ+ Book Reviews
Honest, opinionated reviews of queer and 2SLGBTQ+ literature, from debut novels to canonical texts. Every review covers what the book does, who it’s for, and where it sits in the broader queer literary landscape.
QueerBookClub.org reviews queer literature the way it deserves to be reviewed — on its own terms, with real attention to craft, representation, and the specific conversations each book enters. We cover gay fiction, sapphic novels, trans narratives, bisexual lit, queer speculative fiction, and memoir across every identity in the 2SLGBTQ+ community. Want to join our team of reviews? Contact Us!
Our reviews are written for readers who care about queer stories, not just stories that happen to include queer characters. Representation needs to be central — not background, not subtext, not a single scene. If a book centers queerness, we take it seriously. If it sidelines it, we say so.
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Book Review: The Price of Salt (Carol)
Published under a pseudonym in 1952 because no publisher would touch it otherwise, The Price of Salt gave lesbian readers something almost unheard of at the time: a love story that didn’t end in punishment. Therese and Carol, 1950s New York. A landmark of queer literature.
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A Little Life
Jude St. Francis carries trauma so deep it has no bottom. Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life follows Jude and his three closest friends across decades of New York life, and it does not look away from anything. One of the most debated and devastating novels in contemporary queer literature.
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Lie With Me
A French writer looks back on a secret teenage love affair from the 1980s. Thomas Andrieu was everything he wanted and couldn’t have. Lie With Me is slim, precise, and quietly heartbreaking, a novel that understands exactly how much damage a love you can’t name can do.
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Book Review: Giovanni’s Room
David is an American in Paris, engaged to a woman, and falling in love with Giovanni, a bartender he cannot stop thinking about. Baldwin’s 1956 novel is still one of the most honest books ever written about desire, cowardice, and the cost of refusing to live truthfully.
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Book Review: Call Me By Your Name
One summer in Italy. Elio is seventeen. Oliver arrives as a houseguest and stays long enough to change everything. Andre Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name is a novel about desire so precisely rendered it almost hurts to read. The kind of book that makes the past feel close enough to touch.