Read With Pride: Our favorite LGBTQIA+ fiction of 2022, so far

Each year, our librarians start a fresh list of some of the best fiction by LGBTQIA+* authors, adding new titles as the year goes along. In commemoration of Pride month, we recently published a list of some of our favorites of 2022, so far. We’ll keep updating this list all year, and you’ll find a link to our 2021 list at the end of the list. Here are a few highlights, to get you started:

• Panpocalypse, by Carley Moore.
  In the early days of the pandemic, queer disabled Orpheus acquires a bicycle to search for her Euridice across the weirdly deserted streets of Manhattan.
• The Kingdom of Sand, by Andrew Holleran.
  A wittily introspective and elagaic novel about two aging Gay men who form a binary community in their rural, conservative Florida town, as they look back on the joys and trials of the past, and ahead towards the end that awaits us all.
• The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes, by Cat Sebastian.
  The Duchess of Clare, having dispatched her horrible husband, flees straight into the arms of  highwayman Rob Brooks, where the bisexual pair form a surprisingly satisfying partnership. A rollicking romantic adventure.
• Wrath Goddess Sing, by Maya Deane.
  In order persuade Achilles to join Agamemnon’s army in their quest to rescue Helen of Troy, the wise Athena bestows upon the great warrior the body she’s always known to be truly hers.
• Manywhere: Stories, by Morgan Thomas.
  This original and illuminating debut story collection tracing genderqueer, trans and intersex identities and mythologies across history is devoted to “anyone who’s gone looking for themselves in the archives.”

Check out the rest of our list, or stop by your local library for much, much more! This month we’ve got lots of displays, and every day of the year we have books, films and resources that explore, honor and celebrate a full rainbow of humanity.

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*Note: Let’s unpack that acronym: it stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, queer (or questioning gender or identity), intersex, and asexual (or aromantic or agender).  The plus sign? That’s a marker for inclusivity of other groups that may fall outside those letters, such as two-spirit or genderfluid, as well as other allied communities who support the LGBTQIA+ cause. Thus, those letters embrace the broad spectrum – a rainbow, one might say – of sexual identity and gender.

     ~ Posted by David W.