Show Notes
Who says queer lit is just for June? In our latest episode we talk about some queer titles and authors that we'd recommend reading all year round. Plus, we walk through some queer literary milestones and of course chat about what we've been reading recently and what we're looking forward to picking up next.
Book News
The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya
Winter Animals by Ashani Lewis
Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood In Black Gay Britain by Jason Okundaye
Food For The Dead by Charlotte Shevchenko Knight
Current reads
The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
The Story Of A Heart by Dr. Rachel Clark
Queer literature
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Joseph And His Friend by Bayard Taylor
The Picture Of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
The Well Of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Death In Venice by Thomas Mann
The City And The Pillar by Gore Vidal
The Price Of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
‘Carol’ by Todd Haynes
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Loving Her by Ann Shockley
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
Song Of Achilles by Madeline Miller
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Who’s Afraid Of Gender? by Judith Butler
Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly
A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
Love Me Tender / PlayBoy by Constance Debré
The End Of Eddy by Edouard Louis
Love In Exile by Shon Faye
Girlhood / Abandon Me: Memoirs by Melissa Febos
A Short History Of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson
The Best Of Me by David Sedaris
This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester
Our Pride picks
The Lost Past Of Billy McQueen by Neil Alexander
Valencia by Michelle Tea
Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield
Tiepolo Blue by James Cahill
And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
What We’re Reading Next
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn
The Employees by Olga Ravn
Helm by Sarah Hall
Close To Home by Michael Magee
The Names by Florence Knapp
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