r/LGBTBooks

Hello! I’m looking for good gay romantasy. Spice is welcome as long as there’s quality writing/plot. Please, no ai recs. Thanks!

Hi everyone. I'm Bianca, a debut indie author, and I'm posting this with equal parts hope and nervousness.

I've been writing for years, but I was always afraid to publish.

During one of the most difficult periods of my life, I found comfort in the music of a non-binary artist. They have no idea I exist, and my novel is not about them, but their music, authenticity, courage and freedom of self-expression helped me through a time when I was struggling to keep going.

Somehow, that invisible connection gave me the courage to do something I'd been afraid to do for years: let other people read my work.

I had already written other books, but I chose How I Never Met Patrick as the first one I would publish because it felt, in my own small way, like saying thank you for an inspiration that arrived without ever knowing how much it mattered.

And I wrote it under less-than-perfect circumstances. I couldn't afford expensive writing software, so I wrote using LibreOffice. It wasn't glamorous, but the story mattered more than the equipment.

The novel itself is entirely fictional.

How I Never Met Patrick begins unexpectedly in the distant past, in the world of the Dacians and Romans, before gradually moving into the contemporary story of Maia and Patrick. The pieces are meant to connect as the story unfolds.

An old earring-inspired by one I actually found while walking on a hill in an area with archaeological remains-becomes one of the threads connecting past and present. The moon, poetry and other recurring symbols also carry meaning throughout the story.

At its heart, this is an emotional story about human connection: about two people separated by distance, identity and self-expression, queer experience and acceptance, friendship, longing, love, loss, resilience, and what it means to be truly seen without having to fit neatly into someone else's expectations.

I only learned yesterday about the Kindle Storyteller UK competition and realised my book could still participate. I'm starting incredibly late and racing against the clock.

I'm not asking anyone for a positive review just to help me. I'm hoping to find a few real readers who genuinely connect with this kind of story. If you read it and choose to leave an honest review, whatever your genuine opinion may be, it would mean an enormous amount to a new author starting from zero.

Whatever happens with the competition, publishing this book on a broken laptop after years of being afraid to try already means more to me than I can properly explain.

Thank you for reading this far. 🤍

📖 How I Never Met Patrick - available on Kindle & Kindle Unlimited.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7PSPMYG

Quick update: I need to be completely honest with you guys. I am learning how to do everything on Amazon by myself and honestly, I'm hitting some technical issues along the way. Someone just pointed out to me that the book description was accidentally left in Romanian. I just went into the system and changed it to English, so right now Amazon is reviewing the updates. Because of this, the link is temporarily showing an error. It should be fully live and working within the next day or two. Thanks a lot for pointing out the mistake and for being patient with me! If you want to check it out when it's ready, please save this post and I will update the link as soon as Amazon approves it.

Hi! I'm currently going through a break up and me and my partner and trying to figure out another way to move forward rather than the typical "break up, no contact, going seperate ways."

looking for a book on queerplatonic relationships or something similar.

We've both read "Radical Intimacy" by sophia rosa and "Ace" by Angela Chen and they mentioned some good alternatives/looking at your relationships in a new way. Would love something that's more specific to my situation. I guess a simpler way to look at it is "being friends with ur ex" but idk.

or tbh any other resource would probably be helpful

As per title, can be any genre, from fantasy to horror to novel, but just want evil characters.

Please no first person POV. Must be available in english.

Thanks!

I have a harder time finding indie books than traditionally published ones, but I'd love to read more. I'm specifically looking for transmasc main characters, preferably gay but that's not a requirement.

I've also heard ao3 has really good original fiction? I've never found any but honestly I'd also take those recommendations if you have them, assuming this sub allows them.

I've already read Peter, Darling by Austin Chant, Call Me Icarus by Andromeda Ruins, the Changelings Anthology, The Stones Stay Silent by Danny Ride, Tears in the Water by Margherita Scialla, Depart, Depart! by Sim Kern, the Dandelion and the Thistle by Pip Dolyn, World Running Down by Al Hess, Tempest, Take Me Home by Charlie Knight, and Names for the Dawn by CL Beaumont.

I want to read a sci-fi story with trans people in it. I'm not really picky on what kind of story, I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.

Are there any literary fiction novels that are sapphic and smutty? just not in search of cartoon character covers and hoping for more emotional plots.

I almost exclusively read MM books.

I really want to read and like sapphic books, but I struggle to find ones where I feel the characters have depth and real romantic chemistry, but I know they exist! 

I'm a sucker for a bi/gay-awakening but that is not a need, feel free to share anything though, fantasy, paranormal, horror, dark, slow burn etc. not a big contemporary fan lately

Some MM favorites/recents for plot/character inspo

• Half Drawn Boy by Suki Fleet

• Captive Prince series by CS Pacat

• Marshals by Mary Calmes

• Don't Let the Forest In and Hazelthorn by CG Drew's

• You Weren't Meant To Be Human by Andrew White

• Monstrous by Lily Mayne

To clarify I have read sapphic books before and enjoyed them, just not lately and these books don't really match my current taste. I would love kinda the sapphic equivalent of some of the books on the top list. For example

• Rules for Fake Girlfriends by Reagan Revord

• A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

• Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

• The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

• Written in the Stars by Alexandra Bellefleur

Every so often I enter a queer depressive phase where my normal reading habits pause and I have to read a billion queer romances, and we have officially entered that phase again!

I’m wondering if anyone has any particular recommendations for stories that deal extensively with coming out— the anxieties about doing it, making plans of how, the trauma if it goes badly, or euphoria, or anything else. I’m mostly interested in M/M characters but I’ll probably read just about anything. Can be YA or not, although I imagine that a probably disproportionate amount of books dealing with coming out are YA?

I'm really looking for books where found family is mostly the central focus, romance is okay but I would prefer queer romance, or no romance at all. I'm not really looking for any kind of fantasy, I want a book that sort of gives summer vacation vibes if that makes sense? But I'm okay with other genres too. Just not too heavy on the angst.

Not totally into YA so I would prefer adult, but I'm open to YA.

any recommendations for non‑fiction works on japanese queer culture or on gender studies in japan?

hi! please recommend me a MM historical literary fiction with high quality writing that's heart breaking, gut wrenching like the following books i'll list down but also has a happy ending (if there's even such a thing). TYIA 🩷

i've read:
lie with me by philippe besson
swimming in the dark by tomasz jedrowski
young mungo by douglas stuart
fellow travelers by thomas mallon
a little life by hanya yanagihara

Oi, pessoal!

Estou terminando meu primeiro romance, Eu & Você, e gostaria de formar um pequeno grupo de leitores beta interessados em conhecer a história antes da publicação.

O livro acompanha Richard e Gustavo, dois garotos com vidas e medos muito diferentes que acabam encontrando um no outro algo que nenhum dos dois esperava.

É uma história sobre primeiro amor, amizade, família, descoberta da sexualidade, trauma, recomeços e a coragem de ser quem realmente somos.

Richard e Gustavo têm suas próprias histórias, conflitos e maneiras de enxergar o mundo. O romance nasce no encontro entre essas duas vidas e nas mudanças que esse sentimento provoca em cada um deles.

Para participar, não precisa ser escritor, revisor ou ter experiência como leitor beta. Na verdade, procuro principalmente pessoas que gostem de ler e queiram compartilhar comigo como foi acompanhar a história.

Depois da leitura, vou deixar algumas perguntas para ajudar quem quiser a organizar suas impressões: quais personagens conquistaram você, quais momentos mais emocionaram, se houve alguma parte em que a leitura perdeu força, se as atitudes dos personagens pareceram naturais e como você se sentiu ao chegar ao final.

Não estou procurando revisão ortográfica ou gramatical. O que mais me interessa é a experiência de vocês como leitores.

A leitura será totalmente gratuita e, neste momento, estou apenas formando o grupo de interessados. Quando o manuscrito estiver preparado para a leitura beta, entrarei em contato com cada pessoa antes do envio.

💙 Se você gosta de romances LGBTQIA+ e tiver interesse em participar do grupo de leitores beta de Eu & Você, deixe um comentário ou me chame no privado.

Vou ficar muito feliz em dividir a história de Richard e Gustavo com vocês.

Eu & Você
Às vezes, amar é a maior forma de coragem.

A masterpiece, now a Penguin Modern Classic, is Shadow Game by Michael Power. It was the first fiction to deal with gay men in love across the colour line in apartheid South Africa. Written during apartheid's heyday, it was published in 1972 under a pseudonym and promptly banned in South Africa. Its writing style and the accuracy of the setting make this a human tale that rings true.

Looking for transmasc for transmasc romance novels. Like heated rivalry but transmasc 4 transmasc

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H37CCQXV

Gap Year Musketeer, a comic coming-of-age novel about a nineteen-year-old exiled to South Florida for a “productive” gap year that immediately becomes anything but.

Miles arrives without a car, a plan, or much evidence that adulthood is going to suit him. He finds himself living with his difficult locksmith grandfather, stumbling into a strange little found family, falling hard for the neighbor across the street, and slowly turning South Florida into his own chaotic domain.

It’s gay, funny, a little messy, emotionally sincere, and built around friendship, chosen family, first freedom, bad decisions, and the terrifying possibility of becoming useful.

Think: queer coming-of-age with comic voice, South Beach gravity, neighborhood oddballs, romantic tension, and a narrator who cannot stop talking long enough to avoid consequences.

Looking for sapphic book recommendations. I’ve just finished all the Rachel Reid hockey books (heated rivalry, game changer etc) and would love something similar but with women, TIA!