Year-End Lists

Them: Our 23 Favorite LGBTQ+ Books of 2023

• Open Throat
  Henry Hoke
• I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
  Marisa Crane
• Family Meal
  Bryan Washington
• Roaming
  Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
• The Risk It Takes to Bloom

  On Life and Liberation
  Raquel Willis
• All-Night Pharmacy
  Ruth Madievsky
• Blackouts
  Justin Torres
• Glassworks
  Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
• Of Thunder & Lightning
  Kimberly Wang
• I'm Never Fine

  Scenes and Spasms on Loss
  Joseph Lezza
• Wild Geese
  Soula Emmanuel
• Horse Barbie
  Geena Rocero
• Choosing Family

  A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance
  Francesca Royster
• Bellies
  Nicola Dinan
• Falling Back in Love with Being Human

  Letters to Lost Souls
  Kai Cheng Thom
• The Male Gazed

  On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men
  Manuel Betancourt
• Safe and Sound

  A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair
  Mercury Stardust
• Homebodies
  Tembe Denton-Hurst
• People Collide
  Isle McElroy
• The Skin and Its Girl
  Sarah Cypher
• The Last Catastrophe

  Stories
  Allegra Hyde
• Yours for the Taking
  Gabrielle Korn
• Confidence
  Rafael Frumkin