If you run a One City One Book program and are looking for queer stories by queer authors, we’ve got you covered!
For even more recommendations of all genres, check out this post and this Edelweiss catalog.
YOURS FOR THE TAKING by Gabrielle Korn
9781250357625
Trade paperback available 11/12/24
A thrilling queer debut novel set several decades in the future and following an unforgettable cast of characters as they become swept up into a strange and exclusive new society.
THE SEA ELEPHANTS by Shastri Akella
9781250867247
Trade paperback available 10/1/24
For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Burning, a queer coming-of-age novel set in 1990s India, about a young man who flees his father’s threats to send him to a conversion center by joining a street theater troupe.
OPEN THROAT by Henry Hoke
9781250335807
Trade paperback available now
In elegiac prose woven with humor, imagination, sensuality, and tragedy, Henry Hoke’s Open Throat is a marvel of storytelling, a universal journey through a wondrous and menacing world told by a lovable mountain lion. Both feral and vulnerable, profound and playful, Open Throat is a star-making novel that brings mythmaking to real life.
BEATING HEART BABY by Lio Min
9781250819116
Trade paperback available now
Lio Min’s Beating Heart Baby is a “dizzying, sexy, and utterly heartfelt” (Mary H. K. Choi) love letter to internet friendships, anime, and indie rock, perfect for fans ready for what comes after HEARTSTOPPER.
PAGEBOY by Elliot Page
9781250878373
Trade paperback available now
The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth.

I’M THE GIRL by Courtney Summers
9781250323545
Trade paperback available now
A subversive, “brutally captivating” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and “devastatingly realistic” (Kirkus, starred review) coming-of-age thriller perfect for fans of My Dark Vanessa and Firekeeper’s Daughter.
ANDER & SANTI WERE HERE by Jonny Garza Villa
9781250323392
Trade paperback available now
Aristotle and Dante meets The Sun is Also a Star in this YA contemporary love story about a nonbinary Mexican American teen falling for the shy new waiter at their family’s taqueria.
IN THE LIVES OF PUPPETS by TJ Klune
9781250217431
Trade paperback available now
Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E in the woods in this new standalone fantasy from beloved New York Times and USA Today bestselling author TJ Klune.
ROSES, IN THE MOUTH OF A LION by Bushra Rehman
9781250834805
Trade paperback available now
In the vein of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community.
LAVENDER HOUSE by Lev AC Rosen
9781250834249
Trade paperback available now
A delicious story from a new voice in suspense, Lavender House is Knives Out with a queer historical twist.

MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME by Rasheed Newson
9781250833549
Trade paperback available now
A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s New York City, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and Bel-Air.
OTHER NAMES FOR LOVE by Taymour Soomro
9781250872883
Trade paperback available now
A charged, hypnotic debut novel about a boy’s life-changing summer in rural Pakistan: a story of fathers, sons, and the consequences of desire.
OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA by Julia Armfield
9781250229908
Trade paperback available now
From Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year finalist Julia Armfield, a haunting, utterly original debut novel about a couple dealing with the aftermath of a disastrous deep-sea mission.
YERBA BUENA by Nina LaCour
9781250810519
Trade paperback available now
The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two women on a star-crossed journey toward each other, perfect for fans of Writers and Lovers.
THIS BODY I WORE: A Memoir by Diana Goetsch
9781250867155
Trade paperback available now
Goetsch has written not a transition memoir, but rather a full account of a trans life, one both unusually public and closeted. All too often trans lives are reduced to before-and-after photos, but what if that before photo lasted fifty years?

MA AND ME: A Memoir by Putsata Reang
9781250867124
Trade paperback available now
In her startling memoir, Putsata Reang explores the long legacy of inherited trauma and the crushing weight of cultural and filial duty. With rare clarity and lyric wisdom, Ma and Me is a stunning, deeply moving memoir about love, debt, and duty.
UNDER THE WHISPERING DOOR by TJ Klune
9781250217394
Trade paperback available now
A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in this delightful, queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea.
A MARVELLOUS LIGHT by Freya Marske
9781250831798
Trade paperback available now
Red, White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in debut author Freya Marske’s A Marvellous Light, featuring an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies.
LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS by Ryka Aoki
9781250789082
Trade paperback available now
This lyrical, delightful, queer SF novel is Good Omens with a Faustian bargain.
WINTER’S ORBIT by Everina Maxwell
9781250758842
Trade paperback available now
“Sparks fly” (NPR) in Everina Maxwell’s gut-wrenching and romantic space opera debut.

A SPINDLE SPLINTERED by Alix E. Harrow
9781250765352
Novella available now
New York Times bestselling author Alix E. Harrow brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story, splicing the threads of the Sleeping Beauty stories.
ONE LAST STOP by Casey McQuiston
9781250244499
Trade paperback available now
From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that puts a queer spin on Kate & Leopold.
IN THE DREAM HOUSE: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
9781644450383
Trade paperback available now
Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
BIRTHDAY by Meredith Russo
9781250129857
Trade paperback available now
From the award-winning author of If I Was Your Girl, Birthday will have you falling in love with Eric and Morgan as they fall in love with each other.
RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE by Casey McQuiston
9781250316776
Trade paperback available now
A big-hearted romantic comedy in which the First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales after an incident of international proportions forces them to pretend to be best friends.