Best Books by LGBTQ+ Authors

Queer fiction, memoir, and poetry — the books that define LGBTQ+ literary culture.

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
The Man Who Was Thursday by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Les Trois Mousquetaires by Alexandre Dumas
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

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