Academia

• Pages For You by Sylvia Brownrigg
• The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton
• My Education by Susan Choi
• They Never Learn by Layne Fargo
• We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart
• These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
• If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Addiction and Sobriety

• Getting Clean with Stevie Green by Swan Huntley
• A Shot in the Dark by Victoria Lee
• All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky
• Shae by Mesha Maren
• Just By Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell

AIDS Crisis

• The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara
• After Francesco by Brian Malloy
• As if Death Summoned by Alan E. Rose
• People in Trouble by Sarah Schulman
• The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels
• The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín

Boarding School

• Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue
• Belladonna by Anbara Salam

Body Image

• Vow of Celibacy by Erin Judge

Breakups (including Divorce)

• Bellies by Nicola Dinan
• The Split by Laura Kay
• Something Close to Nothing by Tom Pyun
• The Dogs of Venice by Steven Rowley
• *Take Me With You by Steven Rowley
• After Delores by Sarah Schulman

Capitalism, Class Warfare, and/or Socioeconomic Identity

• Make Sure You Die Screaming by Zee Carlstrom
• Countries of Origin by Javier Fuentes
• The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela

Childhood Trauma

• Don’t You Know I Love You by Laura Bogart (Child abuse)
• Edinburgh by Alexander Chee
• What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
• Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

Coming of Age

• Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
• Best Woman by Rose Dommu
• *Girl’s Girl by Sonia Feldman
• Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth
• Little Foxes Took Up Matches by Katya Kazbek
• Body Grammar by Jules Ohman
• *The Maidenheads by Britt Peterson
• Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
• Hombrecito by Santiago Jose Sanchez
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Compulsory Heterosexuality

• The Lovers by Rebekah Faubion

Conversion Therapy

• How to Survive a Summer by Nick White

Crime (Standalones)

• A Beautiful Crime by Christopher Bollen
• The Savage Kind by John Copenhaver
• Cottonmouths by Kelly J. Ford
• The Rabbi Who Prayed with Fire by Rachel Sharona Lewis
• Sugar Run by Mesha Maren

Crime (Series)

Female MCs

• Harlem Renaissance Mysteries by Nekesa Afia – L
• Epitome Apartments by Candas Jane Dorsey – P
• The Erin McCabe Mysteries by Robyn Gigl – T
• Aud Torvingen by Nicola Griffith – L
• Bobbi Logan by Renee James – T
• Betty Rhyzyk by Kathleen Kent
• Jane Lawless by Ellen Hart
• Charlie Mack Motown Mysteries by Cheryl A. Head
• Jinx Ballou, Bounty Hunter by Dharma Kelleher – T
• Roxane Weary by Kristen Lepionka – B
• Pentecost and Parker by Stephen Spotswood (Historical) – B

Male MCs

• Dave Brandstetter by Joseph Hansen
• The Henry Rios Mysteries by Michael Nava
• Evander Mills by Lev A.C. Rosen
• Donald Strachey by Richard Stevenson
• Jordan Jenner Mysteries by J.S. Strange

Diaspora Life

• Hombrecito by Santiago Jose Sanchez (Colombian)
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Vietnamese American)

Disability and Ableism

• Just By Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell

Dysfunctional Families

• Island Time by Georgia Clark
• All My Mother’s Lovers by Ilana Masad
• The Influencers by Anna-Marie McLemore
• Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore

Espionage

• Vera Kelly by Rosalie Knecht
• The Torqued Man by Peter Mann
• The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
• The Perfume Thief by Timothy Schaffert

Faith and Religion

• The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton
• Boys of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson

Fertility, Pregnancy, Adoption, and/or Surrogacy

• The Relatives by Camilla Gibb
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
• Something Close to Nothing by Tom Pyun

First Love

• Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski

Found Family

• Stray City by Chelsey Johnson
• One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
• Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
• Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman

Friendship

• Boys Come First by Aaron Foley
• So Happy For You by Celia Laskey
• The Celebrants by Steven Rowley

Gender Identity/Transition

• Bellies by Nicola Dinan
• Shae by Mesha Maren
• An Ordinary Wonder by Buki Papillon
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Gentrification

• Boys Come First by Aaron Foley

Grief and Mourning

• Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
• Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn
• Broughtupsy by Christina Cooke
• You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
• We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart
• A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
• And Then the Gray Heaven by R.E. Katz
• Some Hell by Patrick Nathan
• Ghost Fish by Stuart Pennebaker
• Model Home by Rivers Solomon

Hollywood

• I Kissed a Girl by Jennet Alexander
• A Killing in Costumes by Zac Bissonnette
• How to Be a Movie Star by TJ Klune
• Just By Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Guncle by Steven Rowley
• Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner

Immigration/Deportation

• Countries of Origin by Javier Fuentes

Intergenerational Explorations

• All My Mother’s Lovers by Ilana Masad
• Little Fish by Casey Plett

Love Affairs

• Lie to Me by Philippe Besson
• The Other Guy by Farhad J. Dadyburjor
• The Adult by Bronwyn Fischer
• Countries of Origin by Javier Fuentes
• What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
• We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart
• Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
• Mrs. S by K Patrick
• The Married Man by Edmund White
• Two People by Donald Windham

Love Triangle

• Work Nights by Erica Peplin

Matrimony

• The Other Guy by Farhad J. Dadyburjor
• Big Gay Wedding by Byron Lane
• All Are Welcome by Liz Parker

Mental Health and Illness

• Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
• Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin
• Broken People by Sam Lansky
• Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

Noir

• Light Before Day by Christopher Rice

Open Relationships

• The Spare Room by Andrea Bartz
• Seeing Strangers by Sebastian Plata

Parenthood/Guardianship

• With Teeth by Kristen Arnett
• The Guncle by Steven Rowley

Politics

• Enter the Aardvark by Jessica Anthony
• Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
• Evan Reed Mysteries by Ann McMan
• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Questioning (Sexuality)

• How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? by Anna Montague

Racism

• *Model Home by Rivers Solomon
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor
• We Came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado

Religion

• Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
• A Shot in the Dark by Victoria Lee
• Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore

Revolutionary Women

• The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron
• Mademoiselle Revolution by Zoe Sivak

Road Trip/Travel

• Nevada by Imogen Binnie
• *Make Sure You Die Screaming by Zee Carlstrom
• Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg
• Less and Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
• After the Parade by Lori Ostlund

Rural Life

• Cottonmouths by Kelly J. Ford (Ozarks)
• Boys of Alabama by Genevieve Hudson
• Sugar Run by Mesha Maren (Appalachia)
• Shae by Mesha Maren
• The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels

Sex Work

• On Home by Becca Spence Dobias
• Cam Girl by Elliot Wake w/a Leah Raeder
• City of Night by John Rechy
• Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon
• Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

Sexual Awakening

• In at the Deep End by Kate Davies

Sexual Assault/Violence

• They Never Learn by Layne Fargo
• Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage

Siblinghood

• We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin
• April May June July by Alison B. Hart
• All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky

Social Media and Technology

• Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
• The Influencers by Anna-Marie McLemore
• The Verifiers by Jane Pek
• The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya

Space Exploration

• Shoot the Moon by Isa Arsén
• To the Moon by Eliana Ramage
• Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Sports

• Hot Girls with Balls by Benedict Nguyen

Suburbia

• The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela

Theatre

• Temper by Layne Fargo

Toxic/Abusive Relationships

• milktooth by Jaime Burnet
• In at the Deep End by Kate Davies

Travel

• Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley

War

• Regeneration by Pat Barker
• The World and All That it Holds by Aleksandar Hemon
• The Torqued Man by Peter Mann
• The Charioteer by Mary Renault
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
• In Memoriam by Alice Winn

Weddings

• Best Woman by Rose Dommu

Western

• Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens