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

• Getting Clean with Stevie Green by Swan Huntley
• 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

Body Image

• Vow of Celibacy by Erin Judge

Breakups

• The Split by Laura Kay
• After Delores by Sarah Schulman

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

Class Difference/Socioeconomic Identity

• Countries of Origin by Javier Fuentes
• The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela

Coming of Age

• Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
• Little Foxes Took Up Matches by Katya Kazbek
• Body Grammar by Jules Ohman
• Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor

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
• Donald Strachey by Richard Stevenson
• Jordan Jenner Mysteries by J.S. Strange

Diaspora Life

• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Vietnamese American)

Disability and Ableism

• Just By Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell

Espionage

• Vera Kelly by Rosalie Knecht
• The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

Faith and Religion

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

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

Gender Identity

• 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
• 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

Hollywood

• I Kissed a Girl by Jennet Alexander
• A Killing in Costumes by Zac Bissonnette
• How to Be a Normal Person 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

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
• 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
• The Married Man by Edmund White
• Two People by Donald Windham

Matrimony

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

Mental Health and Illness

• Broken People by Sam Lansky
• Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

Mysteries

Cozy

• *A Killing in Costumes by Zac Bissonnette
• Proper English by KJ Charles (Historical Romance)
• Dead in the Garden by Dahlia Donovan (Amz)
• Devil’s Chew Toy by Rob Osler
• Hither, Page by Cat Sebastian (Historical Romance)

Literary

• The Verifiers by Jane Pek
• Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen

 Murder

• The After Party by A.C. Arthur (Amz)
• The Savage Kind by John Copenhaver (Historical)
• The Bright Lands by John Fram

Political

• Evan Reed Mysteries by Ann McMan

Noir

• Light Before Day by Christopher Rice

Open Relationships

• *Seeing Strangers by Sebastian Plata

Parenting/Guardianship

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

Politics

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

Psychological Thrillers

• After the Eclipse by Fran Dorricott
• The Final Child by Fran Dorricott
• Temper by Layne Fargo
• The Better Liar by Tanen Jones

Religion

• Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

Road Trip/Travel

• Nevada by Imogen Binnie
• 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)
• 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

• *All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky

Sobriety

• *All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky

Social Media and Technology

• Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
• The Verifiers by Jane Pek
• The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya

Suburbia

• The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela

Theatre

• Temper by Layne Fargo

Thrillers/Suspense

• A Beautiful Crime by Christopher Bollen
• They Never Learn by Layne Fargo
• Real Bad Things by Kelly J. Ford
• The Erin McCabe Mysteries by Robyn Gigl – T
• The Kill Club by Wendy Heard
• Vicious Creatures by Ashton Noone
• Seeing Strangers by Sebastian Plata
• Fire on the Island by Timothy Jay Smith
• Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon
• *Open Flame by P.J. Vernon

Toxic Relationships

• In at the Deep End by Kate Davies

Wartime

• Regeneration by Pat Barker
• The Charioteer by Mary Renault
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

Western

• *Red by Claudia Cravens