These classifications are based on how I believe the authors identify, but if a title is miscategorized, please let me know and I will be happy to move it.

Gay Author

• I Can’t Date Jesus by Michael Arceneaux
• The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood by Richard Blanco
• I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Buttigieg
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
• Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin
• Officer Clemmons by François S. Clemmons (Amz)
• Boy Erased by Garrard Conley
• Before Pictures by Douglas Crimp
• The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing, and Coming Out by William Dameron
• Heaven’s Coast by Mark Doty
• Asylum by Edafe Okporo
• I Was Better Last Night by Harvey Fierstein
• Naturally Tan by Tan France
• Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the ’70s & the ’80s by Brad Gooch
• Rapture Practice: Growing Up Gay in an Evangelical Family by Aaron Hartzler (YA)
• Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson (YA)
• Maori Boy by Witi Ihimaera
• All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson (YA)
• How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
• I am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
• Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East by Benjamin Law
• Gay Bar by Jeremy Atherton Lin
• Leg: the Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew From It by Greg Marshall
• Borrowed Time by Paul Monette
• Little & Often by Trent Preszler
• Body Counts by Sean Strub

• City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s by Edmund White

Lesbian Author

• Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison
• The Family Tooth by Ellis Avery
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
• A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby
• The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin
• When We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Cordova
• The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes
• Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale
• How Poetry Saved My Life by Amber Dawn
• Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz
• Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi
• Save Yourself by Cameron Esposito
• Prairie Silence by Melanie Hoffert
• Heretic by Jeanna Kadlec (Amz)
• Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home by Leah Lax
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
• *Lesbian Love Story by Amelia Possanza
• One Life by Megan Rapinoe
• Ma and Me by Putsata Reang
• The End of San Francisco by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
• Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love & Revolution by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa
• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
• Like Me by Chely Wright

Bisexual Author

Female

• A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernandez

Male

• Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles Blow
• Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming
• Baggage by Alan Cumming
• The Yards Between Us by R. K. Russell

Queer Author

These authors either ID specifically as queer or do not label their sexuality.

• Angry Queer Somali Boy by Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali
• A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
• Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
• Hola Papi by John Paul Brammer
• I Felt the End Before it Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah’s Witness by Daniel Allen Cox
• We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib
• *Mama: A Black, Queer Woman’s Journey to Motherhood by Nikkya Hargrove
• Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby
• Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T’kira Madden
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Mochado
• I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro
• *The Dead Don’t Need Reminding by Julian Randall
• When They Tell You to Be Good by Prince Shakur
• Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson
• The Chiffon Trenches by Andre Leon Talley
• Against Memoir by Michelle Tea
• Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family and Identity by Candace Walsh
• Madder: a Memoir in Weeds by Marco Wilkinson
• The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
• On Your Right, Fire and Brimstone by Zach Zimmerman

Transgender/Non-Binary Author

• Some Assembly Required by Arin Andrews (YA)
• The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc
• Butch is a Noun by S. Bear Bergman
• Blood, Marriage, Wine, Glitter by S. Bear Bergman
• Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie (YA)
• Sorted: Growing Up, Coming out, and Finding My Place by Jackson Bird
• Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein
• Trauma Queen by Lovemme Corazon
• Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale
• Me, Myself, They by Joshua M. Ferguson
• This Body I Wore by Diana Goetsch
• Voice of the Fish by Lars Horn
• Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings
• Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
• Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by Grace Lavery
• *Both and Neither by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
• Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness, and Becoming a Man by Thomas Page McBee
• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
• *Brace for Impact by Gabe Montesanti (Amz)
• Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me by Janet Mock
• *Tender Moments and Tough Lessons: The Journey Through Adoption, Trans Pregnancy, and LGBTQ Parenthood by Trystan Angel Reese
• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
• Gender Failure by Rae Spoon & Ivan E. Coyote
• First Spring Grass Fire by Rae Spoon
• Becoming Eve: My Journey From Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman by Abby Chava Stein
• Fairest by Meredith Talusan
• Hiding My Candy by The Lady Chablis

Intersex Author

• Born Both: An Intersex Life by Hila Viloria
• XOXY by Kimberly Zieselman

Authors of Other Cultural Non-Binary Identities

• A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby
• The Truth About Me: a Hijra Life Story by A Revathi (Amz)
• Me Hijra, Me Laxmi by Laxmi (Amz)

Multi-Author Collections

• Y’all Means All: the Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia ed. by Z. Zane McNeill