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/Topics
- 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
- Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt by Brontez Purnell (Amz)
- Body Counts by Sean Strub
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City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s by Edmund White
Lesbian Author/Topics
- 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/Topics
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/Topics
These authors ID themselves and/or their work 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
- *Becoming History by Hugh Ryan
- 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
