My Queer Bookshelf

I've got a part of my shelf where I keep my queer books. It's my Queer Bookshelf. It surely doesn't hold ALL my books that feature queer characters, are by queer authors or are about queerness. Many books on there are in some way kind of ... fundamentals? But not all. It's mostly vibes based.

Basics

Broad Strokes, deep dives, exhaustive looks at certain aspects of queer identity!

Gay Berlin - Robert Beachy Ace - Angela Chen Bi - Julia Shaw Queer, A Graphic History
- Meg-John Baker & Julia Scheele Gender, A Graphic Guide
- Meg-John Baker & Julia Scheele Sapphos Poems

Memoirs

I like hearing about other queer people's experiences. Finding out what resonates and what doesn't at all, looking into someone else's head, feeling a bit less alone.

Pageboy - Elliot Page A Year Without A Name
- Cyrus Dunham Mein Name ist Linus
- Linus Giese When I was Me
Moments of Gender Euphoria
Quindrie Press

Fiction

I read a lot of queer fiction or fiction with queer characters. Most of them, I borrow from the library. The ones I own are mostly not on my queer shelf but on my SciFi shelf for example. So these are the rare gems that for one reason or another are so central to me that they just *belong* here!

Loveless - Alice Oseman I Wish You All The Best
- Mason Deaver

Comics & Grapic Novels

Colorful images good. Colorful images portraying queer stories, even better.

My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness - Kabi Nagata The Witch Boy Series
- Molly Ostertag Bingo Love - Tee Franklin, Jenn St-Onge, Joy San Moonstruck 1 & 2
- Grace Ellis, Shae Beagle "Hattest du eigentlich schon die Operation?" - Peer Jongeling Emil:ia - Peer Jongeling

Misc.

Fantastische Queerwesen und wie sie sich finden
- published by Stef and Sven Hensel

To Be Read

I've still got a few books that'll one day be part of the Queer Bookshelf, but that are stuck on my TBR pile for now:

Trans. Frau. Sein. - Felicia Ewert None of the Above - Travis Alabanza Küsse für Jet - Joris Bas Backer Goodbye Gender
- Rae Spoon & Ivan Coyote