As such, this list, much like its authors, is a living one, and will be updated periodically with new entries and recommendations. I could go on and on tenfold-and I’m sure the folks mentioned here could, too. They are presented in no particular order. These books cover a range of literary forms, and their authors a breadth of genders and queer identities. To celebrate the brilliance and diversity of contemporary queer literature, here’s a very small sampling of must-read queer books by living queer authors at various stages of their careers. But what of the living legends who walk among us, or the legends-in-the-making we’re keen to lift up? Give them their due respect, of course they have paved the literary road for so many of us queer writers working today.
That is to say, such lists regularly name the late giants, the great and gone. Forster, Audre Lorde, Christopher Isherwood. Whenever I see a list of “best” LGBTQ books, I always find the usual suspects: James Baldwin, Patricia Highsmith, E.
