Recs if you like Cereus Blooms at Night...

these books explore queer space and time, rejecting hetero temporality and spatiality across fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry. inside, you’ll find genderqueer immortals, spirits dipping in and out of linear reality, and queer meditations on bodies and aging. recommendations, as always, are very much welcome.

Caribbean and diasporic novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction books.

open to recs!

Ongoing collection of any representation from the LGBTQIA+ community. I've included all genres in this list to make options ample. Any recommendations most welcome!

PS- I'm yet to read most books and have collected these titles from other lists and social media forums, so if anything is wrongly added, please let me know!

Queer books from around the world.

Books written by authors from Trinidad and Tobago / set in Trinidad and Tobago. A rich, flavourful, and diverse mix of stories, all bubbling with local goodness.

Mix of genres by queer authors from nations in North America and the Caribbean, set in (or partially in) the nation. Not every nation is represented yet—I'm still researching them! Keeping it at maximum 3 books per nation.

Antigua & Barbuda: Annie John Bahamas: If I Had Wings Canada: A Minor Chorus; Mohawk Trail Costa Rica: Crocodilopolis Cuba: Call Me Cassandra Dominican Republic: Tentacle Greenland: Last Night in Nuuk Honduras: Libertad Jamaica: Broughtupsy; Things I Have Withheld Mexico: How We Named the Stars* Panama: Stepmotherland Puerto Rico: This is the Only Kingdom; Bad Seed Trinidad and Tobago: Cereus Blooms at Night; The Dreaming United States: The Color Purple; Jonny Appleseed

(*) diaspora author

Saajid (musahobooks) mentioned! but really...this list is brought to you by me reading a essay by a Saint Lucian author - The Journey West (2025) by Mac Donald Ernest Dixon - and remembering a video Saajid once posted. Those books start off the list; feel free to send more recs