Recs if you like Palaver: A Novel...

Autumn Hill is a Prairieland Defendant, sentenced to 50 years in prison for protesting outside of an ICE detention facility, in a move intended to quell all political dissent. To support her, she says “send me more messy gay fiction” especially by queer authors of color!

Books should be paperbacks, purchased new and sent directly from Amazon, and addressed to:

Johnson County Jail, TX Cameron Arnold, 202502023 P.O. Box 247 Phoenix, MD 21131

Suggestions very welcome! 🫶🏽 More info in comments!

ownvoices books across genres by queer men/masc authors that feature queer men as main characters

disclaimer: this is all just based on my own research and may not always be 100% accurate to the author’s identity - feel free to comment any edits or suggestions!

Books where the main character is black and part of the lgbt community! A lot of these came from recommendations on a post I made here, thank you to everyone who replied! And feel free to recommend more! :)

Shamelessly yoinked from a certain other reading app that shall not be named... this is a list of recently published (2025-2026) LGBTQ+ fiction across a spectrum of genres and identities!

(Disclaimer: I haven't read most of these, but so many compelling covers made me want to save them all in a list to continue referencing into the future.)

The books that were considered for @littleleggies book club. Please check books for content warnings, as many have significant triggers.

Fiction books set in Japan

Open to recs!

Family stories! The tragic, the comedic, the heartwarming, the heartbreaking, and everything in between.

hello niche community ! if u do not know kevin atwater is a kind of small artist that sometimes posts book recs, this a collection of the books he has recommended! (also these aren’t explicitly recommendations from him just the books he has posted!)

Title is pretty self-explanatory really! This list contains only the entries in the Fiction category but I might create the other lists too if someone doesn't beat me to it, we'll see what the future holds ~

Frankie’s book club 2026 idk ¯_(ツ)_/¯