Delighted to see Alison Bechdel’s The Secret to Superhuman Strength, Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show, Robert Jones’s The Prophets and Anthony Veasna So’s Afterparties on NYT’s 100 Notable Books list. QueerReader recommends these titles. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

For those of you who are giving gifts this season, Queer Reader strongly recommends Alison Bechdel's The Secret to Superhuman Strength. An autobiography informed by Transcendentalism, this large format graphic novel is beautifully illustrated. QueerReader.com

As the new year begins--and award season looms--QueerReader asks you to remember Anthony Veasna So and the unforgettable stories he gave us. Please do not let the sadness of Mr. So's passing overshadow the greatness of Afterparties. QueerReader.com

To celebrate Edmund White's birthday, QueerReader reviews his new novel, A Previous Life. Witty, wise and very sexy. QueerReader.com strongly recommends this delightful book. queerreader.com/?p=859

QueerReader.com looks at The Publishing Triangle's and Lambda Lit Finalists Lists: What they got right and what's missing. #Lammys, #PublishingTriangle, #SonofBaldwin, #TheProphets #OscarWildeALife, #LetTheRecordShow, #Afterparties, #TheSecrettoSuperhumanStrength,

QueeReader.com reviews Douglas Stuart's Young Mungo and finds it even better than his Booker Prize-winning Shuggie Bain. Worth a read! queerreader.com/?p=1667

QueerReader is delighted that Robert Jones Jr.'s The Prophets has won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and Anthony Veasna So has won the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. QueerReader.com strongly recommended these books.

QueerReader.com celebrates Pride Month with a Strong Recommendation for Hugh Ryan's Women's House of Detention. An alternative Queer history which is, at once, timely and essential.

QueerReader.com celebrates Pride with a strong recommendation for John Weir's Your Nostalgia is Killing Me. If you haven't read this book by now, you should. It's poignant, historical and surprisingly funny.

The author of the Queer classic, Dancer from the Dance, has a new book out. Kingdom of Sand examines the nature of Queer mortality. While the prose is less exuberant, it's in some ways more focused. A rare look at this important subject.

QueerReader.com strongly recommends Rainbow, Rainbow: a collection of ten superb queer short stories. Lydia Conklin is certainly an author to watch.

Queer Reader is delighted to see John Weir’s Your Nostalgia is Killing Me made The Washington Post’s “10 Award Winning Short Story Collections Worth Reading”. QueerReader.com strongly recommended this book! washingtonpost.com/books/2022/10/…

As the literary awards season approaches, QueerReader.com announces the best novel of 2022: David Santos Donaldson's Greenland. This superb novel intertwines the stories of E.M, Forster's 1919 Egyptian love affair with a queer black man's voyage of self-discovery today

Part historical E.M. Forster novel, part voyage of self-discovery, David Santos Donaldson's Greenland was strongly recommended by QueerReader.com. Delighted that it is now a finalist for The Publishing Triangle's Edmund White Award for Debut fiction.

QueerReader.com reviews Edmund White's newest novel, The Humble Lover: the story of a doomed relationship between a young ballet dancer and a much older, much richer queer man. Equal parts humorous and melancholic, this novel has a dreamlike quality. Strong recommendation

QueerReader.com strongly recommends Disorderly Men: an astonishingly good debut novel.  Edward Cahill’s novel arrives fully-formed:  expertly crafted, painstakingly detailed—with characters who are three-dimensional, believable, even when they’re not entirely sympathetic.

QueerReader.com celebrates Pride with strong recommendations for two new novels by Armistead Maupin and Stephen McCauley. If you haven't read Mona of the Manor and You Only Call When You're in Trouble, you should.

This new Isherwood biography is the most important non-fiction book QueerReader.com has reviewed so far.  Isherwood was uniquely positioned to meet most of the important queer authors of the twentieth century.   Inside Out it is an essential history of modern queer lit.

The review of Edmund White's new book, The Loves of My Life, A Sex Memoir is one of QueerReader.com's longest--so far. I made this decision because this is a very important book. More than just a "Sex Memoir". This a chronicle of over 60 years of gay life in New York

QueerReader.com mourns the death of the great Queer writer, Edmund White. Writing about Mr. White's passing is particularly difficult for those of us who knew and loved him. But we have more than one consolation. Thirty actually. Thirty books that Mr. White left us.