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Pride Month Fiction

From the domesticated to the wild, the brutally raw to the sleekly polished, catch the whole spectrum of queer fiction with these freshest of the fresh staff picks!

Calgary Public Library

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  • Brand new short story release from the GG-awarded poet from Driftpile Cree Nation. No one lays out the honest realities of local Indigenous experience with such raw, emotional power.
    Book, 2024[Toronto, Ontario] : Hamish Hamilton, ©2024. — FICTION BEL
  • An irresistibly appealing mainstream romance set behind the scenes of a reality TV show. Such a rock solid premise, and relatable, loveable characters, that readers of any appeal are bound to cheer them on.
    Book, 2021New York : Atria Paperback, ©2021. — FICTION COC
  • Readers have had seven years to unanimously agree, along with so many prizes, that this is as good as the best fiction gets.
    Book, 2017New York : Little, Brown and Co., ©2017. — FICTION GRE
  • Incredibly entertaining, genre-defying speculative fiction centred around the complicated gay relationship of its world-saving heroes. Their world faces an existential threat from nostalgia contentment and the dissolution of time itself!
    Book, 2023[Toronto, Ontario] : Viking, ©2023. — SCIENCE FICTION MACD
  • A massive hit from New Zealand depicting the humorous and touching misadventures of a brother and sister navigating complicated relationships from Auckland to Buenos Aires.
    Book, 2021New York : Avid Reader Press, ©2021. — FICTION REI
  • When the bright lights of NYC shine on Gordon, a young man from Minnesota, who's found a job walking the dogs of Manhattan's elite, he sees so much life has hidden. A novel that teems with brilliant writing and magnetic rhythm that's hard to put…
    Book, 2024New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©2024. — FICTION GRA
  • A kaleidoscopic mashing of queer experience that lands with "just the right amount of vulgarity". No light, mainstream romance here, but rather a "hurricane of delirious, lonely, lewd tales".
    Book, 2021New York : MCD x FSG Originals, ©2021. — FICTION PUR
  • Originally published in 1994, only one year before the author's tragic suicide, this newly minted classic shines from many angles of experience of queer misfits at Taiwan's most prestigious university.
    Book, 2017New York : New York Review Books, ©2017. — FICTION QIU
  • Such a massive hit from 2021, there just had to be a sequel for the feel-good vibes of 'Gay Uncle Patrick'. The Guncle Abroad has now landed but start here with the origins of GUP.
    Book, 2021New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, ©2021. — FICTION ROW
  • Readers looking for a lot more action packed into their fiction will devour this high octane freedom quest that appeals as a murder mystery and fugitive love story set against the backdrop of the 1990s Satanic Panic.
    Book, 2024New York, New York ; Toronto : HarperPerennial, ©2024. — FICTION THR
  • A later-in-life coming-of-age odyssey for a woman encouraged to seek the queer dating adventures she missed in her twenties. Demand on this book steadily grows as reader acclaim pours in, so get those holds placed!
    Book, 2024[Toronto, Ontario] : Doubleday Canada, ©2024. — FICTION YOU