The most popular queer books of 2020

Queer books are for stories that do not fit a tidier label. Characters and authors here resist categories of gender and desire, and the writing is often as inventive as the lives it describes. Expect novels, essays and memoirs that are playful, political and proudly themselves. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.

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Afterlove
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Afterlove

Tanya Byrne

2020 · 2023 edition

400 pages

Love After Love
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Love After Love

Ingrid Persaud

2020 · 2021 edition

416 pages

Cleanness
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Cleanness

Garth Greenwell

Published 2020

256 pages

Thirst
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Thirst

Marina Yuszczuk

2020 · 2024 edition

256 pages

Even If We Break
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Even If We Break

Marieke Nijkamp

2020 · 2021 edition

320 pages

Rick
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Rick

Alex Gino

2020 · 2022 edition

256 pages