I receive so many titles and authors to check out. Of course, we can only read a tiny fraction of the suggestions I receive, but I thought I'd put them out there on a site, in case people were interested. They are listed in alphabetical order by title, just to suggest no favorites. I try to update this every poll. I also have a substack with suggested titles and my reflections about reading them.
All This Could be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews
Beijing Comrades by Hei Tong
Disoriental by Negar Djavadi
Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Gentrification of the Mind by Sarah Schulman
Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Greenland by David Santos Donaldson
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson (Young Adult Fiction)
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park
Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen (Graphic Novel/Young Adult Fiction)
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Notes on a Crocodile by Qui Miaojin
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
On Freedom by Maggie Nelson (Nonfiction)
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The End of Eddy by Eduoard Louis
The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela
This is How We Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (Science Fiction)
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
X by Davey Davis
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Zami, A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
My Government Means to Kill me by Rasheed Newson
My Pinup by Hilton Als
The Black Period by Hafizah Augustus Geter
Memorial by Bryan Washington
Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett
The People Who Report More Stress by Alejandro Varela
Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
Las Biuty Queens by Ivan Monalisa Ojeda
Manywhere by Morgan Thomas
A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Bigness of the World by Lori Ostund
Lot by Bryan Washington
Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield