
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Sometimes when you read a book you don't know whether to laugh or cry. It is just so with 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit'.

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
The path to acceptance and equality for the LGBT community is a hard one, still being navigated by many facing dangerous situations.

Gentleman Jack
Some of the happiest years of my life were spent living in West Yorkshire, close to where this lesbian costume drama was filmed.

Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri
I love Indian-inspired fantasy, and there just isn't enough of it around, so when I discovered Tasha Suri's debut novel I leapt at...

Maurice by EM Forster
It's not easy being LGBT even now, and in some parts of the world it is still positively terrifying in terms of your physical safety.

We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib
When my daughter gave me this book as a gift, I was immediately intrigued by the challenges faced by a queer Muslim woman.

Texts From Jane Eyre by Daniel M Ortberg
'Texts From Jane Eyre' was funny, and very much self-aware and postmodern in that regard. But it was sincere, too.

Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
My daughter bought me this book for my birthday as part of a drive to encourage me to read more fiction about gender identity and gender