Despite Section 377A (the colonial law that prohibits sex between men) still being in place in Singapore, the National Library catalogue has a great number of LGBT+ ebooks on offer for borrowing. Unfortunately, while many sexual identities are represented here, and quite a few by non-binary writers made the list, the National Library has a saddening lack of transgender literature that I hope will soon be rectified.
Please note that this will be an overview of the queer ebooks you can get from the library. Also, as this list would be incredibly long if it included every LGBT+ book in the catalogue, these are just my personal picks. Currently, this list has 122 ebooks.
Adult fiction
English-language fiction
The Lessons by Naomi Alderman
The Last Nude by Ellis Avery
Venus Envy by Rita Mae Brown
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Some Hell by Patrick Nathan
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill
Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
The Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson
Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
My Education by Susan Choi
A Private Life by Ran Chen
My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci
Crossing by Pajtim Statovci
Sudden Death by Rita Mae Brown
Murmur by Will Eaves
A Beautiful Crime by Christopher Bollen
Kept Animals by Kate Milliken
Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
NEW: All My Mother’s Lovers by Ilana Masad
NEW: Naamah by Sarah Blake
NEW: Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo
NEW: The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
Translated fiction
Sphinx by Anne Garréta
My Fellow Skin by Erwin Mortier
Infidels by Abdellah Taïa
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
NEW: The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán
NEW: Miss Iceland by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Fantasy & sci-fi
Adult fantasy
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
The Binding by Bridget Collins
The Devourers by Indra Das
Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly
The Drowning City by Amanda Downum
Falling in Love With Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson
The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy
Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
Magic’s Pawn by Mercedes Lackey
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Circus Girl, the Hunter, and Mirror Boy by J.Y. Yang
The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland
The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
The Library of the Unwritten by A. J. Hackwith
NEW: The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan
NEW: The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood
YA fantasy
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova
The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman
Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
NEW: Tarnished are the Stars by Rosiee Thor
NEW: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
NEW: The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski
Sci-fi
Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water by Vylar Kaftan
Proxy by Alex London
A Study in Honor by Claire O’Dell
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
Waiting on a Bright Moon by J.Y. Yang
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
The Outside by Ada Hoffman
If, Then by Kate Hope Day
Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden
NEW: Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
NEW: Tentacle by Rita Indiana
Classics
Another Country by James Baldwin
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Last Words From Montmartre by by Qiu Miaojin
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Lydia Steptoe Stories by Djuna Barnes
Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
YA contemporary
The Inexplicable Logic of my Life by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake
Everything Leads To You by Nina LaCour
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera
NEW: The Truth About Keeping Secrets by Savannah Brown
Memoir
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Hunger: A Memoir of my Body by Roxane Gay
Afterglow by Eileen Myles
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
NEW: Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz
NEW: The New Old Me by Meredith Maran
Singlit
Glass Cathedral by Andrew Koh
Ministry of Moral Panic by Amanda Lee Koe
Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe
Lion City by Ng Yi-Sheng
Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me by Cyril Wong
The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza by Cyril Wong
Aunty Lee’s Delights by Ovidia Yu
The Lies That Build a Marriage by Christine Lim Suchen
Eight Plays by Ovidia Yu
Graphic novels
Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Poetry
The Complete Poems of Sappho edited by Willis Barnstone
Collected Poems 1947-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
I Must Be Living Twice by Eileen Myles
Speak Low by Carl Phillips
Double Shadow by Carl Phillips
Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
NEW: Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Short story collections
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
NEW: Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan
If you know of any LGBT+/queer ebooks in the library that aren’t on this list, feel free to suggest them in the comments below so I can add them in – or get in touch with me on Goodreads or Instagram.
Want more queer book recommendations? Try this list of 20th Century classics that aren’t your usual straight-white-men canon texts.
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