Tag: queer historical fiction

• Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin is an LGBT Classic

  This classic is powerful, mesmerising, and heartbreaking in so many ways. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin is one of those short novels that fills the whole space, with life in every word and emotion seeping off the page. It is lyrical and intense and complex and impossible to ignore. It is rough, focusing on many…

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  September 24, 2025

  Classic Fiction, Poetry and Short Stories

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• Queer Book Recs to Celebrate Pride Month

  It is Pride Month in New Zealand, so for today’s post I have a collection of book recommendations for you with LGBTQ+ themes and characters, some of which are also written by authors who are part of the LGBTQ+ community. With so many perspectives, experiences, and voices to listen to from this community, I thought…

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  February 8, 2025

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• A Queer Bookish Mystery in Rough Pages by Lev AC Rosen

  Lev AC Rosen is back with Rough Pages, another brilliant instalment in the Evander Mills historical fiction mystery series. This time, books are at the heart of the story and a little of the history behind queer literature in the 1950s is dabbled throughout the plot. With wonderful prose, extremely relevant themes and messages, and…

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  October 29, 2024

  Historical Fiction

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• Lev AC Rosen’s The Bell in the Fog is Like a Fine Wine

  I loved Lavender House and I love Bell in the Fog even more. Lev AC Rosen is a brilliant writer and has captured the world of 1950s America from a queer lens with such vivid detail and truth. While this one is shorter, it is no less gripping and I need to gush about it…

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  February 22, 2024

  Historical Fiction

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• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Hasn’t Convinced Me

  I read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid over a few days, getting a handful of chapters in during evenings and finishing up the rest over the weekend. Now that it’s done, I can’t help but wish there was more to it. More about the story that wasn’t to do with…

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  February 1, 2024

  Historical Fiction

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• Lavender House – A Queer Historical Murder Mystery To Fall In Love With

  How could I resist Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen after hearing it was a historical fiction murder mystery where the main character is a gay man in the 1950s who gets employed by the wife of a soap dynasty businesswoman to investigate the death of said businesswoman? Not only is it LGBTQ representation, but…

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  October 2, 2023

  Historical Fiction

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