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Anonymous: Hello! May I ask if you've got any queer historical fiction recommendations? (Doesn't have to be realistic or based on true events or anything)

lgbtqreads:

Yup!
General Fiction
Female Protagonists
The Last Nude by Ellis Avery
Bittersweet by Nevada Barr
A Thin Bright Line by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
Hild by Nicola Griffith
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
She Rises by Kate Worsley
Male Protagonists
Regeneration by Pat Barker
The Whale by Mark Beauregard
Maurice by E.M. Forster
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
While England Sleeps by David Leavitt
History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill
The Master by Colm Toibin
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
(For reference, you can always find these here: https://lgbtqreads.com/general-fiction/ - scroll down to Historical)
Romance
F/F
Graveyard Sparrow by Kayla Bashe
The Locket and the Flintlock by Rebecca S. Buck
Rebeccah and the Highwayman by Barbara Davies
The Caretaker’s Daughter by Gabrielle Goldsby
Lambs Can Always Become Lions by Charlotte Anne Hamilton
Backwards to Oregon by Jae
Alpennia series by Heather Rose Jones
Awake Unto Me by Kathleen Knowles
Pembroke Park by Michelle Martin (Regency)
Bound With Love by Megan Mulry
Crossing the Wide Forever by Missouri Vaun
M/M
Rite of Summer by Tess Bowery (also m/m/m)
A Fashionable Indulgence+ by K.J. Charles
The Magpie Lord+ by K.J. Charles
Think of England+ by K.J. Charles
M/F
Untamed by Anna Cowan – B
F/F/M
She Whom I Love by Tess Bowery
(You can find these here: https://lgbtqreads.com/romanceadult/)
And in YA:
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
And I Darken by Kiersten White
Wildthorn by Jane Eagland
Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin
*The Unbinding of Mary Reade by Miriam McNamara – B
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
(https://lgbtqreads.com/young-adult/)