Skin Deep Magic by Craig Laurence Gidney. Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab by Shani Mootoo. Last Words of Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin. Part the Hawser Limn the Sea by Dan Lopez. The Girl with the Treasure Chest by V.A. Of course, I’ll happily add books to the list if you haveĪny suggestions that fit the theme - only books about QPOC, and only works published in 2014. I was more likely to include books I know were written by people ofĬolor). If the qpoc characters were prominent, or if I thought the book mightīe exploitative), I tried to give weight to who the author is (i.e. If I was unsure about a book’s contents (that is, if I was unsure These are also not personal recommendations, just every title I couldįind. These are all books that feature the voices of queer people of color and/or QPOC protagonists.Īnnual disclaimer: There’s no way this list is exhaustive. It has grown thanks to the efforts of small presses like Kórima Press and biyuti publishing. Resources like the Lambda Literary Foundation and Sistahs On The Shelf, as well as reviewers around tumblr, goodreads and elsewhere. I put together this list of publications from 2014 with the help of Some see challenges like this as limiting our reading choices - but in a culture where white, straight, cis narratives continue to dominate, intentionally diversifying the stories we read is an exercise in expansion. 
To try a year of books that aren’t written by straight, white, cis men.
Earlier this year, author K Tempest Bradford challenged readers
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