Thank you for popping by!

By filling out this form, you are contributing to an important resource for the LGBTQIA+ community in Tāmaki Makaurau (and hopefully the larger queer community too). After our Queer Book Share event on Sunday 25th February @ 11am, we will compile all the book recommendations we have received into one big document, including genres, content warnings and the like, to help each queer bookworm in our community find the books their hearts yearn for (and they do yearn. Arguably the gays invented yearning). You are encouraged to fill this form out whether or not you can make it to the event!

I’m sure most of us has at some point felt exhausted by reading queer books that end in tragedy, or homophobia, or just things that make us feel sad or unsafe about being queer. Our community deserve to read books that involve queer joy, AND queer sorrow. We deserve the choice. We deserve to have a resource to come to that has all sorts of queer reads, not just sad ones.

This is the starting point.

Below, you have unlimited characters to list down as many queer titles as you can think of, or would recommend. You may or may not like to include: 

• is the book lighter or darker in themes and content?
• Content Warnings (we can also find these, so if you don’t immediately think of some don’t stress)
• In a few sentences, what do you love about this book?
• What genre is the book?

e.g. ‘Name of Book’, queer sorrow/tragedy, CW: homophobia (extreme), eating disorder, death. I love this book because although it is sad, the main character goes on a journey I think many queer people could relate to, which I personally found healing.

e.g. ‘Name of Book’, queer joy, CW: infidelity, homophobia (mild). I love how this book positively frames queerness, and that the plot doesn’t solely focus on one character’s ‘coming out’. It’s a fun romantic read, perfect escapism.