Queer Book Club

Monthly book club focused on queer authors.

Monthly book club focused on queer authors on a range of topics. Each month we’ll discuss a title and offer readers the chance to suggest the next month’s read.
There’s also the opportunity to have a non-alcoholic drink, make new friends and socialise after the book discussion.
Upcoming dates

January 2026 – Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa’ed Atshan
February 2026 – Queer Footprints – A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History by Dan Glass
March 2026 – After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
April 2026 – The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
May 2026 – Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
June 2026 – My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci
July 2026 – Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation by Eli Clare
August 2026 – Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
September 2026 – Disoriental by Negar Djavadi
October 2026 – Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu
November 2026 – What It Feels Like for a Girl by Paris Lees
December 2026 – Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Previous books read

Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall by Neil Bartlett
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
The Bell by Iris Murdoch
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection by Madeline Dyer (editor)
All Men Want to Know by Nina Bouraoui
Neon Roses by Rachel Dawson
Go Tell It to the Mountain by James Baldwin
This Arab is Queer by Elias Jahshan (editor)
Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield
January 2025 – Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
February 2025 – Maurice by E.M. Forster
March 2025 – Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
April 2025 – The Lesbiana’s Guide To Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
May 2025 – On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
June 2025 – Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman – Sharan Dhaliwal
July 2025 – Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer
August 2025 – Rosewater by Liv Little
September 2025 – You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
October 2025 – The Color Purple by Alice Walker
November 2025 – Gender Euphoria: Stories of Joy From Trans, Non-binary and Intersex Writers by Laura Kate Dale
December 2025 – The Price of Salt/Carol – Patricia Highsmith

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