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21 Queer Women of Color Books You Have To Read!

[image description: 3 graphics with the title “21 Queer Women of Color Books You Have To Read!” The title is against a rainbow with black and brown stripes. The books are:

Fiction:

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Painting Their Portraits in Winter by Myriam Gurba
• Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
• Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert (YA)

Fabulism & Magical Realism:

• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie

Poetry:

• Bodymap by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Historical/Alternate History:

• The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson
• Prairie Ostrich by Tamai Kobayashi
• Miss Timmins’ School for Girls by Nayana Currimbhoy
• Everfair by Nisi Shawl

Werebears:

• Bearly a Lady by Cassandra Khaw

Vampires:

• The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

Sci-Fi:

• Adaptation and Inheritance by Malinda Lo (YA)
• Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi

Fantasy:

• Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova (YA)
• When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai

Comics:

• Supermutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki

Memoirs:

• When We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Cordova
• Hunger by Roxane Gay
• Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love & Revolution by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa]

21 Queer Women of Color Books You Have To Read!