I am looking for book suggestions by Queer authors other than super spicy books.the only romance I like is when it’s tied into an over arching story. I like adventure, magical realism, dystopian, witchy nature, nonfiction where I learn new things. I don’t like books where the world building takes ten chapters to learn and there are a large number of characters to remember. (I have memory issues from a brain injury)
Books/authors I have loved just as an example
Authors:
Becky Chambers
Octavia Butler
Jasper Fford
Books:
Parable series
Broken Earth Trilogy
Braiding Sweetgrass
Under the Whispering Door
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Food: We Need to Talk
Myths about Fat People
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
by shootingstare
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I might not match your description, but this book called love in the big city by sang young park is one of my absolute favs. I re-read it a few days back and honestly, it’s so heart warming
Do you like Greek mythology? If so, try _The End Crowns All_, by Bea Fitzgerald. It’s a retelling of the Trojan war with a love story between Helen (bi in the book) and Cassandra (an asexual lesbian, and the author is asexual too). Depends on what you call _large number_ if characters but if you’re already familiar with the story, it should be okay.
Don’t know if the authors are queer, but This is How You Lose The Time War is a sapphic romance with two enemy time travelers; there are only two major characters, but the world building can be obscure at the beginning if you don’t read the summary (it’s part of the charm I guess, I thought it was the effect of the poetic writing but if you’re a more practical reader it can be harder).
As for non-fiction, two books on asexuality: Ace by Angela Chen (quite a classic on the topic), or Refusing Compulsory Sexuality (don’t remember the author, but they’re a black asexual, can be interesting to learn about the intersection of the two identities).
Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire