I’ll put an asterisk (*) next to those I have heard may contain harmful content. Marginalizations ARE NOT a monolith. I am only listing books based on the ownvoices marginalization represented. DO NOT tell someone who has been hurt that their pain is not valid because the book is ownvoices, even if they are the same marginalization as the author. The hurt caused by them is real and valid. I am not excusing their problematic nature at all. I also want to go ahead and note that I know some of these books are problematic for other marginalizations. Likewise, if I’ve not included a book you know to be ownvoices for the LGBT+ aspects, please let me know and I’ll add it to the list! Also, if I’ve gotten any of these incorrect, please let me know so I can fix it. Please let me know in the comments or shoot me a DM on Twitter or IG if you know what a book is ownvoices for. There are some that I’m unsure what the ownvoices rep is, so I’ll just put a ? for those.

I’m also going to add what the ownvoices rep within the book is in parenthesis. I’m going to list them in alphabetical order by title. I also decided to provide the list for y’all in a way that allows everyone to see it all put together. I got together with a few amazing people and we decided to host an Instagram challenge. I was initially asking so that I could use the books for myself for reading and pictures for my own bookstagram account, but the overwhelming number of books that came at me that I had no idea existed before made me want to do more with it. And WOW did y’all deliver! I had people responding, quote retweeting, and DMing me on both Twitter AND Instagram to tell me their favourite ownvoices LGBT+ books. No matter! A couple weeks ago, I had a post on Twitter asking for any and all books y’all could think of that are ownvoices for the LGBT+ aspects.

Hard Wired by Megan Erickson