This page brings together free online books, topic searches, and audiobooks related to LGBTQ+ fiction, including novels, relationships, identity, social themes, and classic literary works. The materials range from older public domain works to modern novels.
The Topics section below helps readers find books within the huge Internet Archive collection. Each topic link generates an Internet Archive search focused on that subject. Browsing the topics and selecting those of interest is usually easier and more effective than searching Internet Archive directly.
Sections below Topics provide links to audiobooks and other resources. See those sections for more information.
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Topics – LGBTQ Books
The topic links below lead to Internet Archive search results related to gay and LGBTQ+ books. Each link opens a books-and-documents search focused on a particular topic.
Search results generally include fully readable books. For some subjects, Internet Archive also contains other media, such as images, audio, or video files. These can be selected from the media options above the search results. Filters on the left side of Internet Archive pages can help narrow search results by year, language, or related subjects.
LGBT Free PDF Books – Collections at Open Library
The Open Library has created themed collections of links to free online books at the Internet Archive Book Library. Rather than create our own Century Past page for LGBTQ books, we refer you to their collections, with many fiction and nonfiction categories.
Open Library LGBTQ Book Collections
“This collection includes more than a thousand LGBTQ titles, including everything from young adult and historical fiction to anthologies, classic pulp, and academic texts — many of which are available to borrow as ebooks for free, with a free account.”
LGBT Books PDF Free Collection Categories at Open Library
Children & Teens: Board Books | Picture Books | Middle Grade | Young Adult
Fiction: Novels | Short Stories | Pre-Stonewall | Historical | Mystery | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Horror | Romance | Erotica | Classic Pulp
Nonfiction: Essays | Biography & Memoir | History | Sociology | Biology | Activism | Queer Theory | Law & Legal | Literary Criticism
Fiction & Nonfiction by Subject: Gender Identity | Parenting | Humor | HIV/AIDS | Conversion Therapy | Religion & Spirituality | Art & Artists
Other: Graphic Novels | Plays | Poetry | Diaries
LGBT Audio Books Free
These audiobook links lead to public domain recordings from LibriVox at Internet Archive. The books recorded by Librivox volunteers were nearly all published before 1930. Recordings include gay, homosexual, lesbian, LGBT, queer and transgender works.
All Librivox audiobooks are free and can be streamed online or downloaded for offline listening.
LGBT Free PDF Books Underground Press
LGBT Press
Late 20th Century
Various Organizations
The LGBT collection contains 25 publications that chronicle the birth of the Gay and Lesbian movements in the United States.
Related Pages on Century Past
See our Century Past directories for hundreds of webpages of Books; Magazines; Articles, maps, & photos; and Newspapers. You’ll find the same directories on the top Menu. Here are a few suggested pages: