Last Night in Nuuk
Niviaq Korneliussen · 2014 · La Peuplade
Five young Greenlanders searching for who to love and who to become, in electric prose: a generational jolt from Nuuk.
In the same vein, in our stories: The First Party
The library
A shelf of reference works to extend the stories. Classics that paved the way for todayâs voices. To read, to gift, to borrow.
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Novels
Stories where queer lives unfold in full, from the classics that broke the trail to todayâs fiction.
Orlando
Virginia Woolf · 1928
A protagonist wanders through centuries, shifting gender along the way: the playful fantasy that shattered categories long before its time.
In the same vein, in our stories: The Citadel, The Form
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin · 1956
In Paris, an American flees his desire for a man: a brief, burning novel about shame and what it costs.
Carol (The Price of Salt)
Patricia Highsmith · 1952
A love story between two women that, for once, does not end in punishment: a quietly radical act for its era.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong · 2019
A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read: exile, first love, tenderness and violence, carried by a poetâs prose.
Society
For thinking through what queer identities reveal about the world: invisibilities, norms, technologies, language.
Pourquoi les lesbiennes sont invisibles
Marie Docher · 2025 · Seuil, coll. Libelle
A sharp essay on the erasure of lesbians in culture and images, and on what seeing, or not seeing, produces.
Algorithmes queers
Guillaume Chevillon · 2026 · Ăditions B42
What if queer thinking could help design less binary, less normative technologies? A proposal for other possible futures.
Queer
InÚs & Philippe Liotard · 2025 · Anamosa, coll. « Le mot est faible »
Written together across two generations: where the word âqueerâ comes from, and how it remains a word of resistance.
Essays & Theory
The foundational texts (feminist, queer, on gender) that gave words to what had none.
Gender Trouble
Judith Butler · 1990
The book that established gender as something we âdoâ rather than something we âareâ: demanding, and foundational.
The Straight Mind
Monique Wittig · 1992
Sharp essays that dismantle heterosexuality as a political regime, not merely a preference.
Testo Junkie
Paul B. Preciado · 2008
Half essay, half diary of self-administered testosterone: the body as laboratory and political terrain.
King Kong Theory
Virginie Despentes · 2006
A furious, funny manifesto that refuses assigned roles: short, and still incandescent.
Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde · 1984
Essays where feminism, race, and desire are thought together. âThe masterâs tools will never dismantle the masterâs house.â
Memoirs & Autobiographies
Lives told in the first person, where the intimate becomes political.
La fin des monstres
Tal Madesta · 2023 · La Déferlante
A trans life trajectory, between memoir and essay: Prix des Inrockuptibles essai 2023.
The End of Eddy
Ădouard Louis · 2014
A childhood spent being âtoo feminineâ in a village in northern France: a debut that struck hard.
In the same vein, in our stories: Christmas Eve
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson · 2015
Love, pregnancy, and transition told together in a text that weaves theory and daily life without ever hardening.
In the same vein, in our stories: Mother's Day, The Ridgeline
Comics & Graphic Novels
When drawing tells stories as well as words can: illustrated memoirs and love stories to devour.
Fun Home
Alison Bechdel · 2006
A masterful drawn memoir about a secretive father and a daughter discovering she is a lesbian, adapted into an award-winning musical.
In the same vein, in our stories: Christmas Eve, Le vernissage
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Julie Maroh · 2010
The love story of ClĂ©mentine and Emma, rendered in blues: the graphic novel behind the Palme dâOr-winning film.
Gender Queer
Maia Kobabe · 2019
A graphic account of a non-binary, asexual journey: pedagogical and tender, one of the most read and most censored.
In the same vein, in our stories: The Citadel, The Form
Heartstopper
Alice Oseman · 2016
Charlie and Nick, two teenagers, and the luminous beginning of a feeling: gentleness made into a series, for all ages.
In the same vein, in our stories: The First Party
Poetry
Voices that distill desire and loss in a few lines, from antiquity to today.
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong · 2016
A devastating debut collection where family history, war, and the loved body converge.
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman · 1855
The great song of the body and of fellowship: a foundational part of the queer canon, long before the word existed.
Poems
Sappho · Antiquité
The fragments of the poet of Lesbos, from whom the words âsapphicâ and âlesbianâ come. The source.
Educational
Clear, caring guides to inform, reassure, and offer support.
Les filles qui aiment les filles
Les Klamydiaâs · Les Klamydiaâs
A warm guide on health, feelings, and the body for young women who love women, made close to home.
Qui sont les LGBT+ ?
Ăditions du Ricochet
A small guide for finding your way through the colors of the rainbow: an accessible starting point from adolescence onward.
Julian Is a Mermaid
Jessica Love · 2018
A beautiful picture book: a child dreams of dressing as a mermaid, and a grandmother who says yes. For all ages.
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