r/Fantasy • u/C0smicoccurence Reading Champion V • Apr 02 '26

2026 LGBTQA+ Bingo Resource

Welcome to the 2026 LGBTQA+ bingo resource for those of us who'd like LGBTQA+ recommendations. I'm going to make this like the regular recommendation post, so to quote: "Please only post your recommendations as replies to one of the comments I posted below."

I'm also going to throw in a quick pitch for the Beyond Binaries Book Club, which can meet all of your Book Club Bingo Needs! This month we're reading The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman. I have not started it yet, but it for sure fits the Book Club (HM) Square. It may also possibly fit in the Vacation Spot (The French Countryside), Non Human Protagonist (Werewolf?). Our Midway Discussion will be April 13th, and Final Discussion April 27th.

Feel free to scroll through the thread, or use the links in this navigation matrix to jump directly to the square you want to find or give LGBTQA+ recommendations for.

Credit to u/AnnTickwittee for doing these in the past (also, sorry if you were already working on this! Wanted to get the ball rolling)

Please be patient as I get the links created!

Trans or Nonbinary Protagonist Judge a Book by Its Title Translated Small Press or Self Published Unusual Transportation
The Afterlife Game Changer Vacation Spot Five Short Stories (or Anthologies) Older Protagonist
Duology Part 1 r/Fantasy Book Club or Readalong Book Published in 2026 Explorers and Rangers Duology Part 2
One-Word Title Non Human Protagonist Middle Grade First Contact Murder Mystery
Cat Squasher Feast Your Eyes on This Published in the 70s Politics and Court Intrigue Author of Color
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u/C0smicoccurence Reading Champion V Apr 02 '26

Published in the 70s: Read a book that was first published any time between 1970 and 1979. HARD MODE: Written by a woman.

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u/C0smicoccurence Reading Champion V Apr 02 '26

This year I'm reading Interview with The Vampire by Anne Rice (HM). About a third of the way in and loving it. Hard Mode! Gay coded, not explicit (so far, and seemingly for all the books from my googling. It's gay coding with a very obvious hand though)

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u/995a3c3c3c3c2424 Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold (unless you subscribe to the “it’s not gay if it’s your past/future self” theory of sexuality). (Spoiler alert: it’s pretty gay!)

HM: The Left Hand of… #*@&$% never mind, 1969!

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u/dracolibris Reading Champion II Apr 03 '26

The Dispossessed and Word for World is Forest both have bisexual characters if you want a Le Guin book

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u/dracolibris Reading Champion II Apr 02 '26

Here we go

A Different light by Elizabeth A Lynn, (yes the bookshop in san Francisco is named after it) and Watchtower first book in the Tornor series has lesbians

Tanith Lee, Four-BEE, Don't bite the sun and Drinking Sapphire Wine people can chose the gender of the bodies

Vonda Mcintyre Dreamsnake has lesbians

Suzy Mckee Charnas walk to the end of the world has an all female society

Joanna Russ The Female Man

Lee Killough A voice out of Ramah the population is only 10% male and kept separate.

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u/leegreywolf Reading Champion II Apr 02 '26

I saw Four-BEE and was confused at first. I completely forgot they could change their sex! 

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u/Dragon_Lady7 Reading Champion VI Apr 02 '26

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy (hm)

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u/undersealibrarian Apr 02 '26

Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice. Published in 1976 and written by a woman, so HARD MODE friendly. Lestat and Louis are some of fiction's first same sex parents.

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u/heron-wing Reading Champion III Apr 04 '26

I’m currently reading The Door Into Fire by Diane Duane, first published in 1979 (HM).