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Choix Pluriels

The library

A shelf of reference works to extend the stories. Classics that paved the way for today’s voices. To read, to gift, to borrow.

Novels

Stories where queer lives unfold in full, from the classics that broke the trail to today’s fiction.

Our pick

Last Night in Nuuk

Niviaq Korneliussen · 2014

Five young Greenlanders searching for who to love and who to become, in electric prose: a generational jolt from Nuuk.

Orlando

Virginia Woolf · 1928

A protagonist wanders through centuries, shifting gender along the way: the playful fantasy that shattered categories long before its time.

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 poet’s prose.

Society

For thinking through what queer identities reveal about the world: invisibilities, norms, technologies, language.

Our pick

Pourquoi les lesbiennes sont invisibles

Marie Docher · 2025

A sharp essay on the erasure of lesbians in culture and images, and on what seeing, or not seeing, produces.

Our pick

Algorithmes queers

Guillaume Chevillon · 2026

What if queer thinking could help design less binary, less normative technologies? A proposal for other possible futures.

Our pick

Queer

InÚs & Philippe Liotard · 2025

Written together across two generations: where the word “queer” 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 “do” rather than something we “are”: 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. “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”

Memoirs & Autobiographies

Lives told in the first person, where the intimate becomes political.

La fin des monstres

Tal Madesta · 2023

A trans life trajectory, between memoir and essay: Prix des Inrockuptibles essai 2023.

The End of Eddy

Édouard Louis · 2014

A childhood spent being “too feminine” in a village in northern France: a debut that struck hard.

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson · 2015

Love, pregnancy, and transition told together in a text that weaves theory and daily life without ever hardening.

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.

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 d’Or-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.

Heartstopper

Alice Oseman · 2016

Charlie and Nick, two teenagers, and the luminous beginning of a feeling: gentleness made into a series, for all ages.

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 “sapphic” and “lesbian” come. The source.

Educational

Clear, caring guides to inform, reassure, and offer support.

Our pick

Les filles qui aiment les filles

Les Klamydia’s

A warm guide on health, feelings, and the body for young women who love women, made close to home.

Qui sont les LGBT+ ?

Éditions 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.

This library grows with every read. Have a book to suggest? Write to us and we’ll gladly add it.