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30 Best Queer Historical Novels

Queer historical fiction explores lives and relationships that were often hidden, criminalised or described in different terms by their own societies. It combines attention to period-specific language and social constraints with stories of identity, intimacy, community and resistance.

20 books 7 historical periods

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Ancient World 2,200 BCE–628 CE 4 books Medieval Period 330–1,816 CE 6 books Russian Empire & Revolution 1721–1922 CE 1 book Nineteenth-Century Europe 1815–1900 CE 1 book World War I & Interwar Era 1914–1939 CE 3 books World War II 1939–1945 CE 4 books Cold War and Post-war Era 1945–1991 CE 1 book

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