Booklists > 2023 Top 30
Here are the Top 30 bestselling titles at H&H in 2023, unordered!
A selection of some of our most popular books...
Mommy, Mama, and Me by Leslea Newman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Same Sex Parents
One of the only original board books about gay parents A perfect purchase for new parents, baby showers, and more Rhythmic text and illustrations with universal appeal show a toddler spending the day with its mommies. From hide-and-seek to dress-up, then bath time and a kiss goodnight, there's no limit ...Show more
A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects by Australian Queer Archives (Created by); Graham Willett (Managing editor); Angela Bailey (Editor); TImothy W. Jones (Editor); Sarah Rood (Editor)
$44.00 AUD
Category: History
The Australian Queer Archives in partnership with Heritage Victoria have created: A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects, a ground-breaking study of queer people, places, objects and stories that have shaped the state of Victoria. bringing to life the experiences of queer and gender div ...Show more
A Man and His Pride by Luke Rutledge
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
Sometimes life can be hard - until the right person shows you the way. Despite coming out years ago, twenty-six-year-old Sean Preston has never been one to shout his sexuality from the rooftops. When his relationship of three months comes to a humiliating end, he vows never to become emotionally attache ...Show more
A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
No, they weren’t ‘just friends’! Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. ‘But historians famously care about women!’, said no one. From Anne Bonny and Mary Read who sailed the seas together disguised as pirates, to US football captain Megan Rapinoe declaring ‘You can’t win ...Show more
A Sturdy Yes of a People - Selected Writing by Joan Nestle by Joan Nestle
$30.00 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
For over fifty years, Joan Nestle has been chronicling lesbian and queer life boldly with guts, heart, and moral suasion. A Sturdy Yes of a People gathers Nestle’s most influential writing into a single volume presenting her persistent involvement in liberation movements, LGBTQ histories, erotic writing ...Show more
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey; Ben Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
An unconventional history of homosexuality. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose unexemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Many popular histories seek to establish homosexual heroes, pioneers, and martyrs but, as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller ...Show more
Butt Magazine #33 (September 2023)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Out of Print
The glorious 33rd issue of BUTT is here! Inside these 100+ pink pages find sex, lust and the desire to create new worlds, featuring professional wrestler Sonny Kiss, chef Andy Baraghani, photo series by Melanie Bonajo and Benjamin Fredrickson, and so much more. SONNY KISS, professional wrestler i ...Show more
Death In The Sauna by Dennis Altman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Crime / Romance
On the eve of a major international AIDS Conference in London, the Conference chair is found dead in suspicious circumstances. Tracking down how he died reveals layers of deception, rivalry and danger for those close to him. Dennis Altman has written widely on sexuality, politics and culture both in Au ...Show more
Dish: Spiels, Scoops, Emotional Outbursts and the Occasional Recipe by Rhys Nicholson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
This is a semi-stream-of-consciousness written tapestry, squeezed out by a profoundly apprehensive overthinker who’s doing their best to unapologetically stop apologising. (It’s funnier than it sounds.) Every now and then, when the planets align in just the right way, a book comes along that changes eve ...Show more
Everything Under the Moon: Fairy Tales in a Queerer Light by Michael Earp (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Reading Level: Recommended Age 14+
Some damsels don't want to be rescued. Some curses don't need to be broken. And some of the best happy ever afters won't be found in storybooks. Think you know fairy tales? Think again. These twelve fairy tales have been spun through a queered lens to reflect our world in stories as old as time. From ...Show more
Fellow Travelers: A Novel by Thomas Mallon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
From the acclaimed author of Watergate and Up With the Sun, a searing historical novel set in 1950s Washington, D.C. -- a world dominated by personalities like Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy -- and infused with political drama, unexpected humor, and heartbreak. In a world of bare-knuckled ide ...Show more
Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe
$54.99 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiogr ...Show more