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...
Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him - the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searche ...Show more
In Flux: Trans and Gender-Diverse Reflections and Imaginings by Urszula Dawkins (Editor); Alex Nichols (Editor); David Azul (Editor); Nick Lawson (Editor); The Swamp System (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Biography / Memoir
In Flux: Trans and Gender-Diverse Reflections and Imaginings is a community anthology of trans and gender-diverse writing. Both embracing and defying familiar genres, we-the contributors-share experiences, grapple with ideas, play with language and invent new worlds, bringing to the task our skills, hum ...Show more
LGB Dolly Parton: A Little Golden Book Biography by Deborah Hopkinson; Monique Dong (Illustrator)
$5.99 AUD
Category: Being Yourself | Series: Little Golden Book Ser.
Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography all about beloved entertainer Dolly Parton The perfect introduction to nonfiction for preschoolers What's not to love about Dolly Parton? The multi-talented entertainer is generous, humble, smart, and funny. This Little Golden Book bio ...Show more
Poof by JM Tolcher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
Part provocateur, part seducer, this young gay man's account of life offers one of the freshest takes on Australia and the world today. Honouring poets of the past - Jean Genet, Veronica Franco, Euripedes, Hunter S. Thompson, Oscar Wilde - and joining in their task of finding meaning in existence and th ...Show more
Queer Chameleon and Friends by WILSON AMEE
$24.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
A vibrant and uplifting collection of comic illustrations about LGBTQ+ life, for the community and beyond, from the creator of the online sensation @queeeerchameleon that's loved by millions.Queer Chameleon and Friends reminds us that all experiences are valid, empowers us to accept and express our iden ...Show more
Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History by Hannah McElhinney
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Rainbow History Class is your entry into LGBTQ+ history, sharing queer and trans stories from Ancient civilisations all the way up to the internet. So much of queer and trans history and culture has been erased, but Hannah McElhinney, writer and creator of Rainbow History Class (as seen on TikTok), is ...Show more
Red, White & Royal Blue: Film Tie-In by Casey McQuiston
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Crime / Romance
What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius-his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only o ...Show more
Secret Histories of Queer Melbourne by Graham Willett, Wayne Murdoch, Daniel Marshall
$44.00 AUD
Category: History
Melbourne's queer history can be read through its streets and alleys, its parks and (almost) private spaces. Secret Histories of Queer Melbourne invites you to follow in the footsteps of some of those who have given the city its unruly histories, - sodomites, spinsters, cross-dressers, camps, gay men, l ...Show more
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Trans & Gender Diverse Fiction | Series: The Radiant Emperor Ser.
An absorbing historical fantasy, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor. In a famine-stricken village on a dusty plain, a seer shows two children their fates. For a family’s eighth-born son, there’s greatness. For the second daug ...Show more
Survivors and Thrivers - Male Homosexual Lives in Postwar Australia by David Gould
$39.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
Sitting down in a series of interviews with 27 men aged between 74 and 95, David Gould discovered lives - now rapidly being lost to history - that were lived under the shadow of homophobic prejudice. Their stories reveal how men tried to make sense of their same-sex attraction in an era when homosexuali ...Show more
The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas
$32.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap and Damascus. A compelling contemporary love story between two middle-aged men, told with grace, heart and wisdom. No life is simple, and no life is without sorrow. No life is perfect. Two middle-aged men ...Show more
The New Rulebook: Notes from a psychologist to help redefine the way you live, for fans of Glennon Doyle, Brené Brown, Elizabeth Gilbert and Julie Smith by Chris Cheers
$27.99 AUD
Category: Counselling & Psychology | Reading Level: near fine
A practical, inclusive guide to life from Instagram's favourite psychologist Chris Cheers. Take a moment and check in with how you've been feeling lately. Maybe a little tired, stressed or burnt out? All the recent upheaval and uncertainty has left many of us not only feeling exhausted, but also questio ...Show more