Diverse Books & Book Bundles

Having got well into adulthood before encountering characters representing my marginalised identities in fiction; I know how important diverse rep is. The thrill of FINALLY encountering someone you actually relate to on the page is the best!

Fiction is a great opportunity to see the world through different eyes and to broaden your perspective. As an indie author who knows LOTs of indies; I notice that queer, neurodivergent, otherwise disabled and BIPOC characters are more common in our books. And we tend to be writing from lived experience/ as queer/ disabled/ BIPOC people.

On this page I’ve rounded up multiple lists of books by queer and neurodivergent identities, disability books, and or books by queer/ BIPOC/ disabled authors below. Better still, the ‘bundles’ lists are pages on an indie store that lets you buy direct from authors, meaning authors earn more per sale. (As opposed to commercial bookstores, who tend to claim 30-40% of the list price, leaving authors only 70-60%.)

Queer, Autism & Diverse Books

You can search books by LGBTQIA+ identity, and Fantasy, SciFi, Cozy and Horror, in Read Fantay Indie’s LGBTQIA+ Book Collection.

You’ll find fiction and nonfiction about autism or autistic characters, by autistic authors, on the Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project website. They’re organised by theme, representation, audience age and genre.

We Need Diverse Books has a short selection of mainly BIPOC books, including include banned books.

Book Bundles (On Itchio)

Indie store Itchio lets authors bundle our books temporarily, to be bought as a set. After that time, each bundle page still exists, displaying covers and linking DRM free ebooks for individual sale, direct from authors. Many of the below examples do so for books by marginalised identity, with some SFF genre and region of the world pages.