LGBTQ+ Reading List
We love these books by LGBTQ+ authors!
fiction & Ya
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carola Rifka Brunt
Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey
Bruised by Tanya Boteju
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
nonfiction
Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition by P. Carl
The Life & Times of Butch Dykes by Eloisa Aquino
Second Son and Transforming Manhood by Ryan K. Sallans
Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Real Queer America by Samantha Allen
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He & She by Dennis Baron
F*ck Me: Tips on Loving Trans Bodies by Madeline DeVeney
Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive by Julia Serano
poetry & Graphic Novels
Homie by Danez Smith
Sympathetic Little Monster by Cameron Awkward-Rich
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Takami
Heartstopper, Vol. 1 by Alice Oseman
Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden
Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson
Top: A Comic About Gender and Surgery by Rainer Bloodgood
Picture books & chapter books
People of Pride: 25 Great LGBTQ Americans by Chase Clemesha, MD
The Best at It by Maulik Pancholy
George by Alex Gino
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
I Am Jazz by Jazz Jennings & Jessica Herthel
They, She, He, Easy as ABC by Maya Christina Gonzalez & Matthew S.G.
Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
How to Save a Queendom by Jessica Lawson