LGBTQIA+ Reads

Fiction

  • Castillo, Elaine America is Not the Heart.

  • Cunningham, Michael The Hours.

  • Dennis-Benn, Nicole Here Comes the Sun.

  • Dunn, Gaby Bury the Lede.

  • El-Mohtar, Amal This is How You Lose the Time War.

  • Feltman, Amy Willa & Hesper.

  • Gay, Roxane Difficult Women.

  • Glass, Julia A House Among the Trees.

  • North, Anna The Life and Death of Sophie Stark.

  • Perri, Camille When Katie Met Cassidy.

  • Shannon, Samantha The Priory of the Orange Tree.

  • Vuong, Ocean On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.

  • Washington, Bryan Lot: Stories.

  • Waters, Sarah The Paying Guests.

  • Whitaker, Kayla Rae.

  • Yanagihara, Hanya A Little Life.

 

Nonfiction

  • Allen, Samantha Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States.

  • Bechdel, Alison Fun Home: a Family Tragicomic.

  • Chee, Alexander How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays.

  • Conley, Garrard Boy Erased: a Memoir.

  • Hayes, Bill Insomniac City: New York, Oliver and Me.

  • Headcase: LGBTQ Writers & Artists on Mental Health and Wellness.

  • Izzard, Eddie Believe Me: a Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens.

  • Kelly, Donika Bestiary: Poems.

  • Kobabe, Maia Gender Queer.

  • Levy, Ariel The Rules Do Not Apply: a Memoir.

  • Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet Into the Stonewall Era.

  • Smith, Danez Don't Call Us Dead: Poems.

  • Tobia, Jacob Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story.

  • Yoshino, Kenji Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial: the Story of Hollingsworth vs. Perry.

 

Recommended Authors

  • Charlie Jane Anders

  • James Baldwin

  • Michael Cunningham

  • Glennon Doyle

  • Jenni Fagan

  • Roxane Gay

  • Allen Ginsberg

  • E. Lynn Harris

  • Marlon James

  • Audre Lorde

  • Sarah Waters

  • Virginia Woolf

 

 

List compiled by Adult Services, Fox Lake District Library, 2020.


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