Happy Pride Month! Of course, we read LGBTQ+ authors and stories all year long, but we celebrate extra in June. These are some of the books I’ve enjoyed by LGBTQ+ authors and/or with LGBTQ+ representation. For reviews, check out my profile on Goodreads or StoryGraph.
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Nonfiction & Poetry:
- In the Margins: A Transgender Man’s Journey with Scripture by Shannon T.L. Kearns
- Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand by Jeff Chu
- All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
- Broken Horses: A Memoir by Brandi Carlile
- The Backwater Sermons: Poems by Jay Hulme
- Letting Go, Finding You: Uncover Your Truest Self through the Enneagram and Contemplation by Hunter Mobley
- You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (poetry)
- Conversion Therapy Dropout: A Queer Story of Faith and Belonging by Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez
- What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World by Prentis Hemphill
- No One Taught Me How to Be a Man: What a Trans Man’s Experience Reveals About Masculinity by Shannon T.L. Kearns
Fiction
- The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
- The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
- Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
- The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
- Sandwich by Catherine Newman
- Everyone in This Room Will Someday be Dead by Emily Austin
- The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley
- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Guncle by Steven Rowley
- Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram (YA)
- Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (YA graphic novel series; also a Netflix series!)
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (YA)
- Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (YA)
- Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Picture Books for Pride Month
See link above for a previous post with picture books for children!
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