A selection of LGBTQIA+ fiction and non-fiction titles
GENERAL FICTION
June is Pride Month
NON-FICTION: Biographies and Memoirs
Boy Erased: A Memoir by Garrard ConleyThe son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality.
Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder by John WatersThe man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, the original Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world’s great sophisticates, and in Mr. Know-It-All he serves it up raw.
Rainbow Warrior: My Life in Color by Gilbert BakerIn 1978, Harvey Milk asked Gilbert Baker to create a unifying symbol for the growing gay rights movement, and on June 25 of that year, Baker’s Rainbow Flag debuted at San Francisco’s Gay Freedom Day Parade.
Timeless Dance: A Story of Change and Loss by Karen LateinerA compelling journey to understand the gender transition of her remarkable son, fully embrace the woman he becomes and, just two years later, grapple with her child’s untimely death.
The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library (Ed.)For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White.
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra HabibSamra Habib has spent most of her life searching for the safety to be herself. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, she faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous.
Confessions of the Fox: A Novel by Jordy RosenbergA New York Times Editors’ Choice: “A mind-bending romp through a gender-fluid, eighteenth century London...a joyous mash-up of literary genres shot through with queer theory and awash in sex, crime, and revolution.”
Murmur by Will Eaves“[Murmur will] grip your mind in the very first pages, break your heart halfway through, and in the end, strangely, unexpectedly, restore your faith in human beings and their endless capacity for resilience.”
Call Number: Fict Eav
ISBN: 9781942658641
Publication Date: 2019-04-09
My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
Call Number: On-Order
ISBN: 9781250833525
Publication Date: 2022-08-23
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Call Number: On-Order New & Popular
ISBN: 9780374606619
Publication Date: 2022-06-07
The Old Place by Bobby Finger
Call Number: On-Order New & Popular
ISBN: 9780593422342
Publication Date: 2022-09-20
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel by Ocean VuongDisarmingly frank, raw in subject matter but polished in style and language, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous reveals the strengths and limitations of human connection and the importance of speaking your truth.
When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille PerriA romantic comedy about gender and sexuality, and the importance of figuring out who we are in order to go after what we truly want.
Jericho by Ann McManWhen Syd Murphy flees a failed marriage to the tiny mountain hamlet of Jericho, Virginia, little does she realize how much her fortunes are going to change when a flat tire brings the enigmatic town doctor, Maddie Stevenson to her rescue.
The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia WaiteAs Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover’s sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It isn’t until she finds a letter from the Countess of Moth, looking for someone to translate a groundbreaking French astronomy text, that she knows where to go. Can Lucy and Catherine find the strength to stay together or are they doomed to be star crossed lovers?
Soft Place to Fall by B. A. TortugaCowboys Curtis and Stetson broke up long ago but now that Stetson’s mother, dying of Alzheimer’s, starts asking why Curtis does not come around anymore, Stetson uses that as an excuse to reach out to his former flame.
The Song of the Sea by Jenn AlexanderLisa never intended on falling in love with anyone, and she certainly cannot allow herself to fall for someone whose son is a constant reminder of the child she lost. Or can she?
As the Crow Flies by Melanie GillmanCharlie Lamonte is thirteen years old, queer, black, and questioning what was once a firm belief in God. So naturally, she's spending a week of her summer vacation stuck at an all-white Christian youth backpacking camp.