Pride Month Book Recommendations!
A book a day recommendations from a variety of genres and topics! Below are 30 of my favorite fiction and nonfiction queer books. This is by far not a complete list but I tried to pull from some that I haven't seen recommended as much. Happy pride month and happy reading!
Biography of X - Catherine Lacey*
The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai
The Rachel Incident - Caroline O'Donoghue
The Air You Breathe - Frances de Pontes Peebles
Dogs of Summer - Andrea Abreu*
Swimming in the Dark - Tomasz Jedrowski*
Monstrillio - Gerardo Samano Cordova*
Belladonna - Anbara Salam
Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
The Black Flamingo - Dean Atta*
Girl Meets Boy - Ali Smith*
This is How You Lose the Time War - Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar*
Valid: Dystopian Autofiction - Chris Bergeron*
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 - Sarah Schulman*
The Other Pandemic: An AIDS Memoir - Lynn Curlee*
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender - Kit Heyam*
The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice is Justice for All - Shon Faye*
A Short History of Trans Misogyny - Jules Gill-Peterson*
Who's Afraid of Gender? - Judith Butler*
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex - Angela Chen*
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex Obsessed Culture - Sherronda J. Brown*
Hijab Butch Blues - Lamya H*
The Argonauts - Maggie Nelson*
Gender Queer - Maia Kobabe*
Everybody: A Book About Freedom - Olivia Laing
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches - Audre Lorde*
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures - Sabrina Imbler*
Girls Can Kiss Now - Jill Gutowitz*
*These books are all available through the Queer Liberation Library (@queerliblib).
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