Some Cool Book Lists What I Acquired From Work
There are a lot and this got long so it’s under a cut:
ALGBTQ Books for Younger Readers and Parents
Board Books:
Daddy, Papa & Me, Leslea Newman
Mommy, Mama & Me, Leslea Newman
Everywhere Babies, Susan Meyers
A is for Activist, Innocanto Nagara
Picture Books:
Morris Micklewhite & The Tangerine Dress, Christine Baldacchino
Otter & Odder, James Howe
Family Book, Todd Parr
William’s Doll, Charlotte Zolotow
Red: A Crayon’s Story, Michael Hall
Oliver Button Was A Sissy, Tomie Depaola
10.000 Dresses, Marcus Ewert
Gay/Lesbian Parenting:
And Tango Makes Three, Justin Richardson
In Our Mother’s House, Patricia Polacco
Heather Has Two Mommies, Leslea Newman
I Am Jazz, Jessica Herthel
King & King, Linda de Haan
My Princess Boy, Cheryl Kilodavis
Middle Readers:
Better Nate Than Never, Tim Federle
Marco Impossible, Hannah Moskowitz
Gracefully Grayson, Ami Polonsky
The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher, Dana Alison Levy
Totally Joe, James Howe
George, Alex Gino
Young Adult
Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli
The Vast Fields of Ordinary, Nick Burd
We Are The Ants, Shaun David Hutchinson
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, Kirstin Cronn-Mills
Anything Could Happen, Will Walton
Tell Me Again How A Crush Should Feel, Sara Farizan
Fans of the Impossible Life, Kate Scelsa
Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan
Symptoms of Being Human, Jeff Garvin
Sister Mischief, Laura Goode
Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before, Karelia Stetz-Waters
Aristotle & Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz
Carry On, Rainbow Rowell
Ask the Passengers, A.S. King
Adaptation, Malinda Lo
I’ll Give You The Sun, Jandy Nelson
I am J, Cris Beam
Miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily M. Danforth
Keeping You A Secret, Julie Anne Peters
LGBTQ Literature
Lit:
How I Paid For College, Marc Acito
The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
Bastard Out Of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
The Narrow Door, Paul Lisicky
Before Night Falls, Reinaldo Arenas
Is Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
Push, Sapphire
Two Serious Ladies, Jane Bowles
Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag
AIDS and Its Metaphors, Susan Sontag
Sheltering SKy, Paul Bowles
Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown
A Boy’s Own Story, Edmund White
Hood, Emma Donoghue
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Orlando, Virginia Woolf
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Fannie Flagg
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
The Narrow Door, Paul Lisicky
Poetry:
If Not, Winter, Sappho & Anne Carson
Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong
The Morning of the Poem, James Schuyler
Self Portrait In a Convex Mirror, John Ashberry
Crush, Richard Siken
Poems, Elizabeth Bishop
Zami, Audre Lorde
Howl, Allen Ginsberg
Small Press Poetry & Prose:
List of Consonants, Manuel Arturo Abreu
Some Planet, Jamie Mortara
Pansy, Andrea Gibson
Insert Boy, Danez Smith
Transgender Studies:
She’s Not There, Jennifer Finney Boylan
Whipping Girl, Julia Serano
The Gaylactic Spectrum Award
2014/2015 - Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold, Death By Silver
2013 - Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
2012 - J.A. Pitts, Honeyed Words
2011 - Kathe Koja, Under the Poppy
2010 - Richard K Morgan, The Steel Remains
2009 - Elizabeth Bear, The Stratford Man
2008 - Ginn Hale, Wicked Gentlemen
2007 - Hal Duncan, Vellum
2006 - Karin Lowachee, Cagebird
2005 - Laurie Marks, Earth Logic
2004 - Nalo Hopkinson, The Salt Roads
2003 - Laurie Marks, Fire Logic
2002 - Hugh Nissenson, The Song of the Earth
2001 - David Gerrold, Jumping Off the Planet
2000 - Keith Hartman, The Gumshoe, The Witch, and The Virtual Corpse, & Peg Kerr, The Wild Swans
1999 - Anne Harris, Accidental Creatures & Stephen Leigh, Dark Water’s Embrace
Great Books with Characters of Color for Younger Readers
Board Books:
I Can Do It Too, Karen Baicker
Many things by Ezra Jack Keats
Many things by Taro Gomi
Many things by Gyo Fujikawa
I Know a Lot, Stephen Krensky
Global Babies series, Global Fund
Babies & Doggies, John Schindel
Baby Dance, Ann Taylor
Rain Feet, Angela Johnson
Snow, Carol Thompson
Picture Books:
One Word From Sophie, Jim Averback
Again, lots of things by Ezra Jack Keats
Last Stop on Market Street, Matt de la Pena
Lizard from the Park, Mark Pett
Abuela, Arthur Dorros
Sebastian & The Balloon, Philip C Stead
Corduroy, Don Freeman
Just In Case, Yuyi Morales
Lots of things by Gyo Fujikawa
Big Red Lollipop, Rukhsana Kahn
The Great Day, Taro Gomi
Those Shoes, Maribeth Boelts
Poetry:
Anything by Nikki Giovanni
Honey I Love, Eloise Greenfield
Middle Readers:
Code Talker, Joseph Bruchac
The True Meaning of Smekday, Adam Rex
The Thing About Luck, Cynthia Kodohata
Shooting Kabul, N.H. Senzai
Chickadee, Louise Erdrich
Inside Out & Back Again, Thanhha Lai
Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan
Mira in the Present Tense, Sita Brahmachari
In The Footsteps of Crazy Horse, Joseph Marshall III
Young Adult:
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
The Breadwinner, Deborah Ellis
Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz
Boxers & Saints, Gene Luen Yang
Soundless, Richelle Mead
If You Could Be Mine, Sara Farizan
More Happy Than Not, Adam Silvera
Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers
Game of Love and Death, Martha Brockenbrough
Strong Female Protagonists in Graphic Novels
General:
Bitch Planet, Kelly Sue DeConnick
The Secret Loves of Geek Girls, Hope Nicholson
Rat Queens, Kurtis J Wiebe
Stumptown, Greg Rucka
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
iZombie, Chris Roberson
Strong Female Protagonist, Brennan Lee Mulligan
Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
The Adventures of Superhero Girl, Faith Erin Hicks
Ghost World, Daniel Clowes
Calling Dr. Laura, Nicole Georges
All Ages:
Amulet, Kazu Kibuishi
El Deafo, Cece Bell
Lumberjanes, Noelle Stevenson
Roller Girl, Victoria Jamieson
Teen:
Nimona, Noelle Stevenson
This One Summer, Jillian Tamaki
Honor Girl, Maggie Thrash
Anya’s Ghost, Vera Brosgol
Superheroes & Series:
Jessica Jones: Alias, Brian Michael Bendis
She-Hulk: Law and Disorder, Charles Soule
Batgirl of Burnside, Cameron Stewart
Spider-Gwen: Most Wanted, Jason Latour
Batwoman: Elegy, Greg Rucka
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Power, Ryan North
Black Widow: The Finely Woven Thread, Nathan Edmondson
Thor: The Goddess of Thunder, Jason Aaron
Captain Widow: In Pursuit of Flight, Kelly Sue DeConnick
Harley Quinn: Preludes and Knock-Knock Jokes, Karl Kesel
Wonder Woman: Down to Earth, Greg Rucka
Ms. Marvel: No Normal, G. Willow Wilson
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joss Whedon
Manga:
Nana, Ai Yazawa
Claymore, Norihiro Yagi
Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Magica Quartet
Alice in Murderland, Kaori Yuki
Princess Jellyfish, Akiko Higashimura
Solanin, Inio Asano
Angel Beats!, Jun Maeda
