Pride: LGBTQAI+ Stories for Adult Readers

Celebrate Pride Month by reading a book from this list for adult readers. If you would like recommendations for books for teens, check out both Pride: LGBTQ+ Voices for Teens & PRIDE: LGBTQ Voices for Young Teens by Happy Valley Library. All month long during June, you will find book displays and artwork in Estacada Library and other Clackamas County Libraries celebrating Pride!

Updated May 16, 2023
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Big Swiss : a novel
Beagin, Jen
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND CULT FAVORITE Named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, Time, NPR, Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post, NBC News, Lit Hub, theSkimm, Condé Nast Traveler, Town & Country, and more!...
Alice isn't dead : a novel
Fink, Joseph (Fiction writer)
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling co-author of It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale comes a fast-paced thriller about a truck driver searching across America for the wife she had long assumed to be dead. "This isn't a story. It's a...
If I survive you
Escoffery, Jonathan
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction A September 2022 IndieNext Pick A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more...
August Kitko and the mechas from space
White, Alex (Novelist)
Paper Book
When an army of giant robot AIs threatens to devastate Earth, a virtuoso pianist becomes humanity's last hope in this bold, lightning-paced, technicolor space opera series from the author of A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe. Jazz pianist Gus Kitko expected to spend his...
Difficult women
Gay, Roxane
Paper Book
Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives,...
Less is lost
Greer, Andrew Sean
Paper Book
In the follow-up to the "bedazzling, bewitching, and be-wonderful" (New York Times​) best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less: A Novel, the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America. "Go get...
Tell the wolves I'm home : a novel
Brunt, Carol Rifka.
Paper Book
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal * O: The Oprah Magazine * BookPage * Kirkus Reviews * Booklist * School Library Journal   In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love,...
The death of Vivek Oji
Emezi, Akwaeke
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Electrifying." -- O: The Oprah Magazine  Named a Best Book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, USA TODAY, Vanity Fair, Elle, Harper's Bazaar<...
Young Mungo : a novel
Stuart, Douglas
Paper Book
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL * NPR * KIRKUS REVIEWS * TIME * AMAZON * THE WASHINGTON POST * THE TIMES (UK) * DAILY HIVE * THE TELEGRAPH * FINANCIAL TIMES * THE GUARDIAN *...
FAR OUT : recent queer science fiction and fantasy
Paper Book
An Anthology of Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy from Award-Winning Editor Paula Guran Speculative fiction imagines drastically diverse ways of being and worlds that are other than the one with which we are familiar. Queerness is a natural fit for such fiction, so one...
Last exit
Gladstone, Max
Paper Book
From the co-author of the viral New York Times bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War. In Last Exit, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Max Gladstone weaves American myths--the muscle car, the open road, the white-hatted cowboy-...
The sweetness of water
Harris, Nathan
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK ONE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021  Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence Winner of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction ...
Untamed
Doyle, Glennon
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD! "Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today."--Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club Pick) In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and...
Under the whispering door
Klune, TJ
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND INDIE BESTSELLER One of Buzzfeed's "Best Books of 2022"! An Indie Next Pick! A Locus Awards Top Ten Finalist for Fantasy Novel A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the...
Beyond magenta : transgender teens speak out
Kuklin, Susan
Paper Book
A 2015 Stonewall Honor Book A groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of transgender teens. Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used...
Bettyville : a memoir
Hodgman, George.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  "A beautifully crafted memoir, rich with humor and wisdom." --Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book Club "The idea of a cultured gay man leaving New York City to care for his aging mother in Paris, Missouri, is...
Behind the scenes
Stetz-Waters, Karelia
Paper Book
Fans of Abby Jimenez and Meryl Wilsner will fall in love with this hilarious and refreshingly authentic novel about second chances, pugs, and finding the perfect muse . . . Business consultant Rose Josten might not have officially reached "pug lady" middle age, but...
All in : an autobiography
King, Billie Jean
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice. "A story about the personal strength, immense growth,...
Queer, there, and everywhere : 23 people who changed the world
Prager, Sarah
Paper Book
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2017 A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book for Teens 2017 This first-ever LGBTQ history book of its kind for young adults will appeal to fans of fun, empowering pop-culture books like Rad American Women A-Z and...
A marvellous light
Marske, Freya
Paper Book
An International Bestseller! Winner of the 2022 Romantic Novel Award in Fantasy! Locus Award Finalist! An Indie Next pick and LibraryReads pick--with four starred reviews! A Best of 2021 Pick for NPR | Amazon | Kobo | Barnes & Noble |...
Red, white & royal blue
McQuiston, Casey
Paper Book
* Instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller * * GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER for BEST DEBUT and BEST ROMANCE of 2019 * * BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR* for VOGUE, NPR, VANITY FAIR, and more! * What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the...

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