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It's Pride Season! Read for Pride to spotlight the resilience, celebrate the talent, and recognize the contributions of 2SLGBTQ+ communities 🌈

Updated June 9, 2025
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We Could Be Rats
Austin, Emily.
Paper Book
A "one-sitting-read" (Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author) about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination--from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts...
I leave it up to you : a novel
Chong, Jinwoo
Paper Book
From the award-winning author of Flux comes "an endearing novel about second chances" (The Washington Post), with wise insights into love, family, and the art of sushi. "Wise and poignant [with] mouthwatering descriptions of food . . . I Leave It Up to You...
Something, not nothing : a story of grief and love
Leavitt, Sarah
Paper Book
In April 2020, cartoonist Sarah Leavitt's partner of twenty-two years, Donimo, died with medical assistance after years of severe chronic pain and a rapid decline at the end of her life. About a month after Donimo's death, Sarah began making comics again as a way to deal with her profound sense of...
Two truths and a lie
O'Brien, Cory
Paper Book
From the beloved internet humorist, a debut novel that introduces an unforgettable investigator to the drowned streets of L.A. in a hugely imaginative and heartfelt blend of noir and cyberpunk. In a mostly underwater near-future Los Angeles, aging combat-drone veteran Orr...
Murder in the dressing room
Stars, Holly
Paper Book
A poisoned chocolate. A stolen dress. An elusive catburglar. Drag's not just dramatic, it's deadly. By day, Joe is a hotel accountant, invisibly sitting behind their desk and playing by the rules. By night, donned in sequins, they take to the stage...
Woodworking
St. James, Emily
Paper Book
"Big-hearted and hilarious, an ode to authenticity and a must-read in our current times." --Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures "Writing a funny book is hard. Writing a convincing takedown of one of America's most...
Hammajang luck
Yamamoto, Makana
Paper Book
HAMMAJANG | adjective. Definition: In a disorderly or chaotic state; messed up. Chiefly in predicative use, esp. in all hammajang. Etymology: A borrowing from Hawaiian Pidgin. Source: Oxford English Dictionary. Edie is done with crime. Eight years behind bars changes a...
Survival is a promise : the eternal life of Audre Lorde
Gumbs, Alexis Pauline
Paper Book
A Time Must-Read Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Winner of the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre...
Hijab butch blues : a memoir
H, Lamya
Ebook
Leg : the story of a limb and the boy who grew from it
Marshall, Greg (Essayist)
Paper Book
Leg is Greg Marshall's "riotous" (People), "witty" (USA Today), and "intimate" (NPR) memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets--as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy. * A NOTEWORTHY 2023...
So Gay for You: Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All
Moennig, Kate
Paper Book
*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* An intimate, hilarious memoir of art, friendship, queerness, and found family by Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey, stars of The L Word--including never-before-shared stories and photos from behind the scenes of the show and their...
Pageboy : a memoir
Page, Elliot
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times "100 Notable Books of 2023" A TIME Magazine "100 Must-Read Books of 2023" A Washington Post "50 Notable Works of Nonfiction" An Autostraddle "Best Queer Books of 2023" "Vivid...Moving...
Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives
Possanza, Amelia
Paper Book
When Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, overheard them on the pool deck when she joined the world's largest LGBTQ swim team, and even watched them on TV in her cockroach-infested apartment....
I heard her call my name : a memoir of transition
Sante, Lucy
Paper Book
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Slate "Reading this book is a joy . . . much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a standard for those in need of...
The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture (1955-1979)
Savage, Jon
Paper Book
A monumental history of the LGBTQ influence on popular culture, from the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage.
It ain't over til the bisexual speaks : an anthology of bisexual voices
Shearing, Lois
Paper Book
The bisexual experience is, by necessity, incredibly diverse - we are likely to be attracted to different genders, form part of multiple marginalised groups, and be perceived (depending on the gender of our partner) in wildly different ways... This anthology is a radical and ambitious...
Falling back in love with being human : letters to lost souls
Thom, Kai Cheng
Ebook
A national bestseller in Canada, hailed by The New York Times as an "intimate expression of self-acceptance and forgiveness, tenderly written to fellow trans women and others." "Required reading."--Glennon Doyle, #1 bestselling author of Untamed ...
The LGBTQ+ travel guide : interviews, itineraries, and inspiration from queer insiders in 50+ proud places
Valenski, Alicia
Paper Book
"must-have for queer travellers" - Attitude Magazine "travel inspiration with a strong queer perspective, you need this in your arsenal"- Pink News "will give queer travellers a serious case of wanderlust" - Publisher's Weekly Discover more than 50 queer...
The big reveal : an illustrated manifesto of drag
Velour, Sasha
Paper Book
"Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us--the infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived." -Sasha Velour This book is a quilt, piecing together memoir, history, and theory into a living portrait of an artist and an art....
The other Olympians : fascism, queerness, and the making of modern sports
Waters, Michael
Paper Book
Finalist for the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History and the 2025 Mark Lynton History Prize. Named one of the Best Books of 2024 by The New Yorker, NPR and BookPage. "Michael Waters performs an Olympian act of storytelling, using the stories...
The loves of my life : a sex memoir
White, Edmund
Paper Book
From the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex. "In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund White's love of sex makes us proud to be human. And the story of his sex life reads like a beautifully crafted, very moving...

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