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
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County) Estacada Library
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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...
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,...
Tell the wolves I'm home : a novel
Brunt, Carol Rifka.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A heartfelt story of love, grief, and renewal about two unlikely friends who discover that sometimes you don't know you've lost someone until you've found them "A dazzling debut novel."--O: The Oprah Magazine "Tremendously...
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<...
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...
Untamed
Doyle, Glennon
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OVER THREE 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...
Bajo la puerta de los susurros
Klune, TJ
Paper Book
Bienvenido a El cruce de Caronte. El té está caliente caliente, los bollos recién hechos y los muertos de paso. Cuando Wallace Price se ve asistiendo a su propio funeral, descubre que está muerto. Pero...
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...
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...

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