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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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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...
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 : a novel
Yamamoto, Makana
Paper Book
Ocean's 8 meets Blade Runner in this trail-blazing debut science fiction novel and swashbuckling love letter to Hawai'i about being forced to find a new home and striving to build a better one--unmissable for fans of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir and Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. Edie...
Hijab butch blues : a memoir
H, Lamya
Paper Book
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this "raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations" (Linah Mohammad, NPR). "A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on...
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
Marshall, Greg
Paper Book
* A 2024 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST * *Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction of 2023 * NPR's Books We Love 2023 * * A New and Noteworthy Memoir of 2023 Selected by * Washington Post * USA Today * Esquire * Buzzfeed *<...
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 music moved queer culture from the margins to the mainstream
Savage, Jon
Paper Book
Jon Savage, the author of the canonical England's Dreaming, explodes new ground in this electrifying history of pop music from 1955 through 1979. In demonstrating that gay and lesbian artists were responsible for many of the greatest cultural breakthroughs in the last half of the twentieth...
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...
Marsha : the joy and defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
Tourmaline
Paper Book
'Thank god the revolution has begun, honey.' Rumour has it that after legendary Black transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson threw the first brick in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, she picked up a shard of broken mirror to fix her make-up. This fearless moment embodies both the beauty and violence of...
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 ...
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....
Making love with the land : essays
Whitehead, Joshua (Writer)
Paper Book
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The novel Jonny Appleseed established Joshua Whitehead as one of the most exciting and important new literary voices on Turtle Island, winning both a Lambda...

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