LGBTQ* Books You May Want To Read

Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman

LGBTQ* Young Audience Books (You Might Have Missed)

Lisa Jenn Bigelow’s Starting From Here

Sixteen-year-old Colby Bingham’s heart has been broken too many times. Her mother has been dead for almost two years, her truck driver father is always away, her almost girlfriend just dumped her for a guy, and now she’s failing chemistry. When a stray dog lands literally at her feet, bleeding and broken on a busy road, it seems like the Universe has it in for Colby. But the incident also knocks a chink in the walls she’s built around her heart. Against her better judgment, she decides to care for the dog. But new connections mean new opportunities for heartbreak. Terrified of another loss, Colby bolts at the first sign of trouble, managing to alienate her best friend, her father, the cute girl pursing her, and even her dog’s vet, who’s taken Colby under her wing. Colby can’t start over, but can she learn how to move on? (from GoodReads.com)

LGBTQ* Resources You Might Have Overlooked

GoodReads.com’s Lists of LGBTQ* Books/Discussion Groups

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Just click a hashtag below to be brought to hundreds of book titles. LGBT* lists include countless additional lists. Poetry, Graphic Novels, etc are much more concise lists.

(If you are a member of Good Reads and would like to follow/discuss books with another fellow bibliophile, my profile can be found HERE)

#Gay 

#Lesbian

#Bisexual

#Transgender

#Gender

#Gay/Queer Poetry (The first book listed is Siken’s CRUSH, which I HIGHLY recommend)

#Queer* Graphic Novels

#A Hint of Queer

LGBTQ* Young Audience Books To Keep On Your Radar

The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World

(Following text from Good Reads)

“ninety percent of who you are is invisible.”

Amedeo Kaplan seems just like any other new kid who has moved into the town of St. Malo, Florida, a navy town where new faces are the norm. But Amedeo has a secret, a dream: More than anything in the world, he wants to discover something — a place, a process, even a fossil — some treasure that no one realizes is there until he finds it. And he would also like to discover a true friend to share these things with.

William Wilcox seems like an unlikely candidate for friendship: an aloof boy who is all edges and who owns silence the way other people own words. When Amedeo and William find themselves working together on a house sale for Amedeo’s eccentric neighbor, Mrs. Zender, Amedeo has an inkling that both his wishes may come true. For Mrs. Zender’s mansion is crammed with memorabilia of her long life, and there is a story to go with every piece. Soon the boys find themselves caught up in one particular story — a story that links a sketch, a young boy’s life, an old man’s reminiscence, and a painful secret dating back to the outrages of Nazi Germany. It’s a story that will take them to the edge of what they know about heroism and the mystery of the human heart.

Two-time Newbery winner E. L. Konigsburg spins a magnificent tale of art, discovery, friendship, history, and truth.

LGBTQ* Novels You (Should) Know

Like Son by Felicia Luna Lemus

Frank Cruz, born Francisca, leaves California for New york where he finds love with the beautiful, mysterious Nathalie, whose frequent disappearances make Frank reexamine his past and what he wants from love.

LGBTQ* Quotes and Books You Should Know

Quentin Crisp
The Naked Civil Servant, 1978

LGBTQ* Quotes and Quips

Jodi Picoult’s first same-sex focused novel

LGBTQ* Books To Keep On Your Radar

A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White

A Boy’s Own Story is the first of Edmund White’s highly acclaimed trilogy of autobiographical novels that brilliantly evoke a young man’s coming of age and document American gay life through the last forty years. 

The nameless narrator in this deeply affecting work reminisces about growing up in the 1950s with emotionally aloof, divorced parents, an unrelenting sister, and the schoolmates who taunt him. 

He finds consolation in literature and his fantastic imagination. Eager to cultivate intimate, enduring friendships, he becomes aware of his yearning to be loved by men, and struggles with the guilt and shame of accepting who he is. (text from GoodReads)