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Jun 28 2021
By
EVPL Staff
Pride Month is celebrated every June and is an opportunity to commemorate and recognize the LGBTQ+ people in the world and our community. Below is a list of titles that feature LGBTQ+ characters, allies, and/or written by members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Adult Recommendations
- Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis
- Ordinary Girls: A Memoir by Jaquira Díaz
- We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib
- How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
- Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride
- Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuistion
- Continental Divide by Alex Myers
- Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers (P.S. – we’re reading this title for our first LGBTQ+ Book Club)
- Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
- An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Teen Recommendations
- Sasha Masha by Agnes Borinsky
- Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
- Flamer by Mike Curato
- None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
- Can’t Take That Away by Steven Salvatore
- The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
- Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
- The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
School Age Recommendations
- Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker
- King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
- The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
- The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue
- George by Alex Gino
- The Other Boy by M.G. Hennessey
- Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
- The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag
- Ana on the Edge by A. J. Sass
- The Deep and Dark Blue by Niki Smith
Preschool Recommendations
- What Riley Wore by Elana K. Arnold
- Rainbow: A First Book of Pride by Michael Genhart, PhD
- Prince and Knight by Daniel Haack
- Maiden and Princess by Daniel Haack
- Julian at the Wedding by Jessica Love
- When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff
- My Rainbow by Trinity and DeShanna Neal
- A Family Is a Family Is a Family by Sara O’Leary
- This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman
- Pride Colors by Robin Stevenson
