For younger than Middle Grade, see Children’s Books.
For memoirs and personal essays, click here.

* = Not yet released

Middle Grade

History

• The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets by Gayle E. Pitman
• Rainbow Revolutionaries by Sarah Prager
• *Queer History Project: No Way, They Were Gay? by Lee Wind

Miscellaneous

• Sex is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU by Cory Silverberg

Young Adult

History

• Stonewall by Ann Bausum
• *Stonewall by George M. Johnson, ill. by Theo Lorenz
• Queer, There, and Everywhere by Sarah Prager
• The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater

Identity/Orientation

• Queer: The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens by Kathy Belge and Marke Bieschke

Memoir

• Some Assembly Required by Arin Andrews
• Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie
• Rapture Practice: Growing Up Gay in an Evangelical Family by Aaron Hartzler
• Brave Face by Shaun David Hutchinson
• Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings
• All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
• High School by Tegan & Sara

General/Reference

Anthologies

• The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care
  ed. by Zena Sharman

Biography

• Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer
• Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America by Jaime Harker
• *Singled Out by Andrew Maraniss

Gender Identity

• Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis by Georgiann Davis
• How to Understand Your Gender by Alex Iantaffi

History

• Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd
• Fighting Proud: the Untold Stories of the Gay Men Who Served in the Two World Wars by Stephen Bourne
• Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram
• Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter
• The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini
• Charity and Sylvia: a Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves
• Stonewall by Martin Duberman
• Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past ed. by Martin Duberman
• How to Survive a Plague by David France
• The Lavender Scare by David K. Johnson
• Making Gay History by Eric Marcus
• The Pink Triangle by Richard Plant
• When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan
• And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
• Transgender History by Susan Stryker

Intersectionality

• Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in the Jewish Community by Noach Dzmura
• Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South by E. Patrick Johnson
• A View From the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation by Hoang Tan Nguyen
• Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latino/a Activism by Uriel Quesada
• *Rediscovering Two-Spirits: Native American Stories of Spirituality, Resilience, and Community by Gregory Smithers

Literary Criticism/Study

• Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue
• *Pedro’s Theory by Marcos Gonsalez

Parenting

• *Mama: A Black, Queer Woman’s Journey to Motherhood by Nikkya Hargrove (Memoir)
• This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids by Dannielle Owens-Reid

Science

• *Bi: The Science of the Sexual In-Between by Dr. Julia Shaw

Self-Help/Advice/Lifestyle

• *The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend is My Girlfriend by Maddy Court and Kelsey Wroten
• *DapperQ Style Manual by Anita Dolce Vita

Sexual Orientation

• The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality by Julie Sondra Decker
• Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire by Lisa M. Diamond
• Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution by Shiri Eisner

Anthologies with Queer Representation

• Feminism for the Real World ed. by Kelly Jensen
• The (Other) F Word ed. by Angie Manfredi