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
• On Top of Glass by Karina Manta
• 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
• Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry
• Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr
• Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun by Charles J. Shields
• The Mayor of Castro Street: the Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts
• Barney Frank by Stuart E. Weisberg

Gender Identity

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

History

Cities

• Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd
• Gay and Lesbian Atlanta by Wesley Chenault and Stacy Braukman
• Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall by St. Sukie de la Croix
• When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan

Culture

• Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram
• Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman
• The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema by Thomas Waugh
• Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall by Thomas Waugh
• Lust Unearthed: Vintage Gay Graphics from the DuBek Collection by Thomas Waugh

Gay and/or Lesbian History

• Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today by Howard J. Brown, M.D.
• Charity and Sylvia: a Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves
• Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past ed. by Martin Duberman
• Making Gay History by Eric Marcus
• My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years by Sarah Schulman

HIV/AIDS Crisis

• How to Survive a Plague by David France
• Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman
• And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts

Legal Battles and Discrimination

• The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini
• The Lavender Scare by David K. Johnson
• The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard Plant
• The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience by Zoë Playdon

Lifestyle

• Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life by Gretchen Legler

Military

• Fighting Proud: the Untold Stories of the Gay Men Who Served in the Two World Wars by Stephen Bourne
• Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the US Military from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf by Randy Shilts

Stonewall

• Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter
• Stonewall by Martin Duberman

Transgender and/or Intersex History

• Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift by Linda Heidenreich
• Black on Both Sides by C. Riley Snorton
• Transgender History by Susan Stryke
• *The Other Olympians by Michael Waters

Intersectionality

• Black Trans Feminism by Marquis Bey
• Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in the Jewish Community by Noach Dzmura
• Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South by E. Patrick Johnson
• Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought by Briona Simone Jones
• Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men From the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis by Kevin J. Mumford
• Black on Both Sides by C. Riley Snorton
• 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

• The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc
• *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

Self-Help/Advice/Lifestyle

• The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend is My Girlfriend by Maddy Court and Kelsey Wroten
• The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing up Gay in a Straight Man’s World by Alan Downs, Ph D.
• *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
• *Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Dr. Julia Shaw

Anthologies with Queer Representation

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