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
- Gay and Lesbian Atlanta by Wesley Chenault and Stacy Braukman
- 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
- *Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman
- Transgender History by Susan Stryke
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
- 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
- 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
