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LGBTQIA Resources

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Selected Adult Fiction

The Argonaut. Maggie Nelson, 2015.

Call Me by Your Name. André Aciman, 2017.

City of Night. John Rechy, 2013.

The Death of Vivek Oji. Akwaeke Emezi, 2020.

Detransition, Baby. Torrey Peters, 2021.

The End of Eddy. Édouard Louis, 2018.

Freshwater. Akwaeke Emezi, 2018.

Giovanni's Room. James Baldwin, 2013.

Jam on the Vine. LaShonda Katrice Barnett, 2015.

Less. Andrew Sean Greer, 2018.

The Life and Death of Sophie Stark. Anna North, 2016.

The Line of Beauty. Alan Hollinghurst, 2004.

A Little Life. Hanya Yanagihara, 2016.

Middlesex. Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002.

Nevada. Imogen Binnie, 2013.

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Jeanette Winterson, 1997.

Plain Bad Heroines. Emily M. Danforth, 2020.

Real Life. Brandon Taylor, 2020.

Red, White and Royal Blue. Casey McQuiston, 2019.

Sing You Home. Jodi Picoult, 2011.

Speak No Evil. Uzodinma Iweala, 2019.

Sugar Land. Tammy Lynne Stoner, 2018.

Under the Udala Trees. Chinelo Okparanta, 2015.

We All Loved Cowboys. Carol Bensimon, 2018.

We Are Water. Wally Lamb, 2013.

The Thirty Names of Night. Zeyn Joukhadar, 2020.

Selected Classics

Bastard Out of Carolina. Dorothy Allison, 1993.

The Color Purple. Alice Walker, 2003.

Orlando. Virginia Woolf, 1960.

The Picture of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde, 2003.

Rubyfruit Jungle. Rita Mae Brown, 1988.

A Single Man. Christopher Isherwood, 2001.

The Well of Loneliness. Radclyffe Hall, 2014.

Graphic Novels

Fun Home. Alison Bechdel, 2007.

Cemetery Boys. Aiden Thomas, 2020.

Bingo Love Volume 1: Jackpot Edition. Tee Franklin, 2018.

Bloom. Kevin Panetta, 2019.

Honor Girl. Maggie Thrash, 2015.

A + E 4ever. Ilike Merey, 2011.

Cannonball. Kelsey Wroten, 2019.

Meal. Blue Delliquanti, 2018.

Selected Young Adult Fiction

The Henna Wars. Adiba Jaigirdar, 2020.

The Art of Being Normal. Lisa Williamson, 2016.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. Benjamin Alire Sáenz, 2012.

Ask the Passengers. A. S. King, 2012.

Being Emily. Rachel Gold, 2012.

Chicken Girl. Heather Smith, 2019.

Every Day. David Levithan, 2013.

The Gravity of Us. Phil Stamper, 2020.

I'll Give You the Sun. Jandy Nelson, 2014.

I Am J. Cris Beam, 2011.

If You Could Be Mine. Sara Farizan, 2013.

Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts). L.C. Rosen, 2018.

Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity. Kristin Elizabeth Clark, 2016.

Little and Lion. Brandy Colbert, 2017.

Look Both Ways, 2016

The Miseducation of Cameron Post. Emily M. Danforth, 2013

The Music of What Happens. Bill Konigsberg, 2019.

None of the Above. I. W. Gregorio, 2015.

Odd One Out, Nic Stone, 2018.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, 2012.

Picture Us in the Light. Kelly Loy Gilbert, 2018.

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. Becky Albertalli, 2015.

The Sky Blues. Robbie Couch, 2015.

Two Boys Kissing. David Levithan, 2013.

The Vast Fields of Ordinary. Nick Burd, 2011.

The Weight of the Stars. K. Ancrum, 2019.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson. John Green and David Levithan, 2010.