Books for LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

By Coll Rowe | April 25 2025 | English Language ArtsSocial StudiesSociology

In June we celebrate Pride Month, which honors the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan and highlights the accomplishments of those in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual + (LGBTQIA+) community, while recognizing the ongoing struggles faced by many across the world who wish to live as their most authentic selves.

Browse our collection of books by and about LGBTQIA+ voices:

LGBTQIA+ Fiction & Literature Secondary Titles

LGBTQIA+ History & Memoir Secondary Titles

Cinema Love
Cinema Love
A Novel
Jiaming Tang
9780593474334
Moving from rural post-socialist China to present-day NYC Chinatown, CINEMA LOVE is an immigrant story, a queer love story, and a tender examination of the legacies of caregiving and assimilation in Chinese America.
$28.00 US
May 07, 2024
Hardcover
304 Pages
Dutton
Our Evenings
Our Evenings
A Novel
Alan Hollinghurst
9780593243060
From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed experiences“Our Evenings is a truly astonishing novel, by turns delicate and ferocious, radical in the way it explores questions of race, class, sexuality, and origins.”—Tash Aw, author of Five Star Billionaire
$30.00 US
Oct 08, 2024
Hardcover
496 Pages
Random House
Blessings
Blessings
A Novel
Chukwuebuka Ibeh
9780385550642
A BBC BEST BOOK OF 2024 • A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this coming of age novel about self-acceptance, sexual awakening, and first love set in a Nigeria on the verge of criminalizing same-sex relationships“Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s writing has a certain delicacy to it, so wonderfully observant, and so beautiful.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Americanah
$28.00 US
Jun 04, 2024
Hardcover
288 Pages
Doubleday
Nuclear Family
Nuclear Family
A Novel
Joseph Han
9781640095946
Set in the months leading up to the 2018 nuclear missile false alarm, a Korean American family living in Hawai'i faces the fallout of their eldest son's attempt to run across the Demilitarized Zone into North Korea in this "fresh, inventive, and at times, hilarious novel" (Kaui Hart Hemmings, author of The Descendants)
$17.95 US
Jun 20, 2023
Paperback
320 Pages
Counterpoint
Dear Cisgender People
Dear Cisgender People
A Guide to Trans Allyship and Empathy
Kenny Ethan Jones
9780744070774
Conversations on the transgender experience may be becoming more commonplace but the topic is still all too often the subject of fierce debate. But behind the shock headlines, what does it really mean to be trans?
$24.99 US
Jun 04, 2024
Hardcover
224 Pages
DK
Hick
Hick
The trailblazing journalist who captured Eleanor Roosevelt's heart
Sarah Miller
9780593649091
In this riveting YA non-fiction set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, trace Lorena Hickok--or Hick's-- rise from devastating childhood to renowned journalist, and watch as she forms the most significant friendship and romantic relationship of her life with first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt.
$20.99 US
May 27, 2025
Hardcover
384 Pages
Random House Studio
Glitch Girl!
Glitch Girl!
Rainie Oet
9780593696514
“Each poem is as raw as it is beautiful.” —Alex Gino, author of ALA Stonewall Award-winning novel MelissaA novel in verse about a trans girl diagnosed with ADHD, a computer game, and middle school for fans of Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff.
$18.99 US
Mar 11, 2025
Hardcover
448 Pages
Kokila
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