Happy Pride Month! We have a number of Pride-related programs going on at our library this month and in addition, Tana and I have lots of books to recommend from authors who identify as LGBTQ+ or have main characters who do. We hope there is something for everyone on our list. 

Discussed:

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, by Mariko Tamaki

Check, Please! (series), by Ngozi Ukazu

The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang

Vence (series), by C.S Pacat

The Times I Knew I Was Gay, by Eleanor Crewes

One Last Stop, by Casey McQuiston

Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey

The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai

Outlawed, by Anna North

And the Band Played On, by Randy Shilts

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

Guncle, by Steven Rowley

Aristotle & Dante (series), by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Burn It All Down, by Nicholas DiDomizio

In the Dream House, by Carmen Maria Machado

Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernadine Evaristo

Author T.J. Klune

Peaces, by Helen Oyeyemi

This Is How It Always Is, by Laurie Frankel

Author Sarah Waters

The Cabin at the End of the World, by Paul Tremblay

Mrs. Everything, by Jennifer Weiner

The Portrait of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

The Danish Girl, by David Ebershoff

Beartown (series), by Fredrik Backman

Naked Nutrition, by Daniel O'Shaughnessy