LGBTQ+ Booklist
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Book recommendations pertaining to LGBTQ+.
| Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Song of Achilles | Miller, Madeline | 2012 | YA A | Classical Age | 1200 BCE | Europe | Greece | Achilles LGBTQ+ Greek Mythology | M | N |
| All Out | Mitchell, Saundra | 2020 | YA | various | 1350-1999 | North America Europe | United States Mexico Great Britain France | LGBTQ+ | F | N |
| A Queer History of the United States for Young People | Bronski, Michael and Chevat, Richie | 2019 | YA | various | 1500-2019 CE | North America | United States | LGBTQ+ | NF | B S |
| Blood Countess | Popovic, Lana | 2020 | YA | Renaissance | 1575-1614 | Europe | Hungary | Elizabeth Báthory LGBTQ+ Hungary | F Bio | N |
| Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix | Novoa, Gabe Cole | 2024 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1812 | Europe | Great Britain | Regency Era Retelling LGBTQ+ | F | N |
| Fingersmith | Waters, Sarah | 2002 | A | Industrial Age | 1862 | Europe | Great Britain | LGBTQ+ Victorian Era | F | N |
| Dread Nation | Ireland, Justina | 2018 | YA | Industrial Age | 1880 | North America | United States | Reconstruction LGBTQ+ | HF | N |
| My Dear Henry: A Jekyll and Hyde Remix | Bayron, Kalynn | 2023 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1883-1885 | Europe | Great Britain | Victorian Era LGBTQ+ Retelling | F | N |
| The Legend of Auntie Po | Khor, Shing Yin | 2021 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1885-1886 | North America | United States | Logging Town Chinese Immigration Tall Tales and Legends LGBTQ+ | F OV | GN |
| What Moves the Dead | Kingfisher, T. | 2022 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1890 | Europe | Great Britain | Victorian Era LGBTQ+ Fungi | HF | N |
| Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix | Dimaline, Cherie | 2023 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1900 | North America | Canada | Metis Nation Retelling Indigenous Americans LGBTQ+ | F | N |
| The Color Purple | Walker, Alice | 1982 | YA A | Modern Age | 1909-1949 | North America | United States | African American History Jazz Age LGBTQ+ | F | N |
| A Million to One | Jaigirdar, Adiba | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1912 | Europe | Great Britain | Titanic Heists LGBTQ+ | F | N |
| Beautiful Little Fools | Cantor, Jillian | 2022 | A | Modern Age | 1918-1923 | North America | United States | Jazz Age LGBTQ+ | F | B |
| Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix | McLemore, Anna-Marie | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1922 | North America | United States | Jazz Age LGBTQ+ Retelling | F | N |
| The Degenerates | Mann, J. Albert | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1928 | North America | United States | Institutionalization LGBTQ+ eugenics Asylums | F | N |
| Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken | Tyndall, Nita | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | Europe | Germany | WWII LGBTQ+ | F | N |
| The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Reid, Taylor Jenkins | 2018 | YA A | Modern Age | 1950-2018 | North America | United States | Hollywood LGBTQ+ | F | N |
| Lavender House | Rosen, Lev AC | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1952 | North America | United States | McCarthyism Cold War LGBTQ+ | F | N |
| Last Night at the Telegraph Club | Nichols Lo, Malinda | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1954 | North America | United States | McCarthyism Cold War Chinese American Immigrants LGBTQ+ | F OV | N |
| This Rebel Heart | Locke, Katherine | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1956 | Europe | Hungary | Revolution Hungarian Revolution LGBTQ+ | F | N |
| History Comics: The Stonewall Riots | Bongiovanni, Archie Andrews, A. | 2022 | YA | Modern Age | 1969 | North America | United States | Stonewall Riots Activism LGBTQ+ | F | GN |
| Like a Love Story | Nazemian, Abdi | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1989 | North America | United States | Immigration LGBTQ+ AIDs Crisis | F OV | N |
| The Civil War of Amos Abernathy | Leali, Michael | 2022 | UMG | Modern Age | 2021-2022 | North America | United States | History Erasure LGBTQ+ American Civil War | F |
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| Reading Age | Genre | Format |
| LE = lower elementary MG = middle grade (8-12 yrs.) UMG = upper-middle grade (11-14 yrs.) YA = young adult (14+) A = adult (18+) |
NF - non fiction F = fiction Bio = biography HF = historical fantasy AH = alternate history OV - own voices M = mythology S = spine book |
PB = picture book GN = graphic novel ER = early reader CB = chapter book B = book (NF) N = novel M = memoir |