Rainbow Book Month

Read all across the rainbow this June and celebrate the wonderful LGBTQIA+ characters and creators who have shared their stories! 🌈

Kids

• ABC Pride by Dr Elly Barnes and Louie Stowell; illustrations by Amy Phelps
• The Accursed Vampire by Madeline McGrane
• Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGinty; illustrated by David Roberts
• The Best Bed For Me by Gaia Cornwall
• The Big Book of Pride Flags by Jessica Kingsley; illustrated by Jem Milton
• Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder (Read now on OverDrive)
• Calvin by JR and Vanessa Ford (Read now on OverDrive)
• Frankie & Bug by Gayle Forman
• Grandad’s Camper by Harry Woodgate
• If You’re a Kid Like Gavin by Gavin Grimm and Kyle Lukoff; illustrations by J Yang
• Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson; illustrated by Daniel Sousa
• Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle by Nina LaCour; illustrated by Kaylani Juanita
• Me & My Dysphoria Monster by Laura Kate Dale; illustrated by Ang Hui Qing
• Meow or Never by Jazz Taylor (Read now on OverDrive)
• Paranorthern: And the Chaos Bunny A-hop-calypse by Stephanie Cooke; art by Mari Costa
• Prince & Knight by Daniel Haack; pictures by Stevie Lewis
• The Pronoun Book by Chris Ayala-Kronos, Melita Tirado
• Rainbow Revolutionaries: 50 LGBTQ+ People Who Made History by Sarah Prager; illustrated by Sarah Papworth
• Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
• Stitch by Stitch: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt by Rob Sanders; illustrated by Jamey Christoph
• Strong by Rob Kearney & Eric Rosswood; illustrated by Nidhi Chanani
• What Are Your Words: A Book About Pronouns by Katherine Locke; illustrated by Anne Passchier
• The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag (Read now on OverDrive)

Tweens

• Answers in the Pages by David Levithan (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Artie and the Wolf Moon by Olivia Stephens
• Both Can Be True by Jules Machias
• A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix by C.B. Lee (Listen now on OverDrive)
• The Civil War of Amos Abernathy by Michael Leali
• Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff
• Drew Leclair Gets a Clue by Katryn Bury
• Ellen Outside the Lines by A.J. Sass
• The Golden Hour by Niki Smith
• The Greatest Superpower by Alex Sanchez (Read now on OverDrive)
• In the Key of Us by Mariama Lockington (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Lock-Eater by Zack Loran Clark (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The One Who Loves You the Most by Medina
• Other Boys by Damian Alexander
• Pride: An Inspirational History of the LGBTQ+ Movement by Stella Caldwell; illustrated by Season of Victory
• The Language of Seabirds by Will Taylor
• Moonflower by Kacen Callender
• The Real Riley Mayes by Rachel Elliott
• The Science of Being Angry by Nicole Melleby (Read now on OverDrive)
• Small Town Pride by Phil Stamper
• Thanks a Lot, Universe by Chad Lucas (Read now on OverDrive)
• Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee; illustrations by Vivienne To (Read now on OverDrive)
• You Know, Sex: Bodies, Gender, Puberty, and Other Things by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth

Teens

• Adachi and Shimamura by Hitoma Iruma; art, Moke Yuzuhara; character design, Non
• The Backstagers by James Tynion, IV; illustrated by Rian Sygh
• Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan (Read now on OverDrive)
• Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku
• Café con Lychee by Emery Lee (Read now on OverDrive)
• Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow by Rainbow Rowell (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu
• Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram (Read now on OverDrive)
• Eighty Days by A.C. Esguerra
• Fence by C.S. Pacat; illustrated by Johanna the Mad
• Funny Gyal: My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica by Angeline Jackson; with Susan McClelland
• The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh (Listen now on OverDrive)
• The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper (Read now on OverDrive)
• Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (Read now on OverDrive)
• I Cannot Reach You by Mika; translation, Jan Mitsuko Cash
• I Think Our Son is Gay by Okura; translation, Leo McDonagh
• If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
• Jay’s Gay Agenda by Jason June (Read now on OverDrive)
• Kiss & Tell by Adib Khorram
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki, illus. by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (Read now on OverDrive)
• A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy (Read now on OverDrive)
• Loveless by Alice Oseman (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Lumberjanes by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson & Brooklyn Allen
• May The Best Man Win by ZR Ellor (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee (Read now on OverDrive)
• Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker; illustrated by Wendy Xu (Read now on OverDrive)
• Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales (Read now on OverDrive)
• Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Pumpkin by Julie Murphy (Read now on OverDrive)
• Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality by Eliot Schrefer; illustrations by Jules Zuckerberg (Listen now on OverDrive)
• A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality by Molly Muldoon; drawn and co-written by Will Hernandez
• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
• The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes
• What’s the T? by Juno Dawson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• You Brought Me the Ocean by Alex Sanchez; art by Julie Maroh

Classics

• Angels in America by Tony Kushner (Listen now or watch on DVD)
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (Read now on OverDrive)
• City of Night by John Rechy (Read now on OverDrive)
• The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Read now on OverDrive or watch on DVD)
• Death in Venice and Other Tales by Thomas Mann (Read now on OverDrive)
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Read now on OverDrive or watch on DVD)
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Read now on OverDrive)
• Maurice: A Novel by E.M. Forster
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf (Listen now on OverDrive)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (Read now on OverDrive or watch on DVD)
• Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (Watch on DVD)
• Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters (Read now on OverDrive)
• Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde (Read now on OverDrive)

Fiction

• The Absolutist by John Boyne (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Read now on OverDrive)
• At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill (Read now on OverDrive)
• Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (Watch on DVD)
• Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran
• Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Disoriental by Négar Djavadi; translated from the French by Tina Kover
• Exalted by Anna Dorn
• The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Guncle by Steven Rowley (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Read now on OverDrive)
• Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead
• A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The People Who Report More Stress: Stories by Alejandro Varela
• The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr. (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat (Read now on OverDrive)

Memoirs

• All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening by Ari Shapiro (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Bettyville by George Hodgman (Read now on OverDrive)
• Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley (Listen now or read now on OverDrive or watch on DVD)
• Brave Face: A Memoir by Shaun David Hutchinson
• Burning My Roti : Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman by Sharan Dhaliwal (Read now on OverDrive)
• Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance by Francesca T. Royster (Read now on OverDrive)
• Continuum by Chella Man
• Do You Mind if I Cancel? (Things that Still Annoy Me) by Gary Janetti (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Fairest by Meredith Talusan
• Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles Blow (Read now on OverDrive)
• First Spring Grass Fire by Rae Spoon (Read now on OverDrive)
• Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual by Rebecca Burgess
• How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé by Michael Arceneaux (Listen now on OverDrive)
• I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Buttigieg (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• I Was Better Last Night by Harvey Fierstein (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro (Listen now on OverDrive)
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Is It Hot in Here (or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)? by Zach Zimmerman (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao with color and art assistance by Weiwei Xu
• My Life As a Goddess: A Memoir through (Un)Popular Culture by Guy Branum
• The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood by Krys Malcolm Belc
• Naturally Tan by Tan France (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity edited by Micah Rajunov (Read now on OverDrive)
• Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Officer Clemmons by François S. Clemmons (Read now on OverDrive)
• One Life by Megan Rapinoe (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz (Read now on OverDrive)
• Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia (Read now on OverDrive)
• Skate For Your Life by Leo Baker
• Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen by Arin Andrews with Joshua Lyon (Read now on OverDrive)
• Sorted: Growing Up, Coming out, and Finding My Place by Jackson Bird (Listen on CD audiobook or read now on OverDrive)
• Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale
• We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson
• We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
• When They Tell You to Be Good by Prince Shakur
• Wow, No Thank You: Essays by Samantha Irby (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

Graphic Novels

• Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden (Read now on OverDrive)
• Be Gay, Do Comics, edited by Matt Bors
• Bingo Love by Tee Franklin; Jenn St-Onge; Joy San; Cardinal Rae
• Cheer Up: Love and Pom-Poms by Crystal Frasier; art by Val Wise
• Chef’s Kiss by Jarrett Melendez; illustrated by Danica Brine
• The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
• Fine: A Comic about Gender by Rhea Ewing
• Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe (Read now on OverDrive)
• I am Not Starfire by Mariko Tamaki; art by Yoshi Yoshitani
• Jughead by Chip Zdarsky
• Kim & Kim by Magdalene Visaggio
• Liebestrasse by Greg Lockard; art by Tim Fish
• Love is Love: A Comic Book Anthology by IDW Publishing
• The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen (Read now on OverDrive)
• A Man’s Skin by Hubert; art by Zanzim
• Marry Me a Little by Rob Kirby
• Moonstruck by Grace Ellis; art by Shae Beagle
• My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi
• Nimona by ND Stevenson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• O Human Star by Blue Delliquanti
• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang (Read now on OverDrive)
• A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson
• The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel (Read now on OverDrive)
• Skim by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki
• Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank by Eric Orner
• Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
• The Third Person by Emma Grove (Read now on OverDrive)
• Wynd by James Tynion IV; illustrated by Michael Dialynas
• Young Avengers Omnibus by Kieron Gillen; art by Jamie McKelvie with Mike Norton (Request a copy through interlibrary loan)

Stonewall Book Awards & Honors

• Almost Flying by Jake Maia Arlow (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Beetle & The Hollowbones by Aliza Layne
• Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi (Listen now on OverDrive)
• The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience by Zoë Playdon (Read now on OverDrive)
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Memorial by Bryan Washington (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• More Than Organs by Kay Ulanday Barrett
• My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland (Read now on OverDrive)
• Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson (Read now on OverDrive)
• Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (Read now on OverDrive)
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Stone Fruit by Lee Lai
• The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar (Read now on OverDrive)
• Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• We Are Little Feminists: Families by Archaa Shrivastav
• You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

And more!

• The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture by Grace Perry (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast by Megan Marshall
• Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin
• Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein (Read now on OverDrive)
• ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer
• How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (Read now on OverDrive)
• In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold life of Margaret Wise Brown by Amy Gary
• Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall  by James Polchin
• Let’s Talk About It: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan (Read now on OverDrive)
• Loud & Proud : LGBTQ+ Speeches that Empower and Inspire by Tea Uglow with illustrations by Jack Holland
• The Queens’ English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases by Chloe O. Davis
• A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
• Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager; illustrations by Zoë More O’Ferrall
• A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969 edited by Noam Sienna
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke by Andrew Maraniss
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Sounds Fake But Okay: An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else by Sarah Costello and Kayla Kaszyca
• Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America by Martin Duberman
• The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library
• Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride
• Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie
• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman (Read now on OverDrive)
• We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride In The History of Queer Liberation by Matthew Riemer