Recommended Resource: ALA Rainbow List (http://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/rainbow-books-lists)

Plain Text Lists

YA Fiction

Lesbian

Rage: A Love Story – Julie Anne Peters

The Summer I Wasn’t Me – Jessica Verdi

10 Things I Can See From Here – Carrie Mac

The Miseducation of Cameron Post – Emily M. Danforth

The Bermudez Triangle – Maureen Johnson

Ash – Malinda Lo

Pretend You Love Me: A Novel – Julie Anne Peters

Gay

Two Boys Kissing – David Levithan

Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda – Becky Albertalli

Openly Straight – Bill Konigsberg

Geography Club – Brent Hartinger

One Man Guy – Michael Barakiva

The Great American Whatever – Tim Federle

History is All You Left Me – Adam Silvera

Bisexual/Pansexual

Ramona Blue – Julie Murphy

Far From You – Tess Sharpe

The Art of Wishing – Lindsay Ribar

Otherbound – Corinne Duyvis

Empress of the World – Sara Ryan

Grasshopper Jungle – Andrew Smith

Cut Both Ways – Carrie Mesrobian

Gender Identity

If I Was Your Girl – Meredith Russo

The Art of Being Normal – Lisa Williamson

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children – Kirsten Cronn-Mills

I Am J – Cris Beam

Being Emily – Rachel Gold

Luna: A Novel – Julie Anne Peters

Symptoms of Being Human – Jeff Garvin

Books with Asexual/Aromantic Characters

Jughead vol. 1 & 2 – Chip Zdarsky

Daughter of Smoke & Bone & Days of Blood and Starlight – Laini Taylor

Clariel – Garth Nix

Afterworlds – Scott Westerfield

Nonfiction for Kids & Teens

Living Proud! Growing Up LGBTQ series by Robert Rodi & Laura Ross

o Facing Homophobia

o Confronting Sterotypes

o Coming Out and Seeking Support

o Being Transgender

o Finding Community

o Understanding Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

o Transphobia: Deal With It and Be a Gender Transcender

Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community – Robin Stevenson

My Family, Your Family – Lisa Bullard

I Am Jazz – Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings

Gay & Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights, with 21 Activities –

Jerome Pohlen

LGBTQ+ Athletes Claim the Field: Striving For Equality – Kirstin Cronn-Mills

Picture Books

Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress – Christine Baldacchino

Red: A Crayon’s Story – Michael Hall

I Am Jazz – Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings

Heather Has Two Mommies – Leslea Newman

And Tango Makes Three – Justin Richardson

Mom and Mum Are Getting Married! – Ken Setterington

Worm Loves Worm – J.J. Austrian

The Boy Who Cried Fabulous – Leslea Newman

It’s Okay to Be Different – Todd Parr

A Tale of Two Mommies – Vanita Oelschlager

Adult Nonfiction (including biographies/memoirs)

Trans/portraits: Voices From Transgender Communities – Jackson Wright Shultz

Boy Erased: A Memoir – Garrard Conley

Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison – Piper Kerman

You’ll Grow Out Of It – Jessi Klein

Forward: A Memoir – Abby Wambach

The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir – Ariel Levy

Tomboy Survival Guide – Ivan E. Coyote

Adult Fiction

The Green Road – Anne Enright

Captive Prince – C.S. Pacat

Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel – Joseph Fink

Poetry

Sideshow Concessions – Lucas Crawford

Graphic Novels

Skim – Mariko Tamaki

Documentaries

She’s a Boy I Knew

Growing Up Coy

Stonewall Uprising

Our House

To Be Takei

We Were Here: The AIDS Years in San Francisco

How to Survive a Plague (unfortunately, our copy is lost – we’re working on getting another

copy!)

TV & Film

Pride

Brokeback Mountain

The Kids Are All Right

A Single Man

Carol

My Own Private Idaho

Beginners

The Hours

The Imitation Game

Orange is the New Black