To help you celebrate Pride Month in bookish fashion, we present relevant books acquired for our collection over the past year, including a strong selection of books for children and young adults. 

For more reading on these subjects, be sure to check last year's blog post where a slightly more liberal application of the word "recent" generated a lengthy list. And in 2019, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, Library staff recommended their favorite books in our collection on gay culture, life, and history in New York City. 

NONFICTION

• Aston, Martin - Breaking down the walls of heartache: how music came out
• Cassino, Dan - Gender threat: American masculinity in the face of change
• Cohen, Leslie - The audacity of a kiss: love, art, and liberation
• Delany, Samuel R. - Of solids and surds: notes for Noël Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White
• Emezi, Akwaeke - Dear Senthuran: a Black spirit memoir
• Fierstein, Harvey - I was better last night: a memoir (ebook also available)
• Gaines, James R. - The fifties: an underground history
• Hough, Lauren - Leaving isn't the hardest thing: essays
• Ivory, James - Solid Ivory: memoirs (edited by Peter Cameron) (ebook also available)
• Jackson, Jeffrey H. - Paper bullets: two artists who risked their lives to defy the Nazis
• Katz, Jonathan. - The daring life and dangerous times of Eve Adams
• King, Billie Jean - All in: an autobiography
• Kirchick, James - Secret city: the hidden history of gay Washington
• Lvovsky, Anna - Vice patrol: cops, courts, and the struggle over urban gay life before Stonewall
• Manion, Jen - Female husbands: a trans history
• Mauriès, Patrick - Androgyne: fashion + gender (translated from the French by Barbara Mellor)
• Parlett, Jack - Fire Island
• Playdon, Zoe-Jane - The hidden case of Ewan Forbes: and the unwritten history of the trans experience
• Romm, James S. - Sacred band: three hundred Theban lovers fighting to save Greek freedom
• Rose, Jacqueline - On violence and on violence against women
• Rouse, Wendy - Public faces, secret lives: a queer history of the Women's Suffrage Movement
• Ryan, Hugh - The women's house of detention: a queer history of a forgotten prison
• Skidmore, Emily - True sex: the lives of trans men at the turn of the twentieth century
• Slide, Anthony - Lost gay novels: a reference guide to fifty works from the first half of the twentieth century
• Steward, Samuel M. - The lost autobiography of Samuel Steward: recollections of an extraordinary twentieth-century gay life (Jeremy Mulderig, ed.; foreword by Scott Herring)

FICTION

• Ahmed, Nawaaz - Radiant fugitives: a novel
• Alameddine, Rabih - The wrong end of the telescope (ebook also available)
• Aoki, Ryka - Light from uncommon stars (audiobook)
• Arafat, Zaina - You exist too much
• Arnett, Kristen - With teeth: a novel
• Austin, Emily R. - Everyone in this room will someday be dead: a novel
• Baltasar, Eva - Permafrost (translated from the Catalan by Julia Sanches)
• Brown, Liz - Twilight man: love and ruin in the shadows of Hollywood and the Clark empire
• Cleeves, Ann - The heron's cry
• Daas, Fatima - The last one (translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud) (ebook also available)
• Di Canzio, William - Alec
• Donaldson, David Santos - Greenland
• Faye, Lyndsay - The king of infinite space
• Gala, Marcia - Call me Cassandra (translated from the Spanish by Anna Kushner)
• Geetanjali, Shree - Tomb of sand (translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell)
• Gigl, Robyn - Survivor's guilt
• Harris, Nathan - The sweetness of water (ebook also available)
• Lai, Lee - Stone fruit (Gary Groth, editor)
• Levy, E .J. - The Cape doctor: a novel
• Maxwell, Everina - Winter's orbit (audiobook)
• Pak, Sang-yŏng - Love in the big city: a novel (translated from the Korean by Anton Hur)
• Peters, Torrey - Detransition, baby: a novel
• Rudnick, Paul - Playing the palace
• Solomon, Asali - The days of Afrekete (ebook also available)
• Statovci, Pajtim - Bolla (translated from the Finnish by David Hackston)
• Tóibín, Colm - The magician: a novel (ebook & audiobook available)
• Vernon, P.J. - Bath haus: a thriller (ebook also available)
• Yanagihara, Hanya - To paradise (ebook also available)

CHILDREN'S & YOUNG ADULT

• Arlow, Jake Maia - Almost flying
• Bayron, Kalynn - This Poison Heart
• Becker, Harmony - Himawari House
• Blackout (Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon)
• Blake, Ashley Herring ed. - Fools in Love
• Cappetta, A.R. - The Heartbreak Bakery
• Dapier, Jarrett - Mr. Watson's chickens (illustrated by Andrea Tsurumi)
• Fitzsimons, Isaac - The passing playbook
• Forman, Gayle - Frankie & Bug
• Gino, Alex - Melissa
• Hutchinson, Shaun David - Before we disappear
• Jackson, Kosoko - Yesterday is history
• Khorram, Adib - Kiss & tell
• LaCour, Nina - Mama and Mommy and me in the middle (illustrated by Kaylani Juanita)
• Lee, Mackenzi - The lady's guide to petticoats and piracy (audiobook)
• Lee, Mackenzi - The gentleman's guide to vice and virtue (audiobook also available)
• Lo, Malinda - Last night at the Telegraph Club (audiobook)
• Madison, Megan - Being you: a first conversation about gender (art by Anne/Andy Passchier)
• Meyer, Marissa - Serendipity
• Murphy, Julie - Pumpkin
• Nazemian, Abdi - The Chandler legacies
• Oseman, Alice - Loveless
• Ostertag, Molly - The girl from the sea (color by Maarta Laiho)
• Patterson, Jodie - Born ready: the true story of a boy named Penelope (illustrated by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow)
• Polonsky, Ami - Spin with Me
• Posthuma, Lisabeth - Baby & Solo
• Rowell, Rainbow - Any way the wind blows (ebook also available)
• Ryan, Tom - I hope you're listening
• Sáenz, Benjamin Alire - Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe (audiobook)
• Sáenz, Benjamin Alire - Aristotle and Dante dive into the waters of the world (audiobook also available)
• Terciero, Rey & Indigo, Bre - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
• This is our rainbow: 16 stories of her, him, them, and us (edited by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby)
• Van Ness, Jonathan - Peanut goes for the gold (pictures by Gillian Reid)
• Vaughan, Brian K. - Paper Girls: The Complete Story
• Watson, Sarah - Most Likely
• Williams-Garcia, Rita - A Sitting in St. James (audiobook also available)
• Woodgate, Harry - Grandad's camper