Celebrate Pride Month with these 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 previous years' lists: 2022, 2021 (a long list, with a looser definition of "recent"); and in 2019, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, Library staff recommended favorite books in our collection on gay culture, life, and history in New York City.

NONFICTION

• Als, Hilton - My pinup: a paean to Prince
• Clements, Paul - Jan Morris: life from both sides: a biography
• De Veaux, Alexis - Warrior poet: a biography of Audre Lorde (2006)
• D'Emilio, John - Memories of a gay Catholic boyhood: coming of age in the sixties
• Denneny, Michael - On Christopher Street: life, sex, and death after Stonewall
• Enninful, Edward - A visible man: a memoir
• Faderman, Lillian - Gay L.A.: a history of sexual outlaws, power politics, and lipstick lesbians (2009)
• Foster, Jeannette H. - Sex variant women in literature (1985)
• Geter, Hafizah - The Black period: on personhood, race, and origin
• Green, Tara T. - Love, activism, and the respectable life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
• Hempel, Jessi - The family outing: a memoir
• Hewitt, Seán - All down darkness wide: a memoir
• Heyam, Kit - Before we were trans: a new history of gender
• Johnson, David K. - The lavender scare: the Cold War persecution of gays and lesbians in the federal government (2006)
• Kirchick, James - Secret city: the hidden history of gay Washington (ebook also available)
• Kobabe, Maia - Gender queer: a memoir (ebook also available)
• Leon, Jesse - I'm not broken: a memoir
• Manning, Chelsea - README.txt: a memoir
• Mordden, Ethan - Gays on Broadway
• Parks, Casey - Diary of a misfit: a memoir and a mystery
• Parlett, Jack - Fire Island: a century in the life of an American paradise (ebook also available)
• Pasulka, Nicole - How you get famous: ten years of drag madness in Brooklyn
• Rouse, Wendy L. - Public faces, secret lives: a queer history of the women's suffrage movement
• Shakur, Prince - When they tell you to be good: a memoir
• Shelley, Martha - We set the night on fire: igniting the gay revolution
• Smalls, Shanté Paradigm - Hip hop heresies: queer aesthetics in New York City (winner of a 2022-23 New York City Book Award)
• Snyder, Michael - James Purdy: life of a contrarian writer
• Yau, John - Joe Brainard: the art of the personal

FICTION & POETRY

• 100 queer poems (Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan, eds.)
• Abdelnabi, Muḥammad - In the spider's room (translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright)
• Afia, Nekesa - Harlem sunset
• Binnie, Imogen - Nevada
• Bollen, Christopher - The lost Americans: a novel
• Cowell, Stephanie - The Boy in the Rain
• Crane, Marisa - I keep my exoskeletons to myself: a novel
• Crewe, Tom - The new life: a novel (ebook also available)
• Debré, Constance - Love me tender (translated from the French by Holly James)
• Fishman, Lillian - Acts of service: a novel
• Greer, Andrew Sean - Less is lost (ebook also available)
• H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) - HERmione (New Directions reissue; written in 1927, first published in 1981)
• Han, Joseph - Nuclear family: a novel
• Hannaham, James - Didn't nobody give a shit what happened to Carlotta
• Hemon, Aleksandar - The world and all that it holds
• Holleran, Andrew - The kingdom of sand
• Howrey, Meg - They're going to love you: a novel
• Indiana, Gary - Rent boy (McNally Editions reissue; originally published in 1994)
• Jemisin, N. K. - The world we make
• Keene, John - Punks: new & selected poems
• Knecht, Rosalie - Vera Kelly lost and found
• Lacey, Catherine - Biography of X: a novel
• Lambert, Kevin - Querelle of Roberval: a syndical fiction (translated from the French by Donald Winkler)
• Mathews, Sarah Thankam - All this could be different
• Mayr, Suzette - The sleeping car porter
• Millner, Maggie - Couplets: a love story
• Mirabella, Richard - Brother & sister enter the forest: a novel
• Newson, Rasheed - My government means to kill me
• Rudnick, Paul - Farrell Covington and the limits of style
• Siegel, Natasha - Solomon's crown: a novel
• Thornton, Jeanne - Summer fun
• Vivien, Renée - The muse of the violets: poems (1982; translated from the French by Margaret Porter & Catharine Kroger)
• Winn, Alice - In memoriam
• Winter, Dawn - Sedating Elaine

CHILDREN'S & YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

• Albertalli, Becky - Imogen, Obviously
• Bayron, Kaylynn - This Wicked Fate
• Caldwell, Stella - Pride and Inspirational History of the LGBTQ+ Movement
• Dawson, Juno - This book is gay (e-book)
• Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, et al. - Whiteout (audiobook download also available)
• Elliott, Rachel - The real Riley Mayes
• Farizan, Sara - Dead flip
• Gravel, Elise (w/ Mykaell Blais) - Pink, blue, and you!: questions for kids about gender stereotypes
• Haack, Daniel (w/ Isabel Galupo) - Maiden & princess (art by Becca Human)
• Hammonds, Jas - We deserve monuments
• Ingrande Mora, Maria - The immeasurable depth of you
• Lamb, Sacha - When the Angels Left the Old Country
• Lo, Malinda - A scatter of light
• Magoon, Kekla - The minus-one club
• McGinty, Alice B. - Bathe the cat (illustrated by David Roberts)
• McSmith, Tobly - Act cool (audiobook download)
• McSmith, Tobly - Stay gold (audiobook download also available)
• Murphy, Julie - Pumpkin (audiobook download)
• Nissley, Jennifer - The mythic Koda Rose
• Oseman, Alice - I was born for this
• Reyes, Sonora - The lesbiana's guide to Catholic school
• Schrefer, Eliot - Queer ducks (and other animals): the natural world of animal sexuality [e-book]
• Silverberg, Cory & Fiona Smyth - You Know, Sex
• Tamaki, Mariko - Anne of Greenville
• Wild, Charlotte Sullivan - Love, Violet
• Wong-Kalu, Hinaleimoana - Kapaemahu