Books for LGBTQIA+ Pride Month: Recent Arrivals

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

June is LGBTQIA+ Pride Month, and we present a list of relevant recent arrivals covering a wide variety of subjects and genres, including a rich selection of novels.

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. Read that article here. And New York City Book Award-winning historian Hugh Ryan gave us "A Taste of Queer Brooklyn" last June.

Jump to: Arts, Literature & Language, Essays & Poetry | Biographies & Memoirs | Fiction | Social Science & History, Activism & Protest | Children's & Young Adult

ARTS, LITERATURE & LANGUAGE, ESSAYS & POETRY

Anderson, Fiona - Cruising the dead river: David Wojnarowicz and New York's ruined waterfront
Baker, Paul - Fabulosa!: the story of polari, Britain's secret gay language
Baron, Dennis E. - What's your pronoun?: beyond he & she
Belcourt, Billy-Ray - A history of my brief body
Bradford, Richard - Devils, lusts and strange desires: the life of Patricia Highsmith
Charles, Jos - Feeld
Congdon, Constance - Dog opera
Davis, Chloe O. - The queens' English: the LGBTQIA+ dictionary of lingo and colloquial phrases
Derricotte, Toi - i: new and selected poems
Hewitt, Catherine - Art is a tyrant: the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur
Homestead, Melissa J. - The only wonderful things: the creative partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis
Jonas, Stephen - Arcana: a Stephen Jonas reader (edited by Garrett Caples, Derek Fenner, David Rich, & Joseph Torra)
Kenny, Maurice - Only as far as Brooklyn (1979 collection by first known gay Native author to publish overtly queer literature in the United States)
Lorde, Audre - I am your sister: collected and unpublished writings of Audre Lorde / Sister outsider: essays and speeches / The selected works of Audre Lorde (edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay)
Mann, William J. - Behind the screen: how gays and lesbians shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969
McGough, Peter - I've seen the future and I'm not going: the art scene, and downtown New York in the 1980s
Ortberg, Daniel Mallory - Something that may shock and discredit you
Shapland, Jenn - My autobiography of Carson McCullers (e-book available)
Souhami, Diana - No modernism without lesbians

BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS

Altman, Elissa - Motherland: a memoir of love, loathing, and longing
Baer, Marc David - German, Jew, Muslim, gay: the life and times of Hugo Marcus
Birdsall, John - The man who ate too much: the life of James Beard
Blanco, Richard - The prince of los Cocuyos: a Miami childhood
Brody, Leslie - Sometimes you have to lie: the life and times of Louise Fitzhugh, renegade author of Harriet the spy
Buttigieg, Pete - Shortest way home: one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future
Díaz, Jaquira - Ordinary girls: a memoir
Doyle, Glennon - Untamed (e-book available)
Dunham, Cyrus Grace - A year without a name
Hamill, Kirkland - Filthy beasts: a memoir
Hillsbery, Kief - Empire made: my search for an outlaw uncle who vanished in British India
Johnson, Fenton - At the center of all beauty: solitude and the creative life
Jones, Saeed - How we fight for our lives: a memoir
Katz, Jonathan - The daring life and dangerous times of Eve Adams
Machado, Carmen Maria - In the dream house: a memoir (e-book available)
Madden, T Kira - Long live the tribe of fatherless girls: a memoir
Mock, Janet - Redefining realness: my path to womanhood, identity, love & so much more
P. Carl - Becoming a man: the story of a transition
Patterson, Jodie - The bold world: a memoir of family and transformation
Steward, Samuel - Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward: Recollections of an Extraordinary 20th-Century Gay Life
Talusan, Meredith - Fairest: a memoir
Tobia, Jacob - Sissy: a coming-of-gender story
Windsor, Edie - A wild and precious life: a memoir

FICTION

Aciman, André - Find me (e-book available)
Anthony, Jessica - Enter the aardvark
Auður A. Ólafsdóttir - Miss Iceland
Baxt, George - A queer kind of death: an inner sanctum mystery
Besson, Philippe - Lie with me: a novel (translated from the French by Molly Ringwald)
Broder, Melissa - Milk fed: a novel
Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela - The adventures of China Iron (translated by Iona Macintyre and Fiona Mackintosh)
Dale, Alan - A marriage below zero
Danforth, Emily M. - Plain bad heroines (e-book available)
De Jong, Dola - The tree and the vine (translated from the Dutch by Kristen Gehrman)
De Robertis, Carolina - Cantoras
Deabler, Justin - Lone stars
Delgado Lopera, Juliana - Fiebre tropical
Dennis-Benn, Nicole - Patsy
Disabato, Catie - U up?
Ford, Charles Henri - The young and evil (published in 1933, a pioneering modernist depiction of interracial gay couple set in Greenwich Village and Harlem)
Fram, John - The bright lands
Frankel, Laurie - This is how it always is
Glück, Robert - Margery Kempe (introduction by Colm Toibin)
Grattan, Thomas - The recent east
Greenwell, Garth - Cleanness
Gregor, James - Going Dutch: a novel
Hargrave, Kiran Millwood - The mercies: a novel
Jedrowski, Tomasz - Swimming in the dark: a novel
Jones, Robert, Jr. - The prophets: a novel (e-book available)
Kenan, Randall - A visitation of spirits: a novel
Kent, Kathleen - The burn
Knecht, Rosalie - Vera Kelly is not a mystery
Lacey, Catherine - Pew
McKay, Claude - Romance in Marseille (recently unearthed novel written by Harlem Renaissance author in the late 1920s)
Oyeyemi, Helen - Peaces (e-book available)
Pufahl, Shannon - On swift horses
Savage, Lila - Say say say: a novel
Spencer, Scott - An ocean without a shore: a novel
Thomas, Russ - Firewatching
Tremain, Rose - Islands of mercy
Volckmer, Katharina - The appointment: (or, the story of a Jewish cock)
Ward, Sophie - Love and other thought experiments
Washington, Bryan - Memorial: a novel (e-book available)
White, Edmund - A saint from Texas: a novel (e-book available)
Winterson, Jeanette - Frankissstein: a love story