Here Are Some Titles To Check Out During Pride Month At Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

Press release from the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library:

June 28, 2021

Pride Month is celebrated every June and is an opportunity to commemorate and recognize the LGBTQ+ people in the world and our community. Below is a list of titles that feature LGBTQ+ characters, allies, and/or written by members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Adult Recommendations

• Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis
• Ordinary Girls: A Memoir by Jaquira Díaz
• We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib
• How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
• Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride
• Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuistion
• Continental Divide by Alex Myers
• Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers (P.S. – we’re reading this title for our first LGBTQ+ Book Club)
• Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Teen Recommendations

• Sasha Masha by Agnes Borinsky
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• Flamer by Mike Curato
• None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
• Can’t Take That Away by Steven Salvatore
• The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
• Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

School Age Recommendations

• Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker
• King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
• The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
• The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue
• George by Alex Gino
• The Other Boy by M.G. Hennessey
• Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
• The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag
• Ana on the Edge by A. J. Sass
• The Deep and Dark Blue by Niki Smith

Preschool Recommendations

• What Riley Wore by Elana K. Arnold
• Rainbow: A First Book of Pride by Michael Genhart, PhD
• Prince and Knight by Daniel Haack
• Maiden and Princess by Daniel Haack
• Julian at the Wedding by Jessica Love
• When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff
• My Rainbow by Trinity and DeShanna Neal
• A Family Is a Family Is a Family by Sara O’Leary
• This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman
• Pride Colors by Robin Stevenson

This press release was produced by the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.