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From the Decade You Were Born by an LGBTQ+ Author Book of Essays From the Decade You Were Born By an LGBTQ+ Author 30s The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison 40s Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery We the Animals by Justin Torres 50s Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 60s Nonfiction Nonfiction: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Fun Home by Alison Bechdel Nonfiction: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Charity and Sylvia by Rachel Hope Cleves 70s Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel This Book is Gay by James Dawson Garcia Marquez Nonfiction: Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi Book of Essays 80s The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith 90s Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay Nonfiction: Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun 00s Wang Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley Set at Sea Book of Poetry Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware Devotions by Mary Oliver The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Citizen by Claudia Rankine Shogun by James Clavell Lighthead by Terrance Hayes The North Water by Ian McGuire Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds The Terror by Dan Simmons Ariel by Sylvia Plath Nonfiction The Dream Songs by John Berryman The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick Migration by W.S. Merwin Into the Planet by Jill Heinerth Written by a Person of Color Graphic Novel/Memoir The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin The Sculptor by Scott McCloud The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen Habibi by Craig Thompson Salt Houses by Hala Alyan My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris An American Marriage by Tayari Jones The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire There There by Tommy Orange Watchmen by Alan Moore Nonfiction Nonfiction Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash March by John Lewis They Called Us Enemy by George Takei When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. 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Toklas by Gertrude Stein Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter Was Turned into a Movie/Television Genre You Usually Skip Show Science Fiction The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Fantasy Jonathan Safran Foer The Name of the Wind by Patrick Ghost World by Daniel Clowes Rothfuss Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice Mystery The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz The Princess Bride by William Goldman Horror Nonfiction Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth Short Stories Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by American Housewife by Helen Ellis John Berendt Thriller Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena Wild by Cheryl Strayed Sports Nonfiction: Moneyball by Michael Lewis Romance Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Biography Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Adventure Nonfiction: The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko .
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