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Rainbow Reads Recommended Books by and About 2SLGBTQ+ People May 2021 Rainbow Reads Recommended books by and about 2SLGBTQ+ people winnipeg.ca/library FICTION FOR Girl, Woman, Other If I Was Your Girl The Prince and the ADULTS & TEENS by Bernardine Evaristo / 2019 E, EA In French: Celle dont j’ai Dressmaker Rez Runaway toujours rêvé by Jen Wang / 2018 (Teens) Call Me By Your Name by Meredith Russo / 2016 by André Aciman / 2007 A, E, EA by Melanie Florence / 2016 Annabel (Teens/Ados) (Teens) In French: Annabel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Aristotle and Dante Discover by Kathleen Winter / 2010 EN: E Agenda Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones / 2018 the Secrets of the Universe In French: Moi, Simon, Jonny Appleseed (Teens) E In French: Aristote et Dante 16 ans, Homo Sapiens In French: Jonny Appleseed by Becky Albertalli / 2015 The Tiger Flu découvrent les secrets de by Joshua Whitehead / 2018 (Teens/Ados) by Larissa Lai / 2018 E l’univers EN: E, EA | FR: E EN: A, E, EA | FR: A, E, EA by Benjamin Alire Sáenz / 2012 Boy Meets Boy (Teens/Ados) EN: A, E Orlando Theory by David Leviathan / 2003 (Teens) by Virgina Woolfe / 1928 E by Dionne Brand / 2018 E E, EA The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya / 2020 E, EA Holding Still for as Long as Rubyfruit Jungle Ash Possible by Rita Mae Brown / 1973 by Malinda Lo / 2009 (Teens) E Surviving the City, vol 2: by Zoe Whittall /2014 Red, White, and Royal Blue From the Roots Up Autobiography of Red by Tasha Spillett-Sumner / 2020 NON-FICTION & POETRY by Anne Carson / 1998 by Casey McQuiston / 2019 E, EA (Teens) FOR ADULTS & TEENS Bestiary Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo / 2020 E, EA First Spring Grass Fire All Out: No-Longer-Secret by K-Ming Chang / 2020 E, EA by Rae Spoon / 2012 What is Not Yours is Not Stories of Queer Teens The Miseducation of Yours Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Throughout the Ages Cameron Post edited by Saundra Mitchell / 2020 by Helen Oyeyemi / 2016 E, LP Up With Me by Emily M. Danforth / 2012 by Mariko Tamaki / 2019 (Teens) 2018 (Teens) (Teens) Little Fish by Casey Plett / 2018 EA On Earth We’re Briefly Angry Queer Somali Boy Hot Dog Girl by Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali / by Jennifer Dugan / 2019 (Teens) Gorgeous Juliet Takes a Breath by Ocean Vuong / 2019 E, EA 2019 E, EA by Gabby Rivera / 2019 E Mariko Tamaki is a writer and Author artist best known for her YA graphic novels Skim and This Spotlights One Summer. She has won an Ignatz Award, a Michael L. Billy-Ray Belcourt is from Printz Award, and a Caldecott the Driftpile Cree Nation. He Honor. She has written for is a writer and academic. His Marvel and DC Comics and poetry collection, currently lives in Oakland. The Wound is the Word, won the Griffin Poetry Prize. He Joshua Whitehead is a teaches creative writing Two-Spirit Oji-nêhiyaw at the University of British member of Peguis First Colombia. Nation. He is the author of the poetry collection full-metal Casey Plett was born indigiqueer and the novel in Winnipeg and resides Jonny Appleseed, which was in Windsor, ON. Her nominated for the Giller and novel Little Fish won the Governor General’s awards A History of My Brief Body In the Dream House by Billy-Ray Belcourt / 2020 by Carmen Maria Machado / 2019 Lambda Literary Award and won the Lambda Literary E, EA EA for Transgender Fiction. Award for Gay Fiction. She wrote the short story NDN Coping Mechanisms Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming collection A Safe Girl to Love by Billy-Ray Belcourt / 2019 of Age 2018 and co-edited Meanwhile, About This List In French: Mamaskatch: Une Elsewhere: Science The Gospel of Breaking by Jillian Christmas / 2020 initiation crie 2020 Fiction and Fantasy from All books are available by Darrel J. McLeod EN: E Rebent Sinner Transgender Writers. She has through Winnipeg Public written for McSweeney’s, by Ivan Coyote / 2019 E God in Pink Library. Search for titles by Hasan Namir / 2015 E the Winnipeg Free Press, The in our catalogue and How Poetry Saved My Life: New York Times, Maclean’s, A Hustler’s Memoir Nîtisânak place a hold for pickup by Lindsay Nixon / 2018 and The Walrus. at a location convenient by Amber Dawn / 2013 for you. Or, download the This Book is Gay The Stonewall Riots: Coming eBook or eAudiobook from by James Dawson / 2021 (Teens) Out in the Streets our OverDrive/Libby or by Gayle E. Pitman / 2019 Stonewall: The Definitive Cantook Station Digital Story of the LGBTQ Rights Queer, There, and, Library services. Check out Everywhere: 23 People Who the 2SLGBTQ+ (Two-Spirit, Uprising That Changed America Changed the World Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, by Sara Prager / 2017 E Transgender, Queer, and +) by Martin Duberman / 2019 E Info Guide for more books, High School Me, Myself, They: Life by Sara Quin and Tegan Quin / community links, and other Beyond the Binary 2019 E, EA resources. by Joshua M. Ferguson / 2019 This One Looks Like a Boy: Some of these recommended E, EA books are available in other My Gender Journey to Life We Have Always Been Here: as a Man formats. Look for the letters A Queer Muslim Memoir by Lorimer Shenher / 2019 EA next to some listings: by Samra Habib / 2019 E, EA Photo credits: Vanessa Heins, Sandro A Audiobook on CD I’m Afraid of Men Pehar, N Maxwell Lander, Prairie Fairies: A History of LP Large Print by Vivek Shraya / 2018 E, EA David Markwei. Queer Communities and E eBook (OverDrive/Libby for Misfit People in Western Canada, Vivek Shraya is a Canadian English; Cantook Station for by Andreas Souvaliotis / 2018 E musician, writer, and artist. French) 1930-1985 by Valerie Joyce Korinek / 2018 Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Selected works include God EA eAudiobook (OverDrive/ Loves Hair (short stories), Story Libby for English, Cantook Beyond Magenta: even this page is white by Jacob Tobia / 2019 E, EA Station for French) Transgender Teens Speak (poetry), and I’m Afraid of Out Disintegrate/Dissociate Men (non-fiction). Shraya Questions? Please contact us by Arielle Twist / 2019 by Susan Kuklin / 2014 (Teens) E teaches creative writing at online via our Ask Us! Service the University of Calgary. at winnipeg.ca/library..
Recommended publications
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