LGBTQ2+* RECOMMENDED MEDIA *Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Two-Spirit and more ADULT FICTION The Prettiest Star - Carter Sickels (2020) ​ ​ Call Me By Your Name - Andre Aciman (2008) The Deep - Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs (2019) ​ ​ ​ Jam on the Vine - LaShonda Katrice Barnett (2015) This Town Sleeps - Dennis E. Staples, Dennis (2020) ​ ​ Lie with Me - Philippe Besson (2019) A People's History of Heaven - Mathangi Subramanian (2019) ​ ​ ​ White Houses - Amy Bloomi (2018) The Lauras – Sara Taylor (2017) ​ ​ A Ladder to the Sky - John Boyne (2018) On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong (2019) ​ ​ ​ ​ Theory - Dionne Brand (2018) A Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics – Olivia Waite (2019) ​ ​ ​ House of Impossible Beauties - Joseph Cassara (2018) Something to Talk About – Meryl Wilsner (2020) ​ ​ ​ Life of David Hockney - Catherine Cusset (2019) Jonny Appleseed - Joshua Whitehead (2018) ​ ​ Patsy - Nicole Dennis-Benn (2019) Tin Man - Sarah Winman (2018) ​ ​ ​ In at the Deep End - Kate Davies (2019) Frankissstein - Jeanette Winterson (2019) ​ ​ Stealing Nasreen/6 Metres of Pavement -Farzana ​ ​ ​ ​ Doctor RomanceBookCloud has a collection of LGBTQ ebooks ​ ​ Exciting Times - Naoise Dolan (2020) ​ Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi (2018) ​ ​ Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo (2019) ​ Break in case of emergency - Brian Francis (2019) ​ Upright Women - Sarah Gailey (2020) ​ Less - Andrew Sean Greer (2017) ​ ​ Stray City - Chelsey Johnson (2018) ​ ​ Who Is Vera Kelly? - Rosalie Knecht (2018) ​ Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai (2018) ​ ​ All My Mother's Lovers - Ilana Masad (2020) ​ Red, White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston (2019) ​ ​ Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir (2019) ​ Shut Up You're Pretty - Téa Mutonji (2019) ​ Under the Udala Trees - Chinelo Okparanta (2015) ​ ​ When Katie met Cassidy – Camille Perri (2018) ​ Little Fish - Casey Plett (2018) ​ ​ The Clothesline Swing - Ahmad Danny Ramadan (2017) ​ ​ Tell me how you Really Feel - Aminah Mae Safi (2019) ​ No one can Pronounce My Name - Rakesh Satyal (2017) ​ ​ Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon (2020) ​ ​ Subtweet - Vivek Shraya (2020) ​ ​ 1 BRAMPTON LIBRARY PRIDE GUIDE Compiled by Michele Collins & Cheryl Costello LGBTQ2+* RECOMMENDED MEDIA *Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Two-Spirit and more A Burst of Light: And Other Essays - Audre Lorde (2017) ​ ​ In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado (2019) ADULT NON-FICTION ​ Aphrodite Made Me Do It - Trista Mateer (2019) ​ Gender: Your Guide - Lee Airton (2018) Mamaskatch : a Cree coming of age - Darrel J. McLeod (2018) ​ ​ ​ Angry Queer Somali Boy - Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali No Ashes in the Fire - Darnell L. Moore (2018) ​ ​ ​ Queer Cosmos - Colin Bedell (2019) Something That May Shock & Discredit You - Daniel M. ​ ​ ​ NDN coping mechanisms - Billy-Ray Belcourt (2019) Ortberg ​ ​ The Groom Will Keep his Name - Matt Ortile (2020) Karamo - Karamo Brown (2019) ​ ​ ​ Care Work - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (2018) Becoming a Man - P. Carl (2020) ​ ​ ​ Diary of a Drag Queen - Crystal Rasmussen (2020) A Two-Spirit Journey - Ma Nee Chacaby (2016) ​ ​ ​ Beautiful on the Outside - Adam Rippon (2019) How to Write an Autobiographical Novel - ​ ​ My Autobiography of Carson McCullers - Jenn Shapland (2020) Alexander Chee (2018) ​ The Gospel of Breaking - Jillian Christmas (2020) She Wants It - Jill Soloway (2018) ​ ​ Officer Clemmons - Dr. François S. Clemmons (2020) The Fire Never Goes Out - Noelle Stevenson (2020) ​ ​ Boy Erased – Garrard Conley (2016) Tasty Pride: 75 recipes and stories - Jesse Szewczyk (2020) ​ ​ Rebent Sinner - Ivan Coyote (2019) High School - Sara and Tegan Quin (2019) ​ ​ ​ Untamed - Glennon Doyle (2020) Guru - RuPaul (2018) ​ ​ ​ You’re in the Wrong Bathroom - She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters, and Binary Resisters ​ ​ Laura Erickson-Schroth (2017) - Robyn Ryle (2019) The Gay Revolution - Lillian Faderman (2015) This One Looks Like a Boy - Lorimer Shenher (2019) ​ ​ ​ ​ Me, Myself, They - Joshua Ferguson (2019) I’m Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya (2018) ​ ​ ​ Naturally Tan : A Memoir - Tan France (2019) She Wants It - Jill Soloway (2018) ​ ​ The Book of Pride - Mason Funk (2019) You Are Enough - Mandy Hale (2018) ​ ​ Queers were Here: Heroes of queer Canada - Fairest: A Memoir - Meredith Talusan (2020) ​ ​ ​ Robin Ganev (2016) I Hope We Choose Love: A trans girl’s notes from the end of the world - Kai Cheng Thom (2019) Not That Bad / Hunger - Roxane Gay (2018) ​ ​ ​ ​ Here for It - Eric R. Thomas (2020) Tranny - Laura Jane Grace (2016) ​ ​ ​ Disintegrate/Dissociate - Arielle Twist (2019) All That Heaven Allows: A biography of Rock Hudson - ​ ​ ​ Over the Top - Jonathan Van Ness (2019) Mark Griffin (2018) ​ Mean - Myriam Gurba (2017) Born Both: An Intersex life - Hida Viloria (2017) ​ ​ ​ We Have Always Been Here - Samra Habib (2019) Woman Enough - Kristen Worley (2019) ​ ​ ​ A Brief History of Oversharing - Shawn Hitchins (2017) Everything is Awful & you’re a Terrible Person - ​ ​ Mercury and Me - Jim Hutton (2019) Daniel Zomparelli (2017) ​ ​ Wow, No Thank You - Samantha Irby (2020) ​ ​ Me - Elton John (2019) ​ How We Fight for Our Lives - Saeed Jones (2019) ​ ​ Love Lives Here - Amanda Jette Knox (2019) ​ Angels in America - Tony Kushner (1996) ​ Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across - Mary Lambert (2018) ​ Trans Like Me - C.N. Lester (2018) ​ ​ My Sister - Selenis Leyva (2020) ​ 2 BRAMPTON LIBRARY PRIDE GUIDE Compiled by Michele Collins & Cheryl Costello LGBTQ2+* RECOMMENDED MEDIA *Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Two-Spirit and more YOUNG ADULT FICTION We Are Okay - Nina LaCour (2017) ​ ​ How it all blew up – Arvin Ahmadi (2020) The boy in the red dress – Kristin Lambert (2020) ​ ​ ​ Yes No Maybe So/Creekwood - Becky Albertalli (2020) I'll Be the One - Lyla Lee (2020) ​ ​ ​ ​ Weight of the Stars - K Ancrum (2019) Gentleman’s guide to Vice and Virtue - Mackenzi Lee (2017) ​ ​ ​ Black Flamingo - Dean Atta (2020) Not Your Sidekick - C.B. Lee (2016) ​ ​ ​ ​ Hold My Hand - Michael Barakiva (2019) 19 Love Songs - David Levithan (2020) ​ ​ ​ Girl, Serpent, Thorn - Melissa Bashardoust (2020) Spin the Dawn - Elizabeth Lim (2019) ​ ​ ​ ​ The Ship We Built - Lexi Bean A Line In The Dark - Malinda Lo (2017) ​ ​ ​ Kings Queens and in-betweens – Tanya Boteju (2019) Ship it - Britta Lundin (2018) ​ ​ ​ ​ Felix Ever After - Kacen Callender (2020) 10 Things I Can See From Here - Carrie Mac (2017) ​ ​ ​ Once and Future - Amy Rose Capetta (2019) Dark & Deepest Red - Anna-Marie McLemore (2020) ​ ​ ​ ​ Red Scrolls of Magic - Cassandra Clare (2019) Stay Gold - Toby McSmith (2020) ​ ​ I Wish You the Best - Mason Deaver (2019) Out Now: Queer we go again! – Saundra Mitchell (2020) ​ ​ ​ ​ Sound of Stars - Alechia Dow (2020) Ramona Blue - Julie Murphy (2017) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Hot dog girl - Jennifer Dugan (2019) Like a Love Story - Abdi Nazemian (2019) ​ ​ ​ The Fascinators - Andrew Eliopulos (2020) Girls of paper and fire series – Natasha Ngan (2019) ​ ​ Pet – Akwaeke Emezi (2019) Birdie and Me - J. M. M. Nuanez (2020) ​ ​ Spellhacker - M.K. England (2020) Crown of Feathers series - Nicki Pau Preto (2019) ​ ​ ​ ​ If you could be mine - Sara Farizan (2013) I Hope You Get This Message - Farah Naz Rishi (2019) ​ ​ When We Were Magic - Sarah Gailey (2020) Juliet Takes a Breath - Gabby Rivera (2016) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Annie on my mind – Nancy Garden (1982) Carry On - Rainbow Rowell (2015) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Girl Mans Up - M-E Girard (2016) Tell Me How You Really Feel - Aminah Mae Safi (2019) ​ ​ ​ ​ Only Mostly Devastated - Sophie Gonzales (2020) Home After Dark - David Small (2018) ​ ​ ​ Her Royal Highness - Rachel Hawkins (2019) Something like Gravity - Amber Smith (2019) ​ ​ ​ ​ Girl Crushed - Katie Heaney (2020) Gravity of Us - Phil Stamper (2020) ​ ​ ​ We Contain Multitudes - Sarah Henstra (2019) These Witches won’t Burn series - Isabel Sterling (2019) ​ ​ ​ Every Body Looking - Candice Iloh Dress Codes for Small Towns - Courtney Stevens (2019) ​ ​ You Should See Me in a Crown - Leah Johnson (2020) Pulp - Robin Talley (2018) ​ ​ ​ The Afterward - E.K. Johnston (2020) Tarnished are the stars - Rosiee Thor (2019) ​ ​ ​ Fire Song - Adam Garnet Jones (2018) Carmilla - Kim Turrisi (2019) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ A Song Only I Can Hear - Barry Jonsberg (2020) The Grief Keeper - Alexandra Villasante (2019) ​ ​ We are Totally Normal - Rahul Kanakia (2020) If we were us – K. L. Walther (2020) ​ ​ ​ ​ Let’s Talk about Love - Claire Kann (2018) Date me, Bryson Keller – Kevin van Whye (2020) ​ ​ The The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali - Sabina Khan ​ Darius the Great Deserves Better - Adib Khorram TeenBookCloud has a collection of LGBT ebooks ​ ​ ​ The Music of What Happens - Bill Konigsberg (2019) ​ ​ 3 BRAMPTON LIBRARY PRIDE GUIDE Compiled by Michele Collins & Cheryl Costello LGBTQ2+* RECOMMENDED MEDIA *Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Two-Spirit and more CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS Family Book / It’s Okay to Be Different - Todd Parr (2003) ​ ​ ​ ​ Worm Loves Worm - J.J. Austrian (2016) This Day in June/A Church for All-Gayle Pitman (2014) ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Morris Micklewhite & the Tangerine Dress - In our Mothers’ House - Patricia Polacco (2009) ​ ​ Christine Baldacchino (2014) Pink is for Boys - Robb Pearlman (2018) ​ Odd Bird Out - Helga Bansch (2011) And Tango Makes Three - Justin Richardson (2015) ​ ​ ​ ​ Henry Holton takes the Ice - Sandra Bradley (2015) Pride: Harvey Milk & the Rainbow Flag - Rob Sanders (2018) ​ ​ ​ I am Perfectly Designed - Karamo Brown (2019) Stella Brings the Family - Miriam Schiffer (2015)