Top 40 Booklist

LGBTQ+ Literature Project

BUILDING BELONGING BOOK BY BOOK

Photos of Books and Other Recommended Titles Below * Top 40 List in pdf - * Top 40 List in Google Doc

K-2 Book List

A Family is a Family is a Family

Sara O'Leary

Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Name Penelope

Jodie Patterson

Cuando Amamos Cantamos / When We Love Someone We Sing to Them

Ernesto J. Martinez
Maya C. Gonzalez
Feliciano J. G. Martinez

Grandad's Camper

Harry Woodgate

Ho'onani: Hula Warrior

Heather Gale
Mika Song

Julian is a Mermaid

Jessica Love

Stella Brings the Family

Miriam B. Schiffer

When Aiden Became a Brother

Kyle Lukoff

Sewing the Rainbow

Gayle E. Pitman

Who's Your Real Mum?

Bernadette Green

3-5 Book List

Ana on the Edge

A.J. Sass

Beetle and the Hollowbones

Aliza Layne

Cattywampus

Ash Van Otterloo

Derby Daredevils #1: Kenzie Kickstarts a Team

Kit Rosewater
Sophie Escabasse

Goldie Vance: The Hotel Whodunit

Lilliam Rivera

High Five for Glenn Burke

Phil Bildner

Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag

Rob Sanders

Rabbit Chase

Elizabeth Lapensee

Sharice's Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman

Nancy K. Mays
Sharice Davids

The Moon Within

Aida Salazar

6-8 Book List

A High Five for Glenn Burke

Phil Bildner

Flamer

Mike Curato

Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World

Ashley Herring Blake

King and the Dragonflies

Kacen Callendar

Redwood and Ponytail

K.A. Holt

The Girl from the Sea

Molly Ostertag

The Magic Fish

Trung Le Nguyen

The Might Heart of Sunny St. James

Ashley Herring Blake

This Is Our Rainbow

Katherine Locke

Too Bright to See

Kyle Lukoff

9-12 Book List

A Queer History of the United States for Young People

Michael Bronski

Anger is a Gift

Mark Oshiro

Cemetery Boys

Aiden Thomas

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

Junauda Petrus

Heartstopper Series 1-4

Alice Oseman

The Henna Wars

Adiba Jaigirdar

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malindo Lo

Pet

Akwaeke Emezi

Ziggy, Stardust and Me

James Brandon

Other Recommended Titles


Other Recommended Titles K-2

  • Calvin, Vanessa Ford, 2021

  • From Archie to Zack, Vincent X. Kirsch, 2020

  • It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity, Theresa Thomas,, 2019

  • My Footprints, Bao Phi, 2020

  • My Sister, Daisy, Adria Karlsson, 2021

  • Our Subway Baby, Peter Mercurio, 2020

Other Recommended Titles 3-5

  • Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring, Matthew Burgess, 2020

  • The List of Things that Will Not Change, Rebecca Stead, 2020

  • Portrait in Poems: The Storied Life of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Evie Robillard, 2020

Other Recommended Titles 6-8

  • Almost Flying, Jake Maia Arlow, 2021

Other Recommended Titles 9-12

  • The Many Half Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester, Maya MacGregor, 2022

  • Bloom, Kevin Panetta, 2019

  • Fifteen Hundred Miles From the Sun, Jonny Garza Villa, 2021

  • Light From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki, 2021

  • Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender, 2020