LGBTQIA+ Reading List

Books/collections/poems/short stories/ etc.

Ali Arbuckle

• "What is Value" 

Fatimah Asghar

• If They Come for Us After 

W.H. Auden 

• "September 1, 1939" 

• "Poem" 

• The Orators: An English Study  

• The Dance of Death  

• Look, Stranger! 

• Journey to a War  

• The Double Man  

• The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue  

• The Enchafèd Flood  

• Homage to Clio 

• Secondary Worlds 

• Forewords and Afterwords 

John Bonner

• "Will You Join Me?" 

Jericho Brown

• “Duplex”  

• "Hustle" 

Meg Day

• "‘Somewhere, There is a Long Drive Waiting for Me" 

Qwo-Li Driskill

• Walking with Ghosts 

• Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory 

• Yelesalehe Hiwayona Dikanohogida Naiwodusv

Andrea Gibson

• Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

• The Madness Vase 

• Pansy 

• Take Me With You 

• Lord of the Butterflies 

• You Better Be Lightning  

Arden Hill

• "Bloodwater Parish."

• "I don’t see you as queer: erasure as compliment" 

• "Before Birth" 

• "Walking Down Third Street"

George M. Johnson

• AllBoys Aren't Blue

• Property of No State

• Stonewall

• The (________) They Don't Teach You About College

• We Are Not Broke

Claire Kann

• Let's Talk About Love 

• The Romantic Agenda   

• If It Makes You Happy 

• The Marvelous

Maia Kobabe

• Gender Queer

Audre Lorde

• The First Cities.  

• Cables to Rage.  

• Coal. 

• The Black Unicorn.  

• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. 

• Our Dead Behind Us. 

• A Burst of Light. 

• The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance

• Your Silence Will Not Protect You : Essays and Poems 

Mary Oliver

• "The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac"  

Anna Petty

• "Survivor's Guilt"  

Koleka Putuma 

• Collective Amnesia (collection) 

Maurice Sendak

• Where the Wild Things Are 

Kay Ulanday Barrett

• When The Chant Comes

• More Than Organs 

Alok Vaid-Menon

• "The Loneliness of Being Yourself"

Other lists:

https://bookglow.net/20-essential-lgbtq-books-to-read-this-pride-month/

https://queerbio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Notable_Transgender_Writers

SLCC Student Writing & Reading Center 2023