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August: 47,000 Beads by Koja Adeyoha (Indigenous-Oglala Lakota, two-spirit lesbian writer) and Angel Adeyoha (two-spirit, queer, gender-defiant, Indigenous mixed-race, complex ability status writer); illustrated by Holly McGillis (White Canadian non-binary illustrator); 2017 children’s literature AND The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar (Bangladeshi/Irish queer Muslim writer); 2020 novel
September: America Is Not The Heart by Elaine Castillo (Filipina American bisexual writer); 2018 novel
October: Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (Nigerian-Igbo/Tamil ogbanje* writer); 2018 autobiographical novel
November: Last Night at The Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (Chinese American lesbian writer); 2021 novel

books we've already read

Adem, Nasra. A God Dance in Human Cloth 2018
Aidoo, Ama Ata. Our Sister Killjoy 1977
Alderman, Naomi. Disobedience 2006
Alderman, Naomi. The Liar's Gospel 2013
Alexander, Jenn. The Song of the Sea 2019
Allen, Paula Gunn. The Woman Who Owned The Shadows 1983
Allison, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina 1993
Anshaw, Carol. Lucky in the Corner 2002
Anshaw, Carol. Seven Moves 1996
Arafat, Zaina. You Exist Too Much 2020
Argo, Rhiannon. The Creamsickle 2009
Ashton, Clare. After Mrs Hamilton 2012
Askowitz, Andrea. My Miserable, Lonely, Lesbian Pregnancy 2008
Avery, Ellis. The Last Nude 2012
Avery, Ellis. The Teahouse Fire 2007
Awakotuku, Ngahuia Te. Tahuri 1993
Bannon, Ann. I Am a Woman 1959
Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood 1937
Beam, Cris. Transparent 2008
Bechdel, Alison. Are You My Mother? 2012
Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home 2006
Benaway, Gwen. Holy Wild 2018
Bennet, Andrea. Like a Boy But Not a Boy: Navigating Life, Mental Health, and Parenthood Outside the Gender Binary 2020
Betasamosake Simpson, Leanne. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies 2020
Betasamosake Simpson, Leanne. This Accident of Being Lost 2017
Blain, Cicely Belle. Burning Sugar 2020
Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. This Wild Silence 2003
Borich, Barrie Jean. My Lesbian Husband 2000
Brand, Dionne. What We All Long For 2005
Brant, Beth. Mohawk Trail 1992
Braschi, Giannina. Yo-Yo Boing! 1998
Breedlove, Lynn. Godspeed 2002
Brossard, Nicole. Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon 2005
Brown, Rita Mae. Rubyfruit Jungle 1973
Butler, Octavia. Lilith's Brood 1987
Calderón, Sara Levi. The Two Mujeres 1990
Carlip, Hillary. Queen of the Oddballs 2006
Chacaby, Ma-Nee and Mary Louisa Plummer. A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder 2016
Chan, Mary Jean. Flèche 2019
Charlton-Trujillo, E.E. Fat Angie 2013
Chen, Angela. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex 2021
Cheng Thom, Kai. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars 2016
Christmas, Jillian. The Gospel of Breaking 2020
Chughtai, Ismat. The Quilt & Other Stories 1994
Cleves, Rachel Hope. Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America 2014
Coyote, Ivan & Zena Sharman. Persistence 2011
Coyote, Ivan E. Loose End 2005
Coyote, Ivan E. The Slow Fix 2008
Danforth, Emily. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012
Dawesar, Abha. Babyji 2000
Dawn, Amber. How Poetry Saved My Life 2013
de Robertis, Carolina. Cantoras 2019
De Veaux, Alexis. Yabo 2014
Delgado Lopera, Juliana. Fiebre Tropical 2020
Dennis-Benn, Nicole Y. Here Comes the Sun 2016
Dennis-Benn, Nicole. Patsy 2019
Devi, Ananda. Eve Out of Her Ruins 2005
Djavadi, Négar. Disoriental 2018
Doctor, Farzana. All Inclusive 2015
Doctor, Farzana. Seven 2020
Doctor, Farzana. Six Metres of Pavement 2011
Doctor, Farzana. Stealing Nasreen 2007
Donoghue, Emma. Frog Music 2014
Donoghue, Emma. Hood 1995
Donoghue, Emma. Slammerkin 2007
Donoghue, Emma. The Sealed Letter 2008
Douglas, Marion. Dance Hall Road 2008
Dumont, Dawn. Nobody Cries at Bingo 2011
Dykewomon, Elana. Beyond the Pale 2003
Fagan, Jenni. The Panopticon 2012
Farizan, Sara. If You Could Be Mine 2013
Feinberg, Leslie. Drag King Dreams 2006
Fischer, Erica. Aimée & Jaguar 1995
Fleming, Anne. Gay Dwarves of America: Stories 2012
Forney, Ellen. Marbles 2012
Franklin, Tee. Bingo Love 2017
Fu, Kim. For Today I am a Boy 2014
Garden, Nancy. Annie on my Mind 1982
Georges, Nicole J. Calling Dr. Laura 2013
Gibb, Camilla. The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life 2003
Gomez, Jewelle. The Gilda Stories 1991
Goobie, Beth. Hello, Groin 2006
Goto, Hiromi. Half World 2009
Goto, Hiromi. Shadow Life 2021
Grant, Stephanie. Map of Ireland 2008
Griffith, Nicola. Ammonite 1993
Gurba, Myriam. Mean 2017
Habib, Samra. We Have Always Been Here 2019
Halberstam, Jack. In a Queer Time and Place 2005
Hale, Amanda. The Reddening Path 2007
Hall, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness 1928
Harris, Jennifer. Pink 2007
Helms, Kristie. Dish it up, Baby! 2003
Hernandez, Catherine. Scarborough 2017
Hernandez, Daisy. A Cup of Water Under My Bed 2014
Highsmith, Patricia. The Price of Salt 1991
Holtz, Nairne & Catherine Lake. No Margins 2006
Holtz, Nairne. Femme Confidential 2017
Holtz, Nairne. The Skin Beneath 2007
Holtz, Nairne. This One's Going to Last Forever 2010
Hopkinson, Nalo. Sister Mine 2013
Hopkinson, Nalo. The Salt Roads 2003
Humphreys, Helen. The Lost Garden 2002
Humphreys, Helen. Wild Dogs 2005
Irby, Samantha. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life 2017
Jarrar, Randa. A Map of Home 2008
Johnson, Maureen. The Bermudez Triangle 2004
July, Miranda. The First Bad Man 2015
Kafai, Shayda. Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid 2021
Kay, Jackie. Trumpet 1998
Kim, June. 12 Days 2006
Kobayashi, Tamai. Prairie Ostrich 2014
Kwa, Lydia. This Place Called Absence 2002
LaCour, Nina. Everything Leads to You 2014
LaCour, Nina. Hold Still 2009
Lai, Larissa. Salt Fish Girl 2002
Lai, Larissa. The Iron Goddess of Mercy 2021
Lai, Larissa. The Tiger Flu 2018
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969
Lee, CB. Not Your Sidekick 2016
Lemus, Felicia Luna. Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties 2004
Liebegott, Ali. The IHOP Papers 2007
Line, DL. On Dangerous Ground 2009
Lo, Malinda. Ash 2009
Lo, Malinda. Huntress 2011
Lopera, Juliana Delgado. ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral History by LGBT Latino Immigrants 2017
Lorde, Audre. The Black Unicorn 1978
Lorde, Audre. Zami: A New Spelling of my Name 1983
Luke, Pearl. Burning Ground 2001
MacDonald, Ann-Marie. Adult Onset 2014
MacDonald, Ann-Marie. Fall on Your Knees 1996
MacFayden, Laurie. Kissing Keeps Us Afloat 2014
MacFayden, Laurie. White Shirt 2010
Martinac, Paula. Out Of Time 1990
Mayor, Chandra. All the Pretty Girls 2008
Mayr, Suzette. Dr Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall 2017
Mayr, Suzette. Monoceros 2011
Mayr, Suzette. Venous Hum 2005
McCarthy, Mary. The Group 1963
Millett, Kate. Sita 1977
Min, Anchee. Red Azalea 1993
Mootoo, Shani. Cereus Blooms at Night 1998
Mootoo, Shani. He Drown She in the Sea 2005
Mootoo, Shani. Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab 2014
Mootoo, Shani. Polar Vortex
Mootoo, Shani. Valmiki's Daughter 2009
Morgan, Jas M. nîtisânak 2019
Namjoshi, Suniti. Feminist Fables
Nazemian, Abdi. The Walk-In Closet 2014
Nut, Amy Ellis. Becoming Nicole: Transformation of an American Family 2015
Obejas, Achy. Days of Awe 2001
Obono, Trifonia Melibea. La Bastarda: A Novel 2016
Okparanta, Chinelo. Under the Udala Trees 2015
Oyeyemi, Helen. Boy, Snow, Bird 2014
Patchett, Ann. The Magician's Assistant 1997
Patel, Nisha. Coconut 2021
Pendleton Jiménez, Karleen. How To Get a Girl Pregnant 2011
Picoult, Jodi. Sing You Home 2011
Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi. Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home 2015
Plante, Hazel Jane. Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) 2019
Porter, Dorothy. The Monkey’s Mask 1997
Rehman, Bushra. Corona 2013
Revoyr, Nina. Southland 2003
Revoyr, Nina. Wingshooters 2011
Rivera, Gabby. Juliet Takes a Breath 2014
Robinson, Shima Aisha (aka Dwennimmen). Horn
Rodriquez, Nice. Throw It To the River 2000
Routsong, Alma (aka Isabel Miller). Patience & Sarah 1967
Rule, Jane. Desert of the Heart 1964
Samuel, Sigal. The Mystics of Mile End 2015
Sandler, Helen. The Touch Typist 2002
Sappho. (Ed. Anne Carson.) If Not, Winter 2002 (7th century BC)
Sarif, Shamim. Despite the Falling Snow 2004
Sarif, Shamim. I Can't Think Straight 2010
Sarif, Shamim. The Athena Protocol 2019
Schulman, Sarah. The Child 2007
Seale, Anne. Finding Ms. Wright 2005
Serano, Julia. Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive 2013
Shraya, Vivek. even this page is white 2016
Shraya, Vivek. The Subtweet 2020
Sindu, SJ. Marriage of a Thousand Lies 2017
Smith, Ali. Girl Meets Boy 2007
Souhami, Diana. Wild Girls 2005
Spoon, Rae. First Spring Grass Fire 2012
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 1990
Stinson, Susan. Venus of Chalk 2004
Stone, Lindsay. Awakening to Sunlight 2010
Sugiura, Misa. It's Not Like It's a Secret 2017
Sweeney, Aoibheann. Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking 2008
Tamaki, Mariko. (You) Set Me on Fire 2012
Tamaki, Mariko. Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass 2019
Tamaki, Mariko. Skim 2008
Tea, Michele. Mermaid in Chelsea Creek 2013
Tea, Michelle. Black Wave 2015
Tea, Michelle. How To Grow Up 2015
Tea, Michelle. Rose of No Man's Land 2006
Tea, Michelle. The Chelsea Whistle 2002
Tobimatsu, Kimiko and illustrator Keet Genitza. Kimiko Does Cancer 2020
Trujillo, Carla. What Night Brings 2003
Truong, Monique. The Book of Salt 2003
Vickers, Lu. Breathing Underwater 2007
Waters, Sarah. Fingersmith 2003
Waters, Sarah. The Paying Guests 2014
Watrous, Malena. If You Follow Me 2010
White, Evelyn C. Alice Walker: A Life 2005
Whittall, Zoe. Bottle Rocket Hearts 2007
Whittall, Zoe. Holding Still for as Long as Possible 2009
Whittall, Zoe. The Best Kind of People 2016
Wilson, Amy. When Days Are Long 1965
Wilson, Chana. Riding Fury Home 2012
Winterson, Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 1985
Winterson, Jeanette. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal 2011
Winterson, Jeanette. Written on the Body 1993
Wood, Charlotte. The Natural Way of Things 2015
Woodrow, Marnie. Spelling Mississippi 2002
Woolf, Virginia. Orlando 1928
Zurawski, Magdalena. The Bruise 2008

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