Rainbow: A First Book of Pride

For ages 2-5. With bright colors and joyful families, this book celebrates LGBTQ+ pride and reveals the colorful meaning behind each rainbow stripe.

A Tale of Two Mommies

For ages 3-5. A rhyming story sharing the different strengths of a little boy's two mothers.

A Tale of Two Daddies

For ages 3-5. A rhyming story sharing the different strengths of a little girl's two fathers.

When Aidan Became a Brother

For ages 3-5. Aidan, a transgender boy, experiences complicated emotions as he and his parents prepare for the arrival of a new baby.

I Promise

For ages 3-8. This charming picture book showcases the many shapes, sizes, and colours that families come in, emphasizing that every queer family starts with the sacred promise to love a child.

Heather Has Two Mommies

For ages 3-7. An LGBTQ classic. When Heather goes to playgroup, at first she feels bad because she has two mothers and no father, but then she learns that there are lost of different kinds of families and the most important thing is that all the people love each other.

Jack Not Jackie

For ages 4-8. Susan can't wait for Jackie to get older so they can do all sorts of things like play forest fairies and be explorers together. But as Jackie grows, she doesn't want to play those games. Jackie also doesn't like dresses or her long hair, and she would rather be called Jack.

Stella Brings the Family

For ages 4-8. Stella brings her two fathers to school to celebrate Mother's Day.

Maiden and Princess

For ages 4-8. When a maiden reluctantly attends a ball for her friend, the prince, everyone considers her his perfect match until she surprises them--and herself--by finding true love with someone else.

In Our Mother's House

For ages 6-9 Marmee, Meema, and the kids are just like any other family on the block. In their beautiful house, they cook dinner together, they laugh together, and they dance together. But some of the other families don't accept them.

The Pants Project

George

For ages 8-12. When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte.

Find the companion novel, Rick, and other books by Alex Gino.

The Lotterys Plus One

For ages 9-11. Sumac is nine years old and the self-proclaimed "good girl" of her (VERY) large, (EXTREMELY) unruly family. And what a family the Lotterys are: four parents, children both adopted and biological, and a menagerie of pets, all living and learning together in a sprawling house called Camelottery. 

Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World

For ages 9-11. In the wake of a destructive tornado, one girl develops feelings for another in this stunning, tender novel about emerging identity

The Hurricane Child

For ages 9-11. Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.

One True Way

For ages 9-12. From the moment she met Samantha, Allison felt she had found a friend--but as their friendship grows it begins to evolve into a deeper emotion, and in North Carolina in 1977, it is not easy to discover that you might be gay.

A Home for Goddesses and Dogs

For ages 10-13. After the death of her mother, Lydia moves in with her aunts and learns to find a new family of inspiring women and loving dogs.

A Possibility of Whales

For ages 10-13. Natalia has to move, again. Nat prefers to think of the possibilities ahead of her: the possibility that she'll see whales on the beach near her new home, that Harry--who she just met--will be her new best friend, that she and her dad won't have to move again again.  

The Other Boy

For ages 10-13. A beautifully heartfelt story about one boy's journey toward acceptance. 

Lily and Dunkin

For ages 10-13. Lily Jo McGrother, born Timothy McGrother, is a girl. But being a girl is not so easy when you look like a boy. Especially when you're in the eighth-grade. 

Clap When You Land

For teens. As their Father’s death uncovers the painful secrets that previously kept them apart, Camino and Yaheira must come to terms with their evolving identities and the bittersweet connections that define families.

Black Flamingo

For teens. Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he’s navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican—but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael’s coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs—and the Black Flamingo is born. 

Blood Sport

For teens. Jason is sure his sister, Becca, was murdered, but he's the only one who thinks so. After finding a photograph Becca kept hidden, he decides to infiltrate a boxing gym to prove that she didn't die accidentally. As a transgender kid, Jason's been fighting for as long as he can remember, and those skills are going to come in handy as he investigates. 

Blood Countess

For teens. n 1578 Hungary, sixteen-year-old Anna is elevated from scullery maid to chambermaid by the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth Báthory, falling completely under the Countess's spell until Anna realizes that she is not a friend but a prisoner of the increasingly cruel and murderous Elizabeth.

Camp

For teens. Sixteen-year-old Randy Kapplehoff loves spending the summer at Camp Outland, a camp for queer teens. It's where he met his best friends. It's where he takes to the stage in the big musical. And it's where he fell for Hudson Aaronson-Lim -- who's only into straight-acting guys and barely knows not-at-all-straight-acting Randy even exists.

Pet

For teens. A Finalist for a National Book Award and winner of a Stonewall Award, Emezi's YA debut stars a Black trans girl named Jam who accidentally releases a monster named Pet in the fictional city of Lucille. Fortunately, Pet has come to help Jam and her best friend track down a much bigger and more dangerous monster.

You Should See Me in a Crown

For teens. Becky Albertalli meets Jenny Han in a smart, hilarious, black girl magic, own voices rom-com by a staggeringly talented new writer.

Felix Ever After

For teens. Felix Love has never been in love--and, yes, he's painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it's like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What's worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he's one marginalization too many--Black, queer, and transgender--to ever get his own happily-ever-after.

Rainbow Revolutions: Power, Pride, And Protest In The Fight For Queer Rights

For teens. From the impassioned speeches of bold activists Karl Ulrichs and Audre Lorde to the birth of Pride and queer pop culture, Rainbow Revolutions charts the dramatic rise of the LGBTQ+ rights movement, and celebrates the courageous individuals who stood up and demanded recognition. 

A Quick and Easy Guide to Queer and Trans Identities

For teens. A great starting point for anyone curious about queer and trans life, and helpful for those already on their own journeys! In this quick and easy guide to queer and trans identities, cartoonists Mady G and JR Zuckerberg guide you through the basics of the LGBT+ world! Covering essential topics like sexuality, gender identity, coming out, and navigating relationships, this guide explains the spectrum of human experience through informative comics, interviews, worksheets, and imaginative examples.

Little Fish

For adults. Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman in Winnipeg who comes across evidence that her late grandfather, a devout Mennonite farmer, might have been transgender as well. 

Cleanness

For adults. Like his debut novel, or Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, this is exemplary queer literary fiction. Full of elegant and intense prose and poetically insightful reflections on both the sacred and the profane.

Death of Vivek Oji

For adults. This is the tale of Vivek Oji. It begins with his end, his naked body shrouded on his mother's doorstep, and moves backwards through time to unpick the story of his life and the mystery surrounding his death. As compulsively readable as it is tender and potent, this is a fresh, engaging novel about the innocence of youth and how it clashes with culture and expectation. The Death of Vivek Oji is the story of a Nigerian childhood quite different from those we have been told before, as Emezi's writing speaks to the truth of realities other than those that have already been seen.

Shut Up You're Pretty

For adults. A debut story collection where femininity, womanness, and identity are not only questioned but also imposed.

Swimming in the Dark

For adults. Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of first love between two young men who eventually find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide--a stunningly poetic and heartrending literary debut for fans of Andre Aciman, Garth Greenwell, and Alan Hollinghurst.

Seeing Gender

For adults. Seeing Gender is an of-the-moment investigation into how we express and understand the complexities of gender today. Deeply researched and fully illustrated, this book demystifies an intensely personal--yet universal--facet of humanity. Illustrating a different concept on each spread, queer author and artist Iris Gottlieb touches on history, science, sociology, and her own experience. This book is an essential tool for understanding and contributing to a necessary cultural conversation, bringing clarity and reassurance to the sometimes-confusing process of navigating ones' identity. Whether LGBTQ+, cisgender, or nonbinary, Seeing Gender is a must-read for intelligent, curious, want-to-be woke people who care about how we see and talk about gender and sexuality in the 21st century.