LGBT+ History Month reading suggestions
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Titles for Children
Picture books
The Boys by Lauren Ace and Jenny Lovlie
Grandad's Camper by Harry Woodgate
Introducing Teddy by Jess Walton
Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
We are Family by Patricia Hegarty and Ryan Wheatcroft
Older Readers
The Edge of the Ocean by L.D. Lapinsky
Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow by Benjamin Dean
Proud of Me by Sarah Hagger-Holt
Rick by Alex Gino
The Secret Sunshine Project by Benjamin Dean
Titles for Teenagers
The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson
The Awesome Autistic Guide for Trans Teens by Yenn Purkis and Sam Rose
Heartstopper series by Alice Oseman
If You Still Recognise Me by Cynthia So
The King is Dead by Benjamin Dean
Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee
Not My Problem by Ciara Smyth
The Pride Guide by Jo Langford
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks (illustrator)
Queer Up by Alexis Caught
She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick
She/He/They/Them: Understanding Gender Identity by Rebecca Stanborough
This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron
What's the T? by Juno Dawson
Wranglestone by Darren Charlton
Titles for Adults
Fiction
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
All of You Every Single One by Beatrice Hitchman
Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters
Everyone in this Room Will Someday be Dead by Emily Austin
The Inverts by Crystal Jeans
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily Danforth
Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Non-fiction
All the Things She Said by Daisy Jones
Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam
Front Lines: Trans Journalism 2007-2021 by Jacques Juliet
The Pink Line by Mark Gevisser
The Queer Bible by Jack Guinness (ed.)
Queer Intentions by Amelia Abraham
The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye
We Can Do Better Than This by Amelia Abraham
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