Boston Pride will take over downtown this weekend. While you’re waiting for the parade to start, why not check out some of the Libraries’ favorite queer books? We asked everyone from desk staff to the Director of the Libraries for recommendations, and they delivered.
Fiction:
- Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone, James Baldwin
- Tell the Wolves I’m Home, Carol Rifka Brunt
- Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Peter Cameron
- The Door of the Heart, Diana Finfrock Farrar
- Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg
- For Today I Am a Boy, Kim Fu
- The Aerodynamics of Pork and Little Bits of Baby, Patrick Gale
- Sphinx in English (or the original French), Anne Garréta
- None of the Above, I.W. Gregorio
- The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
- Ash, Malinda Lo
- The Summer We Got Free, Mia McKenzie
- Grasshopper Jungle, Andrew Smith
- The Color Purple, Alice Walker
- Written on the Body, Jeannette Winterson
Nonfiction:
- The Women and White Girls, Hilton Als
- The Queer Art of Failure, Judith Halberstam
- Improper Bostonians: Lesbian and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland, the History Project
- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name and Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde
- Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990, Eric Marcus
- Redefining Realness, Janet Mock
- The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, Randy Shilts
- Covering, Kenji Yoshino
Happy reading, and happy Pride!