In honor of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, we've rounded up new and new-ish fiction and nonfiction written by LGBTQ+ authors! Make sure to check out Libby/Overdrive for even more booklists to celebrate Pride Month. 
 
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Fiction

Light from uncommon stars
by Ryka Aoki

To reclaim her damned soul, a gifted, but cursed violinist must take on seven students and try to entice each to trade their soul for fame while a starship captain races to stop the end of existence. 150,000 first printing.
Blue-skinned gods
by SJ Sindu

Born with blue skin, an Indian boy believed to be the 10th human incarnation of Vishnu, blesses pilgrims but ultimately questions his divinity, in the new novel by the award-winning author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies.
Matrix
by Lauren Groff

Cast out of the royal court, 17-year-old Marie de France, born the last in a long line of women warriors, is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey where she vows to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects.
She who became the sun
by Shelley Parker-Chan

When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongban, given the fate of greatness, dies during a brutal attack, his sister, escaping her own fated death, uses her brother’s identity to claim another future altogether—her brother’s abandoned greatness. 125,000 first printing.
The town of Babylon : a novel
by Alejandro Varela

Returning to his hometown to care for his ailing father, Andres, a gay Latinx professor, decides to attend his 20-year high school reunion where he encounters the long-lost characters of his youth and must confront these relationships to better understand his own life.
Rainbow milk : a novel
by Paul Mendez

Seeking a fresh start in London after escaping a repressive religious community, Jesse finds himself at a lost for a new center of gravity and turns to sex work, music and art to create his own notions of love, masculinity and spirituality.
Skye falling : a novel
by Mia McKenzie

When a 12-year-old girl tracks her down during one of her brief visits to Philadelphia, claiming to be “her egg,” Skye, a loner and egg donor, decides that it might be time to actually have a meaningful relationship with another human being, which is easier said than done.
The five wounds : a novel
by Kirstin Valdez Quade

A first novel by the award-winning author of Night at the Fiestas finds a man accepting the role of Jesus in his New Mexico community’s Good Friday procession, before his personal goals of redemption are challenged by a daughter’s pregnancy.
The Verifiers
by Jane Pek

Stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referral-only online-dating detective agency, Claudia, when a client disappears, breaks protocol to investigate and uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit. Original.
Count your lucky stars : a novel
by Alexandria Bellefleur

While touring a wedding venue with a friend, Margot Cooper unexpectedly runs into Olivia Grant, her childhood friend, first love, and forever the One that Got Away and the pair try to rekindle their friendship again. Original. 30,000 first printing.
I'm so (not) over you
by Kosoko Jackson

Pretending to still be his ex’s current boyfriend in front of his parents, Kian reluctantly winds up being Hudson’s plus-one at a splashy Georgia wedding and the pair find themselves in need of hashing out their true feelings. Original.
Nonfiction
Hola Papi : How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
by John Paul Brammer

From popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer John Paul Brammer comes a hilarious, heartwarming memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey growing up as a queer, mixed-race Chicano kid in American's heartland to becoming the "Picante Carrie Bradshaw" of his generation.
Burn the page : a true story of torching doubts, blazing trails, and igniting change
by Danica Roem

The first openly trans person elected to a U.S. state legislature discusses her lonely and closeted childhood and how she re-wrote her own future by deciding to run for office.
You can't be serious
by 1977- Penn, Kal

In this series of funny, consequential, awkward and ridiculous stories from the actor and White House aide’s idiosyncratic life, he reflects on the most exasperating and rewarding moments of his journey so far, showing that everyone can have more than one life story. 125,000 first printing. Illustrations.
High-risk homosexual : a memoir
by Edgar Gomez

The Florida-born writer presents a memoir tracing his hard-won path to taking pride in himself as a gay Latinx man despite the culture of machismo surrounding him, including his uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua.
I was better last night : a memoir
by Harvey Fierstein

This autobiography from the cultural icon, gay rights activist and four-time Tony Award–winning actor and playwright looks back on his legendary career, from community theater in Brooklyn to the excesses of Hollywood. Illustrations.
Girls can kiss now : essays
by Jill Gutowitz

This collection of personal essays from the New Jersey-based writer looks at queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet and identity as well as the mainstreaming of lesbian culture. 60,000 first printing. Original.
Reclaiming Two-Spirits : sexuality, spiritual renewal, and sovereignty in Native America
by Gregory D. Smithers

"A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender and sexuality that decolonizes North America's past and reveals how Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations"
Pride : the LGBTQ+ rights movement
by Christopher Measom

This lavishly illustrated book commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and is an inspiring photographic journey through the LGBTQ+ Pride movement over the last century
A queer history of the United States
by Michael Bronski

“In the age of Twitter and reductive history, we need a complex, fully realized, radical reassessment of history—and A Queer History of the United States is exactly that. Along the way, there are enough revelations and reassessments to fuel dozens of arguments about how we got to where we are today. I don't know when I have enjoyed a history so much.” —Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina
Greedy : notes from a bisexual who wants too much
by Jen Winston

In this collection of provocative and humorous essays, the social media writer and creator reflects on her personal experiences with sexism and biphobia while trying to find stability and a sense of her own self. 50,000 first printing. Original.
The 2000s made me gay : essays on pop culture
by Grace Perry

A contributor to The Onion takes us on a rollicking ride through early 2000s pop culture, before the cataclysmic shift in LGBTQ representation and acceptance, that weaves together criticism with personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman. Original. 30,000 first printing.
Let the record show : a political history of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
by Sarah Schulman

"A groundbreaking history of ACT UP and the AIDS crisis"