{"id":2704,"date":"2017-01-27T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2017-01-27T09:16:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T14:16:26","slug":"over-the-rainbow-list-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2704","title":{"rendered":"Over the Rainbow List Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GLBTRT released its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/news\/press-releases\/2017\/01\/2017-over-rainbow-list-released-46-quality-glbt-fiction-and-non-fiction\">list of outstanding titles for adults<\/a> at ALA Midwinter. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/overtherainbow\/\">The Over the Rainbow Project<\/a> releases an annotated bibliography each year highlighting quality fiction and non-fiction for adults that authentically represents gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender experiences.<\/p>\n<h2>Top Ten Over the Rainbow List Books<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Struggle for Social Justice<\/em> by Patricia Bell-Scott (Knopf)<\/li>\n<li><em>Another Brooklyn<\/em> by Jacqueline Woodson (Amistad Books)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded<\/em> by Jim Ottavian (Abrams)<\/li>\n<li><em>Juliet Takes a Breath<\/em> by Gabby Rivera (Riverdale Avenue Books)<\/li>\n<li><em>Bettyville: A Memoir<\/em> by George Hodgeman (Penguin\/Random House)<\/li>\n<li><em>A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain<\/em> by Christina Crosby (NYU Press)<\/li>\n<li><em>In the Dark Room<\/em> by Susan Faludi (Metropolitan Books)<\/li>\n<li><em>Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation<\/em> by Jim Downs. (Basic Books)<\/li>\n<li><em>Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life For Girls Who Dig Girls<\/em> by Lindsay King-Miller (Penguin\/Random House)<\/li>\n<li><em>Boy, Erased: A Memoir<\/em> by Garrard Conley (Riverhead)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Over the Rainbow List is compiled each year by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/glbtrt\/about\/committees\/glb-otr\">Over the Rainbow Book List Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GLBTRT released its list of outstanding titles for adults at ALA Midwinter. The Over the Rainbow Project releases an annotated bibliography each year highlighting quality fiction and non-fiction for adults that authentically represents gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender experiences. Top Ten Over the Rainbow List Books The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,57],"tags":[521,447,437],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-media-of-note","tag-best-lgbt-books","tag-book-awards","tag-emilia-r-marcyk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}