PHILADELPHIA–The Over the Rainbow committee of ALA’s Rainbow Roundtable gave careful consideration to 324 books this year, 152 fiction and 172 nonfiction. We chose 32 fiction titles and 38 nonfiction titles to make up the complete 2020 Over the Rainbow book list. We are excited by the continued expansion of queer publishing. The depth of […]
Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Marlon James. Riverhead Books, 2019. Violent, lyrical and intense prose follow a troubled warrior around a high fantasy version of epic Africa. His quest is complex and caught up in stories inside stories, diversions that are literal as well as narrative, and James style tumbles through nonlinearly and evoking raw images. […]
The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze. Morgan Lev Edward Holleb. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019. This thorough A-Z glossary catalogs the ever-evolving vocabulary used to describe LGBTQ identities and experiences. Holleb has created an essential reference work that recognizes the power in having the language to describe a feeling, as well as […]
The following titles have been read and recommended by at least one juror. Fiction & Literature Alexander, Jenn. The Song of the Sea. Bywater Books, 2019. Dunn, Gaby. Bury the Lede. Boom! Studios, 2019. Callahan, Dan. That Was Something. Squares and Rebels, 2018. Ekotto, Frieda. Don’t Whisper Too Much and Portrait of a Young Artiste from […]
These titles have been read and recommended by at least one juror. Fiction & Literature Arnett, Kristen. Mostly Dead Things. Tin House Books, 2019. Bongiovanni, Archie. Grease Bats. Boom!Box, 2019. Collins, Bridget. The Binding. William Morrow, 2019. Evaristo, Bernadine. Girl, Woman, Other. Grove Press, 2019. Hitzel, Zoë Estelle. Gender Flytrap. Sundress Publications, 2019. Hurley, Kameron. […]
The following titles have been read and recommended by at least one juror. Fiction & Literature Chabbert, Ingrid. Waves. Archaia, 2019. Dennis, Chris. Here is What You Do. Soho Press, 2019. De Robertis, Carolina. Cantoras. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2019. DiFrancesco, Alex. All City. Seven Stories Press, 2019. Feltman, Amy. Willa & Hesper. Grand Central, […]
The following titles have been read and recommended by at least one juror. Fiction and Literature Burke, Anna. Thorn. Bywater Books, 2019. Currier, James. Why Didn’t Someone Warn You About Prince Charming?. Chelsea Station Editions, 2019. Micklebury, Penny. Two Wings to Fly Away. Bywater Books, 2019. Non-Fiction Ehrenhalt, Lizzie, Tilly Laskey, and Lillian Faderman. Precious and […]
The following titles have been read and recommended for inclusion on the final list by at least one juror: Fiction and Literature Asghar, Fatimah. If They Come For Us: Poems. One World, 2018. Brodsky, Jordana Max. The Wolf in the Whale. Redbook/Orbit, 2019. Cinnamon, Bruce. Melting Queen. NeWest Press, 2019. Guadagnino, Gina Marie. The Parting […]
The following titles have been read and recommended for inclusion on the final list by at least one juror: Fiction and Literature Barnhardt, Wilton (editor). Every True Pleasure: LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Bensimon, Carol. We All Loved Cowboys. Transit Press, 2018. Brown, Jericho. The Tradition. Copper Canyon, 2019. […]
The following titles have been read and recommended for inclusion on the final list by at least one juror: Fiction and Literature Besson, Philippe. Translated by Molly Ringwald. Lie With Me. Scribner, 2019. Bianco, Richard. How to Love a Country. Beacon Press, 2019. Blair, Macon. Long Road to Liquor City. Oni Press, 2019. dodd, jayy. […]