Author Archives: Rebecca Butler

2016 Over the Rainbow List: 68 LGBT Books for Adult Readers

 The 2016 Over the Rainbow Project book list, sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library Association (ALA), was decided  at ALA’s Midwinter Meeting in Boston. The bibliography features quality fiction and non-fiction books for adults that are recognized by the Over the Rainbow Project, an ad hoc committee of GLBTRT, for their […]

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October 2015 Under Consideration

The following 37 titles have been read and recommended for inclusion on the final list by at least one juror: Benedicto, Bobby. Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene. Difference Incorporated. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. Brooks, Adrian, ed. The Right Side of History: 100 Years of Revolutionary LGBT Activism and […]

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September 2015

The following 20 books have been read and recommended for consideration on the final list by at least one juror: Berg, Ryan. No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions. New York, NY: Nation Books, 2015. Buzzeo, Melissa. The Devastation. Nightboat, 2015. Dawn, Amber. Where the Words End and My Body Begins. […]

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August 2015

The following fourteen books have been read and recommended for consideration on the final list by at least one juror. Alarcón, Francisco X., Francisco X. Alarcón, and Francisco X. Alarcón. Canto hondo = Deep song. Camino del sol. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2015. Bhattacharya, Susmita. The Normal State of Mind, 2015. Boney, Brad. […]

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July 2015

The following 10 books have been read and recommended for consideration by the final list by at least one juror. Berman, Steve, ed. Daughters of Frankenstein: Lesbian Mad Scientists. Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2015. Bingham, Emily. Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham. 1st edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. Brown, Nickole. […]

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June 2015

The following 9 books have been read and recommended for consideration by the final list by at least one juror. Faderman, Lillian. The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Green, Allison. The Ghosts Who Travel with Me: A Literary Pilgrimage through Brautigan’s America. Portland, Oregon: Ooligan Press, 2015. […]

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May 2015

The following 21 books have been read and recommended for consideration by the final list by at least one juror. Antoniou, Laura, ed. Best Lesbian Erotica. Cleis Press, 2015. Atkins, Priscilla. The Cafe of Our Departure. Little Rock, AR: Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015. Belleau, Heidi, and Rachel Haimowitz. Burnt Toast B&B. Riptide Publishing, 2015. Brown, Jericho. […]

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April 2015

The following ten books have been read and recommended for consideration by the final list by at least one juror. Beachy, Robert. Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity. New York: Knopf, 2014. Brasch, Rachel. The Listener. New York: Pegasus, 2015. Curtiss, Caleb. A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us. Black Lawrence Press, 2015. Eckhardt, […]

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March 2015

The following eleven books have been read and recommended for consideration for the final list by at least one juror. Antoniou, Laura. The Inheritor: Book Six of the Marketplace Series. New York: Circlet Press, 2015. Arnal, Kike. Bordered Lives: Transgender Portraits from Mexico. New York: New Press, The, 2014. http://valpo.worldcat.org/oclc/894149530. Barnett, LaShonda Katrice. Jam on […]

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