As you can see,\u00a0 we’ve been busy.\u00a0 Here’s a compilation \u00a0of October’s nominations AND all\u00a0 the titles that have been nominated by at least one member of our dedicated group of readers.<\/p>\n
During the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting, we will read and discuss each of these titles and then vote for the final list. \u00a0The list will be released January 2011.<\/p>\n
We’ve \u00a0found \u00a0142 \u00a0delicious \u00a0titles–we hope you enjoy them!<\/strong><\/p>\n al-Herz, Seba. (\u1e62ab\u0101 \u1e24irz)\u00a0The Others. \u00a0Seven Stories.<\/a><\/p>\n Argo, Rhiannon. The Creamsickle. \u00a0Spinsters Ink.<\/a><\/p>\n Badgett, M.V. Lee. \u00a0When Gay People Get Married: \u00a0What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage. \u00a0New York University Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Ball, Carlos A. From the Closet to the Courtroom: \u00a0Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation. \u00a0Beacon.<\/a><\/p>\n Barron, Stephanie. The White Garden: \u00a0A Novel of Virginia Woolf. \u00a0Bantam.<\/a><\/p>\n Batt, Bryan. \u00a0She Ain\u2019t Heavy, she’s my mother : a memoir. \u00a0Harmony.<\/a><\/p>\n Beach, Sylvia\/Keri Walsch\/Noal Riley Fitch. \u00a0The Letters of Sylvia Beach. \u00a0Columbia University Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Beale, Elaine. \u00a0Another Life Altogether. Spiegel & Grau.<\/a><\/p>\n Bean, Carl and David Ritz. \u00a0I Was Born This Way: \u00a0A Gay \u00a0Preacher’s Journey through Gospel Music, Disco Stardom, and a Ministry in Christ. \u00a0Simon & Schuster.<\/a><\/p>\n Bellaltin, Mario. Beauty Salon. City Lights.<\/a><\/p>\n Bergman,S. Bear. \u00a0The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You. \u00a0Arsenal Pulp.<\/a><\/p>\n Berube, Alan. Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in WWII, 20th Anniversary Edition. Univ. of North Carolina.<\/a><\/p>\n Bidulka, Anthony. \u00a0Aloha, Candy Hearts. \u00a0Insomniac Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Bidulka, Anthony. Date With a Sheesha: A Russell Quant Mystery.\u00a0Insomniac Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Biegel, Stuart. The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools. Univ. of Minnesota.<\/a><\/p>\n Borland, Bryan. My Life As Adam. Sibling Rivalry Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Bornstein, Kate & S. Bear Bergman. Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation. Seal Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Bram, Christopher. \u00a0Mapping the Territory: \u00a0Selected Nonfiction. \u00a0Alyson.<\/a><\/p>\n Breedlove, Lynn. Lynnee Breedlove\u2019s One Freak Show. \u00a0Manic D.<\/a><\/p>\n Brite, Poppy Z.\u00a0\u00a0Second Line.\u00a0 Small Beer Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Brownworth, Victoria. Day of the Dead. Spinsters Ink.<\/a><\/p>\n Bryne, Paula. Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead. Harper.<\/a><\/p>\n Burroughs, Augusten. \u00a0You Better Not Cry: stories for Christmas. St. Martins.<\/a><\/p>\n Callahan, Gerald . \u00a0Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of the Two Sexes. Chicago Review Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Callen, Paulette . Command of Silence. Spinsters Ink.<\/a><\/p>\n Cappello, Mary. Called Back: \u00a0My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life. \u00a0Alyson.<\/a><\/p>\n Cardamone, Tom. \u00a0Pumpkin Teeth: \u00a0Stories. \u00a0Lethe Press<\/a><\/p>\n Carey, Jacqueline.\u00a0 Naamah’s Curse.\u00a0 Grand Central Publishing.<\/a><\/p>\n Castle, Terry. The Professor and Other Writings.\u00a0 Harper.<\/a><\/p>\n Chapman, David and Brett Josef Grubisic. American Hunks. Arsenal Pulp.<\/a><\/p>\n Clark, Naomi.\u00a0 Silver Kiss.\u00a0 Queered Fiction.<\/a><\/p>\n Conroy, Pat.\u00a0 South of Broad.\u00a0 Nan A.Talese<\/a><\/p>\n Coyote, Ivan E.\u00a0 Missed Her.\u00a0 Arsenal Pulp.<\/a><\/p>\n Cunningham, Michael.\u00a0 By Nightfall.\u00a0 Farrar Straus & Giroux.<\/a><\/p>\n D’Amato, Barbara\/Dams\/Zubro. \u00a0Foolproof. Forge\/Tor.<\/a><\/p>\n Damski, Jon-Henri. \u00a0Nothing Personal: \u00a0Chronicles of Chicago’s LGBTQ Community, 1977-1998. \u00a0 \u00a0Firetrap.<\/a><\/p>\n Dawson, Jill. \u00a0The Great Lover. Harper Perennial.<\/a><\/p>\n Dellamonica, A.M. \u00a0Indigo Springs. \u00a0Tor.<\/a><\/p>\n Dobkin, Alix. \u00a0My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement.\u00a0 Alyson.<\/a><\/p>\n Donoghue, Emma. Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature. Knopf.<\/a><\/p>\n Duder, Cameron.\u00a0 Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65. Univ. of British Columbia Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Dumesnil, Cheryl. In Praise of Falling. University of Pittsburgh.<\/a><\/p>\n Duncan, Elizabeth J., A Brush with Death: \u00a0A Penny Brannigan Mystery. \u00a0Minotaur\/St. Martins.<\/a><\/p>\n Dytyniak, Mary.\u00a0 Guys Just Don’t Kiss like That.\u00a0 Life Rattle Press (Toronto).<\/a><\/p>\n Echols, Alice.\u00a0 Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. WW Norton.<\/a><\/p>\n Elledge, Jim, ed.\u00a0 Queers in American Popular Culture (3 v.). Praeger, ABC-CLIO.<\/a><\/p>\n Enszer, Julie R.\u00a0 Handmade Love.\u00a0 Midsummer Night’s \u00a0Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Evans, R. Tripp.\u00a0 Grant Wood: A Life. Knopf.<\/a><\/p>\n Fellows, Will\/Helen Branson.\u00a0 Gay Bar: The Fabulous Story of a Daring Woman and Her Boys in the 1950s. Univ. of Wisconsin.<\/a><\/p>\n Files, Gemma . \u00a0A \u00a0Book of Tongues\u00a0[V. 1, The Hexslinger Series]. Chizine Publications.<\/a><\/p>\n Ford, Michael Thomas. \u00a0The Road Home. \u00a0Kensington.<\/a><\/p>\n Gadol, Peter. \u00a0Silver Lake. \u00a0Tyrus Books.<\/a><\/p>\n Gambone, Philip. Travels in a Gay Nation: \u00a0Portraits of LGBTQ Americans. \u00a0University of Wisconsin.<\/a><\/p>\n Grahn, Judy. \u00a0The Judy Grahn Reader. \u00a0Aunt Lute Books.<\/a><\/p>\n Gray, Mary L.\tOut in the Country: Youth, Media & Queer Visibility in Rural America. New York Univ. Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Grey, Dorien.\u00a0 Aaron’s Wait. Zumaya Publications.<\/a><\/p>\n Griffin, Mark. \u00a0Hundred or More Hidden Things: \u00a0The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli. \u00a0DaCapo.<\/a><\/p>\n Gunn, Drewey Wayne.\u00a0 The Golden Age of Gay Fiction.\u00a0 MLR Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Hale, Ginn. \u00a0Lord of the White Hell book one. Blind Eye Books.<\/a><\/p>\n Hall, Catherine. \u00a0Days of Grace. \u00a0Viking Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Hall, Freeman. \u00a0Retail Hell: How I Sold My Sould to the Store: Confessions of a Tortured Sales Associate. Adams Media.<\/a><\/p>\n Hart, Ellen. The Cruel Ever After (A Jane Lawless Mystery). Minotaur\/St. Martins.<\/a><\/p>\n Haslett, Adam. \u00a0Union Atlantic. Nan A.Talese.<\/a><\/p>\n Hastings, Selina. Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography. Random House.<\/a><\/p>\n Healy, Tom.\u00a0 What the Right Hand Knows.\u00a0 Four Way Books.<\/a><\/p>\n Herman, Joanne. Transgender Explained for Those Who Are Not. AuthorHouse.<\/a><\/p>\n Hodel, Page. \u00a0Monday Hearts for Madalene. Abrams.<\/a><\/p>\n Houck, Lee.\u00a0 Yield. Kensington.<\/a><\/p>\n Hernandez, Jaimie. \u00a0Locas II : Maggie, Hopey & Ray. \u00a0Fantagraphics Books.<\/a><\/p>\n Johnson, Barb. More of This World or Maybe Another. \u00a0HarperCollins.<\/a><\/p>\n Kabakov, Miryam, ed. Keep Your Wives Away from Them: Writings by and about Orthodox LBT Women. North Atlantic.<\/a><\/p>\n Kendall, Gillian, ed. Something to Declare: Good Lesbian Travel Writing. University of Wisconsin.<\/a><\/p>\n Kilmer-Purcell, Josh\tHarper. \u00a0 Bucolic Plague, The: How 2 Manhattanites Became Gentleman Farmers. Harper.<\/a><\/p>\n Kinsman, Gary\/Patrizia Gentile.\u00a0 Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation. Univ. of British Columbia Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Kirkwood, Catherine.\u00a0 Cut Away.\u00a0 Arktoi Books.<\/a><\/p>\n La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence. \u00a0Queer Ricans: \u00a0Cultures & Sexualities in the Diaspora. University of Minnesota.<\/a><\/p>\n Lanyon, Josh. \u00a0The Dark \u00a0Tide. \u00a0MLR Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Lanyon, Josh. Strange Fortune. Blind Eye Books.<\/a><\/p>\n LeVay, Simon.\u00a0 Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation. Oxford.<\/a><\/p>\n Lord, James. \u00a0My Queer War. Farrar Strauss and Giroux.<\/a><\/p>\n Lowrey, Sassafrass, ed. \u00a0Kicked Out. \u00a0Homofactus<\/a><\/p>\n Luczak, Raymond.\u00a0 Mute.\u00a0 A Midsummer’s Night Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Madden, Ed and Hodge, Candace.\u00a0\u00a0Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio. Hub City Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Magruder, James. \u00a0Sugarless. \u00a0 Terrace\/University of Wisconsin.<\/a><\/p>\n Malone, Jill.\u00a0 A Field Guide to Deception: A Novel.\u00a0 Bywater Books.<\/a><\/p>\n Martin, Douglas A.\u00a0 Once You Go Back.\u00a0 Seven Stories.<\/a><\/p>\n Masson, Cynthea. The Elijah Tree. \u00a0Queer Mojo\/Rebel Satori.<\/a><\/p>\n McCauley, Stephen. \u00a0Insignificant Others. \u00a0Simon & Schuster.<\/a><\/p>\n McDonald, Sandra. \u00a0Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories, Lethe Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Meade, Marion. Lonelyhearts: the Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.<\/a><\/p>\n Mendicino, Tom. Probation. \u00a0Kensington.<\/a><\/p>\n Meyer, Walter G.\u00a0 Rounding Third.\u00a0 MaxM .<\/a><\/p>\n Miller, Anne Klempnauer.\u00a0 She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood. Beacon Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Mochizuki, Aska. \u00a0Spinning Tropics. \u00a0Vintage.<\/a><\/p>\n Moffat, Wendy. \u00a0A Great Unrecorded history: \u00a0A New Life of E.M. Forster Farrar Straus and Giroux.<\/a><\/p>\n Mu\u00f1o,\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Esteban. \u00a0Cruising Utopia: \u00a0The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York Univ. Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Nelson, Emmanuel, ed.\u00a0 Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States.\u00a0 ABC-CLIO\/Greenwood.<\/a><\/p>\n Neofotis, Peter. \u00a0Concord, Virginia: \u00a0A Southern Town in Eleven Stories. \u00a0St. Martins.<\/a><\/p>\n Nolan, Monica. Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher. Kensington.<\/a><\/p>\n O’Neill, Tony.\u00a0\u00a0Sick City.\u00a0 HarperPerennial.<\/a><\/p>\n Ostlund, Lori. \u00a0The Bigness of the World: \u00a0Stories. University of Georgia.<\/a><\/p>\n Perez, Emma. \u00a0Forgetting the Alamo; or Blood Mystery. \u00a0University of Texas.<\/a><\/p>\n Pitts, J.A. \u00a0Black Blade Blues. Tor.<\/a><\/p>\n Plakcy, Neil.\u00a0 Mahu Men: Mysterious & Erotic Stories.\u00a0 MLR Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Plakcy, Neil.\u00a0 Mahu Vice.\u00a0 Alyson.<\/a><\/p>\n Plante, David. \u00a0The Pure Lover: a memoir of grief. \u00a0Beacon.<\/a><\/p>\n Ramer, Andrew. \u00a0Queering the Text: \u00a0Biblical, Medieval and Modern Jewish Stories. Lethe Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Raymond, Dwayne . Mornings With Mailer. \u00a0Harper.<\/a><\/p>\n Redmann, J.M.\u00a0\u00a0Water Mark.\u00a0 Bold Strokes.<\/a><\/p>\n Reyes, Guillermo A. Madre and I: \u00a0A Memoir of Our Immigrant Lives. University of Wisconsin.<\/a><\/p>\n Reynolds, Sean.\u00a0 Dying for a Change.\u00a0 Suspect Thought Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Rucke, Greg; J.H. Williams.\u00a0 Batwoman Elegy.\u00a0 DC Comics.<\/a><\/p>\n Ruff, Shawn Stewart\/Claude-Albert Saucier.\u00a0 Toss and Whirl and Pass.\u00a0 Quote Editions.<\/a><\/p>\n Ryan, Garry. Smoked.\u00a0 NeWest.<\/a><\/p>\n Sarfaty, Eddie. Mental: \u00a0Funny in the Head. Kensington.<\/a><\/p>\n Schaefrer, Max.\u00a0 Children of the Sun.\u00a0 Soft Skull.<\/a><\/p>\n Schenkar, Joan.\u00a0 The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life & Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith. St. Martins.<\/a><\/p>\n Schulman, Sarah.\u00a0\u00a0The Mere Future.\u00a0 Arsenal Pulp.<\/a><\/p>\n Schulman, Sarah. Ties That Bind: \u00a0Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences. New Press.<\/a><\/p>\n Schwartz, Neena B.\u00a0 A Lab of My Own.\u00a0 Rodopi.<\/a><\/p>\n Serwatka, Tom.\u00a0\u00a0Queer Questions, Clear Answers: The Contemporary Debates on Sexual Orientation.\u00a0 Praeger, ABC-CLIO.<\/a><\/p>\n Shay, Kathryn. \u00a0The Perfect Family. \u00a0Bold Strokes Books.<\/a><\/p>\n Sheng, Jeff.\u00a0 Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Jeff Sheng Studios.<\/a><\/p>\n Shepard, Judy. The Meaning of Matthew. \u00a0Hudson\/Penguin.<\/a><\/p>\n Shraya, Vivek; illus. Neufeld, Juliana. \u00a0God Loves Hair. \u00a0Godloveshair.com.<\/a><\/p>\n Sims, Ruth.\u00a0 COUNTERPOINT: Dylan\u2019s Story.\u00a0 Dreamspinner Press.<\/a><\/p>\n