{"id":777,"date":"2023-09-05T10:50:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T15:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/overtherainbow\/?p=777"},"modified":"2025-11-26T17:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:12:33","slug":"august-2023books-under-consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/overtherainbow\/archives\/777","title":{"rendered":"August 2023 Books Under Consideration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These books have received at least one &#8216;Yes&#8217; votes by the Over the Rainbow Roundtable readers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fiction<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Celebrants-Steven-Rowley\/dp\/0593540425\">The Celebrants<\/a> by Steven Rowley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A deeply honest tribute to the growing pains of selfhood and the people who keep us going, coupled with Steven Rowley?s signature humor and heart,&nbsp;<em>The Celebrants<\/em>&nbsp;is a moving tale about the false invincibility of youth and the beautiful ways in which friendship helps us celebrate our lives, even amid the deepest challenges of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Chefs-Choice\/TJ-Alexander\/Chefs-Kiss\/9781982189105\">Chef&#8217;s Choice<\/a> by TJ Alexander<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fake dating arrangement turns to real love in this deliciously delightful&nbsp;queer rom-com from the author of the sweetly satisfying&nbsp;<em>Chef?s Kiss<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlepuss.net\/shop\/p\/pre-order-girlfriends-by-emily-zhou-paperback\">Girlfriends<\/a> by Emily Zhou<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven heartstoppingly gorgeous stories about young transgender life from the Upper Midwest to New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Infamous-Novel-Lex-Croucher\/dp\/125087565X\">Infamous<\/a> by Lex Croucher<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will Eddie be forced to choose between her friendship with Rose and her literary dreams??or will she be able to write her own happily ever after?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Love-We-Make-Harper-Bliss\/dp\/9464339268\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1693925667&amp;sr=8-1\">The Love We Make<\/a> by Harper Bliss<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best-selling sapphic romance author Harper Bliss brings you a heartfelt romance about overcoming differences, found family, and learning to see yourself through the eyes of the person you love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jilliantamaki.com\/roaming1\">Roaming<\/a> by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meeting in a place they?ve wanted to visit forever: New York City. Tagging along is Dani?s classmate Fiona, a mercurial art student with an opinion on everything. Together, the three cram in as much of the city as possible, gleefully falling into tourist traps, pondering so-called great works of art, sidestepping creeps, and eating lots and lots of pizza (folded in half, of course).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Transitioning-Home-Heather-K-OMalley\/dp\/1636794246\">Transitioning Home<\/a> by Heather K. O?Malley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas Simmons nearly died when a rocket-propelled grenade threw him ass over teakettle while flanking insurgents in Mosul, ending his military career. Recovery?s rough and gives him all the time in the world to face the question he?s avoided all his life: Why does he feel jealous of women?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Unfortunates-Novel-J-K-Chukwu\/dp\/0358650267\">The Unfortunates<\/a> by J.K. Chukwu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An edgy, bitingly funny debut about a queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who, enraged and exhausted by the racism at her elite college, is determined to reveal the truth about The Unfortunates?the unlucky subset of Black undergrads who Just. Keep. Disappearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>NonFiction<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Better-Living-Through-Birding-Natural\/dp\/0593242386\/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=CjwKCAjwo9unBhBTEiwAipC11-Kfug_d0w3XBJN5Y0HXx17BXlyhc3QDeBbhQ5IhMhqEw2DYWOep9BoCnxMQAvD_BwE&amp;hvadid=644943613870&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9012322&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=1315044615378030394&amp;hvtargid=kwd-1942602777799&amp;hydadcr=21295_13319118&amp;keywords=better+living+through+birding&amp;qid=1693926181&amp;sr=8-1\">Better Living Through Birding: Notes by a Black Man in the Natural World<\/a> by Christian Cooper<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crying-Wolf-Memoir-Eden-Boudreau\/dp\/1771668083\">Crying Wolf<\/a> by Eden Boudreau<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a tale as old as time. Girl meets boy. Boy wants girl. Girl says no. Boy takes what he wants anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclebooks.com\/products\/is-it-hot-in-here-or-am-i-suffering-for-all-eternity-for-the-sins-i-committed-on-earth#:~:text=One%20of%20Barnes%20%26%20Noble's%20Best%20Books%20of%202023%20(So%20Far),-In%20this%20debut&amp;text=Whether%20learning%20to%20absolve%20instilled,seeking%20hope%20in%20the%20future.\">It&#8217;s Hot in Here (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)<\/a> by Zach Zimmerman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this debut collection of essays, lists, musings, and quips, New York-based comedian Zach Zimmerman delicately walks the fine line between tear-jerking and knee-slapping and does so with aplomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Last-Gay-Man-Earth\/dp\/1951491238\">The Last Gay Man<\/a> by Ype Driessen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A delightful graphic memoir told in photographs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/products\/2787-miss-major-speaks\">Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary<\/a> by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miss Major&#8217;s incredible story of a life lived and a world survived becomes a conduit for larger questions about the riddle of collective liberation. For a younger generation, she warns about the traps of ?representation,? the politics of &#8216;self-care,&#8217; and the frequent dead-ends of non-profit organizing; for all of us, she is a strike against those who would erase these histories of struggle. Miss Major offers something that cannot be found elsewhere: an affirmation that our vision for freedom can and must be more expansive than those on offer by mainstream institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/We-See-Each-Other-Journey\/dp\/1368081738\">We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film<\/a> by Tre&#8217;vell Anderson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-moment and in-demand culture reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These books have received at least one &#8216;Yes&#8217; votes by the Over the Rainbow Roundtable readers. 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