As we celebrate Pride this month, we hope you’ll enjoy our selection of good books that touch upon identity, queerness, liberation, and more. Below you’ll find the books listed out by section. Check them out from your closest library or support the authors by buying from your local bookstore.
Latina Classics
- Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa
- Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About by Carla Trujillo
- So Far From God by Ana Castillo
- Compañeras: Latina Lesbians, An Anthology by Juanita Ramoz
Identity
- When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black writers of Latin American Descent edited by Alan Pelaez Lopez
- Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
- Finding Latinx: In search of the voices re-defining Latino identity by Paola Ramos
- Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
- Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo by Rachel Afi Quinn
Organizing
- The Care We Dream of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health by Zena Sharman
- Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance by Syan Rose
- Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers
- Anger is a Gift: A Novel by Mark Oshiro
- Undocumented and Unafraid: Tam Tran, Cinthya Felix, and the Immigrant Youth Movement edited by Kent Wong, Janna Shadduck-Hernández
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
James Baldwin
Biographies
- Crucé la frontera en tacones: Crónicas de una TRANSgresora by Alexandra R. DeRuiz
- Memoir of a Visionary: Antonia Pantoja by Antonia Pantoja
- High-risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez
- The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood by Richard Blanco
- Man Up: A Memoir by Carlos Andrés Gómez
- None of the Above Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary by Travis Alabanza
Kids
- Families, Families, Families! by Suzanne Lang
- Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
- It Feels Good to Be Yourself by Theresa Thorn
- Cesaria Feels the Beat by Denise Adusei
Teens
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
- She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
Poetry
- Crossfire: A Litany for Survival by Staceyann Chin
- We are Owed by Ariana Brown
- Mariposas: A Modern anthology of Queer Latino Poetry edited by Emanuel Xavier
- My Mother was a Freedom Fighter, Aja Monet
- Dream of the Divided Field by Yanyi
- Stepmotherland by Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Want to learn more about queer organizing history? Check out our previous post: Pride As Action: Queer Organizing, Resistance, and Spirit