Explore recently released LGBTQIA+ books in our collection. Read on for just a sampling of the latest titles to hit our shelves. Plus, be sure to check out Libby, Overdrive’s library reading app, to find highlighted reads for Pride Month. You can learn more about Heritage and Identity Months through Henrico County’s Outreach and Engagement Department.
ADULT
Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before edited by J.S. Fields, William C. Tracy, and Heather Tracy (also available on Hoopla) – Blast off into a world of space adventure, planetary exploration, aliens, and more in this intergalactic series of sapphic short stories.
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline – A biography about the pivotal activist and Stonewall Riots revolutionary, Marsha P. Johnson, whose charismatic spirit, defiance, and strength have continued to inspire the LGBTQIA+ rights movement.
Mirage City (Evander Mills series) by Lev AC Rosen – 1950s Private Investigator Evander “Andy” Mills is on the case. Personal and professional worlds will collide as Andy searches for the missing members of a secretive queer rights organization in his hometown of Los Angeles.
Thrill of the Chase by Kathryn Nolan – In a race to find the Blackburn Diamonds, a reluctant partnership forms between a reporter and antiques salvager. Will their incessant bickering turn into… sparks?
- A Black Queer History of the United States by C. Riley Snorton
- The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune
- Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color edited by Denne Michele Norris
- DC Pride: To the Farthest Reaches by Jones O’Neill (also available on Hoopla)
- The Dogs of Venice by Steven Rowley
- The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own by Gwendolyn Kiste (also available on Hoopla)
- Herculine: A Novel by Grace Byron
- Isaac’s Song by Daniel Black (also available on Hoopla)
- The Keeper of Magical Things by Julie Leong
- Les Normaux, Vol. 1 by Janine Janssen (also available on Hoopla)
- The LGBTQ+ Travel Guide: Interviews, Itineraries, and Inspiration from Queer Insiders in 50+ Proud Places by Alicia Valenski
- Queer Virginia: New Stories in the Old Dominion edited by Charles H. Ford and Jeffrey L. Littlejohn
- Say Nephew: On Boyhood, Unclehood, and Queer Mentorship by Steven Pfau
- The Sun Blessed Prince by Lindsey Byrd
- The Tuxedo Society by Paul Rudnick
- What is Queer Food? How We Served a Revolution by John Birdsall
TEEN
Athlete is Agender: True Stories of LGBTQ+ People in Sports by Jess Vosseteig – A collection of non-fiction stories from LGBTQIA+ athletes and writers about the joys of finding one’s sport and feeling part of a team.
Between Sun and Shadow by Laura Genn – A sci-fi remix of Beauty and the Beast set in space featuring a princess of sunlight and a winged mutant queen who must work together to prevent a galactic war.
Evil-ish by Kennedy Tarrell – A humorous graphic novel about Hawthorne Vandercast, who is ready to trade their job as potion barista for a life of villainy in the Brigade of Shade. But when tragedy strikes and Vandercast is thrown into the role of leader, they realize that maybe this isn’t the life they dreamed of after all.
Ramin Abbas Has Major Questions by Ahmad Saber – A crush on the soccer captain sparks Muslim high school senior Ramin’s journey of self-discovery, acceptance, and re-thinking everything he’s ever known.
- Abuzz by Amy Chase
- The Afterdark by E. Latimer
- A Traitorous Heart by Erin Cotter
- Daybreak series by Moosopp
- He’s So Possessed with Me by Corey Liu
- Knucklehead: Poems by Tony Keith, Jr. (also available on Hoopla)
- Like We Were in Paris by Stephan Lee (also available on Hoopla)
- Lovely Recipe by Myra Rose Nino
- Lover Birds by Leanne Egan (also available on Hoopla)
- Postscript by Cory McCarthy
- Queerleaders by Olivia A. Cole
- Shapes of Love by L.V. Peñalba
- Something to Be Proud Of by Anna Zoe Quirke
- This Ends in Embers (Divine Traitors duology) by Kamilah Cole
- The Unruly Heart of Miss Darcy by Erin Edwards