Library Guides: LGBTIQA+ Library Guide: Books

Lists and reviews of books:

The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide

Penguin- The Ultimate LGBTQIA+ Pride Book List

Hatchette Essential Reading on the LGBTQ Journey

Goodreads Genre list for LGBT

Christchurch Libraries New Zealand: LGBTQIA+ reading guide

Stonewall - LGBT inclusive books for children and young people

Pride History Group reading list - Learn more about Sydney’s LGBTIQ past from some important history texts.

Non-fiction Books

Gender queer: a memoir

Five bells : being LGBT in Australia

Nonbinary : memoirs of gender and identity

Colouring the rainbow : blak queer and trans perspectives : life stories and essays by First Nations People of Australia

The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism

Queer : a graphic history

Advising Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer College Students

All boys aren't blue

Female-To-Male (FtM) Transgender People's Experiences in Australia

Finding out: an introduction to LGBT studies

Gender at work : theory and practice for 21st century organizations

Growing up Queer in Australia

Introducing the New Sexuality Studies

Protesting gender : the LGBTIQ movement and its opponents in Italy

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies

You Can Tell Just by Looking

Personal Score

Barracuda

Flock

Fiction books

Detransition, baby : a novel

Call Me by Your Name

The Tree and the Vine

Margaret and the mystery of the missing body

Middlesex

Holding the Man

The Monkey's Mask

All Out: the No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages

Amelia Westlake

YA (Young Adult) Reading

Amelia Westlake by Gough, Erin
ISBN: 9781743585528

Publication Date: 2018
The henna wars by Jaigirdar, Adiba
Call Number: http://librarysso.vu.edu.au/record=b6621195

ISBN: 9781444962208

When Nishat comes out to her parents, they say she can be anyone she wants - as long as she isn't herself. Nishat doesn't want to lose her family, but she also doesn't want to hide who she is, which only gets harder once Flavia walks into her life. Flavia takes Nishat's breath away. Can Nishat find a way to be true to herself... and find love too? Ages 14+ years
The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd
Call Number: 813.6 BUR

ISBN: 9780803733404

Publication Date: 2009-05-14
All Out: the No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages by Saundra Mitchell; Dahlia Adler; Tess Sharpe; Kate Scelsa; Natalie C. Parker; Sara Farizan; Nilah Magruder; Tessa Gratton; Tehlor Kay Mejia; Alex Sanchez; Scott Tracey; Malinda Lo; Robin Talley; Mackenzi Lee; Kody Keplinger; Elliot Wake; Anna-Marie McLemore; Shaun David Hutchinson
ISBN: 9781335146816

Publication Date: 2020-05-26
The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska
ISBN: 9781728209982

Publication Date: 2020-08-04

A gripping, dark enemies to lovers LGBTQ+ YA fantasy about two girls who must choose between saving themselves, each other, or their sinking island home. Every year on St. Walpurga's Eve, Caldella's Witch Queen lures a boy back to her palace. An innocent life to be sacrificed on the full moon to keep the island city from sinking. Lina Kirk is convinced her brother is going to be taken this year. To save him, she enlists the help of Thomas Lin, the boy she secretly loves, and the only person to ever escape from the palace. But they draw the queen's attention, and Thomas is chosen as the sacrifice. Queen Eva watched her sister die to save the boy she loved. Now as queen, she won't make the same mistake. She's willing to sacrifice anyone if it means saving herself and her city. When Lina offers herself to the queen in exchange for Thomas's freedom, the two girls await the full moon together. But Lina is not at all what Eva expected, and the queen is nothing like Lina envisioned. Against their will, they find themselves falling for each other as water floods Caldella's streets and the dark tide demands its sacrifice. Perfect for fans of: The Wicked Deep and A Curse So Dark and Lonely Witchy tales Dark fantasy fiction LGBTQ books Enemies to lovers romance Praise for The Dark Tide: "Striking the perfect balance, The Dark Tide demands to be read in one held breath as its tide bears down on all."--Foreword, Starred Review "A dark scenic adventure, sensitively written for romantics, Jasinska's debut novel is a fantasy of promises, betrayal, unrequited love, and black magic."--School Library Journal, Starred Review "The Dark Tide is the dark, queer fantasy of your dreams that's part beauty and the beast, part something entirely new and original... a lush world that begs to be lived in... It's beautiful, and fast paced, and everything I ever want from a fairy tale."--Cat VanOrder, Bookmarks (Winston-Salem, NC) "Fans of the enemies-to-lovers trope will be ecstatic with this book...The Dark Tide offers an exciting and immersive story with a strong feminist slant that subverts common YA tropes and forges its own original path."--The Nerd Daily

Children's literature

Heather Has Two Mommies by Lesléa Newman; Laura Cornell (Illustrator)
Call Number: 813.54 NEW

ISBN: 9780763690427

Publication Date: 2016

When Heather and her classmates all draw pictures of their families, not one drawing is the same.
Julian is a mermaid by Love, Jessica
Call Number: 813.6 LOV

ISBN: 9781406386424

Publication Date: 2019

A glimpse of three women dressed as mermaids leaves one boy filled with wonder and ready to dazzle the world.
Love makes a family by Beer, Sophie
Call Number: A823.4 BEE

ISBN: 9781760502225

Publication Date: 2018

Whether you have two mums, two dads, one parent, or one of each, there's one thing that makes a family a family... and that's love.
Illustrated by Sophie Beer. Longlisted for the 2019 ABIA Picture Book of the Year
Stella brings the family by Schiffer, Miriam
ISBN: 9781452135748

Publication Date: 2015

Stella’s class is having a Mother’s Day celebration, but what’s a girl with two daddies to do?
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson; Peter Parnell; Henry Cole (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781481446952

Publication Date: 2015-06-02

The heartwarming true story of two penguins who create a nontraditional family. At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different from the others. But their desire for a family was the same. And with the help of a kindly zookeeper, Roy and Silo got the chance to welcome a baby penguin of their very own.