ALA Over the Rainbow Book List2019

Given by American Library Association (ALA)

Other Names: ALA Over the Rainbow Book List Top 10
104 Works / 114 Items 26,763 Books 1,439 Reviews ½ 3.9
The Over the Rainbow Project releases an annotated bibliography each year highlighting quality fiction and non-fiction for adults that authentically represents gay, lesbian, bisexual, and show more transgender experiences. show less
Stages:
All, Shortlist (70), Selection (784), Top Ten (149), Longlist (114), Honorable Mention (7), Nominee (46)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2023 (47), 2022 (43), 2021 (63), 2020 (78), 2019 (114), 2018 (101), 2017 (56), 2016 (59), 2015 (86), 2014 (79), 2013 (96), 2012 (81), 2011 (118)
Announced:
December 2023: Shortlist2023 Recent

Selection 114

WorkCategoryYear
Gay Priori: A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform by Libby AdlerAcademic Works2019
Theatre of the Ridiculous: A Critical History by Kelly I. AlianoAcademic Works2019
Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers by Anne BalayAcademic Works2019
Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics by Myrl BeamAcademic Works2019
Struggling for ordinary : media and transgender belonging in everyday life by Andre CavalcanteAcademic Works2019
Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology by D'Lane R. ComptonAcademic Works2019
Turning the Page: Storytelling as Activism in Queer Film and Media by David R. CoonAcademic Works2019
Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique (Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the) by T. Jackie CuevasAcademic Works2019
For the Hard Ones: A Lesbian Phenomenology / Para las duras: Una fenomenologia lesbiana by Tatiana De la TierraAcademic Works2019
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible (Sexual Cultures) by Malik GainesAcademic Works2019
LGBTQ Divorce and Relationship Dissolution: Psychological and Legal Perspectives and Implications for Practice by Abbie E. GoldbergAcademic Works2019
Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture) by TourmalineAcademic Works2019
Punishing disease : HIV and the criminalization of sickness by Trevor HoppeAcademic Works2019
Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel by Natasha HurleyAcademic Works2019
Queering Autoethnography by Stacy Holman JonesAcademic Works2019
Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century by Tey MeadowAcademic Works2019
Living out loud : an introduction to LGBTQ history, society, and culture by Michael MurphyAcademic Works2019
Transgender Sex Work and Society by Larry NuttbrockAcademic Works2019
Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace: Transgender and Gender-Diverse Discrimination by Alison Ash Fogarty Ph.D.Academic Works2019
The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World by Andrew ReynoldsAcademic Works2019
Growing Up Queer: Kids and the Remaking of LGBTQ Identity (Critical Perspectives on Youth) by Mary RobertsonAcademic Works2019
The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia (Sexual Cultures) by Gayle SalamonAcademic Works2019
The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction: Essays on Power, Consent and the Body by Ashton SpaceyAcademic Works2019
To My Trans Sisters by Charlie CraggsBiographies and Memoirs2019
Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker, 1974-1989 by Julie R. EnszerBiographies and Memoirs2019
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death (Jewish Lives) by Lillian FadermanBiographies and Memoirs2019
Mean by Myriam GurbaBiographies and Memoirs2019
Wild mares : my lesbian back-to-the-land life by Dianna HunterBiographies and Memoirs2019
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBrideBiographies and Memoirs2019
Out of Step by Anthony MollBiographies and Memoirs2019
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell L MooreBiographies and Memoirs2019
Andy Warhol, publisher by Lucy MulroneyBiographies and Memoirs2019
My Butch Career: A Memoir by Esther NewtonBiographies and Memoirs2019
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani PerryBiographies and Memoirs2019
House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row by Lance RichardsonBiographies and Memoirs2019
A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance by Parvez SharmaBiographies and Memoirs2019
The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward: Recollections of an Extraordinary Twentieth-Century Gay Life by Samuel StewardBiographies and Memoirs2019
The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading by Edmund WhiteBiographies and Memoirs2019
Gender: Your Guide: A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, and What to Do in the New Gender Culture by Lee Airton PhDGeneral Interest2019
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music by Darryl W BullockGeneral Interest2019
A Clinician's Guide to Gender-Affirming Care: Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients by Sand C. ChangGeneral Interest2019
After Silence: A History of AIDS Through Its Images by Avram FinkelsteinGeneral Interest2019
A Little in Love with Everyone: Alison Bechdel's Fun Home by Genevieve HudsonGeneral Interest2019
Calypso by David SedarisGeneral Interest2019
Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity by Arlene SteinGeneral Interest2019
Sodom Road Exit by Amber DawnGenre Fiction2019
Alice Isn't Dead: A Novel by Joseph FinkGenre Fiction2019
A Whisper of Bones by Ellen HartGenre Fiction2019
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret KilljoyGenre Fiction2019
Trick Roller by Cordelia KingsbridgeGenre Fiction2019
Witchmark by C. L. PolkGenre Fiction2019
The God Game by Jeffrey RoundGenre Fiction2019
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers SolomonGenre Fiction2019
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul TremblayGenre Fiction2019
Bingo Love by Tee FranklinGraphic Narrative2019
Gumballs by Erin NationsGraphic Narrative2019
Sugar Town by Hazel NewlevantGraphic Narrative2019
The Lie And How We Told It by Tommi ParrishGraphic Narrative2019
My Brother's Husband, v. 2 by Gengoroh TagameGraphic Narrative2019
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter AckroydHistory2019
Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice by Clayton DeleryHistory2019
The Boys of Fairy Town: Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago's First Century by Jim ElledgeHistory2019
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. FieselerHistory2019
The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon by Jaime HarkerHistory2019
Berlin's Third Sex by Magnus HirschfeldHistory2019
No Sanctuary: Teachers and the School Reform That Brought Gay Rights to the Masses by Stephen LaneHistory2019
Ike's Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler by Peter ShinkleHistory2019
Pride by Tim TateHistory2019
White Houses by Amy BloomLiterary and General Interest2019
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John BoyneLiterary and General Interest2019
The House of Impossible Beauties: A Novel by Joseph CassaraLiterary and General Interest2019
The Daddies by Kimberly DarkLiterary and General Interest2019
Drapetomania: or, the narrative of Cyrus Tyler and Abednego Tyler, lovers by John R. GordonLiterary and General Interest2019
Less by Andrew Sean GreerLiterary and General Interest2019
So Lucky by Nicola GriffithLiterary and General Interest2019
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan HollinghurstLiterary and General Interest2019
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma IwealaLiterary and General Interest2019
Stray City by Chelsey JohnsonLiterary and General Interest2019
The Great Believers by Rebecca MakkaiLiterary and General Interest2019
My Ex-Life: A Novel by Stephen McCauleyLiterary and General Interest2019
Into?: A Novel by North MorganLiterary and General Interest2019
La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea ObonoLiterary and General Interest2019
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua WhiteheadLiterary and General Interest2019
Tin Man by Sarah WinmanLiterary and General Interest2019
A Boy at the Edge of the World by David Kingston YehLiterary and General Interest2019
Book of Hats by Dov ZellerLiterary and General Interest2019
The Carnival of Affection by Philip F ClarkPoetry2019
Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea GibsonPoetry2019
TOUCHED by Luther HughesPoetry2019
Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets) by Britteney Black Rose KapriPoetry2019
On My Way To Liberation by H MeltPoetry2019
Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation by H MeltPoetry2019
Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution by Stephen S. MillsPoetry2019
Not Here by Hieu Minh NguyenPoetry2019
Rummage by Ife-Chudeni A. OputaPoetry2019
Junk by Tommy PicoPoetry2019
Prayers for My 17th Chromosome by Amir RabiyahPoetry2019
Othered (Arkansas Queer Poet) by Randi M. RomoPoetry2019
full-metal indigiqueer: the pro(1,0)zoa by Joshua WhiteheadPoetry2019
Night Beast by Ruth JoffreShort Stories2019
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria MachadoShort Stories2019
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Daniel M. LaveryShort Stories2019
Two Moons: Stories by Krystal A. SmithShort Stories2019
London Skin and Bones: The Finsbury Park Stories by Ian YoungShort Stories2019
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music by Darryl W Bullock2019
The House of Impossible Beauties: A Novel by Joseph Cassara2019
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death (Jewish Lives) by Lillian Faderman2019
Bingo Love by Tee Franklin2019
Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture) by Tourmaline2019
So Lucky by Nicola Griffith2019
Mean by Myriam Gurba2019
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado2019
Living out loud : an introduction to LGBTQ history, society, and culture by Michael Murphy2019
Othered (Arkansas Queer Poet) by Randi M. Romo2019

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