The Best LGBTQ Nonfiction
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- June 2026 List of the Month: The Best LGBTQ Nonfiction
- Description
- In honor of Pride Month, our June List of the Month is dedicated to the Best LGBTQ Nonfiction. This can include histories, biographies and memoirs, sociological studies, political polemics, and anything else of a nonfictional nature. Contributors are welcome to add notes explaining their choices. Downvoting is only permitted on titles that do not fit the theme, and are not LGBTQ related.
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9,320 members
392 reviews
4.2
Score 62.86
Added 2026-06-15, 02:59 PM
- 18 Members
- Aquila, simchaboston, Euryale, EerierIdyllMeme, LolaWalser, marineko, DetailMuse, norabelle414, ulee_g, Heather39, ElsieKay, DBev, vwinsloe, gypsysmom, Lisa_Francine, Tosta, loulourevisited, NellieDragon
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by Maia Kobabe
2,220 members
127 reviews
4.2
Score 49.11
Added 2026-06-15, 04:39 PM
- 15 Members
- simchaboston, osunale, EerierIdyllMeme, keristars, marineko, norabelle414, ulee_g, Heather39, DBev, Bookwomble, Lisa_Francine, MarcDam, Tosta, hollythepenguin, NellieDragon
- Explanations
- keristars: This was the first time I saw my own relationship to gender from someone else.
3
by Randy Shilts
3,269 members
63 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 37.31
Added 2026-06-15, 01:02 PM
- 11 Members
- timspalding, DetailMuse, ulee_g, nessreader, ElsieKay, DBev, melissarochelle, NerdForHire, Lisa_Francine, Tosta, NellieDragon
4
by Angela Chen
913 members
28 reviews
4.1
Score 29.51
Added 2026-06-21, 07:16 PM
- 9 Members
- ReshiBec, marineko, ulee_g, oceancat, NerdForHire, MarcDam, Grassangel, SamwiseJones, ggnanadesikan
5
2,373 members
104 reviews
4.1
Score 24.92
Added 2026-06-22, 03:59 PM
- 8 Members
- andystardust, DetailMuse, CarltonC, ElsieKay, vwinsloe, NerdForHire, loulourevisited, RealVioletSorrengale
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2,623 members
81 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 19.27
Added 2026-06-16, 09:16 AM
- 6 Members
- bibliovermis, Euryale, ReshiBec, ulee_g, vwinsloe, NerdForHire
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by Vito Russo
859 members
6 reviews
4.2
Score 19.04
Added 2026-06-16, 04:17 PM
- 6 Members
- nessreader, ElsieKay, paulmdh, DBev, NerdForHire, SamwiseJones
8
by James Romm
159 members
2 reviews
4.1
Score 16.78
Added 2026-06-16, 08:20 AM
- 5 Members
- Heather39, themulhern, RACollection, SamwiseJones, L1braryStud1esG_l
- Explanations
- themulhern: Not well written, but still interesting.
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215 members
10 reviews
4.2
Score 15.42
Added 2026-06-18, 11:40 AM
- 5 Members
- hipdeep, Heather39, slimikin, hollythepenguin, SamwiseJones
10
385 members
1 review
½ 3.4
Score 13.4
Added 2026-06-15, 04:51 PM
- 4 Members
- lilithcat, pitjrw, DBev, RealVioletSorrengale
11
by Paul Monette
1,119 members
11 reviews
4.2
Score 13.29
Added 2026-06-15, 04:54 PM
- 4 Members
- lilithcat, andystardust, thorold, DBev
- Explanations
- thorold: One of the best AIDS memoirs. Monette was a hack writer of Hollywood novelisations, but in this book he rose way above that.
12
187 members
7 reviews
3.9
Score 13.08
Added 2026-06-15, 03:59 PM
- 5 Members
- andystardust, saskia17, ElsieKay, DBev, NerdForHire
13
65 members
4 reviews
3.9
Score 12.54
Added 2026-06-16, 05:49 PM
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900 members
14 reviews
3.8
Score 12.15
Added 2026-06-18, 03:54 PM
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12 members
Score 11.67
Added 2026-06-15, 04:09 PM
- 4 Members
- saskia17, NerdForHire, CarlyleAddy, RealVioletSorrengale
16
128 members
2 reviews
4.1
Score 11.25
Added 2026-06-16, 02:54 AM
- 4 Members
- thorold, nessreader, SamwiseJones, RealVioletSorrengale
- Explanations
- thorold: Pioneering account of gay men’s lives in 18th century London. Not without its faults, but it demonstrated how much LGBT history there was to draw on, if you looked in the right places
17
by Samra Habib
513 members
17 reviews
3.8
Score 10.96
Added 2026-06-18, 06:00 PM
- 4 Members
- marineko, DBev, gypsysmom, L1braryStud1esG_l
19
1,487 members
53 reviews
4.1
Score 9.87
Added 2026-06-27, 01:41 AM
- 3 Members
- osunale, PaperbackPirate, ulee_g
20
212 members
7 reviews
4.2
Score 9.67
Added 2026-06-19, 01:59 AM
- 3 Members
- osunale, norabelle414, uenvs
22
478 members
15 reviews
4.1
Score 9.13
Added 2026-06-15, 02:55 PM
- 3 Members
- saskia17, NerdForHire, SamwiseJones
23
by Lewis Hancox
233 members
12 reviews
½ 4.3
Score 8.33
Added 2026-06-15, 07:03 PM
- 3 Members
- bibliovermis, marineko, Bookwomble
24
184 members
½ 4.3
Score 8.27
Added 2026-06-15, 07:04 PM
- 3 Members
- Bookwomble, MarcDam, L1braryStud1esG_l
26
8 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
Score 8
Added 2026-06-24, 02:40 PM
- 2 Members
- coleinidaho, RandomPUC
- Explanations
- RandomPUC: A moving, powerful book. It follows an activist and queer law maker as they try to make change in a state as extremism rises. It has a lot to say about how LGBTQ people stay hopeful in red conservative states.
27
by Eric Marcus
724 members
2 reviews
4
Score 7.36
Added 2026-06-15, 02:59 PM
- 2 Members
- saskia17, RACollection
28
33
by Noelle Howey
123 members
½ 4.3
Score 6.56
Added 2026-06-15, 03:34 PM
- 2 Members
- Aquila, Lisa_Francine
34
92 members
5
Score 6.56
Added 2026-06-20, 12:07 AM
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by Tim Tate
45 members
1 review
½ 4.4
Score 6.4
Added 2026-06-15, 03:33 PM
- 2 Members
- Aquila, PaperbackPirate
- Explanations
- Aquila: I bought my copy at Gay's the Word, the bookshop which Lesbians and Gays Support the Miner's first organised from.
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142 members
4 reviews
4.1
Score 6.19
Added 2026-06-18, 06:00 PM
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- 2 Members
- thorold, RACollection
- Explanations
- thorold: Fabulous memoir by a gay man (friend of Forster & co) growing up in London in the first half of the 20th century. And finding out about his father’s adventures as an Edwardian guardsman…
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by Audre Lorde
2,235 members
29 reviews
½ 4.3
Score 5.71
Added 2026-06-23, 11:39 AM
- 2 Members
- norabelle414, PaperbackPirate
46
261 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Score 5.38
Added 2026-06-26, 07:35 AM
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by Saeed Jones
714 members
19 reviews
4.2
Score 5.29
Added 2026-06-20, 10:21 AM
- 2 Members
- Euryale, Lisa_Francine
49
586 members
7 reviews
½ 4.3
Score 4.98
Added 2026-06-27, 01:49 AM
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by MK Czerwiec
61 members
8 reviews
4.1
Score 4.92
Added 2026-06-22, 04:52 PM
- 2 Members
- DetailMuse, Lisa_Francine
54
53 members
4.8
Score 4.84
Added 2026-06-15, 04:16 PM
55
by Randy Shilts
802 members
4 reviews
4
Score 4.77
Added 2026-06-15, 04:58 PM
- 2 Members
- lilithcat, Lisa_Francine
76
7 members
1 review
Score 4
Added 2026-06-25, 12:54 PM
88
by Lynn Curlee
18 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Score 3.36
Added 2026-06-16, 08:19 AM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explanations
- themulhern: I haven't read this, but he's a talented children's illustrator.
