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The Best LGBTQ Nonfiction
- List of the Month
- June 2026 (see all)
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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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9,313 members
392 reviews
4.2
Score 55.5
Added 2026-06-15, 02:59 PM
- 16 Members
- Aquila, simchaboston, Euryale, EerierIdyllMeme, LolaWalser, marineko, DetailMuse, norabelle414, ulee_g, Heather39, ElsieKay, DBev, vwinsloe, gypsysmom, Lisa_Francine, Tosta
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by Maia Kobabe
2,203 members
127 reviews
4.2
Score 46.07
Added 2026-06-15, 04:39 PM
- 14 Members
- simchaboston, osunale, EerierIdyllMeme, keristars, marineko, norabelle414, ulee_g, Heather39, DBev, Bookwomble, Lisa_Francine, MarcDam, Tosta, hollythepenguin
- Explanations
- keristars: This was the first time I saw my own relationship to gender from someone else.
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by Randy Shilts
3,261 members
63 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 34.48
Added 2026-06-15, 01:02 PM
- 10 Members
- timspalding, DetailMuse, ulee_g, nessreader, ElsieKay, DBev, melissarochelle, NerdForHire, Lisa_Francine, Tosta
4
by Angela Chen
907 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
2,621 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
858 members
6 reviews
4.2
Score 19.04
Added 2026-06-16, 04:17 PM
- 6 Members
- nessreader, ElsieKay, paulmdh, DBev, NerdForHire, SamwiseJones
7
by James Romm
158 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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214 members
10 reviews
4.2
Score 15.42
Added 2026-06-18, 11:40 AM
- 5 Members
- hipdeep, Heather39, slimikin, hollythepenguin, SamwiseJones
9
2,363 members
104 reviews
4.1
Score 14.88
Added 2026-06-22, 03:59 PM
- 5 Members
- andystardust, DetailMuse, ElsieKay, NerdForHire, RealVioletSorrengale
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
1,117 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
185 members
7 reviews
3.9
Score 13.08
Added 2026-06-15, 03:59 PM
- 5 Members
- andystardust, saskia17, ElsieKay, DBev, NerdForHire
13
64 members
4 reviews
3.9
Score 12.54
Added 2026-06-16, 05:49 PM
14
12 members
Score 11.67
Added 2026-06-15, 04:09 PM
- 4 Members
- saskia17, NerdForHire, CarlyleAddy, RealVioletSorrengale
15
129 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
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by Samra Habib
510 members
17 reviews
3.8
Score 10.96
Added 2026-06-18, 06:00 PM
- 4 Members
- marineko, DBev, gypsysmom, L1braryStud1esG_l
18
1,480 members
53 reviews
4.1
Score 9.87
Added 2026-06-27, 01:41 AM
- 3 Members
- osunale, PaperbackPirate, ulee_g
19
205 members
6 reviews
4.2
Score 9.67
Added 2026-06-19, 01:59 AM
- 3 Members
- osunale, norabelle414, uenvs
21
476 members
15 reviews
4.1
Score 9.13
Added 2026-06-15, 02:55 PM
- 3 Members
- saskia17, NerdForHire, SamwiseJones
22
895 members
14 reviews
3.8
Score 8.78
Added 2026-06-18, 03:54 PM
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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
7 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.
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by Eric Marcus
721 members
2 reviews
4
Score 7.36
Added 2026-06-15, 02:59 PM
- 2 Members
- saskia17, RACollection
28
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by Noelle Howey
123 members
½ 4.3
Score 6.56
Added 2026-06-15, 03:34 PM
- 2 Members
- Aquila, Lisa_Francine
31
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
2,227 members
29 reviews
½ 4.3
Score 5.71
Added 2026-06-23, 11:39 AM
- 2 Members
- norabelle414, PaperbackPirate
43
260 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Score 5.38
Added 2026-06-26, 07:35 AM
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by Saeed Jones
710 members
19 reviews
4.2
Score 5.29
Added 2026-06-20, 10:21 AM
- 2 Members
- Euryale, Lisa_Francine
46
585 members
7 reviews
½ 4.3
Score 4.98
Added 2026-06-27, 01:49 AM
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by MK Czerwiec
60 members
8 reviews
4.1
Score 4.92
Added 2026-06-22, 04:52 PM
- 2 Members
- DetailMuse, Lisa_Francine
51
53 members
4.8
Score 4.84
Added 2026-06-15, 04:16 PM
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by Randy Shilts
799 members
4 reviews
4
Score 4.77
Added 2026-06-15, 04:58 PM
- 2 Members
- lilithcat, Lisa_Francine
73
7 members
1 review
Score 4
Added 2026-06-25, 12:54 PM
85
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.
