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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 52.14
Added 2026-06-15, 02:59 PM
- 15 Members
- Aquila, Euryale, EerierIdyllMeme, LolaWalser, marineko, DetailMuse, norabelle414, ulee_g, Heather39, ElsieKay, DBev, vwinsloe, gypsysmom, Lisa_Francine, Tosta
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by Maia Kobabe
2,202 members
127 reviews
4.2
Score 38.71
Added 2026-06-15, 04:39 PM
- 12 Members
- osunale, EerierIdyllMeme, keristars, marineko, norabelle414, ulee_g, Heather39, DBev, Bookwomble, Lisa_Francine, Tosta, hollythepenguin
- Explanations
- keristars: This was the first time I saw my own relationship to gender from someone else.
3
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 27.06
Added 2026-06-21, 07:16 PM
- 8 Members
- ReshiBec, marineko, ulee_g, oceancat, NerdForHire, Grassangel, SamwiseJones, ggnanadesikan
5
2,620 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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216 members
10 reviews
4.2
Score 15.42
Added 2026-06-18, 11:40 AM
- 5 Members
- hipdeep, Heather39, slimikin, hollythepenguin, SamwiseJones
9
2,362 members
104 reviews
4.1
Score 14.88
Added 2026-06-22, 03:59 PM
- 5 Members
- andystardust, DetailMuse, ElsieKay, NerdForHire, RealVioletSorrengale
10
384 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
1,116 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.
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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
1,478 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
475 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
25
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
719 members
2 reviews
4
Score 7.36
Added 2026-06-15, 02:59 PM
- 2 Members
- saskia17, RACollection
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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
30
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
34
- 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
709 members
19 reviews
4.2
Score 5.29
Added 2026-06-20, 10:21 AM
- 2 Members
- Euryale, Lisa_Francine
46
584 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
72
7 members
1 review
Score 4
Added 2026-06-25, 12:54 PM
84
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.
