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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9,304 members
392 reviews
4.2
Score 25.46
Added 2026-06-15, 02:59 PM
- 8 Members
- Aquila, Euryale, LolaWalser, DetailMuse, Heather39, vwinsloe, gypsysmom, Tosta
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by Maia Kobabe
2,189 members
126 reviews
4.2
Score 12.86
Added 2026-06-15, 04:39 PM
- 4 Members
- keristars, Heather39, Bookwomble, Tosta
- Explanations
- keristars: This was the first time I saw my own relationship to gender from someone else.
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by James Romm
158 members
2 reviews
4.1
Score 12.78
Added 2026-06-16, 08:20 AM
- 4 Members
- Heather39, themulhern, RACollection, L1braryStud1esG_l
- Explanations
- themulhern: Not well written, but still interesting.
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by Randy Shilts
3,257 members
63 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 11.36
Added 2026-06-15, 01:02 PM
- 3 Members
- timspalding, DetailMuse, Tosta
5
2,610 members
81 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 10.73
Added 2026-06-16, 09:16 AM
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63 members
4 reviews
3.9
Score 9.71
Added 2026-06-16, 05:49 PM
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by Eric Marcus
718 members
2 reviews
4
Score 7.36
Added 2026-06-15, 02:59 PM
- 2 Members
- saskia17, RACollection
9
384 members
1 review
½ 3.4
Score 7.36
Added 2026-06-15, 04:51 PM
11
895 members
14 reviews
3.8
Score 6.4
Added 2026-06-18, 03:54 PM
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by Samra Habib
509 members
16 reviews
3.8
Score 6.4
Added 2026-06-18, 06:00 PM
- 2 Members
- gypsysmom, L1braryStud1esG_l
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215 members
10 reviews
4.2
Score 6.19
Added 2026-06-18, 11:40 AM
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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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92 members
5
Score 4
Added 2026-06-20, 12:07 AM
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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.
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129 members
2 reviews
4.1
Score 3.04
Added 2026-06-16, 02:54 AM
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224 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
Score 2.68
Added 2026-06-16, 01:03 PM
- Member
- themulhern
- Explanations
- themulhern: Because it's good to read biographies of the not quite so famous.
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68
11 members
½ 2.5
Score 2.68
Added 2026-06-16, 02:58 AM
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75
84
7 members
Score 2
Added 2026-06-16, 08:17 AM
- Member
- themulhern,LolaWalser
- Explanations
- themulhern: Gay British man writes about gay issues. Positively reviewed in "The Times". Still banned in Massachusetts public libraries, after several years of trying. New push ongoing for June.
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by Ben Appel
8 members
Score 0.83
Added 2026-06-16, 08:22 AM
- Member
- themulhern,LolaWalser
- Explanations
- themulhern: This book is also suppressed in MA. There are three copies in the MA library system, but they are all perpetually out and other libraries don't seem to be willing to buy. This would also be a good one to push again for June.
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759 members
31 reviews
4.1
Score 0
Added 2026-06-18, 11:38 AM
87
570 members
25 reviews
3.9
Score 0
Added 2026-06-18, 11:39 AM
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1 member
Score 0
Added 2026-06-19, 04:34 PM