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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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9,311 members
392 reviews
4.2
Score 44.14
Added 2026-06-15, 02:59 PM
- 13 Members
- Aquila, Euryale, EerierIdyllMeme, LolaWalser, marineko, DetailMuse, norabelle414, Heather39, ElsieKay, DBev, vwinsloe, gypsysmom, Tosta
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by Randy Shilts
3,259 members
63 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 28.81
Added 2026-06-15, 01:02 PM
- 8 Members
- timspalding, DetailMuse, nessreader, ElsieKay, DBev, melissarochelle, NerdForHire, Tosta
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by Maia Kobabe
2,199 members
127 reviews
4.2
Score 25.63
Added 2026-06-15, 04:39 PM
- 8 Members
- EerierIdyllMeme, keristars, marineko, norabelle414, Heather39, DBev, Bookwomble, Tosta
- Explanations
- keristars: This was the first time I saw my own relationship to gender from someone else.
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by Angela Chen
907 members
28 reviews
4.1
Score 20.81
Added 2026-06-21, 07:16 PM
- 6 Members
- ReshiBec, marineko, oceancat, NerdForHire, Grassangel, SamwiseJones
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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
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by James Romm
157 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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2,615 members
81 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 16.23
Added 2026-06-16, 09:16 AM
- 5 Members
- bibliovermis, Euryale, ReshiBec, vwinsloe, NerdForHire
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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
10
63 members
4 reviews
3.9
Score 12.54
Added 2026-06-16, 05:49 PM
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215 members
10 reviews
4.2
Score 12.38
Added 2026-06-18, 11:40 AM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, Heather39, slimikin, SamwiseJones
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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
13
2,361 members
104 reviews
4.1
Score 10.88
Added 2026-06-22, 03:59 PM
- 4 Members
- andystardust, DetailMuse, ElsieKay, NerdForHire
15
384 members
1 review
½ 3.4
Score 10.04
Added 2026-06-15, 04:51 PM
16
474 members
15 reviews
4.1
Score 9.13
Added 2026-06-15, 02:55 PM
- 3 Members
- saskia17, NerdForHire, SamwiseJones
17
895 members
14 reviews
3.8
Score 8.78
Added 2026-06-18, 03:54 PM
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129 members
2 reviews
4.1
Score 8.42
Added 2026-06-16, 02:54 AM
- 3 Members
- thorold, nessreader, SamwiseJones
- 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 Lewis Hancox
232 members
12 reviews
½ 4.3
Score 8.33
Added 2026-06-15, 07:03 PM
- 3 Members
- bibliovermis, marineko, Bookwomble
22
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
718 members
2 reviews
4
Score 7.36
Added 2026-06-15, 02:59 PM
- 2 Members
- saskia17, RACollection
24
92 members
5
Score 6.56
Added 2026-06-20, 12:07 AM
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142 members
4 reviews
4.1
Score 6.19
Added 2026-06-18, 06:00 PM
29
- 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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59
7 members
1 review
Score 4
Added 2026-06-25, 12:54 PM
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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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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.
