LGBTQ+ Nonfiction Challenge

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5 participants (8 books)

07 Jul 2024—07 Jul 2025

Overview

I don't know enough about queer history, so I'm challenging myself to read 5 nonfiction books about queer people, events, history, culture, etc, over the next year. Please join me! Even if you're starting off with Queer Basics 101! 

Challenge Books

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Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

Time is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

86 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Angela Chen

209 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ sociology informative reflective medium-paced
The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All by Shon Faye

The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All

Shon Faye

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies by Dianna E. Anderson

In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies

Dianna E. Anderson

178 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Pageboy by Elliot Page

Pageboy

Elliot Page

8 hours, 24 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by asha bandele, Patrisse Khan-Cullors

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

asha bandele, Patrisse Khan-Cullors

272 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library

The Stonewall Reader

New York Public Library

300 pages • first pub 2019 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ informative inspiring medium-paced
Letters to the Sphinx by Ada Leverson, Oscar Wilde

Letters to the Sphinx

Ada Leverson, Oscar Wilde

66 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ informative reflective slow-paced