LGBT+ Pride Month 2021: must-read books

By The Writing Box

By The Writing Box

LGBT+ Pride Month 2021: must-read books

This booklist focuses on LGBT+ awareness. Between fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, dictionaries, poetry, business books, whatever you are looking for, we've got you covered.

Pride: The Story of the LGBTQ Equality Movement

Matthew Todd

£20.00
£18.60

Straight Jacket

Matthew Todd

£10.99
£10.22

Queeristan: LGBT Inclusion at the Indian Workplace

Parmesh Shahani

£27.99

Big Gay Adventures in Education: Supporting LGBT+ Visibility...

£18.98

Champions of Equality: Trade unions and LGBT rights in Britain

Peter Purton

£20.00

The Madonna of Bolton

Matt Cain

£8.99
£8.36

Less: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2018

Andrew Sean Greer

£8.99
£8.36

The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and...

Chloe O. Davis

£14.99
£13.94

Detransition, Baby: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021 and...

Torrey Peters

£14.99
£13.94

The Black Flamingo

Dean Atta and Anshika Khullar

£7.99
£7.43

Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities

£14.99

Rainbow Milk: an Observer 2020 Top 10 Debut

Paul Mendez

£8.99
£8.36

Patsy: Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award 2020

Nicole Dennis-benn

£8.99
£8.36

Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide: A graphic guide to lesbian...

Kate Charlesworth

£17.98
£16.72

What Girls Do in the Dark

Rosie Garland

£9.99
£9.29

Vixen

Rosie Garland

£8.99
£8.36

Beyond the Gender Binary

Alok Vaid-Menon and Ashley Lukashevsky

£6.99
£6.50

Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death

Lillian Faderman

£10.99

The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk

Randy (author) Shilts

£8.99
£8.36

Queer: A Graphic History

Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele

£14.99
£13.94

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson

£8.99
£8.36

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson

£9.99
£9.29

Black and Gay in the UK: An Anthology

£12.99

The Secret Diaries Of Miss Anne Lister: Vol. 1: I Know My Own...

Anne Lister

£10.99
£10.22

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol.2: No Priest But...

Anne Lister

£8.99
£8.36

Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister The Official Companion...

Sally Wainwright and Anne Choma

£12.99
£12.08

Nights at the Circus

Angela Carter

£9.99
£9.29

Queer at Work

Kumar Kunal Jha and Sasmita Palo

£24.99
£23.24

Call Me By Your Name

Andre Aciman

£9.99
£9.29

Queering Translation, Translating the Queer: Theory,...

£36.99

Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

Alex Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker

£14.99

In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life

Jamie Windust

£12.99

Transgender Health: A Practitioner's Guide to Binary and...

Ben Vincent

£18.98

Trans Love: An Anthology of Transgender and Non-Binary Voices

£15.99

This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids

Dannielle Owens-Reid and Kristin Russo

£12.99
£12.08

This Book is Gay

Juno Dawson

£9.99
£9.29

Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

Amelia Abraham

£9.99
£9.29

Gears for Queers

Abigail Melton and Lilith Cooper

£8.99
£8.36

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day

Peter Ackroyd

£12.99
£12.08

Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language

Paul Baker

£9.99
£9.29

David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music

Darryl W. Bullock

£12.99
£12.08

Queer Heroes: Meet 53 LGBTQ Heroes From Past and Present!

Arabelle Sicardi and Sarah Tanat-Jones

£14.99
£13.94

Without Protection

Gala Mukomolova

£12.99
£12.08

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: 'A masterpiece' - Max Porter

Ocean Vuong

£8.99
£8.36

Salt Is For Curing

Sonya Vatomsky

£10.99

Her Body And Other Parties

Carmen Maria Machado

£8.99
£8.36

The Life & Times Of Butch Dykes: Portraits of Artists,...

Eloisa Aquino

£14.99
£13.94

Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache: A History of How Music...

Martin Aston

£15.99
£14.87

Angels in America: Parts One & Two

Tony Kushner

£12.99
£12.08

The Judas Kiss

David Hare

£9.99
£9.29

Mr Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

John Waters

£9.99
£9.29

Autobiography

Morrissey

£9.99
£9.29

Animal Farm and 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

£9.99
£9.29

Don't Call Us Dead

Danez Smith

£10.99
£10.22

Juliet Takes a Breath

Gabby Rivera and Celia Moscote

£10.99
£10.22

Tipping The Velvet

Sarah Waters

£11.99

Carol: Film Tie-in

Patricia Highsmith

£8.99
£8.36

Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe

Fannie Flagg

£8.99
£8.36

United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front...

Dan Glass

£12.99

The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a...

Alan Downs

£12.99
£12.08

Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride - 30 Years of Gay Britain

Paul Flynn

£14.99
£13.94

Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to...

£25.00
£23.25

Orlando

Virginia Woolf

£7.99
£7.43

Queer: 25th Anniversary Edition

William S. Burroughs

£9.99
£9.29

How to Understand Your Gender: A Practical Guide for...

Alex Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker

£14.99

They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary and Genderqueer Identities

Eris Young

£18.98

We Are Everywhere: A Visual Guide to the History of Queer...

Leighton Brown and Matthew Riemer

£30.00
£27.90

Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

Audre Lorde

£12.99
£12.08

Against Memoir

Michelle Tea

£10.00
£9.30

We Have Always Been Here

Samra Habib

£9.99
£9.29

Lot

Bryan Washington

£8.99
£8.36

The Stonewall Reader

£14.99
£13.94

Gender Swapped Fairy Tales

Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett

£20.00
£18.60

Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

Hazel Jane Plante

£12.99
£12.08

Confessions of the Fox

Jordy Rosenberg

£8.99
£8.36

Things We Say in the Dark

Kirsty Logan

£8.99
£8.36

Shuggie Bain: Winner of the Booker Prize 2020

Douglas Stuart

£9.99
£9.29

Girl Meets Boy

Ali Smith

£9.99
£9.29

The Trauma Cleaner

Sarah Krasnostein

£8.99
£8.36

In the Dream House: A Memoir

Carmen Maria Machado

£9.99
£9.29

The Queen of Whale Cay: The Extraordinary Story of 'Joe'...

Kate Summerscale

£12.99
£12.08

Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England

Neil McKenna

£12.99
£12.08

Fathers and Sons

Howard Cunnell

£8.99
£8.36

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Olivia Laing

£9.99
£9.29

Orlando (Vintage Classics Woolf Series): Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

£7.99
£7.43

People in Trouble

Sarah Schulman

£9.99
£9.29

The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From...

Juno Dawson

£10.99
£10.22

From a Girl to a Man: How Laura Became Michael

Liz Hodgkinson

£12.99
£12.08

Trans: A Memoir

Juliet Jacques

£10.99
£10.22

How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual

Rebecca Burgess

£12.99

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman

Laura Kate Dale

£13.99

We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+...

£14.99
£13.94

Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s-1950s

Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell

£52.00
£48.36

Lesbian Feminism: Essays Opposing Global Heteropatriarchies

£19.98

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Judith Butler

£20.99

Keith Haring

Simon Doonan

£12.99
£12.08

Gender Queer: A Memoir

Maia Kobabe

£17.98
£16.72

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

Jeremy Atherton Lin

£16.98
£15.79

Sexuality: A Graphic Guide

Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele

£13.99
£13.01

The Liar's Dictionary: A winner of the 2021 Betty Trask Awards

Eley Williams

£8.99
£8.36

No Modernism Without Lesbians

Diana Souhami

£9.99
£9.29

The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swinging Sixties

Darryl W Bullock

£20.00
£18.60

Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for...

Joe Biden and Sarah McBride

£12.99
£12.08

Sissy

Jacob Tobia

£12.99
£12.08

The Times I Knew I Was Gay: A Graphic Memoir 'for everyone....

Eleanor Crewes

£14.99
£13.94

Pride: The Inspiring True Story Behind the Hit Film

Tim Tate

£9.99
£9.29

Proud

Various Authors

£8.99
£8.36
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