Ideal Bookshelf 1172: Pride

In June 2020, you told Jane, via Instagram, books for Pride month featuring LGBTQIA+ characters, and she made it into two Ideal Bookshelf sets, including this one for adult readers (although many would be great for teens too!). First offered in July 2020, updated in June 2023 Archival pigment ink print on fine art paper Based on original paintings by Jane Mount BOOKS INCLUDED: And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts Blue Is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa Boy Erased by Garrard Conley Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman Crush by Richard Siken Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters Fairest by Meredith Talusan Fun Home by Allison Bechdel Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn Here For It by R. Eric Thomas Hola Papi! by John Paul Brammer How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Less by Andrew Sean Greer Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T. Kira Madden Maurice by E. M. Forster Memorial by Bryan Washington On Being Different by Merle Miller On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston Redefining Realness by Janet Mock Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown Seeing Gender by Iris Gottlieb Sissy by Jacob Tobia Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi The Guncle by Steven Rowley The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith The Tradition by Jericho Brown Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta Untamed by Glennon Doyle We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib We the Animals by Justin Torres Written On The Body by Jeanette Winterson