A guide to

LGBTQ+ books

from Early Years

to Adult

in collaboration with

Welcome everyone to our PRIDE book collection forearly years, primary, secondary, sixth form and classics.

We are very proud to work with our schools, our followers and the famous Gay’s The Word bookshop to bring you unique collections that bring the broadest possible representation of LGBTQ+ lives and experiences into the classroom and beyond.

Gay’s The Word, the UK’s oldest LGBTQ+ bookshop, continues to be the touchstone of the community with shelves bursting with books, new authors and classics alongside a welcoming space for book launches, readings, panel discussions and events.

The book collection has been collated to not only pass on this rich history of influential and ground-breaking texts but also to give voices to a broad range of new authors with the aim of providing young people of all ages with the information they need to be their authentic selves.

Ideas for Librarians and Teachers:

• Join our book reading film project. Read aloud your favourite bookon video. See our YouTube channel for examples• Tell us about a book you loved from the collection and tag us onsocial media. Use #queermylibrary #momentofchange• Campaign and engage with social media to tell everyone how vital itis that all schools have an LGBTQ+ book collection. Post about yourexperiences and what a difference it has made to you• Prizes for readers who read all the lists and write a review of theweek

Any questions?

If your librarians or teachers have

any questions about the booklists,

please contact:

enquiries@educateandcelebrate.org

A Handy Guide to our Books!

Categories for Characters’ Identities:

L = LesbianG = GayBF = Bisexual FemaleBM = Bisexual MaleTF = Trans FeminineTM = Trans MasculineQ = Queer

I = IntersexA = AsexualNB = NonbinaryBAME = Black Asian Minority EthnicUK = United Kingdom author/published

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PRIDE in Early YearsBook Collection

Ages

0-5Author Title CategoriesArlie Anderson Neither NBCraig Pomranz Made By Raffi GenderJessica Love Julian Is A Mermaid TF/Gender/

BAMEJustin Richardson And Tango Makes Three GKathryn Cave Something Else DifferenceKaty Watson Space Girl Pukes L/FamilyLeslea Newman Daddy, Papa, and Me G/Two DadsLinda De Haan King & King GMax Lang Families, Families, Fami-

liesFamilies

Robb Pearlman Pink Is For Boys Gender/Differ-ence

Samuel Lang-ley-Swain

What Wesley Wore Differences

Sarah S Brannen Uncle Bobby’s Wedding GScott Stuart My Shadow is Pink GenderTodd Parr It’s Okay To Be Different DifferenceYasmeen Ismail I’m A Girl! Gender

PRIDE in PrimaryBook Collection

Ages

5-11Author Title CategoriesBenjamin Dean Me, My Dad and the

End of the RainbowG/Family

Davina Bell Under The Love Um-brella

Diversity

Emmi Smid Rainbow Village DifferenceGino George TFHarry Woodgate Grandad’s Camper G/Losing a loved

one Ian Eagleton Nen and the Lonely

FishermanG

Jodie Lancet-Grant The Pirate Mums L and families Kyle Lukoff When Aidan Became

a BrotherTM

Mary Hoffman Great Big Book of Families

BAME/Families

Maya Christina Gonzalez

They She He Me: Free to Be!

Gender

Michael Hall Red: A Crayon’s Story Difference/TF/TMSarah Asuquo Shine Difference/BAMESarah Hagger-Holt Nothing Ever Hap-

pens HereTF

Sinead Burke Break The Mould DifferenceTamaki Lumberjane’s The

Moon Is UpL/Q/TF/BAME

PRIDE in Secondary Book Collection

Ages

12-18Author Title CategoriesAdiba Jaigirdar The Henna Wars BAME/LAidan Thomas Cemetery Boys Q/G/Alex Bertie Trans Mission TMAlex Myers The Story of Silence NBAlice Oseman Loveless AAlice Oseman I Was Born For This TM/G/BAMEBarbara Dee Star Crossed BFBenjamin Alire Sáenz Aristole and Dante

Discover the Secrets of the Universe

G/Gender

Casey McQuinston Red White and Royal Blue

G

Casey McQuinston One Last Stop LCasper Baldwin Not Just A Tomboy TMDean Atta The Black Flamingo BAME/GDesmond Napoles Be Amazing: A Histo-

ry of PridePride

Erin Ekins Queerly Autistic: The Ultimate Guide for LGBTQIA+ Teens

Q

Jackson Bird Sorted TMKacen Callender Felix Ever After BAME/TM/QLaura Lam Pantomime I/BMason Deaver I Wish You All the

Best NB

Simon James Green Heartbreak Boys GZR Elliot May The Best Man

WinTM

PRIDE in ClassicsBook Collection

Ages

16+/UniversityAuthor Title Categories

Adam Silvera History Is All You Left Me

G

Amelia Abraham We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LG-BTQ+ Rights

LGBTQ

Amrou Al-Kadhi Unicorn: The Mem-oir of a Muslim Drag Queen

Drag

Audre Lorde Your Silence Will Not Protect You

Q/BAME

Emily M. Danforth Plain Bad Heroines QJamie Windust In Their Shoes NBJonny Garza Villa Fifteen Hundred Miles

From The Sun G

Jordy Rosenberg Confessions of the Fox TMJuno Dawson What’s the T? TM/TFJuno Dawson Gender Games TF/QJuno Roche Gender Explorers TM/TFKeris Stainton My Heart Goes Bang PansexualMadeline Miller The Song of Achilles GMarieke Nijkamp Unbroken QSamra Habib We Have Always

Been HereBAME/Q