Though the Virginia Center for the Book serves the whole state, our office is located in Charlottesville. This weekend, the 5th annual Cville Pride Festival will take place downtown, and we’re using that as a prompt to share a short list of recent recommended titles on LGBTQ+, sexuality, and identity issues that you might enjoy exploring:
Children’s Books
Worm Loves Worm by J. J. Austrian
Wishful Wedding by A. S. Chung
Annie’s Plaid Shirt by Stacy B. Davids
George by Alex Gino
Rumplepimple by Suzanne Dewitt Hall
Big Bob, Little Bob by James Howe
Normal Norman by Tara Lazar
The Answer by Rebecca Sugar
Young Adult Books
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge
We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings
It Looks Like This by Rafi Mittlefehldt
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson
As I Descended by Robin Talley
Adult Fiction & Nonfiction
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North
Boy Erased: A Memoir by Garrad Conley
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Weekend by Jane Eaton Hamilton
Guapa by Saleem Haddad
Small Beauty by Jia Qing Wilson-Yang
Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
The Nest bv Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Here Comes The Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
If you’re in the area, stop by the Cville Pride Festival on Saturday, September 17 from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Lee Park. In addition to plenty of other exhibitors, we’ll have materials about Center programming and the 2017 Virginia Festival of the Book. To learn more about Cville Pride, click here.
