The Best LGBTQ Books of 2021, According to American Librarians

The Rainbow Roundtable, a subsection of the American Library Association, is the “oldest professional association for LGBTQIA+ people in the United States.” It runs Rainbow Book Month every June, as well as annually awarding the Stonewall Book Awards. Their Over the Rainbow committee also selects a list of the top 10 queer books every year in all genres and formats. This year, they considered 332 titles, and here are their picks.

• Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir by Hari Ziyad
• The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc
• Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness and Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun Harrison
• With Teeth by Kristen Arnett
• Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
• One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
• Stone Fruit by Lee Lai
• Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
• Patience & Esther by SW Searle