2015 Partner for Pride Reading List

At the 2015 American Library Associations Annual Conference, 3M Library Systems asked librarians to share
their favorite titles that support diversity, resulting in the librarian-recommended reading list below.

TITLE

AUTHOR

10,000 Dresses

Marcus Ewert

5 to 1

Holly Bodger

A Boys Own Story

Edmund White

A Certain October

Angela Johnson

A Choice of Weapons

Gordon Parks

A Mother for Choco*

Keiko Kasza

A Step from Heaven

An Na

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith

A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine LEngle

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Michael Dorris

Affinity

Sarah Waters

Afterworlds

Scott Westerfeld

Akata Witch

Nnedi Okorafor

Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Alif the Unseen

G. Willow Wilson

Allegra Maud Goldman

Edith Konecky

Almost Perfect

Brian Katcher

Americas Dream

Esmeralda Santiago

American Born Chinese

Gene Luen Yang

Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie

And Tango Makes Three*

Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell

And the Band Played On

Randy Shilts

Angels in America

Tony Kushner

Annie on My Mind

Nancy Garden

Are You My Mother?

P. D. Eastman

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe*

Benjamin Alire Senz

Arrows of the Queen

Mercedes Lackey

Ash*

Malinda Lo

Ask the Passengers

A.S. King

Audacious

Gabrielle Prendergast

Avatar the Last Airbender

Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko

Baseball in April (and Other Stories)

Gary Soto

Be Confident in Who You Are Middle School Confidential Series

Annie Fox, M.Ed.

Becoming a Man

Paul Monette

*Indicates a title that received multiple recommendations.

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Before Night Falls

Reinaldo Arenas

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Better Nate Than Ever

Tim Federle

Bi-Curious George: An Unauthorized Parody

Andrew Simonian

Bite Me

Christopher Moore

Black Dog Blues

Rhys Ford

Black Feminist Thought

Patricia Hill Collins

Black is Brown is Tan

Arnold Adoff

Black Wealth White Wealth

Thomas Shapiro & Melvin Oliver

Blubber

Judy Blume

Blue Talk and Love

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Blue Willow

Doris Gates

Boy Meets Boy*

David Levithan

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson

Brutal Youth

Anthony Breznican

Circle of Magic Series

Tamora Pierce

City of Night

John Rechy

Coretta Scott King: A Biography

Laura T. McCarty

Crazy Brave

Joy Harjo

Crime Travelers

Paul Aertker

Daddys Roommate

Michael Willhoite

Dancer from the Dance

Andrew Holleran

Dare

Philip Jos Farmer

Days of Anna Madrigal

Armistead Maupin

Dendera

Yuya Sato

Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan

June Jordan

Divergent

Veronica Roth

Dragonwings

Laurence Yep

Drama

Raina Telgemeier

Dykes to Watch Out For

Alison Bechdel

El Vampiro de la Colonia Roma

Luis Zapata

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

Emma Hooper

Escape from Plauen

Renate Stoever

Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club

Benjamin Alire Senz

Everything, Everything

Nicola Yoon

Fading Amber

Jaime Reed

Fall on Your Knees

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Fat Angie

Eunice Charlton-Trujillo

*Indicates a title that received multiple recommendations.

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Fat Girl Dances with Rock

Susan Stinson

Feminism is for Everybody

Bell Hooks

Ferdinand the Bull

Munro Leaf

Fire From Heaven

Mary Renault

Fire from the Rock

Sharon Draper

For Today I Am A Boy

Kim Fu

Forrest Gump

Winston Groom

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Fannie Flagg

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

Jacqueline Woodson

Full Cicada Moon

Marilyn Hilton

Fun Home*

Alison Bechdel

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

Isabel Quintero

Gathering Blue

Lois Lowry

Gay New York

George Chauncey

Gender Failure

Ivan E. Coyote

George

Alex Gino

God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

Gods Beauty Parlor

Stephen D. Moore

Gracefully Grayson*

Ami Polonsky

Grandmas Records

Eric Velasquez

Grasshopper Jungle

Andrew A. Smith

Green Eggs and Ham

Dr. Suess

Hairspray

Tracey West

Happy Families

Tanita S. Davis

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Haruki Murakami

Harry Potter Series

J.K. Rowling

Heart Aztlan

Rudolfo A. Anaya

Heather Has Two Mommies*

Lesla Newman

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

John Cameron Mitchell

History of the Indies

Bartolom de las Casas

Hold Fast

Blue Balliett

Holes*

Louis Sachar

I Am Special: I Have Two Moms

Rachel Huey

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

Iggies House

Judy Blume

Ill Give You the Sun

Jandy Nelson

In a Queer Time & Place

Judith Halberstam

In One Person

John Irving

*Indicates a title that received multiple recommendations.

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In Our Mothers House

Patricia Polacco

In Search of Our Mothers Garden

Alice Walker

In the Name of Hawaiians

Rona Tamiko Halualani

INK

Amanda Sun

Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

Jacobs New Dress

Ian Hoffman

Jasmine

Bharati Mukherjee

John Adams

David McCullough

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach

Keeping You a Secret

Julie Anne Peters

King & King

Linda de Haan & Stern Nijland

Kinky Boots (musical)

Harvey Fierstein

Knockout Games

G. Neri

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter to the Touro Synagogue

George Washington

Lies We Tell Ourselves

Robin Talley

Life Lessons

Elisabeth Kbler-Ross

Like Water for Chocolate

Laura Esquivel

Living in Sin

John Shelby Spong

Losing It

Cora Carmack

Luna

Julie Anne Peters

Lunas California Poppies

Alma Luz Villanueva

Magics Pawn

Mercedes Lackey

Magics Price

Mercedes Lackey

Magics Promise

Mercedes Lackey

Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli

MARCH*

Geraldine Brooks

Marty the Broken-Hearted Artichoke

Josephine Baskin Minow

Mary Ann in Autumn

Armistead Maupin

Mayor of Castro Street

Randy Shilts

Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris

Messenger

Lois Lowry

Michael Tolliver Lives

Armistead Maupin

Middlesex*

Jeffrey Eugenides

Moody Bitches

Julie Holland

More Happy Than Not

Adam Silvera

Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

Christine Baldacchino

*Indicates a title that received multiple recommendations.

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Mr. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore

Robin Sloan

My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante

My Princess Boy

Cheryl Kilodavis

My So-Called Life (Television show)

Winnie Holzman

Nectar in a Sieve

Kamala Markandaya

Nerdist Way

Chris Hardwick

Nickel & Dimed

Barbara Ehrenreich

Night and the City

Andrew Pulver

Nina Here Nor There

Nick Krieger

None of the Above

IW Gregorio

October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard

Lesla Newman

On Beauty

Zadie Smith

On the Shortness of Life

Seneca

One

Kathryn Otoshi

One Crazy Summer

Rita Williams-Garcia

One Day in Hot June

Karen Truong

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garca Mrquez

One Man Guy

Michael Barakiva

One of Ours

Willa Cather

One-Dimensional Woman

Nina Power

Orange is the New Black

Piper Kerman

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson

Orientalism

Edward Said

Orphan Train

Christina Baker Kline

Oscar Wilde

Richard Ellmann

Otherbound

Corinne Duyvis

Out of My Mind

Sharon Draper

Outrageous Acts & Everyday Rebellions

Gloria Steinem

Parable of the Talents

Octavia Butler

Parasol Protectorate Series

Gail Carriger

Passages

Gail Sheehy

Patience and Sarah

Alma Routsong

Perfect Peace

Daniel Black

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

Please Understand Me

David Keirsey

Powers That Be

Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Prodigal Son

Danielle Steel

Promises, Promises

Erica James

*Indicates a title that received multiple recommendations.

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Protector of the Small

Tamora Pierce

Proxy

Alex London

Psy Changeling Series

Nalini Singh

Queer

Simon Gage

Rafe

Jo Raven

Rainbow Boys*

Alex Sanchez

Rainy Day Recess: Complete Stevens Comics

Dan Savage

Rapture Practice: A True Story About Growing Up Gay in an

Evangelical Family

Aaron Hartzler

Red: A Crayons Story

Michael Hall

Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid

Revolution from Within

Gloria Steinem

Revolutionary Voices

Amy Sonnie

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor

Romance by the Book

Jo Victor

Ruby

Cynthia Bond

Rubyfruit Jungle

Rita Mae Brown

Scarlett Undercover

Jennifer Latham

Send Me

Patrick Ryan

Series of Unfortunate Events

Lemony Snicket

Sex & World Peace

Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill,

Mary Caprioli & Chad F. Emmett

Sex is a Funny Word

Cory Silverberg

Shes Not There: A Life in Two Genders

Jennifer Finney Boylan

Skim

Mariko Tamaki

So Hard to Say*

Alex Snchez

Son

Lois Lowry

Sparks: The Epic, Completely True Blue, (Almost) Holy

Quest of Debbie

S.J. Adams

Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson

Spookley the Square Pumpkin

Joe Troiano

Static

L.A. Witt

Stone Butch Blues*

Leslie Feinberg

Stone Cold

Robert Swindells

Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution

David Carter

Strangers from a Different Shore

Ronald Takaki

Strega Nona

Tomie dePaola

Swordspoint

Ellen Kushner

Tacky the Penguin

Helen Lester

*Indicates a title that received multiple recommendations.

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Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin

The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian*

Sherman Alexie

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

The Autobiography of Malcolm X*

Malcolm X & Alex Haley

The Bhagavad Gita

Anonymous

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

The Bone Palace

Amanda Downum

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Daz

The Bull-Jean Stories

Sharon Bridgforth

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

Elyn R. Saks

The Chaos

Nalo Hopkinson

The Chosen

Chaim Potok

The Chronicles of Narnia

C.S. Lewis

The Color of Water

James McBride

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

The Crossover

Kwame Alexander

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

The Diary of Anne Frank

Anne Frank

The Ethical Slut

Dossie Easton

The Fall

Albert Camus

The Fault in our Stars

John Green

The First Twenty

Jennifer Lavoie

The Frail Days

Gabrielle Prendergast

The Giver*

Lois Lowry

The Giving Tree

Shel Silverstein

The Glass House

Sonya Hartnett

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

The Grace of Silence: A Family Memoir

Michele Norris

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

The Handmaids Tale

Margaret Atwood

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

The Heroes of Olympus Series

Rick Riordan

The Holy Bible

Anonymous

The House Girl

Tara Conklin

The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farme

The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

The Kids Are All Right (movie)

Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg

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The Kitchen Gods Wife

Amy Tan

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

Louise Erdrich

The Left Hand of Darkness*

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Lesser Blessed

Richard Van Camp

The Magicians Assistant

Ann Patchett

The Martian

Andy Weir

The Nine

Jeffrey Toobin

The Normal Heart

Larry Kramer

The Other Side

Jacqueline Woodson

The Outsiders*

S.E. Hinton

The Perks of Being a Wallflower*

Stephen Chbosky

The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

The Picture of Dorian Gray*

Oscar Wilde

The Price of Salt

Patricia Highsmith

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Sneetches & Other Stories

Dr. Seuss

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

The Summer Prince

Alaya Dawn Johnson

The Swimming Pool Library

Alan Hollinghurst

The Ugly Duckling

Hans Christian Andersen

The Van Gogh Cafe

Cynthia Rylant

The Vast Fields of Ordinary

Nick Burd

The Velveteen Rabbit

Margery Williams

The Way of Kings*

Brandon Sanderson, Jennifer Mendenhall &

Michael Kramer

The Weight of Feathers

Anna-Marie McLemore

The Woman Behind the New Deal

Kirstin Downey

The Year of the Mite

Jane Ishka

Their Eyes Were Watching God*

Zora Neale Hurston

This Bridge Called My Back

Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua &

Toni Cade Bambara

This Day in June

Gayle E. Pitman

This is How You Lose Her

Junot Daz

This One Summer

Mariko Tamaki

Tipping the Velvet

Sarah Waters

To Kill a Mockingbird*

Harper Lee

Torn

Justin Lee

Totally Joe

James Howe

Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

*Indicates a title that received multiple recommendations.

3M has no affiliation with the titles listed and does not endorse these titles or authors.

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Travel Guides (to learn about other cultures)

Frommes/Fodors

Twice Heroes

Tom Graves

Two Boys Kissing*

David Levithan

Unbound

Dean King

Unbroken

Laura Hillenbrand

Uncle Toms Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Water

Terra Harmony

Water (movie)

Deepa Mehta

Weetzie Bat

Francesca Lia Block

Welcome to Braggsville

T. Geronimo Johnson

What Can You Do with Two Mommies?

Tara Theresa Hill

Whats Eating Gilbert Grape?

Peter Hedges

When the Emperor Was Divine

Julie Otsuka

When Tony Met Adam

Suzanne Brockmann

Whipping Girl

Julia Serano

Whistle for Willie

Ezra Jack Keats

White Teeth

Zadie Smith

Wicket Season

Gabrielle Prendergast

Will Grayson, Will Grayson*

David Levithan & John Green

Wingshooters

Nina Revoyr

Wonder*

Raquel J. Palacio

Words of Radiance

Brandon Sanderson

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

Meg Medina

Young Avengers

Kieron Gillen

Zanes Sex Chronicles

Zane (Kristina Laferne Roberts)

Zanes The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth

Zane (Kristina Laferne Roberts)

*Indicates a title that received multiple recommendations.

3M has no affiliation with the titles listed and does not endorse these titles or authors.