2015 Partner for Pride Reading List
At the 2015 American Library Association’s 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 Boy’s 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 L’Engle
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
America’s 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 Sáenz
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.
3M has no affiliation with the titles listed and does not endorse these titles or authors.
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2015 Partner for Pride Reading List
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
Daddy’s Roommate
Michael Willhoite
Dancer from the Dance
Andrew Holleran
Dare
Philip José 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 Sáenz
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.
3M has no affiliation with the titles listed and does not endorse these titles or authors.
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2015 Partner for Pride Reading List
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
God’s Beauty Parlor
Stephen D. Moore
Gracefully Grayson*
Ami Polonsky
Grandma’s 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*
Lesléa Newman
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchell
History of the Indies
Bartolomé 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
Iggie’s House
Judy Blume
I’ll 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.
3M has no affiliation with the titles listed and does not endorse these titles or authors.
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2015 Partner for Pride Reading List
In Our Mother’s House
Patricia Polacco
In Search of Our Mother’s Garden
Alice Walker
In the Name of Hawaiians
Rona Tamiko Halualani
INK
Amanda Sun
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Jacob’s 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 Kübler-Ross
Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel
Living in Sin
John Shelby Spong
Losing It
Cora Carmack
Luna
Julie Anne Peters
Luna’s California Poppies
Alma Luz Villanueva
Magic’s Pawn
Mercedes Lackey
Magic’s Price
Mercedes Lackey
Magic’s 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.
3M has no affiliation with the titles listed and does not endorse these titles or authors.
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2015 Partner for Pride Reading List
Mr. Penumbra’s 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
Lesléa 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 García Márquez
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.
3M has no affiliation with the titles listed and does not endorse these titles or authors.
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2015 Partner for Pride Reading List
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 Steven’s Comics
Dan Savage
Rapture Practice: A True Story About Growing Up Gay in an
Evangelical Family
Aaron Hartzler
Red: A Crayon’s 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
She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders
Jennifer Finney Boylan
Skim
Mariko Tamaki
So Hard to Say*
Alex Sánchez
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.
3M has no affiliation with the titles listed and does not endorse these titles or authors.
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2015 Partner for Pride Reading List
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 Díaz
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 Handmaid’s 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
3M has no affiliation with the titles listed and does not endorse these titles or authors.
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2015 Partner for Pride Reading List
The Kitchen God’s 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 Magician’s 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 Díaz
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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2015 Partner for Pride Reading List
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 Tom’s 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
What’s 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
Zane’s Sex Chronicles
Zane (Kristina Laferne Roberts)
Zane’s 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.
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