These include fiction and non-fiction and for varying age groups.
(F) for Fiction (NF) for Non Fiction
An excellent place to purchase some of these titles in West End, Brisbane or online is at Where the Wild Things Are.
Miscellaneous
Antonio’s Card, Rigoberto Gonzalez (F)
A family is a Family is a Family, Sara O’Leary (F)
Donovan’s Big Day, Leslea Newman (F)
Sparkle Boy, Leslea Newman (F)
From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, Kai Cheng Thom (F)
Annie’s Plaid Shirt, Stacy B. Davids (F)
George, Alex Gino (F)
Prince and Knight, Daniel Haack (F)
Princess Princess Ever After, Katie O’Neill (F)
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag, Rob Sanders (NF)
The Boy and the Bindi, Vivek Shraya (F)
I am Jazz, Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings (F)
Large Fears, Myles E. Johnson (F)
Maiden Voyage, Jaimee PoiPoi, Adam Reynolds & Chaz Harris (F)
Pink is for Boys, Robb Pearlman (F)
When You Look Out The Window, Gayle E Pitman (F)
Queer, There & Everywhere, Sarah Prager (NF)
LESBIAN (Young Adult)
Leah On The Off Beat, Becky Albertalli
The Pursuit Of Miss Heartbreak Hotel, Moe Bonneau
Night Swimming, Steph Bowe
Clancy Of The Undertow, Chris Currie
The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily M. Danforth
Moon At Nine, Deborah Ellis
Tell Me Again How A Crush Should Feel, Sara Farizan
If You Could Be Mine, Sara Farizan
Tessa Masterson Will Go To Prom, Emily Franklin & Brendan Halpin
Annie On My Mind, Nancy Garden
Amelia Westlake, Erin Gough
The Flywheel, Erin Gough
The Last Beginning, Lauren James (sequel to The Next Together, can be stand-alone read)
Everything Leads To You, Nina LaCour
We Are Okay, Nina LaCour
About A Girl, Sarah McCarry (conclusion of Metamorphoses trilogy, can be stand-alone read)
Juliet Takes A Breath, Gabby Rivera
Bad Behaviour, Rebecca Starford
Songs That Sound Like Blood, Jared Thomas
Honour Girl, Maggie Thrash (graphic novel memoir)
If I Tell You, Alicia Tuckerman
Beauty Of The Broken, Tawni Waters
Afterworlds, Scott Westerfield
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
GAY (YA)
Simon Vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda – Love, Simon (film title), Becky Albertalli
What If It’s Us, Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera
The Black Flamingo, Dean Atta
One Man Guy, Michael Barakiva
Hold My Hand, Michael Barakiva (One Man Guy sequel)
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You, Peter Cameron
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
The Bane Chronicles, Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (series)
How (Not) To Ask A Boy To Prom, S.J. Goslee
Will Grayson, Will Grayson, John Green & David Levithan
Been Here All Along, Sandy Hall
We Contain Multitudes, Sarah Henstra
Autoboyography, Christina Lauren
Gentleman’s Guide To Vice and Virtue, Mackenzi Lee
Boy Meets Boy, David Levithan
Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan
Flying Tips For Flightless Birds, Kelly McCaughrain
Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston
It Looks Like This, Rafi Mittlefehldt
Hero, Perry Moore
I’ll Give You The Sun, Jandy Nelson
Release, Patrick Ness
Heartstopper, Vol. 1 & 2, Alice Oseman (graphic novel)
When Everything Feels Like The Movies, Raziel Reid
Becoming Nancy, Terry Ronald
Carry On, Rainbow Rowell
Wayward Son, Rainbow Rowell (Carry On sequel)
Aristotle and Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Drag Teen, Jeffery Self
Invisible Boys, Holden Sheppard
History Is All You Left Me, Adam Silvera
More Happy Than Not, Adam Silvera
They Both Die At The End, Adam Silvera
Anything Could Happen, Will Walton
How To Be Remy Cameron, Julian Winters
The Great American Whatever, Tim Federle
BISEXUAL (YA)
Leah On The Off Beat, Becky Albertalli
All The Invisible Things, Orlagh Collins
Changers series, T. Cooper & Allison Glock-Cooper
How It Feels To Float, Helena Fox
Like Other Girls, Claire Hennessy (contains transphobia)
Gentleman’s Guide To Vice and Virtue, Mackenzi Lee
Synchro Boy, Shannon McFerran
Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston
Radio Silence, Alice Oseman
Grasshopper Jungle, Andrew Smith
TRANSGENDER (YA)
My Brother’s Name Is Jessica, John Boyne
Changers series, T. Cooper & Allison Glock-Cooper
Beautiful Music For Ugly Children, Kirstin Cronn-Mills
Highway Bodies, Alison Evans
If You Could Be Mine, Sara Farizan
Like Other Girls, Claire Hennessy (contains transphobia)
Everything Grows, Aimee Herman
Two Boys Kissing, David Levithan
Luna, Julie Anne Peters
Birthday, Meredith Russo
The Art Of Being Normal, Lisa Williamson
Memoirs
Growing up Queer in Australia, Benjamin Law
Gaysia, Benjamin Law
Outer Shell, Paige Wilcox
Inner Demons, Paige Wilcox
Synthesis, Paige Wilcox
Isolated Moving Human Target, Paige Wilcox
The Book That Lives and Bleeds, Paige Wilcox
The Synthesis of Outer Shell and Her Inner Demons, Paige Wilcox
My Life Most Memoirable: 1982 – 2018, Paige WIlcox
TRANSGENDER (Middle Reader)
George, Alex Gino
Magnus Chase And the Gods Of Asgard, Rick Riordan (gender fluid secondary character)
Gracefully Grayson, Ami Polonsky
Boy In A Dress, David Walliams
TRANSGENDER (Picture Books)
10,000 Dresses, Marcus Ewert, Rex Ray (illustrator; long-form picture book)
Red: A Crayon’s Story, Michael Hall
A House For Everyone, Jo Hirst, Naomi Bardoff (illustrator)
Jacob’s New Dress, Sarah & Ian Hoffman, Chris Case (illustrator)
I Am Jazz, Jazz Jennings, Jessica Herthel, Shelagh McNicholas (illustrator)
Julian Is A Mermaid, Jessica Love
One Of A Kind, Like Me, Laurin Mayeno, Robert Liu-Trujillo (illustrator)
From The Stars In The Sky To The Fish In The Sea, Kai Cheng Thom, Wai-Yant Li & Kai Yun Ching (illustrators)
It Feels Good To Be Yourself, Theresa Thorn, Noah Grigni (illustrator)
Introducing Teddy, Jess Walton, Dougal MacPherson (illustrator)
TRANSGENDER (Parent)
Raising The Transgender Child, Michele Angello & Ali Bowman
Gender Born, Gender Made; Diane Ehrensaft, Phd
Helping Your Transgender Teen, Irwin Krieger
The Transgender Teen, Stephanie Brill and Lisa Kenney
QUEER-FRIENDLY (YA)
Leah On The Off Beat, Becky Albertalli
Begin, End, Begin; A #LoveOzYA Anthology, Danielle Binks (editor)
The Darkest Part Of The Forest, Holly Black
Once & Future, Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy
Mortal Instruments, Cassandra Clare (series)
Take Three Girls, Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell & Fiona Wood
Sam & Ilsa’s Last Hurrah, Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
Changers series, T. Cooper & Allison Glock-Cooper
Highway Bodies, Alison Evans
The Other F- Word, Natasha Friend
I Am Out With Lanterns, Emily Gale
None Of The Above, I.W. Gregorio (Intersexuality)
Everything Grows, Aimee Herman
Let’s Talk About Love, Claire Kann (bi-romantic asexual main character)
You Know Me Well, Nina LaCour & David Levithan
The Lady’s Guide To Petticoats And Piracy, Mackenzi Lee
Everyday, David Levithan
Meet Me At The Intersection, Rebecca Lim & Amberlin Kwaymullina (editors)
More Than This, Patrick Ness
The Rest Of Us Just Live Here, Patrick Ness
Things A Bright Girl Can Do, Sally Nicholls
Meg & Linus, Hanna Nowinski
Tash Hearts Tolstoy, Kathryn Ormsbee (romantic asexual main character)
Becoming Nancy, Terry Ronald
The Inexplicable Logic Of My Life, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Afterworlds, Scott Westerfield
Queens Of Geek, Jen Wilde
This is Where the World Ends, Amy Zhang
QUEER-FRIENDLY (MR)
The Lotterys series, Emma Donoghue
Better Nate Than Ever, Tim Federle
5,6,7, Nate! Tim Federle
Roller Girl, Victoria Jamieson
To Night Owl From Dogfish, Holly Goldberg Sloan & Meg Wolitzer
QUEER-FRIENDLY (PICTURE BOOKS)
Love Makes A Family, Sophie Beer
Wrestle! Maya Newell, Charlotte Mars & Gus Skattebol-James, Tom Jellett (illustrator)
The Family Book, Todd Parr
Not Quite Narwhal, Jessie Sima
All About Families, Usborne
+ (NF)
Breakthrough, Jack Andraka (YA memoir)
This Book Is Gay, Juno Dawson (YA reference book)
Proud, Juno Dawson (editor)
Yes, Yes, Yes, Alex Greenwich & Shirleene Robinson
Yay! You’re Gay! Now What? Riyadh Khalaf
From Prejudice To Pride, Amy Lamé (middle reader reference book)
Growing Up Queer In Australia, Benjamin Law (editor)
Rainbow Revolutions, Jamie Lawson & Eve Lloyd Knight
Queer There and Everywhere, Sarah Prager (YA reference book)
Gay & Lesbian, Then & Now, Robert Reynolds & Shirleene Robinson (Australian history)
How Powerful We Are, Sally Rugg
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag, Rob Sanders, Steven Salerno (illustrator; children’s picture book)
Honour Girl, Maggie Thrash (graphic novel memoir)
Honour Girl, Maggie Thrash (graphic novel memoir)