The second half is full of lesbian lust, seduction, and more love and pain. And above all, Happy Pride!ĭorothy Allison’s Trash is a collection that starts with complex tales of an abusive Southern childhood it’s about loving and hating the people who love and hate you. (Gasp, you’ll feel better.) That means some 90s classics are in contemporary, and maybe some titles you don’t feel have earned classic status are there anyway. But it is joyful, varied, and personal, the virtual equivalent of dropping into a bookstore and asking the coolest person what to read next.Ī few process notes for those of you in the front row: we drew an arbitrary temporal line between “classics” and “contemporary”-that line is the latest millennium. (We also added a few of our favorites because we can’t help ourselves.) The resulting list of 111 books-categorized by classics, contemporary, nonfiction, poetry, YA, and children’s-is by no exhaustive (we’re not that good). This year, in honor of Pride, we reached out to some of our favorite librarians, booksellers, and authors and asked them about the queer books they find themselves recommending over and over again-the ones that no library would be complete without, book bans be damned. While we celebrate queer literature and history all year long at Lit Hub dot com, we also love a good book list.
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