Now that Pride Week at La Trobe has wrapped up for 2024, we thought we’d round out the week with a list of queer books to continue your Pride festivities and learnings!
This selection includes books we’ve read, researched, or had recommended to us, but is by no means an exhaustive or definitive list.
Please keep in mind that we haven’t read every book listed and can’t claim to know the content of each. We encourage you to do your own research of each books theme’s, especially if you’re concerned about potential content notes. Read with caution.
Fiction
- Aristotle and Dante – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- August and Jones – Pip Harry
- Call It What You Want – Alissa Derogatis
- Call Me by Your Name – Andre Aciman
- Carry On – Rainbow Rowell
- Cemetery Boys – Aiden Thomas
- Codename Villanelle – Luke Jennings
- Eileen – Ottessa Moshfegh
- Gideon the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
- Heartstopper – Alice Oseman
- History Is All You Left Me – Adam Silvera
- I Who Have Never Known Men – Jacqueline Harpman
- Iron Widow – Xiran Jay Zhao
- Mostly Dead Things – Kristen Arnett
- One Last Stop – Casey Mcquiston
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
- Our Wives Under the Sea – Julia Armfield
- Red White and Royal Blue – Casey Mcquiston
- Rouge – Mona Awad
- Several People Are Typing – Calvin Kasulke
- Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda – Becky Albertalli
- The Borrow a Boyfriend Club – Page Powars
- The Color Purple – Alice Walker
- The Price of Salt, or Carol – Patricia Highsmith
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
- They Both Die At The End – Adam Silvera
- Wilder Girls – Rory Power
- With Teeth – Kristen Arnett
Non-Fiction
- How We Fight for our Lives – Saeed Jones
- In The Dream House – Carmen Maria Machado
- Queer Intentions – Amelia Abraham
- The Stonewall Reader – New York Public Library
- We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
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