ALA Over the Rainbow Book ListNomineeNon-Fiction2017

Given by American Library Association (ALA)

Other Names: ALA Over the Rainbow Book List Top 10
33 Works 4,005 Books 192 Reviews ½ 3.9
The Over the Rainbow Project releases an annotated bibliography each year highlighting quality fiction and non-fiction for adults that authentically represents gay, lesbian, bisexual, and show more transgender experiences. show less
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All, Shortlist (70), Selection (784), Top Ten (149), Longlist (114), Honorable Mention (7), Nominee (46)
Categories:
All, Non-Fiction (33)
Years:
All, 2017 (33)

Nominee 33

WorkYear
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott2017
Hoover's War on Gays: Exposing the FBI's "Sex Deviates" Program by Douglas M. Charles2017
Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley2017
Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began by Alex Cooper2017
A Murder Over a Girl: Justice, Gender, Junior High by Ken Corbett2017
Masculinities under neoliberalism by Andrea Cornwall2017
A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain (Sexual Cultures) by Christina Crosby2017
Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation by Jim Downs2017
Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill2017
In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi2017
The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (Postmillennial Pop) by Ramzi Fawaz2017
Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality (Sexual Cultures) by Katherine Franke2017
Master of Ceremonies: A Memoir by Joel Grey2017
Bettyville: A Memoir by George Hodgman2017
I Can Give You Anything But Love by Gary Indiana2017
Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls by Lindsay King-Miller2017
Romaine Brooks: A Life by Cassandra Langer2017
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas by Petrus Liu2017
The Wedding Heard ’Round the World: America’s First Gay Marriage by Michael McConnell2017
The Cambridge companion to lesbian literature by Jodie Medd2017
The Courts, the Ballot Box, and Gay Rights: How Our Governing Institutions Shape the Same-Sex Marriage Debate by Joseph Mello2017
Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis by Kevin Mumford2017
Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl by Rashod Ollison2017
A taste for brown bodies : gay modernity and cosmopolitan desire by Hiram Pérez2017
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks2017
A House in St John's Wood: In Search of My Parents by Matthew Spender2017
Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann by Frederic Spotts2017
Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics (Politics and Culture in Modern America) by Timothy Stewart-Winter2017
Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories (SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures) by Amy L. Stone2017
My Son Wears Heels: One Mom's Journey from Clueless to Kickass by Julie Tarney2017
Forward: A Memoir by Abby Wambach2017
Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology by Angela Willey2017
Fair Play: How LGBT Athletes Are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports by Cyd Zeigler2017

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