LGBTQ+ 365 Recommended reads - Non-fiction
Enjoy a selection of non-fiction LGBT+ books, selected by Haringey Libraries. All of these books are available to borrow from your local library, just click on the link to see what's in stock or reserve a copy.
Non-fiction
- A Dutiful Boy - Zaidi, Mohsin
- A girlhood: letter to my transgender daughter - Hays, Carolyn
- All down darkness wide: a memoir - Hewitt, Sean
- All The Things She Said: Everything I Know About the Modern Culture Of Queer Women - Jones, Daisy
- An accidental icon: how I dodged a bullet, spoke truth to power and lived to tell the tale - Scott, Norman
- And The Band Played on - Shilts, Randy
- A visible man - Enninful, Edward
- Blue Wallpaper - Hamberger, Robert
- Dancing on eggshells - Whaite,John
- David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years Of LGBT Music - Bullock, Darryl W.
- Devils, Lusts And Strange Desires: The Life Of Patricia Highsmith - Bradford, Richard
- Eat, Gay, Love: A Memoir - Mcswiggan, Calum
- Fire Island: love, loss and liberation in an American paradise - Parlett, Jack
- Gay Bar: Why We Went Out - Lin, Jeremy Atherton
- Go the way your blood beats - Monterey, Emmett D.E
- Good As You: 30 Years Of Gay Britain - Flynn, Paul
- Help! I'm Addicted: A Trans Girl's Self-Discovery and Recovery - Styles, Rhyannon
- Hijab butch blues: a memoir - H, Lamya
- How We Fight Our Lives - Jones, Saeed
- Ian McKellen: The Biography - O'Connor, Gary
- Jojo: finally, home - Radebe, Johannes
- The LGBTQ+ history book
- Leg: a memoir - Marshall, Greg
- Lesbian love story: a queer history of sapphic romance - Possanza, Amelia
- Life As A Unicorn: A Journey From Shame To Pride And Everything In Between - Al-Kadhi, Amrou
- Love Falls on Us - Corey-Boulet, Robbie
- Mama's Boy: A Memoir - Black, Dustin Lance
- None of the above: reflections on life beyond the binary - Alabanza, Travis
- Oh Miriam! stories from an extraordinary life - Margolyes, Miriam
- One Of Them - Cashman, Michael
- Outrageous!: The Story of Section 28 And Britain's Battle For LGBT Education - Baker, Paul
- Pride -Tate, Tim
- Pride: The Story of The LGBTQ Equality Movement - Todd, Matthew
- Queer British Art 1861-1967 - Barlow, Clare (Editor)
- Queer City: Gay London from The Romans To The Present Day - Ackroyd, Peter
- Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture - Abraham, Amelia
- Queer Power: A Celebration of Icons, Activists And Game Changers From Across The Rainbow - Dom & Ink
- Roam: a search for happiness - Roche, Juno
- Some integrity - Regan, Padraig
- The End Of Innocence: Britain In The Time Of AIDS - Garfield, Simon
- The Glamour Boys - Bryant, Christopher
- The Little Book Of Queer Icons - Alexander, Samuel
- The Love That Dares - Smith, Rachel | Vesey, Barbara
- The Pink Line: The World's Queer Frontiers - Gevisser, Mark
- The Transgender Issue: An Argument For Justice - Faye, Shon
- The unfamiliar: making a queer family - Logan, Kirsty
- The Wedding Heard 'Round the World - McConnell, Michael; Baker, Jack; Karwoski, Gail
- This Much Is True - Margolyes, Miriam
- To Be A Gay Man - Young, Will
- Trans Britain: Our Journey from The Shadows - Burns, Christine (Editor)
- Trans Power: Own Your Gender - Roche, Juno
- We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices On The Future Of LGBTQ+ - Abraham, Amelia (Editor)
- We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir - Habib, Samra