2024 Twin Cities Pride: Stop by the MELSA tent on 6/29 and 6/30!
Welcome to the Metro Pride Booklist! Browse our eBook and eAudio Collections for Kids, Teens, and Adults or scroll through the sections below to find titles specific to different identities.
KIDS
Every Bird a Prince (Audio)
by Jenn Reese
A-Okay
by Jarad Greene
Hazel’s Theory of Evolution (Audio)
by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
The Trouble with Robots (Audio)
by Michelle Mohrweis
Speak Up!
by Rebecca Burgess
TEENS
So Let Them Burn (Audio)
by Kamilah Cole
Dear Wendy
by Ann Zhao
Love Letters for Joy
by Melissa See
Wren Martin Ruins It All (Audio)
by Amanda DeWitt
Summer Bird Blue (Audio)
by Akemi Dawn Bowman
Let’s Talk About Love (Audio)
by Claire Kann
The Spy With the Red Balloon
by Katherine Locke
Belle Révolte
by Linsey Miller
Tash Hearts Tolstoy
by Kathryn Ormsbee
Beyond the Black Door
by AdriAnne Strickland
The Kindred (Audio)
by Alechia Dow
A Snake Falls to Earth (Audio)
by Darcie Little Badger
Elatsoe (Audio)
by Darcie Little Badger
The Summer of Bitter and Sweet (Audio)
by Jen Ferguson
Forward March (Audio)
by Skye Quinlan
The Last 8 (Audio)
by Laura Pohl
Fire Becomes Her (Audio)
by Rosiee Thor
Immoral Code
by Lillian Clark
Hullmetal Girls
by Emily Skrutskie
Beneath the Citadel (Audio)
by Destiny Soria
Tarnished Are the Stars (Audio)
by Rosiee Thor
Loveless (Audio)
by Alice Oseman
The Grimrose Girls (Audio)
by Laura Pohl
This Golden Flame (Audio)
by Emily Victoria
Dread Nation
by Justina Ireland
Being Ace
An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection
ADULTS
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (Audio)
by Angela Chen
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture (Audio)
by Sherronda J. Brown
Invisible Orientation
by Julie Sondra Decker
Hopeless Aromantic
by Samantha Rendle
Common Bonds
A Speculative Aromantic Anthology
Kaikeyi (Audio)
by Vaishnavi Patel
Every Heart a Doorway (Audio)
by Seanan McGuire
An Accident of Stars
by Foz Meadows
I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You
by Yumi Sakugawa
One to Watch (Audio)
by Kate Stayman-London
The Romantic Agenda (Audio)
by Claire Kann
I Am Ace
by Cody Daigle-Orians
Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace
by Eris Young
Sounds Fake But Okay: An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else
by Sarah Costello & Kayla Kaszyca
KIDS
Drew Leclair Gets a Clue (Audio)
by Katryn Bury
In the Key of Us (Audio)
by Mariama Lockington
Tell No Tales: Pirates of the Southern Seas
by Sam Maggs
A Touch of Ruckus
by Ash Van Otterloo
Grounded for All Eternity (Audio)
by Darcy Marks
TEENS
The Poisons We Drink (Audio)
by Bethany Baptiste
The Last True Poets of the Sea (Audio)
by Julia Drake
Ace of Spades (Audio)
by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
All That’s Left in the World (Audio)
by Erik J. Brown
Things We Couldn’t Say (Audio)
by Jay Coles
If This Gets Out (Audio)
by S. Gonzales
Icebreaker (Audio)
by A.L. Graziadei
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating (Audio)
by Adiba Jaigirdar
So This Is Ever After (Audio)
by F.T. Lukens
No Filter and Other Lies (Audio)
by Crystal Maldonado
Ophelia After All (Audio)
by Racquel Marie
Nothing Burns as Bright as You (Audio)
by Ashley Woodfolk
Iron Widow (Audio)
by Xiran Jay Zhao
If It Makes You Happy (Audio)
by Claire Kann
Dread Nation
by Justina Ireland
ADULTS
How to Find a Princess (Audio)
by Alyssa Cole
Big Swiss (Audio)
by Jen Beagin
Milk Fed (Audio)
by Melissa Broder
A Lot Like Adiós (Audio)
by Alexis Daria
Payback’s a Witch (Audio)
by Lana Harper
Love & Other Disasters (Audio)
by Anita Kelly
Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy (Audio)
by Rachel Krantz
Winter’s Orbit (Audio)
by Everina Maxwell
Blue-Skinned Gods (Audio)
by SJ Sindu
Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much (Audio)
by Jen Winston
Monster in the Middle (Audio)
by Tiphanie Yanique
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (Audio)
by Alexis Hall
Sorry, Bro (Audio)
by Taleen Voskuni
The Chosen and the Beautiful (Audio)
by Nghi Vo
KIDS
A High Five for Glenn Burke
by Phil Bildner
Thanks a Lot, Universe (Audio)
by Chad Lucas
The Insiders (Audio)
by Mark Oshiro
Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms (Audio)
by Jamar J. Perry
TEENS
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Audio)
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The Sky Blues (Audio)
by Robbie Couch
Yesterday is History (Audio)
by Kosoko Jackson
Ready When You Are
by Gary Lonesborough
Anything But Fine (Audio)
by Tobias Madden
Pumpkin (Audio)
by Julie Murphy
The Darkness Outside Us (Audio)
by Eliot Schrefer
Cemetery Boys (Audio)
by Aiden Thomas
The Magic Fish
by Trung Le Nguyen
Spin Me Right Round (Audio)
by David Valdes
Right Where I Left You (Audio)
by Julian Winters
ADULTS
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Audio)
by Ocean Vuong
¡Hola Papi! How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons (Audio)
by John Paul Brammer
The Sweetness of Water (Audio)
by Nathan Harris
The Prophets (Audio)
by Robert Jones, Jr.
The Groom Will Keep His Name
by Matt Ortile
A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco and Atlanta’s Gay Revolution (Audio)
by Marty Padgett
Love in the Big City (Audio)
by Sang Young Park
KIDS
The Pronoun Book: She, He, They, and Me!
by Cassandra Jules Corrigan
Both Can Be True (Audio)
by Jules Machias
Téo’s Tutu
by Maryann Jacob Macias
Ana on the Edge (Audio)
by A.J. Sass
The Best Liars in Riverview
by Lin Thompson
TEENS
Ander & Santi Were Here (Audio)
by Jonny Garza Villa
The Heartbreak Bakery (Audio)
by A. R. Capetta
The Ghosts We Keep (Audio)
by Mason Deaver
Across a Field of Starlight
by Blue Delliquanti
The Many Half-lived Lives of Sam Sylvester
by Maya MacGregor
Lakelore (Audio)
by Anna-Marie McLemore
Can’t Take That Away (Audio)
by Steven Salvatore
ADULTS
Care of: Letters, Connections, and Cures (Audio)
by Ivan Coyote
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir (Audio)
by Akwaeke Emezi
Gender Queer: A Memoir
by Maia Kobabe
In the Watchful City
by S. Qiouyi Lu
Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body (Audio)
by Megan Milks
The Story of Silence (Audio)
by Alex Myers
Disintegrate/Dissociate
by Arielle Twist
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
by Andrea Lawlor
KIDS
Neither
by Airlie Anderson
Spork
by Kyo Maclear
Cattywampus
by Ash Van Otterloo
TEENS
None of the Above (Audio)
by I.W. Gregorio
Double Exposure
by Bridget Birdsall
Alex As Well
by Alyssa Brugman
That Inevitable Victorian Thing (Audio)
by E.K. Johnston
Just Ash (Audio)
by Sol Santana
ADULTS
Arcadia (Audio)
by Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam
Nico & Tucker
by Rachel Gold
Pantomime
by Laura Lam
Raising Rosie: Our Story of Parenting an Intersex Child
by Eric Lohman
Across the Green Grass Fields (Audio)
by Seanan McGuire
An Ordinary Wonder
by Buki Papillon
Sorrowland (Audio)
by Rivers Solomon
Born Both (Audio)
by Hida Viloria
The Albino Album
by Chavisa Woods
Golden Boy (Audio)
by Abigail Tarttelin
Trans Liberty Riot Brigade
by L.M. Pierce
Galileo’s Middle Finger (Audio)
by Alice Dreger
XOXY
by Kimberly M. Zieselman
KIDS
Almost Flying (Audio)
by Jake Maia Arlow
The Lock-Eater (Audio)
by Zack Loran Clark
The Deepest Breath (Audio)
by Meg Grehan
The Legend of Auntie Po
by Shing Yin Khor
Beetle & the Hollowbones
by Aliza Layne
Candidly Cline (Audio)
by Kathryn Ormsbee
Artie and the Wolf Moon
by Olivia Stephens
Meow or Never
by Jazz Taylor
Love, Violet
by Charlotte Sullivan Wild
TEENS
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
by Mariko Tamaki
Juliet Takes a Breath
by Gabby Rivera & Celia Moscote
Displacement
by Kiku Hughes
A Clash of Steel
by C.B. Lee
Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Audio)
by Malinda Lo
Like Other Girls (Audio)
by Britta Lundin
She Drives Me Crazy (Audio)
by Kelly Quindlen
Love & Other Natural Disasters (Audio)
by Misa Sugiura
Burn Down, Rise Up (Audio)
by Vincent Tirado
Coming Back
by Jessi Zabarsky
You Should See Me in a Crown (Audio)
by Leah Johnson
ADULTS
Hijab Butch Blues (Audio)
by Lamya H
Gideon the Ninth (Audio)
by Tamsyn Muir
Legends & Lattes (Audio)
by Travis Baldree
Roaming
by Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki
Dead Dead Girls (Audio)
by Nekesa Afia
Radiant Fugitives (Audio)
by Nawaaz Ahmed
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith (Audio)
by Richard Bradford
Black Water Sister (Audio)
by Zen Cho
D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding (Audio)
by Chencia C. Higgins
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
by Briona Simone Jones (editor)
She Who Became the Sun (Audio)
by Shelley Parker-Chan
Honey Girl (Audio)
by Morgan Rogers
The Jasmine Throne (Audio)
by Tasha Suri
KIDS
Different Kinds of Fruit (Audio)
by Kyle Lukoff
Plenty of Hugs
by Fran Manushkin
Bathe the Cat
by Alice B. McGinty
TEENS
The Dead and the Dark (Audio)
by Courtney Gould
The Reckless Kind (Audio)
by Carly Heath
From Dust, A Flame (Audio)
by Rebecca Podos
ADULTS
Stone Fruit
by Lee Lai
Light From Uncommon Stars (Audio)
by Ryka Aoki
With Teeth (Audio)
by Kristen Arnett
The Other Mothers (Audio)
by Jennifer Berney
The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood (Audio)
by Krys Malcolm Belc
Skye Falling (Audio)
by Mia McKenzie
Detransition, Baby (Audio)
by Torrey Peters
Bad Girls
by Camila Sosa Villada
KIDS
Obie is Man Enough (Audio)
by Schuyler Bailar
The Ship We Built (Audio)
by Lexie Bean
Calvin
by JR Ford
I’m Not a Girl
by Maddox Lyons
My Rainbow (Audio)
by Trinity Neal
Born Ready
by Jodie Patterson
The Deep & Dark Blue
by Niki Smith
TEENS
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth (Audio)
by Andrew Joseph White
The Witch King (Audio)
by H.E. Edgmon
The Passing Playbook (Audio)
by Isaac Fitzsimons
A Million Quiet Revolutions (Audio)
by Robin Gow
Meet Cute Diary (Audio)
by Emery Lee
Act Cool (Audio)
by Tobly McSmith
Birthday (Audio)
by Meredith Russo
Between Perfect and Real (Audio)
by Ray Stoeve
ADULTS
Yes, You Are Trans Enough
by Mia Violet
The Wrong End of the Telescope
by Rabih Alameddine
Special Topics in Being a Human
by S. Bear Bergman
The Death of Vivek Oji (Audio)
by Akwaeke Emezi
Dead Collections (Audio)
by Isaac Fellman
Boys Run the Riot
by Keito Gaku
Horseman (Audio)
by Christina Henry
Going to Trinidad (Audio)
by Martin J. Smith
Summer Fun (Audio)
by Jeanne Thornton
KIDS
Phoenix Gets Greater
by Marty Wilson-Trudeau and Megan Kyak-Monteith
Kapaemahu (Audio)
by Wong-Kalu, Hinaleimoana
Ho’onani Hula Warrior
by Heather Gale
Sharice’s Big Voice
by Sharice Davids
TEENS
Pukawiss the Outcast
by Jay Jordan Hawke
Onwaachige the Dreamer
by Jay Jordan Hawke
A Scout Is Brave
by Jay Jordan Hawke
Surviving the City
by Tasha Spillett
Surviving the City Vol. 2: From the Roots Up
by Tasha Spillett
Fire Song (Audio)
by Adam Garnet Jones
ADULTS
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
Johnny Appleseed (Audio)
by Joshua Whitehead
A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder
by Ma-Nee Chacaby
Indigenous Men and Masculinities
by Robert Alexander Innes
Making Love with the Land (Audio)
by Joshua Whitehead
A Minor Chorus (Audio)
by Billy-Ray Belcourt
A History of My Brief Body
by Billy-Ray Belcourt
This Town Sleeps (Audio)
by Dennis E. Staples
Evil Dead Center
by Carole LaFavor
