2021 Book Review & Challenge!

El and Josie chat about all the queer books El read in 2021!


Check out the Gender Journeys Storygraph Challenges:


Fiction Challenge


Nonfiction Challenge


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Queer Books El Read in 2021:


The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald


The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar


Raising Them by Kyl Myers


What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron


Memoir of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest


The Song of Achilles by Madelline Miller


The Deep by Rivers Solomon


Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon


The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman


The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo


The Stonewall Reader edited by The New York Public Library


Glitter+Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die edited by
dave ring


All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson


Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan


Transgender History by Susan Stryker


Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown


Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of
Visibility


Captive Genders by Eric A Stanley


A Low Life In High Heels by Holly Woodlawn and Jeffrey Copeland


In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado


When The Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo


Cemetery Boys by Aiden ThomasWhen The Tiger Comes Down the
Mountain


How To Survive a Plague by David France


Detransition Baby by Torey Peters


All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout
the Ages edited by Saundra Mitchell


No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll


Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard
Conley


Normal Life by Dean Spade


Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride


Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall


Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo


Razorblade Tears by S.A. Crosby


Pheonix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee


Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi


One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston


Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer


Once & Future by Cori McCarthy and A.R. Capetta


The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman


Between Perfect and Real by Roy Stoeve


The Ghosts We Keep by Mason Deaver


Nonbinary Lives edited by Jos Twist, Ben Vincent, Meg-John Barker
and Kat Gupta


Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore


The House In the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune


The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam


Real Queer America by Samantha Allen


When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore


The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzie Lee





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