National Non-Fiction Day: 31 Titles to Get Your Queer Learn On!

In the past year, we’ve posted a lot about our favorite queer fiction titles. We wanted to take Non-Fiction day to talk about the non-fiction titles that have impacted us! Whether self-help, memoirs, psychology, history, sociology, or a different non-fiction genre, these are books that have helped us learn, helped us teach, helped us improve, helped us see and be seen, and helped us be more informed. So join us as we introduce our thirty-one recommendations for National Non-Fiction Day!

• Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing
• Gender Born, Gender Made: Raising Healthy Gender-Nonconforming Children by Diane Ehrensaft
• Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
• Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
• Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas
• Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians by Austen Hartke
• Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke
• Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price
• My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi
• transister: Raising Twins in a Gender-Bending World by Kate Brookes
• !Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer
• Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb
• London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885 – 1914 by Matt Cook
• Queering Your Craft: Witchcraft from the Margins by Cassandra Snow
• Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion
• The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities by Janet W. W. Hardy and Dossie Easton
• The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli
• Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
• Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia Fine
• Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity by Ryan Lee Cartwright
• Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
• Queer Budapest, 1873 – 1961 by Anita Kurimay
• LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care by Kimberly D. Acquaviva
• Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa by T. J. Tallie
• Handbook of LGBT Elders: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Principles, Practices, and Policies edited by Debra A. Harley and Pamela B. Teaster
• LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media by Christopher Pullen
• Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations by Serena Nanda
• LGBTQ Cultures: What Healthcare Professionals Need to Know about Sexual and Gender Diversity by M. J. Eliason and P. L. Chinn
• The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment by Cameron Awkward-Rich
• Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth

You can view this list as a shelf on Goodreads!

It can be so difficult to find good non-fiction resources on queer topics. Which titles to DO you recommend?