PRIDE MONTH READING LIST: QUEER TEXTS (CANONICAL AND NEW) BY BLACK AUTHORS (and black-owned bookstores to buy from!)

CANONICAL TEXTS:

Passing by Nella Larsen

Movement in Black by Pat Parker

The Days of Good Looks by Cheryl Clarke

Our Dead Behind Us by Audre Lorde

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Zami by Audre Lorde

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Selected Poems by Langston Hughes

Ceremonies by Essex Hemphill

Violets and Other Tales by Alice Dunbar Nelson

Collected Poems by June Jordan


NEWER TEXTS:

Thief in the Interior by Phillip B. Williams

Dispatch by Cameron Awkward-Rich

Please by Jericho Brown

Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones

Boy with Thorn by Rickey Laurentiis

The Sobbing School by Joshua Bennett

Telepathologies by Cortney Lamar Charleston

Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing by Charif Shanahan

Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed

Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

Trouble the Water by Derrick Austin

Sacrilegion by L. Lamar Wilson

Pale Colors in a Tall Field by Carl Phillips

Fata Morgana by Reginald Shepherd

Primer by Aaron Smith

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color

Build Yourself a Boat by Camonghne Felix

Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin

The House You Pass on the Way by Jacqueline Woodson

Hunger by Roxane Gay