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Queer Jewish Narratives (LGBTQIA+ Reads) Fiction When the Angels Left the Old Country Sacha Lamb Fiction Ellen Outside the Lines A. J. Sass Fiction Sizzle Reel Carlyn Greenwald Children's A Room Away From the Wolves Nova Ren Suma Fiction All My Mother’s Lovers Ilana Masad Fiction All Russians Love Birch Trees Olga Grjasnowa; Eva Bacon, trans. Fiction Planning Perfect Haley Neil Nonfiction Queer Judaism Orit Avishai Nonfiction A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969 Noam Sienna Nonfiction A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful Gideon Lewis-Kraus Nonfiction Mishkan Ga'avah: Where Pride Dwells: A Celebration of LGBTQ Jewish Life and Ritual Denise Eger (Editor) Fiction A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness: Stories Jai Chakrabarti Nonfiction A Ship Without A Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart Gary Marmorstein Nonfiction Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community Noach Dzmura, ed. Nonfiction Lost and Found: Surviving Displacement, Finding Love, Uncovering Secrets Ann Avram Huber Nonfiction Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman Stuart E. Weisberg Nonfiction Becoming Eve Abby Stein Nonfiction Beyond the Pale Elana Dykewomon Nonfiction Blood, Marriage, Wine, and Glitter S. Bear Bergman Nonfiction A Sturdy Yes of a People: Selected Writings Joan Nestle Fiction Boxer, Beetle Ned Beauman Cookbook Mind over Batter: 75 Recipes for Baking as Therapy Jack Hazan, Michael Harari Nonfiction Branded by the Pink Triangle Ken Setterington Fiction Bone Weaver Aden Polydoros Fiction Call Me By Your Name Andre Aciman Fiction Cool for the Summer Dahlia Adler Fiction Disobedience Naomi Alderman Fiction Echo After Echo Amy Rose Capetta Nonfiction Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes Gabrielle Korn Fiction Fire Year Jason K. Friedman Nonfiction Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage Barney Frank Nonfiction God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality Jay Michaelson Nonfiction Golem Girl: A Memoir Riva Lehrer Fiction Hex: A Novel Rebecca Dinerstein Knight Nonfiction In This Day and Age?! A Community at the Crossroads of Religion and Homosexuality Isaac Namdar Fiction It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories Laura Silverman, Katherine Locke Fiction Jewish Gentle and Other Stories of Gay-Jewish Living Daniel M. Jaffe Nonfiction Judaism and Homosexuality: An Authentic Orthodox View Chaim Rapoport Nonfiction Keep Your Wives Away from Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires Miryam Kabakov, ed. Fiction From Dust, a Flame Rebecca Podos Nonfiction Kulanu (All of Us): A Program & Resource Guide for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Inclusion Richard F. Address, Joel L. Kushner, and Geoffrey Mitelman Nonfiction Lawfully Wedded Husband: How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family Joel Derfner Nonfiction Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew Michael W. Twitty Fiction Little & Lion Brandy Colbert Nonfiction Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir T Kira Madden Nonfiction Lot Six David Adjmi Children's Me Being Me is Exactly as Insane as You Being You Todd Hasak-Lowy Fiction Milk Fed Melissa Broder Nonfiction My Son Wears Heels Julie Tarney Fiction Never Anyone But You: A Novel Rupert Thomson Fiction Nirvana is Here Aaron Hamburger Poetry October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard Lesléa Newman Nonfiction Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality John Schwartz Nonfiction On the Move: A Life Oliver Sacks Fiction Paper is White Hilary Zaid Nonfiction Queer Theory and the Jewish Question Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini, eds. Nonfiction Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection Sam Apple Fiction Sadness Is a White Bird Moriel Rothman-Zecher Fiction Sarahland Sam Cohen Nonfiction Sontag: Her Life and Work Benjamin Moser Fiction Sweet Like Sugar Wayne Hoffman Fiction Telegraph Avenue Michael Chabon Nonfiction The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein, Maira Kalman (illus.) Fiction The City Beautiful Aden Polydoros Nonfiction The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South Michael W. Twitty Fiction The Cosmopolitans Nadia Kalman Fiction The Diamond Setter: A Novel Moshe Sakal; Jessica Cohen, trans. Fiction The Flight Portfolio: A Novel Julie Orringer Fiction The Humbling Philip Roth Fiction The Last Watchman of Old Cairo Michael David Lukas Nonfiction The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk Randy Shilts Nonfiction The New Queer Conscience Adam Eli Nonfiction Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature Max K. Strassfeld Fiction The Paternity Test Michael Lowenthal Fiction The Piano Student Lea Singer, Elisabeth Lauffer (trans.) Fiction The Rabbi Who Prayed with Fire Rachel Sharona Lewis Fiction The Right Thing to Do at the Time Dov Zeller Nonfiction The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from aTransgender Perspective Joy Ladin Fiction The Upside of Unrequited Becky Albertalli Nonfiction Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA Roberta Kaplan Fiction These Things Happen Richard Kramer Fiction They May Not Mean To, But They Do Cathleen Schine Nonfiction Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders Joy Ladin Nonfiction Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible Gregg Drinkwater, Joshua Lesser and David Shneer, eds. Nonfiction Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home Leah Lax Nonfiction What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Transformation Mimi Lemay Fiction Wide Awake David Levithan Nonfiction Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context Golan Y. Moskowitz Fiction Willa & Hesper Amy Feltman Nonfiction Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist Harriet Hyman Alonso Fiction You Asked for Perfect Laura Silverman Fiction The Papercutter: Book 1 of The Split series Cindy Rizzo Fiction This Rebel Heart Katherine Locke Fiction Before All the World Moriel Rothman-Zecher Fiction A Letter to Harvey Milk: Short Stories Lesléa Newman Fiction The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden Fiction City of Laughter Temim Fruchter Fiction Going Bicoastal Dahlia Adler Nonfiction Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir In Archives Amelia Possanza Fiction The Sins on Their Bones Laura R. Samotin
Nonfiction A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969 Noam Sienna
Nonfiction Mishkan Ga'avah: Where Pride Dwells: A Celebration of LGBTQ Jewish Life and Ritual Denise Eger (Editor)
Nonfiction Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman Stuart E. Weisberg
Nonfiction Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes Gabrielle Korn
Nonfiction In This Day and Age?! A Community at the Crossroads of Religion and Homosexuality Isaac Namdar
Nonfiction Kulanu (All of Us): A Program & Resource Guide for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Inclusion Richard F. Address, Joel L. Kushner, and Geoffrey Mitelman
Nonfiction Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality John Schwartz
Nonfiction Queer Theory and the Jewish Question Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini, eds.
Nonfiction Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection Sam Apple
Nonfiction The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South Michael W. Twitty
Nonfiction Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible Gregg Drinkwater, Joshua Lesser and David Shneer, eds.
