DENVER – The Over the Rainbow committee of ALA’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) considered 223 books, with a wide range of diversity among topics and coming from both first-time and established authors. From these we carefully examined all of the titles; 122 in the catergory of literature and 101 in nonfiction. […]
2018 Over the Rainbow Literature Titles The Angel of History. Rabih Alameddine. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016. Jacob is hallucinating in the waiting room of a mental health clinic. He looks back on the events of his life and imagines it reviewed by Death and Satan. We are taken on a journey from the Middle […]
2018 Over the Rainbow Nonfiction Titles Accepted: How the First Gay Superstar Changed WWE. Pat Patterson. ECW Press, 2016. A no holds barred memoir about being gay in the world of professional wrestling, as told by veteran superstar wrestler Pat Patterson. He chronicles his humble beginnings working in the wrestling circuits of the 1960s […]
The following titles have been read and recommended for inclusion on the final list by at least one juror: Non-fiction Adamczyk, Amy. Cross-National Public Opinion about Homosexuality: Examining Attitudes Across the Globe. University of California Press, 2017. Brown, Arch. A Pornographer. Chelsea Station Editions, 2017. Crimp, Douglas. Before Pictures. University of Chicago Press, 2016. LeVay, […]
The following titles have been read and recommended for inclusion on the final list by at least one juror: Non-fiction Gaines, Steven. One of These Things First. Delphinium, 2017. Mock, Janet. Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me. Bloomsbury USA, 2017. Fiction and Literature Louis, Édouard. The End of Eddy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
The following titles have been read and recommended for inclusion on the final list by at least one juror: Fiction and Literature Brown, Rita Mae. Cakewalk. Bantam Books, 2016. Lain, Tara. Return of the Chauffeur’s Son. Dreamspinner Press, 2017. Non-fiction Ortleb, Charles. Truth to Power: New York Native 1980-1997. Rubicon Media, 2016.
The following titles have been read and recommended for inclusion on the final list by at least one juror: Fiction and Literature Argent, Sam. Witches for Hire. DSP Publications, 2017 Crocker, Eva. Barreling Forward: Stories. Astoria/House of Anansi Press, 2017. Kudisch, Erica. Don’t Feed the Trolls. Riptide Publishing, 2017. Madison, Sarah. Unspeakable Words. Dreamspinner Press, […]
The following titles have been read and recommended for inclusion on the final list by at least one juror: Fiction and Literature Aciman, André. Enigma Variations. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2017. Dempsey, Joan. This Is How It Begins. She Writes Press, 2017. Frankel, Laurie. This Is How It Always Is: A Novel. Flatiron Books (Macmillan […]
The following titles have been read and recommended for inclusion on the final list by at least one juror: Fiction and Literature Boylan, Jennifer Finney. Long Black Veil: A Novel. Crown, 2017. Hart, Ellen. Fever in the Dark: A Jane Lawless Mystery. Minotaur Books, 2017. Pederson, David S. Death Goes Overboard. Bold Strokes Books, 2017. […]
The following titles have been read and recommended for inclusion on the final list by at least one juror: Fiction and Literature Alameddine, Rabih. The Angel of History. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017. Beck, Christian. The Last Enemy. DSP Publications, 2016. Chen Chen. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. BOA […]