American Library Association Rainbow List
The ALA Rainbow List is an annual list of "books with significant gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender content, and which are aimed at youth, birth through age 18" produced by the American Library Association's (ALA's) Rainbow Project, which is run by the ALA's Rainbow Round Table and Social Responsibilities Round Table.[1]
Although roughly 4.5 percent of the U.S. population identifies as LGBT,[2] "the vast majority of libraries lack high-quality, comprehensive LGBT collections" and "satisfaction among LGBT patrons is low."[3] To ensure libraries have adequate LGBT books for readers of all ages, librarians should rely on resources such as the ALA's Rainbow List and the Lambda Literary Foundation.[3]
Honorees
| Year | Title | Contributors | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021[4] | Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring | Matthew Burgess and Josh Cochran (Illustrator) | Early Readers Nonfiction |
| Our Subway Baby | Peter Mercurio and Leo Espinosa (Illustrator) | ||
| My Rainbow | DeShanna Neal, Trinity Neal, and Art Twink (Illustrator) | Juvenile Fiction | |
| My Maddy | Gayle E Pitman and Violet Tobacco (Illustrator) | ||
| The Every Body Book: LGBTQ+ Inclusive Guide for Kids about Sex, Gender, Bodies, and Families | Rachel E. Simon and Noah Grigni (Illustrator) | ||
| King and the Dragonflies | Kacen Callender | Middle Grade Fiction | |
| Ana on the Edge | A. J. Sass | ||
| All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto | George M Johnson | Young Adult Nonfiction | |
| Circus Rose | Betsy Cornwell | Young Adult Fiction | |
| When We Were Magic | Sarah Gailey | ||
| You Should See Me in a Crown | Leah Johnson | ||
| I’ll Be the One | Lyla Lee | ||
| Elatsoe | Darcie Little Badger and Rovina Cai (Illustrator) | ||
| Miss Meteor | Tehlor Kay Mejia and Anna-Marie McLemore | ||
| War Girls | Tochi Onyebuchi | ||
| Camp | L. C. Rosen | ||
| Cemetery Boys | Aiden Thomas | ||
| Snapdragon | Kat Leyh | ||
| The Magic Fish | Trung Le Nguyen | ||
| The Deep & Dark Blue | Niki Smith | ||
| 2020[5] | Stonewall: A Building. An Uprising. A Revolution. | Rob Sanders and Jamey Christoph | Picture Books Nonfiction |
| When Aidan Became a Brother | Kyle Lukoff and Kaylani Juanita | Picture Books Fiction | |
| A Plan for Pops | Heather Smith and Brooke Kerrigan | ||
| Brave Face | Shaun David Hutchinson | Young Adult Nonfiction | |
| Pet | Akwaeke Emezi | Young Adult Fiction | |
| The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali | Sabina Khan | ||
| The Music of What Happens | Bill Konigsberg | ||
| We Set the Dark on Fire | Tehlor Kay Mejia | ||
| On a Sunbeam | Tillie Walden | ||
| Mooncakes | Suzanne Walker and Xu Wendy | ||
| 2019[6] | Prince & Knight | Daniel Haack and Stevie Lewis | Picture Books Fiction |
| Sewing the Rainbow | Gayle E Pitman | ||
| Hurricane Child | Kacen Callender | Middle Grade Fiction | |
| Girl Made of Stars | Ashley Herring Blake | Young Adult Fiction | |
| Let’s Talk About Love | Claire Kanna | ||
| Darius the Great is Not Okay | Adib Khorram | ||
| Girls of Paper and Fire | Natasha Ngan | ||
| Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) | L. C. Rosen | ||
| Odd One Out | Nic Stone | ||
| DeadEndia: The Watcher’s Test | Hamish Steele | ||
| 2018[7] | Baby’s First Words | Stella Blackstone and Sunny Scribens, Illustrated by Christiane Engel | Board Books |
| Felix Yz | Lisa Bunker | Middle Grade Fiction | |
| Star-Crossed | Barbara Dee | ||
| The ABCs of LGBT+ | Ash Hardell [lower-alpha 1] | Young Adult Nonfiction | |
| The 57 Bus | Dashka Slater | ||
| We Are Okay | Nina LaCour | Young Adult Fiction | |
| Ramona Blue | Julie Murphy | ||
| They Both Die at the End | Adam Silvera | ||
| Dress Codes for Small Towns | Courtney Stevens | ||
| The Backstagers Vol. 1 | James Tynion IV and Rian Sygh | ||
| 2017[10] | I’m a Girl | Yasmeen Ismail | Picture Books |
| Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story About Gender and Friendship | Jessica Walton | ||
| How Many Letters are in Goodbye? | Yvonne Cassidy | Young Adult Fiction | |
| We Are the Ants | Shaun David Hutchinson | ||
| Every Heart a Doorway | Seanan McGuire | ||
| When the Moon Was Ours | Anna-Marie McLemore | ||
| This Song Is (Not) for You | Laura Nowlin | ||
| The Root | Na’amen Gobert Tilahun | ||
| And I Darken | Kiersten White | ||
| Princess Princess Ever After | Katie O’Neill | Graphic Novels | |
| 2016[11] | Gracefully Grayson | Ami Polonsky | Juvenile Fiction |
| The Marvels | Brian Selznick | ||
| Sex is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU | Cory Silverberg, illus. by Fiona Smyth | Juvenile Nonfiction | |
| Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda | Becky Albertalli | Young Adult Fiction | |
| Cut Both Ways | Carrie Mesrobian | ||
| When Everything Feels Like the Movies | Raziel Reid | ||
| Fans of the Impossible Life | Kate Scelsa | ||
| Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before | Karelia Stetz-Waters | ||
| Breakthrough | Jack Andraka with Matthew Lysiak | Young Adult Nonfiction | |
| SuperMutant Magic Academy | Jillian Tamaki | Graphic Novels | |
| 2015[12] | Not Every Princess | Jeffrey and Lisa Bone | Picture Books |
| This Day in June | Gayle E. Pitman, illus. by Kristyna Litten | ||
| Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World | Janet E Cameron | Young Adult Fiction | |
| Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel | Sara Farizan | ||
| I’ll Give You the Sun | Jandy Nelson | ||
| Far from You | Tess Sharpe | ||
| Grasshopper Jungle | Andrew Smith | ||
| Secret City | Julia Watts | ||
| Sweet Tooth | Tim Anderson | Young Adult Nonfiction | |
| We Are the Youth: Sharing the Stories of LGBT Youth in the United States | Laurel Golio and Diana Scholl | ||
| 2014[1] | Better Nate than Ever | Tim Federle | Juvenile Fiction |
| My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity | Kate Bornstein | Teen Nonfiction | |
| Branded by the Pink Triangle | Ken Setterington | ||
| Love in the Time of Global Warming | Francesca Lia Block | Teen Fiction | |
| Freakboy | Kristin Elizabeth Clark | ||
| The Culling | Steven Dos Santos | ||
| Leap | Z Egloff | ||
| If You Could Be Mine | Sara Farizan | ||
| The Summer Prince | Alaya Dawn Johnson | ||
| Pantomime | Laura Lam | ||
| 2013[13] | Beautiful Music for Ugly Children | Kirstin Cronn-Mills | Middle/Early Young Adult Fiction |
| Drama | Raina Telgemeier | ||
| The Letter Q: Queer Writers Notes to Their Younger Selves | Sarah Moon (editor) | Middle/Early Young Adult Nonfiction | |
| Starting From Here | Lisa Jenn Bigelow | Young Adult/Crossover Fiction | |
| The Miseducation of Cameron Post | Emily M Danforth | ||
| Ask the Passengers | A. S. King | ||
| Adaptation | Malinda Lo | ||
| The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller | ||
| Chulito: a Novel | Charles Rice-Gonzalez | ||
| Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Benjamin Alire Saenz | ||
| 2012[14] | Donovan’s Big Day | Leslea Newman, Illustrated by Mike Dutton | Picture Books |
| Huntress | Malinda Lo | Middle Grade/Early Young Adult Fiction | |
| Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy | Bil Wright | ||
| I Am J | Cris Beam | Young Adult Fiction | |
| Beauty Queens | Libba Bray | ||
| Brooklyn Burning | Steve Brezenoff | ||
| Sister Mischief | Laura Goode | ||
| Shine | Lauren Myracle | ||
| She Loves You. She Loves You Not | Julie Ann Peters | ||
| Gemini Bites | Patrick Ryan | ||
| 2011[15] | Dogs Don’t Do Ballet | Anna Kemp | Picture Books |
| The Accidental Adventures of India McAllister | Charlotte Agell | Juvenile Fiction | |
| The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang | Amy Ignatow | ||
| The Death-Defying Pepper Roux | Geraldine McCaughrean | ||
| Wildthorn | Jane Eagland | Young Adult/Crossover Fiction | |
| Will Grayson, Will Grayson | John Green and David Levithan | ||
| A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend | Emily Horner | ||
| Kicked Out | Sassafras Lowrey | Young Adult/Crossover Nonfiction | |
| Don’t Ask. Don’t Tell | Jeff Sheng | ||
| The Gallup’s Modern Guide to Gay, Lesbian & Transgender Life (Series, 15 titles) | Various |
See also
Notes
- Credited as Ashely Mardell; The ABCs of LGBT+ was released before Hardell came out as transgender[8] and married their spouse.[9]
References
- "2014 Rainbow Book List". Rainbow Book List. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- Newport, Frank (2018-05-22). "In U.S., Estimate of LGBT Population Rises to 4.5%". Gallup. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- Downey, Jennifer (2013). "Self-Censorship in Selection of LGBT Themed Materials". Reference & User Services Quarterly. 53 (2): 104–107. ISSN 1094-9054 – via JSTOR.
- "The 2021 Rainbow Book List". Rainbow Book List. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
- "The 2020 Rainbow Book List". Rainbow Book List. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
- "The 2019 Rainbow Book List". Rainbow Book List. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
- "2018 Rainbow List". Rainbow Book List. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- Ash Hardell (November 14, 2017). "I'm Trans". YouTube. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
- Ash Hardell (December 29, 2016). "our low-key wedding". YouTube. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
- "2017 Rainbow Book List". Rainbow Book List. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- "2016 Rainbow Book List". Rainbow Book List. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- "2015 Rainbow Book List". Rainbow Book List. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- "2013 Rainbow Book List". Rainbow Book List. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- "2012 Rainbow Book List". Rainbow Book List. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
- "2011 Rainbow Book List". Rainbow Book List. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
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