Congratulations to all the honorees on the 2019 Over the Rainbow Booklist! Selected annually by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Roundtable of the American Library Association (ALA-GLBTRT), the list recognizes the best contributions to queer publishing each year. We’re thrilled to have nine books on the list across multiple categories:
Top Ten Overall:
Mean by Myriam Gurba (Coffee House Press)
For Genre Fiction:
Sodom Road Exit by Amber Dawn (Arsenal Pulp Press)
An Unkindness of Ghosts by River Solomon (Akashic Books)
For Graphic Narrative:
Sugar Town by Hazel Newlevant (Alternative Comics)
For Literary and General Interest:
La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono (The Feminist Press at CUNY)
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead (Arsenal Pulp Press)
For Poetry:
Black Queer Hoe Britteney Black Rose Kapri (Haymarket Books)
full-metal indigiqueer: the pro(1,0)zoa by Joshua Whitehead (Talonbooks)
Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen (Coffee House Press)