Nine Consortium Titles Honored on 2019 Over the Rainbow Booklist

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)

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