Display Your Pride Reading Selections

Collage of the UTSC Library team holding up books behind the More Colour More Pride Flag

 

On Thursday, June 17th, 2021 all three U of T campuses celebrate Pride Month and #UofTPride with the annual #DisplayYourPride event!  

The UTSC Library has joined in on the fun with fabulous colours and some of our favourite books centring LGBTQ+ characters or written by LGBTQ+ authors.  

Check out the list below for some reading inspiration: 

11 Reading Picks for Pride 

  1. Detransition, Baby – Torrey Peters 

    1. Recommended by UTSC Librarian Paulina Rousseau 

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  2. Lilith’s Brood by Octavia Bulter 

    1. Recommended by UTSC Librarian Stephanie Perpick 

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  3. Call me by your name by Andre Aciman 

    1. Recommended by UTSC Archivist Tanis Franco 

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  4. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 

    1. Recommended by UTSC Library Technician Sue Reynolds 

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  5. Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez 

    1. Recommended by UTSC Librarian Mariana Jardim 

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  6. Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde 

    1. Recommended by UTSC Librarian Sonia Dhaliwal 

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  7. Books for Living by Will Schwalbe   

    1. Recommended by UTSC Library Technician Catherine Spence 

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  8. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel 

    1. Recommended by UTSC Library Mary-Grace Capobianco 

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  9. Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 by W.H. Auden 

    1. Recommended by UTSC Librarian Chad Crichton 

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  10. Less by Andrew Sean Greer 

    1. Recommended by UTSC Library Technician Mary Ann Vernon 

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  11. One Day We’ll All Be Dead by Scaachi Koul 

    1. Recommended by UTSC Library Technician Frank Tong 

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Last update: June 2021