Welcome to the web page of the Nevins Memorial Library's GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender) Book Group. We are a group of men and women who are interested in reading quality GLBT literature and nonfiction. We meet at the library on the 2nd Thursday of the month, from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm. Copies of the title for discussion are made available at the Circulation Desk. Titles for the next month's discussion are available at each meeting. For more information, contact Krista McLeod at extension 10.
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Nevins Memorial Library
GLBT Book Group
2011-2012
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October 13 – Affinity by Sarah Waters
This novel brings the Victorian era to life with its story of an emotionally vulnerable "spinster", Margaret Prior, who attempts to overcome the losses of loved ones by taking up charitable social work with the women of Millbank prison in London.
November 10 –The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel
Journalist Koppel found the inspiration for this book after discovering Florence Wolfson’s diary in a Manhattan dumpster. Koppel eventually locates Florence in Florida and surprises the 90-year-old with this artifact from her past, which reveals her views on growing up as an intelligent, ambitious and creative teenager on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1930s.
December 8 – The Color Purple by Alice Walker
This acclaimed epistolary novel received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name. Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on Southern black women’s lives during the 1930s.
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January 12 – Poetry Night
Members are asked to come and share their favorite poetry. If you write your own poetry share it with us…if you have favorite GLBT poets bring samples of their work to read.
February 9 – Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm
In this startling study of Stein and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, Malcolm puts their relationship in a new light, demonstrating that lives and biographies are not always self-evident. The book explores Stein and Toklas's stormy and complicated relationship.
March 8 – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Meet Oscar de León. Once upon a time, in elementary school, Oscar was a slick Dominican kid who seemed to have a typical life ahead of him. Then, around the time he hit puberty, Oscar gained a whole lot of weight, became awkward both physically and socially. A particularly unfortunate Halloween costume earns him the nickname “Oscar Wao” for the costume's resemblance to another Oscar: playwright Oscar Wilde
April 12 – Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue
Literary scholar Donoghue takes us on a fascinating journey through women’s relationships as portrayed in literature from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Focusing on six themes, she explores the wide variety of portrayals of women in western writing.
May 10 – Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
Picoult’s novels always tackle contemporary social issues, and this one is no exception. What rights do gay and lesbian couples have to marry? Have children? What rights do men have as biological fathers? The changing face of the American family is at the heart of this gripping story.
June 14 – Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man by Chaz Bono
A groundbreaking and candid account of Bono’s forty-year struggle to match his gender identity with his physical body and his transformation from female to male. The book touches on themes of identity, gender, and sexuality; parents and children; and how harboring secrets shatters the soul.
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Alma mater / Rita Mae Brown
Almost perfect / Brian Katcher
Am I Blue? : Coming Out from the Silence, edited by Marion Dane Bauer.
Annie on my mind / Nancy Garden.
Aquamarine / Carol Anshaw.
As nature made him, the boy who was raised as a girl / John Colapinto
At Swim, Two Boys, by Jamie O'Neill.
Bastard Out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette.
Before night falls / Reinaldo Arenas ; translated by Dolores M. Koch.
The Book of Salt, by Monica Truong
Cotton / Christopher P. Wilson
Deliver us from Evie / M.E. Kerr.
Delta Belles, by Penelope J. Stokes
The Doctor, by Patricia Duncker
Farewell To My Concubine, by Lilian Lee
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe / Fannie Flagg. --
Gender shock : exploding the myths of male and female / Phyllis Burke
The hours / Michael Cunningham.
I Say a Little Prayer by E. Lynn Harris
The Ice Cave: a Woman's Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic by Lucy Jane Bledsoe.
In the River Sweet, by Patricia Henley
Keeping you a secret : a novel / Julie Ann Peters
Kissing the witch : old tales in new skins / Emma Donoghue
Landing / Emma Donoghue.
The little stranger : a novel / Sarah Waters
Love and lies / Ellen Wittlinger
Luna, by Julie Anne Peters
Map of Ireland : a novel / by Stephanie Grant
The married man : a love story / Edmund White
Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
Name all the animals : a memoir / Alison Smith.
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, by Lillian Faderman.
On the down low : a journey into the lives of "straight" Black men who sleep with men / J.L. King
The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, by Allan Gurganus
Pages For You, by Sylvia Brownrigg
Parrotfish / Ellen Wittlinger
Patience and Sarah. / Isabel Miller.
The perks of being a wallflower / Chbosky, Stephen
Rubyfruit Jungle, by Rita Mae Brown
Seven Moves by Carol Anshaw
She's Not There : a Life in Two Genders, by Jennifer Finney Boylan.
The sweet in-between : a novel / Sheri Reynolds
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters.
Trans-sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian.
True enough / Stephen McCauley
What night brings by Carla Mari Trujillo
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GLBT Teen Book List - From the staff at the Nevins Memorial Library.
ALA Stonewall Book Awards - The Stonewall Book Awards are sponsored by the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgenered Round Table. Since Isabel Miller's Patience and Sarah received the first award in 1971, a total of forty-eight books have been honored for exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered experience.
Current Gay and Lesbian Fiction - From the Kansas City Public Library. Includes gay and lesbian fiction author, and gay and lesbian mystery authors.
Focus Fiction: Themes - Gay and Lesbian - From the San Antonio, TX Public Library.
Gay and Lesbian Authors - From the Fiction & Young Adult Departments at the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
Gay and Lesbian Fiction: 2002 - 2004 - From the Multnomah County Public Library.
Gay Drama Reading List - Put together by librarians at the Chicago Public Library.
Gay and Lesbian Fiction - A selection of recent fiction Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender themes, from the Seattle Public Library.
Gay and Lesbian Fiction - From the Tompkins County Public Library in Ithica, New York.
Gay Fiction: a Selected List - Compiled by the librarians at the Harold Washington Library Center from the
Literature and Languages Division at the Chicago Public Library.
"If You Like... Gay and Lesbian Fiction" - From the Hennepin County Library in MN, comes this list of gay and lesbian authors whose works are about gay and/or lesbian characters and themes.
Lambda Literary Foundation - The Lambda Literary Awards are presented in 25 categories.
Lesbian Fiction: a Selected List - Compiled by the librarians at the Harold Washington Library Center from the Literature and Languages Division at the Chicago Public Library.
Queer Eye for the Fiction Fan: a Selection of Gay and Lesbian Novels 2003 - From the Fiction & Young Adult Departments at the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
Recent Lesbian Reads - From the Vancouver Public Library.
Sisters and Brothers: Lesbian and Gay Books from the Nineties: Lesbian Fiction - A Boston Public Library Booklist for Adults.
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