Celebrate Pride Month with a good LGBTQ book, including a memoir from Tan France, a history of the Stonewall riots and a gender queer graphic novel.
Author: Barbara VanDenburgh, USA TODAY
5 books not to miss: ‘Recursion’ by Blake Crouch, Weiner’s ‘Mrs. Everything,’ ‘Islanders’
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Ocean Vuong’s ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ a transcendent queer immigrant story
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A kidnapping in rural Russia rocks the women in Julia Phillips’ ‘Disappearing Earth’
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