Skip to Main Content

It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results.

Leisure Reading

A place to discover and share fun reads

Reading Lists

14 of the Best Queer Books: A Pride Reading List

43 Books About LGBTQ Life, Culture, History, and Politics Everyone Should Read

Books You Need to Read During Pride Month, According to LGBTQ Authors

LGBTQ Latinx Students Share 12 Must-Reads

9 LGBTQ Memoirs to Read This Summer

We Need Diverse Books

Inclusive Booklists (from the American Library Association)

Recommended Diverse Book Lists

Multicultural and Diverse Fiction

Non-Fiction (print and eBooks)

"You're in the wrong bathroom!" : and 20 other myths and misconceptions about transgender and gender- nonconforming people

I am where I come from : native American college students and graduates tell their life stories

So you want to talk about race

Come out, come out, whoever you are

Mostly Straight : Sexual Fluidity among Men

Lighting the fires of freedom : African American women in the civil rights movement

Coming out, coming in : nurturing the well-being and inclusion of gay youth in mainstream society

When we fight, we win! : twenty-first-century social movements and the activists that are transforming our world

Pride : celebrating diversity & community

#identity Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation

A more beautiful and terrible history : the uses and misuses of civil rights history

Native Tongues : Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation

LGBTQ+ athletes claim the field : striving for equality

Muslim American women on campus : undergraduate social life and identity

City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934

Becoming American? : the forging of Arab and Muslim identity in pluralist America

School's out : gay and lesbian teachers in the classroom

That's so gay! : microaggressions and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community

Changing the face of engineering : the African American experience

Latino access to higher education : ethnic realities and new directions for the twenty-first century

Mascot Nation The Controversy over Native American Representations in Sports

Native Americans in the movies : portrayals from silent films to the present

Latino and Muslim in America : race, religion and the making of a new minority

Campaigning to the New American Electorate : Advertising to Latino Voters

Latino young men and boys in search of justice : testimonies

Documenting the undocumented : latino/a narratives and social justice in the era of Operation Gatekeeper

Muslim women reformers : inspiring voices against oppression