All of these books, at the time of writing, have fewer than 100 ratings on Goodreads. Goodreads ratings aren’t everything, but they can give you a sense of how widely known a book is. For comparison: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado has 70,000 ratings, Here for It by R. Eric Thomas has 9,000, and The Fact of a Body by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich has 19,000. These are some of my favorite nonfiction books from the last five years, but they only the beginning. There is so much more to discover! This list is just a taste of the wide and wonderful world of queer nonfiction. I hope you’ll give some of these books a read, and that the next time you come across a book that only has 12 or 26 or 41 ratings on Goodreads, you’ll give it a chance anyway. Looking for more queer nonfiction? You might be interested in these informative and delightful queer nonfiction comics, these nonfiction books that challenge mainstream queer narratives, or some of these queer memoirs.
