Bettie's Pages Challenge Your Shelf 2023 - hosted by sshelbyreadss

June - I Swear You Could Hear a Hairpin Drop
Reagan’s absolute silence and inaction on the growing AIDs crisis  destroyed a generation of Queer folks, especially Gay men in America. This non-response to a pandemic has had long lasting effects. 

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Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman

Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America

Sarah Schulman

157 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ emotional reflective slow-paced
Pandemics for Babies by Joanna Suder, Chris Ferrie, Neal Goldstein

Pandemics for Babies

Baby University

Joanna Suder, Chris Ferrie, Neal Goldstein

24 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction childrens health nature science informative medium-paced
Tell The Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

Tell The Wolves I'm Home

Carol Rifka Brunt

360 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional sad slow-paced
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

Gender Queer: A Memoir

Maia Kobabe

240 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction gender graphic novel lgbtqia+ memoir emotional informative reflective fast-paced
What Is the AIDS Crisis? by Nico Medina, Who HQ

What Is the AIDS Crisis?

Nico Medina, Who HQ

112 pages • missing pub info (editions)

challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian

Like a Love Story

Abdi Nazemian

10 hours, 50 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction historical lgbtqia+ young adult emotional medium-paced
The Man With Night Sweats by Thom Gunn

The Man With Night Sweats

Thom Gunn

96 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 by MK Czerwiec

Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371

Graphic Medicine

MK Czerwiec

224 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction graphic novel health memoir emotional slow-paced
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

Sarah Schulman

27 hours, 26 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

The Great Believers

Rebecca Makkai

448 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced