The Seattle Public Library loves to promote books and reading. This column, submitted by the library, is a space to promote reading and book trends from a librarian’s perspective. You can find these titles at the library by visiting spl.
org and searching the catalog. In an often unwelcoming world, many LGBTQ+ people cultivate what they call “chosen family,” creating networks of support that are vital in the best and worst of times. In honor of Pride Month, we recommend four books that speak to the power of queer community as an antidote to hate, intolerance and division.
These books, both fiction and nonfiction, share lessons from LGBTQ+ writers and community builders who explore futures where harmonious, inclusive and communal living is possible and beautiful. These books illustrate how LGBTQ+ people frequently seek liberation through collaboration, exhibit radical resiliency and offer new models for a bright and imaginative future together. “Everything for Everyone” by M.
E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi. In this fictional oral history set in the near future, we get a glimmer of an alternate world set 20 years after global movements have toppled capitalism, where activists, scientists, sex workers and queer people have reimagined a better, more communal life.
Authors M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi craft this future world through imagined interviews with, among others, a veteran of the 2045 war in Iran, a scientist working on ecological restoration and a survivor .
