What to Read After Straight State
Readers who loved Straight State by Margot Canaday keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Straight State is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Straight State
How Sex Changed
Gay New York
The Lavender Scare
The Invention of Heterosexuality
Gay Revolution
Impossible Subjects
Coming Out Under Fire
Queering the Color Line
Rape
Queer (In)justice
Intimate Matters
Gender and Jim Crow
Deviations
Normal Life
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks
The Comanche Empire
The Cultural Front
Halfway Home
It's Not Over
Solitary Sex
Eminent Outlaws
Texas Tough
Hot Stuff
The Story of Philosophy