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
Gay New York
How Sex Changed
The Lavender Scare
The Invention of Heterosexuality
Intimate Matters
Rape
Queer (In)justice
Impossible Subjects
Coming Out Under Fire
Deviations
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks
Queering the Color Line
Gay Revolution
Normal Life
Gender and Jim Crow
The Comanche Empire
The Story of Philosophy
Halfway Home
The Cultural Front
Hot Stuff
Solitary Sex
It's Not Over
Eminent Outlaws
Texas Tough