Pride Month Book Recs

The right time to read diversely is any time! But if you need some suggestions, here are 85 LGBTQIA+ fiction books to consider.


Contemporary Fiction

A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt

But How Are You, Really by Ella Dawson

Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

Exhibit by R.O. Kwon

Experienced by Kate Young

Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly

I Will Greet the Sun Again by Khashayar J. Khabushani

Interesting Facts about Space by Emily R. Austin

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Loveless by Alice Oseman

Martyr by Kaveh Akbar

Nevada by Imogen Binnie

Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

Oye by Melissa Mogollon

Perfume & Pain by Anna Dorn

Small Joys by Elvin James Mensah

The Guncle by Steven Rowley

The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe

The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor

The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela

Fantasy & Sci-Fi

All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Blood & Brujas by Mikayla D. Hornedo

Blood on the Tide by Katee Robert

Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha

Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat

Dodgers: Eris Realm: Willow's Academy by Adelaide Halliday

Hearing Red by Nicole Master

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

In Deeper Waters by F.T. Lukens

Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Oathbound by Hadley H. Hudson

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha

The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

Historical Fiction

Affinity by Sarah Waters

America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian

Music from Another World by Robin Talley

Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez

Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski

The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

Romance

A Thousand Sunsets by Kayla Martin

All the Right Notes by Dominic Lim

Betting on the House by Cassandra Medcalf

Body Grammar by Jules Ohman

Can’t Let Her Go by Kianna Alexander

Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner

Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding by Chencia C. Higgins

Everything for You by Chloe Liese

Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli

Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun

Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

Only and Forever by Chloe Liese

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Salt Kiss by Sierra Simone

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen

Something Spectacular by Alexis Hall

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur

The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons

The Prospects by K.T. Hoffman

The Romance Recipe by Ruby Barrett

They Ain’t Proper by M.B. Guel

Xeni by Rebekah Weatherspoon


That’s all I have for you now, darlings.

Happy Pride! We love you.❣️

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