Pride Month Book Recommendations

Read queer all year.

Reading diverse voices is important to increase empathy and drive action in allyship. In honor of Pride Month, here is a list of my favorite queer books:

SFF (Adult & YA)

• Alix E. Harrow – The Once and Future Witches, A Spindle Splintered, A Mirror Mended
• Patrick Ness – Burn
• Xiran Jay Zhao – Iron Widow
• Aiden Thomas – Cemetery Boys
• Eliot Schrefer – The Darkness Outside Us
• Emily Hamilton – The Stars Too Fondly
• Rainbow Rowell’s Simon Snow series – Carry On, Wayward Son, Any Way the Wind Blows
• Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunter world has many queer characters, but I love Alec and Magnus especially – The Bane Chronicles, The Red Scrolls of Magic, The Lost Book of White
• TJ Klune The House in the Cerulean Sea, In the Lives of Puppets, The Extraordinaries series (YA) – The Extraordinaries, Flash Fire, Heat Wave – and I especially love the Green Creek Series (Adult) – Wolfsong, Ravensong, Heartsong, (I still need to read Brothersong this summer)

Adult Mystery/Detective

• Lev A.C. Rosen’s Andy Mills series – Lavender House, The Bell in the Fog

Adult Fiction

• Casey McQuiston – Red, White, & Royal Blue
• Steven Rowley – The Guncle

Young Adult Fiction

• Akwaeke Emezi – Pet
• Kacen Callender – Felix Ever After
• Mason Deaver – I Wish You All the Best
• Patrick Ness – The Rest of Us Just Live Here
• Sarah Rees Brennan’s Fence series – Striking Distance, Disarmed
• Alice Oseman – Loveless, Nick & Charlie, and the Heartstopper graphic novels Vol 1-5

Adult Nonfiction/Memoir

• Lee Airton – Gender: Your Guide
• Shon Faye – The Transgender Issue
• Elliot Page – Pageboy
• ­Sawyer Cole Hobson – Coming Home

Please drop a comment with your queer book recommendations.