Pride Month Books

Read queer all year.

It’s critically important to read diverse voices to increase empathy and drive action in allyship. In honor of Pride Month, here are my favorite queer books:

SFF (Adult & YA)

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

SFF / Mystery

• Frances White – Voyage of the Damned

Adult Mystery/Detective

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

Adult Fiction

• Casey McQuiston – Red, White, & Royal Blue
• Jennifer Moffatt – Flirty Dancing
• Steven Rowley – The Guncle, The Guncle Abroad

Young Adult Fiction

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

Adult Nonfiction/Memoir

• Lee Airton – Gender: Your Guide
• Shon Faye – The Transgender Issue
• ­Sawyer Cole Hobson – Coming Home
• Maia Kobabe – Gender Queer: A Memoir graphic novel
• Elliot Page – Pageboy

Please drop a comment with your queer book recommendations.