Pride Month Book Recs

But read queer all year.

It’s more important than ever to read diverse voices, to spread love, empathy and inclusion throughout the world, and to 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
• Jamie D’Amato – The Good Vampire’s Guide to Blood & Boyfriends
• Maiga Doocy – Sorcery and Small Magics
• 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, Somewhere Beyond the Sea, In the Lives of Puppets, Under the Whispering Door, The Bones Beneath My Skin, We Burned So Bright and I especially love the Green Creek Series (Wolfsong, Ravensong, Heartsong, Brothersong) Young Adult: The Extraordinaries series – The Extraordinaries, Flash Fire, Heat Wave
• A.K. Mulford – The Rogue Crown, The Evergreen Heir, A River of Golden Bones, A Sky of Emerald Stars, A Heart of Crimson Flames
• Patrick Ness – Burn
• Sara Raasch – The Nightmare Before Kissmas, Go Luck Yourself, The Entanglement of Rival Wizards, The Fake Divination Offense
• Rainbow Rowell’s Simon Snow series – Carry On, Wayward Son, Any Way the Wind Blows
• Meg Shaffer – The Lost Story
• Aiden Thomas – Cemetery Boys, The Sunbearer Trials, Celestial Monsters
• Eliot Schrefer – The Darkness Outside Us, The Brightness Between Us
• Xiran Jay Zhao – Iron Widow

SFF / Mystery

• Frances White – Voyage of the Damned

Historical Romance

• Gabe Cole Novoa – Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix
• J.A. Stevens – A Change of Pace
• Sarah Wallace – Letters to Half Moon Street

Mystery/Detective

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

Romance

• Dylan Drakes – Cubs & Campfires, Bears & Bakeries
• Adib Khorram – I’ll Have What He’s Having
• Casey McQuiston – Red, White, & Royal Blue
• Jennifer Moffatt – Flirty Dancing
• Chip Pons – You and I, Rewritten; Winging It With You, Dearly Departed
• Rachel Reid – Game Changer, Heated Rivalry, Tough Guy, Common Goal, Role Model, The Long Game
• Julian Winters – Last First Kiss

Adult Fiction

• 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

Nonfiction/Memoir

• Lee Airton – Gender: Your Guide
• Alex L. Combs – Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
• Shon Faye – The Transgender Issue
• Agustín Fuentes – Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary
• 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.