Happy pride! Here’s 50 LGBTQIA+ books, broken down by genre to check out during the month!
Fiction
- Bad Girls: A Novel by Camila Sosa Villada, Translated by Kit Maude
- Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
- Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
- On Sundays, She Picks Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield
- The Town of Babylon: A Novel by Alejandro Varela
- The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
- Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks
- Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton
- Future Feeling by Joss Lake
- Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
Nonfiction
- Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmy and Ben Miller
- Woodsqueer by Gretchen Legler
- Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin
- The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan
- I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thum
- There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life by Jafari S. Allen
- Cuíer by Multiple Authors, Edited by Sarah Coolidge
- Brown Neon by Raquel Gutiérrez
- Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
- Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Marsha P. Johnson and Beyond (25th Anniversary Edition) by Leslie Feinberg
Poetry
- gossypiin by Ra Malika Imhote
- Velvet Hounds by Aimee Seu
- Internet Girlfriend by Stephanie Valente
- Black Queer Hoe by Brittany Black Rose Kari
- Against Heaven: Poems by Kemi Alabi
- The Renunciations: Poems by Donika Kelly
- Thrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia
- X Marks the Dress by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess
- Villainy by Andrea Abi-Karam
- All the Gay Saints by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Young Adult
- The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
- The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
- Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
- The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke
- And They Lived . . . by Steven Salvatore
- Summer’s Edge by Dana Mele
- Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore
- Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
- She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick
- Icebreaker by A. L. Graziadei
Kids/Middle Grade
- All Moms by Sarah Kate Ellis and Kristen Ellis-Henderson
- Queer Heroes: Meet 53 LGBTQ Heroes From Past and Present by Arabelle Sicardi
- Two Grooms on a Cake: The Story of America’s First Gay Weddin by Rob Sanders
- It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn
- Julián Is A Mermaid by Jessica Love
- Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea by Ashley Herring Blake
- Zenobia July: A Novel by Lisa Baker
- The Best at It by Maulik Pancholy
- Hazel’s Theory of Evolution by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
- The Insiders by Mark Oshiro
50 Books to Check out for Pride Month