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*✧・゚: Pride Month Book Recs :・゚✧*

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It's important to me that we find books to celebrate pride all year 'round, but even moreso during Pride month! This collection spans a huge range of topics in different presentations, written by authors who love or represent these communities. If yo...
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*✧・゚: Nonfiction :・゚✧*

 
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
 
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
 
The Queer Thing About Sin: SHORTLISTED FOR FOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025
 
The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets
 
Transgender History, Third Edition: A Resource for Today's Struggle-and Tomorrow's
 
Queer as folklore: The hidden queer history of myths and monsters
 
We Set the Night on Fire: Igniting the Gay Revolution
 
The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
 
No Tea, No Shade: Life as a Drag Queen
 
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
 
He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
 
Our Gay History in Fifty States
 
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
 
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
 
Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
 
Right Side of History: 100 Years of LGBTQI Activism
 
Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality
 
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
 
Not Your Founding Father: How a Nonbinary Minister Became America's Most Radical Revolutionary
 
Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
 
Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights
 
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
 
My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond
 
The LGBTQ + History Book

*✧・゚: Fiction :・゚✧*

 
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
 
Sorry, Bro
 
 
Smash or Pass
 
Deadly Ever After
 
Crier's War
 
Hemlock: A Novel
 
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Mafia Princess x Ghost Girlie, sapphic romance? Yes please.
Her Ghostly Embrace
 
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Look Chuck Tingle is notorious for camp but this one hits something deeper.
Camp Damascus
 
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Who doesn't want a sapphic space opera?
A Fire Born of Exile
 
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He wants to be a better boyfriend and the "training" leads to real feelings. Likeee.
The Build-a-Boyfriend Project: A Novel
 
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A story of self discovery <3
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
 
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Really I was sold at "botanical horror" but if you need more than that, there's some MM romance ;)
Don't Let the Forest In (Barnes & Noble YA Book Club Edition)
 
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We all need more sapphic romances in our lives <3
The Priory of the Orange Tree
 
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Ummm so write Moby Dick but put it in space and make it gay. xD
Hell's Heart
 
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Her. Rival's. Girlfriend. That's all I'm gonna say. ;)
The Intimate Beginnings of Taylor: A Sapphic Romance
 
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Heiress x Outlaw with some major cyberpunk vibes :3
City of Shattered Light
 
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I love a good horror, bonus points if it's sapphic ;)
A Lesson in Vengeance
 
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We love a romance with some depth ;)
Faebound: A Novel
 
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Hired swordsman becomes . . . more? ;)
Swordcrossed
 
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She's a ghostwriter and she falls for her celebrity client . . . and thennnn
I Want You More: A Novel
 
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Dark, funny, and gay. That's really all you need to know, right? ;)
Gideon the Ninth (Locked Tomb Series #1)
 
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Mecha reimagining of China's first and only female emperor, but make it gay. Kinda. ;)
Iron Widow (Book 1)
 
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We all need more Mexican inspired fantasy in our lives, tbh.
The Sunbearer Trials
 
God's Scar (Divine Sins Chronicles, #1)
 
To the Death
 
She Haunts Me Still: A Novel
 
The Faithless
 
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Watch Felix fall in love and discover himself in the most beautiful way <3
Felix Ever After
 
Vile Lady Villains
 
Wilder Girls

*✧・゚: Kid-Friendly :・゚✧*

 
Love Makes a Family
 
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A girl w/ two dads goes to pride :3
Pride Is Love
 
Kapaemahu
 
The Wishing Flower
 
No One Owns the Colors
 
One Day in June: A Story Inspired by the Life and Activism of Marsha P. Johnson
 
Téo's Tutu
 
Julián Is a Mermaid
 
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Learn about pride in a beautiful, fun, approachable way <3
Twas the Night Before Pride
 
Gorgeously Me!
 
My Moms Love Me
 
If You're a Drag Queen and You Know It
 
Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope
 
And Tango Makes Three
 
My Little Golden Book About Pride
 
All Kinds of Families
 
Leo and the Pink Marker
 
Search for the Sparkle (Mermicorn Island #1)