The Best LGBTQ+ Books I Have Read (So Far)

Happy Pride Month! In my quest to return to the avid reader I was in my youth, I’ve poured through dozens of books over the past year. Many were queer-themed, and many of those (though certainly not all) were quite good. If you’re anything like me and love a good queer storyline and character(s), then the following list of my favorite LGBTQ+ reads (in no particular order) might just be for you.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In Alice Walker’s 1982 classic, the protagonist’s journey of understa...