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New and Upcoming 2023 LGBTQ+ Romance Reads for Pride Month (and Beyond!)
Looking for some fantastic new queer romances to read during Pride Month? Well, you've come to the right place!
Of course, we think there's no reason to limit your reading of LGBTQ+ love stories to just one month in the year, especially if that year is 2023, because just look! At all! These books! In the list below, you'll find a whole bunch of this year's new and upcoming adult romances across the LGBTQ+ spectrum. We're talking adult summer camp swooniness, 19th-century lesbian rebellion, magic-crystal-enabled time travel, trans fake dating, and grumpy-meets-sunshine encounters on the Pacific Crest Trail. Whew, what a great time to be a reader.
Scroll over the covers below to learn more about each book, and be sure to add the ones that catch your eye to your Want to Read shelf. And if you're more in the mood for queer reading in other genres, hop on over to this post. Happy Pride!
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Now it's your turn! Let us know which romances you're reading for Pride Month in the comments below!
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Jun 01, 2023 12:46PM
Friends Without Benefits features an asexual character? Sold!
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Looking forward to reading most of these since they all look so good! The Fiancée Farce was truly amazing!!
Planning to read House in the Cerulean Sea and The Starless Sea!!
So excited for the YA sapphic coming of age novel Does Love Always Win by Diane Billias, which comes out June 20th 🥳🥳
Why is Cruel Seduction by Katee Robert here? Does it have anything LGBTQ+?
Definitely need to get Diane Billas’ new book Does Love Always Win? on this list!!
For Her .manage L troiS , and Everything She needs, Kiss and Tell by Hildred Billings are some of the next books on reading list after Harry Potter books are finished.
The book I'm excited about is Arenas & Monsters by Dominic N. Ashen! It's the best MM fantasy series in print. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
David wrote: "I count 7 books with male/female figures on the covers. That's super weird for an LGBTQ romance feature."bisexual and trans people exist. some trans people are even straight, but still part of the lgbtq because of the T. your comment is the weird thing here, tbh
so_big_hope wrote: "Why is Cruel Seduction by Katee Robert here? Does it have anything LGBTQ+?"It's an MMFF polyam relationship, and the main characters are all queer. A lot of her protagonists in her novels are queer!
Lori S. wrote: "Friends Without Benefits features an asexual character? Sold!"I admit to being a little surprised to seeing a book with a tagline of “Some endings don’t need romance, hearts, or flowers to be happy” to be included in a romance list.
As the author, I feel it only fair to warn potential readers that while some characters do have romantic subplots I didn’t set out to write a romance; if you go into the story hoping for a full blooded romance, you may be disappointed.
Then again love comes in many different forms.
Why do all the covers on so many books look exactly the same just different punchy colors
Thanks for the very comprehensive list. I will certainly find it useful.
so_big_hope wrote: "Why is Cruel Seduction by Katee Robert here? Does it have anything LGBTQ+?" I read the description, and it does contain two same-sex seductions!
Evelyn wrote: "Lori S. wrote: "Friends Without Benefits features an asexual character? Sold!"I admit to being a little surprised to seeing a book with a tagline of “Some endings don’t need romance, hearts, or f..."
Just make sure you aren't advertising it as a romance. Romance has to be the main focus/plot in order to be a romance along with a HEA. If it is missing one or both of those things that it is a book with a romantic subplot.
I'm currently reading The Romance Recipe by Ruby Barrett and it's a beautiful story of a bi women embracing her sexuality.
How is Role Playing LGBTQIA+? I’ve read the summary and several reviews, and I’m not catching why it’s tagged LGBTQIA+. Could someone enlighten me?
