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The 2024 Goodreads Pride Reading List
Happy Pride Month to all of our fellow readers!
This June, we're spotlighting great adult LGBTQ+ fiction and memoirs published in the past five years. The books in this collection include heartwarming tales of found families, thought-provoking speculative novels, revealing celebrity memoirs, beloved National Book Award winners, buzzy recent debuts, and more, including some Interesting Facts About Space. (And if you're looking specifically for romance titles, we've got a whole article just for you!)
Of course, this is but a sampling of the fantastic LGBTQ+ books published in recent years, but we hope it will inspire your reading well beyond the month of June.
Scroll over the covers to learn more about each book, and be sure to add the books that pique your interest to your Want to Read shelf!
Fiction
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What are you reading this Pride Month? Let your fellow readers know in the comments below!
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May I add The Lesbiana's Guide to catholic School to the list (by Sonora Reyes)? I read it last year and it was a really endearing coming-of-age, YA story about gender, sexuality, faith, family and racism. Highly recommand it.
i'm reading Girls like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko, since i loved the song and the mv, and maybe some more books if i get the time
Whitney wrote: "Law wrote: "Swaye wrote: "Law wrote: "This list is so incomprehensive it's disappointing.."THIS. Not one single wildly popular independently authored sapphic book. Apart from a sparse few gems on..."
I'd also add the Victories Greater Than Death series by Charlie Jane Anders. I understand why Klune is on that list, because his books are popular, but I didn't like The House in the Cerulean Sea. Goodreads could've picked another book.
Monstrilio was the best book I've read this year! I may reread it soon, I can't stop thinking about it. I'm surprised How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures is not on the memoir list - it's a very interesting memoir format and I'm enjoying it so far.
ang ⭑ wrote: "i recently read “the girl from the sea” and “bloom”, they were really fun and cute. respectively they are wlw and mlm stories, i recommend you all to check them out"I've read The Girl from the Sea. It was only okay, though.
Melissa wrote: "Law wrote: "Swaye wrote: "Law wrote: "This list is so incomprehensive it's disappointing.."THIS. Not one single wildly popular independently authored sapphic book. Apart from a sparse few gems on..."
The story was inspired by the Sixties Scoop but Klune sugarcoated it.
Anyone has any good recomentations for queer crime / thriller books? Especially psychological thrillers?
Effie (she-her) wrote: "Anyone has any good recomentations for queer crime / thriller books? Especially psychological thrillers?"The Mermaid Murders
The Cardigans
Solstice
Ayo wrote: "Saint Alea wrote: "Ayo wrote: "It’s genuinely upsetting to not see any asexual representation on these types of lists🥲. That said it’s nice to see QPOC and mlm writing by mlm representation so ther..."can i ask what the problem with loveless is? i haven't read it, so i have no knowledge of what happens in it.
I'd add some fantasy books to the listSistersong
Priory of the Orange Tree
The song of Achilles
In the lives of puppets
He who drowned the world
Misrule
The Binding
Darkdawn
Legends and lattes
Bookshop and bonedust
Lies we sing to the sea
To anyone rightly complaining about the lack of asexual rep: Take it up with the gatekeeping literary agents. They have been claiming they want asexual rep for years and yet reject it when we authors offer it up on a silver platter. GR can't promote asexual books when they aren't being published. Asexual books can't be published if agents and publishers don't take them.
1. Aristotle & Dante (Both #1 & #2)2. Two boys kissing
3. At the Edge of the universe
4. The first to Die at the end & They both die in the end.
For a YA Australian book, try Ready When You Are, aka The Boy from the Mish by Gary Lonesborough.
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