Let's plan our reading for LGBTQ+ Pride Month! Over 70+ queer books 🥰🏳️‍🌈

Hello loves! It's pride month coming up in June in the UK, and I thought that now would be a good time for us all to swap some LGBTQIA+ recommendations! Drop a comment down below with your favourite recs 👇🥰


Classics - recommendations
The Member of the Wedding – Carson McCullers
A Single Man – Christopher Isherwood
I Will Not Serve – Eveline Mahyere
Orlando – Virginia Woolf
Maurice – EM Forster
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
Carol – Patricia Highsmith
Hidden Path by Elena Fortún

Historical
Swimming in the Dark – Tomasz Jedrowski
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
The New Life – Tom Crewe
The Pull of the Stars – Emma Donoghue
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
The World and All That It Holds – Aleksandar Hemo
Man-Eating Typewriter – Richard Milward
Fellow Travelers – Thomas Mallon


Literary
Love and Other Thought Experiments – Sophie Ward
Nadezhda in the Dark – Yelena Moskovich
Young Mungo - Douglas Stuart
Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart
Pity – Andrew McMillan
Boulder – Eva Baltasar
Our Wives Under the Sea – Julia Armfield
Sunburn – Chloe Michelle Howarth
Memorial – Bryan Washington
English Animals – Laura Kaye
Mr Loverman – Bernadine Evaristo
Detransition, Baby – Torrey Peters
Interesting Facts About Space – Emily Austin Everyone in this room will Someday be Dead - Emily Austin
Private Rites – Julia Armfield
After Sappho – Selby Wynn Schwartz
Mrs S – K Patrick
Jonny Appleseed – Joshua Whitehead

A silly fun time
Infamous – Lex Croucher
Heartstopper - Alice Oseman
Cosmoknights – Hannah Templer
Herc – Phoenicia Rogerson
Radio Silence – Alice Oseman
Good Omens – Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

Non-fiction
The Pink Line: The World’s Queer Frontiers – Mark Gevisser
Female Husbands: A Trans History – Jen Manion
The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes – Zoe Playdon
Love Letters: Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville West
In the Dream House – Carmen Maria Machado
Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of my (In)Fertility – Michelle Tea
Queer: A Graphic History – Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele
Girls Can Kiss Now – Jill Gutowitz
Bi: The Hiden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality – Julia Shaw
A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a group of women set out to change the world – Jane Cholmeley
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir – Jenn Shapland
La Batarde – Violette Leduc
The Waterfront Journals by David Wojnarowicz

Other…
Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ+ writing from Ancient Times to Today – ed. Frank Wynne
Bi+ Lines: An Anthology of Contemporary Bi+ Poets (ed. Helen Bowell


Community recs (asked my queer pals)
Chain Gang All Stars – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
All That’s Left in the World - Erik J Brown
Metal from Heaven – August Clarke
Neon Roses – Rachel Dawson
Bellies – Nicola Dinan
Learned by Heart – Emma Donohue
Cuckoo – Gretchen Felker-Martin
The Z Word – Lindsay King-Miller
One Last Stop – Casey McQuiston
The Balance of Fates – Racquel Raelynn
The Everlands Cycle – J C Rycroft
Priory of the Orange Tree & A Day of Fallen Night – Samantha Shannon A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar – Harry Nichols
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History – Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller

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