June is Pride Month, but we’re reading queer all year. Whether it's heart-pounding adventure, marvelous prose, interesting history, or swoonworthy romance, find queer reads to fill your TBR for the rest of the year!
For a year of good storytelling
Find unrivaled storytelling in these literary fiction books.
Girls Girls Girls
A vibrant debut about a young woman who, caught between the expectations of others and her own evolving desires, is forced to make a series of fraught, life-altering decisions.
Cinema Love
A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them.
A Language of Limbs
A breathtaking, sliding-doors, will-they-won’t-they love story and a tender epic that explores the weight of a choice, the love of community and how joy is found in even the darkest corners.
Sheer
An electrifying, propulsive novel about the rise and fall of a controversial beauty mogul and the moral gray areas at the intersections of beauty, power, and ambition.
We Could Be Heroes
Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear high heels and a wig.
Four Squares
A tender, funny, and fresh novel about a gay writer in New York City whose life is irrevocably altered, and then again thirty years later.
The Guncle Abroad
Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Italy.
The Prophets
A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.
Romance in Marseille
The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American tradition. Published for the first time.
Memory Piece
The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?
Hombrecito
A queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant’s complex relationships with his mother and his motherland.
Little Rot
One weekend.
The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city.
A party that goes awry.
A tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no one unscathed.
Stop Me If You've Heard This One
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things, a sparkling and funny new novel of entertainment, ambition, art, and love.
Land of Milk and Honey
A rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world.
The Late Americans
The Booker Prize finalist and widely acclaimed author of Real Life and Filthy Animals returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads.
Exhibit
An exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between her desires and her life.
All the World Beside
An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England.
Family Meal
An irresistible, intimate novel about how those know us longest—even when they hurt us most—can also set the benchmark for love.
The Emperor of Gladness: Oprah's Book Club
A bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
Anyone's Ghost
An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men during one unforgettable teenage summer in rural New England haunts them into adulthood.
For a year of adventure
Let these reads take you on a wild, escapist adventure.
Thirst
Thirst plays with the boundaries of the Gothic genre while exploring the limits of female agency, all-consuming desire, and the fragile vitality of even the most immortal of creatures.
Natural Beauty
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.
Her Majesty's Royal Coven
A Discovery of Witches meets The Craft in this epic fantasy about a group of childhood friends who are also witches.
Francine's Spectacular Crash and Burn
Francine Stevenson's chance encounter with a ten-year-old who shows up at her doorstep after her mother's sudden death spirals into an adventure for the ages.
Toto
The true hero of The Wizard of Oz takes center stage in this brilliant, delightfully snarky reimagining from the author of The Library of the Unwritten.
For a year of swooning
Softies, beware. These swoony reads will tug on your heartstrings and have you kicking your feet.
But How Are You, Really
A five-year college reunion. A chance to go back in time. A chance to get it right.
Hot Summer
Sparks fly when a young woman finds herself cast on a Love Island-inspired reality show and has to choose between her heart and her strategy.
Winging It with You
Two men impulsively pose as a couple to compete in a reality show contest just minutes after meeting at an airport, and their run-in with the very real feelings that start to simmer between them.
I'll Get Back to You
A charming home run of a queer holiday romance where two former classmates’ plan to fake-date their way to freedom goes immediately awry—but, perhaps, exactly the way they need it to.
Showmance
A down-on-his-luck Broadway playwright is marooned in rural Illinois in this sharply funny queer rom-com.
Experienced
Bette is in love for the first time in her life. Finally, everything makes sense. Until it doesn’t.
Rise and Divine
To save both her town and the woman who loves her against all odds, a witch haunted by loss must reckon with her turbulent past.
This Spells Disaster
Fake dating gets a magical twist in this enchanting queer romantic comedy where a witch worries that the real feelings brewing between her and her crush were sparked by an accidental love potion, and the only way out of the disastrous spell is a healthy dose of the truth—drink up, witches.
A Rare Find
When an aspiring archaeologist teams up with her childhood enemy for a treasure hunt, they find it impossible to bury their growing feelings.
Anywhere You Go
A small-town waitress and a big-city Broadway press agent swap homes to escape the messiness of their personal lives, only to find new purpose—and new love.
Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places
Love brings down the haunted house in this captivating romance from the acclaimed author of The Romantic Agenda.
The Lovers
A second chance at love is in the cards for two women working a stylish California wedding in this charming debut romance.
For One Night Only
When two former bandmates—and bedmates—are thrust back into each other's lives in a fake dating scheme for publicity, they'll be forced to face the music.
That Summer Feeling
When a divorced woman attends a sleepaway camp for adults, she reconnects with a man from her past—only to fall head over heels for his sister instead.
Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon
A multiverse novel about two women who fall in love despite living in worlds that are five months apart, as they try to find a timeline that doesn’t end in disaster.
Flirting Lessons
A captivating, sizzling queer rom-com where Napa Valley’s champion heartbreaker gives flirting lessons to thirty-year-old Avery who wants to be less uptight and well-behaved.
Dream On, Ramona Riley
A small-town waitress and a Hollywood star’s worlds collide in this new romance.
The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean
the wonder and terror of falling in love wrapped in a beautifully crafted story about the joy that can be found when you’re willing to dust yourself off and try again.
For a year of learning
Calling all history buffs and narrative nonfiction lovers! Queer nonfiction is rich with untold stories, history we can use to navigate today, and defiant stories.
Marsha
Black transgender luminary Tourmaline brings to life the first definitive biography of the revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson, one of the most important and remarkable figures in LGBTQIA+ history, revealing her story, her impact, and her legacy.
American Scare
A vital exposé for both our history and our present day, American Scare tells the riveting story of how the Florida government destroyed the lives of Black and queer citizens in the twentieth century.
Legendary Children
A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture blog Tom and Lorenzo.
The Stonewall Reader
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White.
I Heard Her Call My Name
An iconic writer’s lapidary memoir of a life spent pursuing a dream of artistic truth while evading the truth of her own gender identity, until, finally, she turned to face who she really was.
White Girls
One of the most daring and provocative books of recent years, an invaluable guide to the culture of our time.
Take Your Own Advice
For those who are givers, carers, and empaths, a guide to focusing that energy on yourself—even if that feels frightening.
Sissy
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above.
Walk Like a Girl
From acclaimed fashion designer Prabal Gurung comes a captivating, courageous literary memoir, a testament to the transformative power of creativity, and a celebration of the power of femininity and individuality.
Life After Cars
From the hosts of The War on Cars podcast, a searing indictment of how cars ruin everything—and what we can do to fight back.