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Celebrate Pride in June with one of these books!

To get you started, you can check the Pride month threads we have each year, but I know our members will have plenty of books to recommend.

You Exist Too Much

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If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo /book/show/2...
Birthday by Meredith Russo /book/show/3...
What if It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera /book/show/3...
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston /book/show/4...
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera /book/show/3...

All Boys Aren't Blue

m/m:
The Wicker King - YA dark contemporary, slowburn best-friends-to-lovers
The Foxhole Court trilogy - NA(?) contemporary ft. college sports gays
And I Darken - YA historical fiction about genderbent Vlad the Impaler and her gay brother
More Than This - YA

f/f:
Gideon the Ninth - everyone's favorite closed-planet murder mystery featuring lesbian necromancers
Seven Blades in Black - swords-and-sorcery revenge fantasy
Wilder Girls - YA horror, timely pandemic reading imo
On a Sunbeam - graphic novel/webcomic, character-based sci-fi with strong emphasis on found family

trans:
Annex - YA sci-fi, ragtag band of kids fights alien invaders

I'm going with All Boys Aren't Blue!

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

I absolutely recommend All Boys Aren't Blue and The Black Flamingo

I've just finished Swimming in the Dark which was beautiful. It is set in 1980's Poland so has an interesting historical background to it.

FINALLY reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo! It’s so good!

Yes! I finally have a prompt to fit a book Less by Andrew Sean Greer!
Also, A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood would be a great pick.

Courtney wrote: "FINALLY reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo! It’s so good!"

It really is! I read it last year on a whim and couldn't put it down.

For June, I read only LGBTQ+ books to celebrate pride. So had a lot of options. But I decided to go ahead and read one that I didn't get to during the month- and I'm enjoying it so far:
Amelia Westlake by Erin Gough

I’m cheating a bit on this one. I’ve been reading the “Circle�� trilogy by Nora Roberts the past week. I am on book three now, Valley Of Silence, and yesterday it occurred to me that one of four couples involved in this saga are lesbian vampires. While they’re actually the villains, not the main protagonists of each book, I feel they’re a part of each book enough to count. My challenge, right? 🙄

I went with Moontangled. This was a dip into alt-Regency fantasy . Not my typical fare, not into romance or Regency, or fantasy. But I enjoyed the two protagonists and will probably delve into the Harwood spellbook series. Features a f/f romance, magic and political intrigue.

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

The Falling in Love Montage is perfect for this.

I just finished Nothing to See Here and highly recommend it. It fits this prompt.

The House in the Cerulean Sea and The Starless Sea were both fantastic fiction works I read this year featuring gay protagonists.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Angel Mage both fit this prompt but in a more vague manner.

Tomboyland: Essays is a great nonfiction autobiography/anthology about a woman's struggle and coming to terms with her identity as a gender nonconforming person.