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Queer Books for Pride – 2025 Edition

What better way to celebrate Pride for readers than sharing a book a day that features queers?

This year’s #queerBooksForPride has 30 books, mostly but not exclusively scifi/ fantasy because that’s my jam, that either include a queer protagonist, strong queer secondary character, or where queers are just a natural, accepted part of the world — because that’s the world that I want to live in.

  1. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street – Natasha Pulley
  2. Gideon the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
  3. Space Opera – Catherynne M. Valente
  4. Welcome to Forever – Nathan Tavares
  5. Silver in the Wood – Emily Tesh
  6. A Sorceress Comes to Call – T. Kingfisher
  7. Village Fool – Nathan Burgoine
  8. Teller of Small Fortunes – Julie Leong
  9. Foxes in Love – Toivo Kaartinen
  10. Godkiller – Hannah Kaner
  11. Darkness Outside Us – Eliot Schrefer
  12. Floating Hotel – Grace Curtis
  13. Witness for the Dead – Katherine Addison
  14. The Jasmine Throne – Tasha Suri
  15. The Emperor and the Endless Palace – Justinian Huang
  16. MicroSFF – O. Westin
  17. Somewhere Beyond the Sea – T.J. Klune
  18. Machine – Elizabeth Bear
  19. The Empress of Salt and Fortune – Nghi Vo
  20. Some Desperate Glory – Emily Tesh
  21. The Black Coast – Mike Brooks
  22. Ink Blood Sister Scribe – Emma Törzs
  23. Last Night in Nuuk – Niviaq Korneliussen
  24. The Summer Prince – Alaya Dawn Johnson
  25. The Space Between Worlds – Micaiah Johnson
  26. Lord Mouse – Mason Thomas
  27. The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere – John Chu
  28. City of Stairs – Robert Jackson Bennett
  29. The Enchantment Emporium – Tanya Huff
  30. A Memory Called Empire – Arkady Martine

This is the third year I’ve done this. And because each year includes new books there are more available at:

I hope you find something that makes you laugh, maybe something that makes you cry, but most importantly something that makes you feel loved, included, and seen.

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

Queer Books for Pride – 2024 Edition

For Pride in June 2022 I posted a queer book a day on Twitter (may it rest in peace). I decided to do the same thing on Mastodon this year under the #queerBooksForPride tag.

And here’s the roll-up. Some of these center queer relationships, others have queer characters as a natural part of the world / plot. All are fantastic.

  1. Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower – Tamsyn Muir
  2. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi – Shannon Chakraborty
  3. The Blighted Stars – Megan E. O’Keefe
  4. Spindle Splintered / Mirror Mended – Alex E. Harrow
  5. Nimona – Noelle Stevenson
  6. A Day of Fallen Night – Samantha Shannon (prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree)
  7. Legends & Lattes – Travis Baldree
  8. In the Lives of Puppets – TJ Klune
  9. The Binding – Bridget Collins
  10. Foundryside – Robert Jackson Bennett (Founders Trilogy)
  11. The Once and Future Witches – Alix E. Harrow
  12. Witch King – Martha Wells
  13. The Cybernetic Tea Shop – Meredith Katz
  14. Starless – Jacqueline Carey
  15. The Saint of Bright Doors – Vajra Chandrasekera
  16. So This Is Ever After – F.T. Lukens
  17. Light from Uncommon Stars – Ryka Aoki
  18. Translation State – Ann Leckie
  19. Dust – Elizabeth Bear (Jacob’s Ladder series)
  20. Witchmark – C. L. Polk (Kingston Cycle)
  21. A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet – Becky Chambers (Wayfarers series)
  22. Wicked Problems – Max Gladstone (Craft Sequence series)
  23. The Red Scholar’s Wake – Aliette de Bodard
  24. The Hands of the Emperor – Victoria Goddard
  25. The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
  26. One for All – Lillie Lainoff
  27. Starling House – Alix E Harrow
  28. Cinderella is Dead – Kalynn Bayron
  29. This Is How You Lose the Time War – Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

“But wait”, you say, “there are 30 days in June!”. Yup, and on the last day I crowdsourced suggestions from others which returned this, the newest additions to my to-read list:

  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong
  • Wolf of Withervale – Joaquín Baldwin
  • Dayspring – Anthony Oliveira
  • All Friends are Necessary – Tomas Moniz
  • So Glad We Had This Time Together – Maurice Vellekoop
  • Washington’s Gay General – Josh Trujillo & Levi Hastings
  • Let’s Get Back to the Party – Zak Salih
  • Cemetery Boys – Aiden Thomas
  • One for Sorrow – Christopher Barzak
  • Whispering Door – TJ Klune
  • Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar

It’s interesting to note that most of the books on my list were written by women and there aren’t many queer writers on there either. While I’m not sad that it wasn’t filled with cis white guys, there’s still a big lack of diversity that I aim to fix for next year’s list.

What queer books excite you?

PS: Bonus list! Writer ‘Nathan Burgoine posted a list of books for Pride too!

Queer Books for Pride

For the month of June I posted a queer book a day to my Twitter feed under #queerbooksforpride. Here are all of them in one place. Some of these center queer relationships, others have queer characters as a natural part of the world / plot. All are fantastic.

  • The Starless Sea – Erin Morgenstern
  • Tarot Sequence – K.D. Edwards
  • Craft Sequence – Max Gladstone (Full Fathom Five; Last First Snow)
  • The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics – Olivia Waite
  • Karen Memory – Elizabeth Bear (also Jacob’s Ladder, Carnival)
  • Magic or Die – JP Jackson
  • Saint of Steel series – T Kingfisher (Paladin’s Hope)
  • Lord of the White Hell – Ginn Hale
  • Broken Earth Trilogy – NK Jemisin
  • Fall of the Kings – Ellen Kushner (also Swordspoint)
  • The Goblin Emperor – Katherine Addison
  • The House in the Cerulean Sea – TJ Klune (also Under the Whispering Door)
  • Red, White, and Royal Blue – Casey McQuiston
  • A Pslam for the Wild Built – Becky Chambers
  • A Taste of Honey – Kai Ashante Wilson
  • Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie
  • Battle of the Linguist Mages – Scotto Moore
  • A Master of Djinn – P. Djèlí Clark
  • Winter’s Orbit – Everina Maxwell
  • Nightrunner Series – Lynn Flewelling
  • The Prince and the Dressmaker – Jen Wang
  • Priory of the Orange Tree – Samantha Shannon