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The Best Recent LGBTQ+ Books to Read for Pride Month, According to Goodreads

Community May 30, 2024

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June is only a few days away, which means it’s time to start planning Pride celebrations! And for readers, that means building a themed TBR. It’s always a good time to read queer books, but Pride is the perfect excuse to bump those books to the top of your TBR. If you’re not sure where to start, Goodreads has put together a list of 84 LGBTQ+ books published in the past five years that they recommend reading for Pride.

This list is just adult LGBTQ+ fiction and memoirs, but you can also check out the Goodreads list of 84 LGBTQ+ romances to read for Pride — that one was put together by Adriana Herrera, author of queer romances like American Dreamer and An Island Princess Starts a Scandal.

Both these lists are just a tiny sample of the incredible LGBTQ+ books out there for you to read for Pride and all year round. If you want to keep up with new LGBTQ+ book releases and also get queer book recommendations in your inbox every week, sign up for our twice-weekly Our Queerest Shelves newsletter. (Paid subscribers get a third bonus newsletter every week.) You can also browse through Book Riot’s many LGBTQ book recommendation posts in our LGBTQ category. We have hundreds of queer book lists and essays to get you started!

Without further ado, here is a sample of the 84 recent LGBTQ+ books Goodreads recommends for Pride month! These include literary fiction, fantasy, westerns, dystopia, horror, and much more.