Can you squeeze in one more Pride Month read?
With a whole seven days left of Pride Month 2021, there’s plenty of time to get another LGBTQIA+ book or two into your reading for June.
Sarah and I read these books all year around, but it’s always special to give them an even bigger boost during Pride Month.
As I write this I’m halfway through Casey McQuiston’s ‘One Last Stop’ and I’m in love with it, and Sarah’s reading it too and feeling the exact same way. It’s so cute and charming and McQuiston makes you feel like you’ve known her characters forever.
I’m absolutely going to be trying to squeeze one more in before the end of June and you should join me. Need a few suggestions? Let me help.
These are a glorious mixtures of ones I’ve read and ones on my TBR.
‘You’re the One That I Want’, Simon James Green - a ‘Grease’ re-telling about Freddie who decides that being the nice isn’t getting him anywhere, so he changes it up to catch the eye of his long-time crush.
‘Heartstopper’, Alice Oseman - a graphic novel series charting the life and love of Nick and Charlie.
‘Last Night at the Telegraph Club’, Malinda Lo - set in 1950s San Francisco where it’s not safe to be a girl in love with another girl, especially in Chinatown.
‘Camp’, LC Rosen - Randy loves spending his summers at a camp for queer teens, and he’s had a crush on a guy who doesn’t know he’s alive, so he’s reinvented himself to catch his eye.
‘Detransition, Baby’, Torrey Peters - when Ames gets his girlfriend pregnant, he calls his ex, a trans woman called Reese who longs to be a mother, and asks if she wants to co-parent the baby.
‘In Deeper Waters’, FT Lukens - a young prince must rely on a mysterious stranger to save him when he is kidnapped during his coming-of-age tour.
‘Ace of Spades’, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé - in an exclusive boarding school, an anonymous texter is bringing the dark secrets of the privileged students to the masses.
‘Some Girls Do’, Jennifer Dugan - an openly gay track star falls for a closeted, bisexual teen beauty queen with a penchant for fixing up old cars.
‘Plain Bad Heroines’, emily m danforth - a gloriously camp and Gothic romp set at an old Victorian girls school which closed after some tragic deaths, and now it’s reopened as a movie set. Are the stars destined to repeat the past?
‘Fence: Disarmed’, Sarah Rees Brennan - the second book in the ‘Fence’ novelisation series is a DELIGHT. The team travel to France for an exclusive fencing camp and tensions rise…
‘One Last Stop’, Casey McQuiston - when cynical August moves to NYC for college, she doesn’t expect to fall for the mysterious punk girl on the Q train.
‘Only Mostly Devastated’, Sophie Gonzales - another re-imagining of ‘Grease’! Ollie and Will were a summer fling, but when Ollie ends up staying for the school year it turns out that Will isn’t quite open and out.
What have you read so far this Pride Month? Are any of the above on your TBR?
Written by Sophie
