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Thanks for following along this month for queer books for Pride!
You can find the full list at https://kence.org/2026/06/30/queer-books-for-pride-2026-edition/ and all prior lists (120 different books in total) at https://kence.org/tag/queerbooksforpride/
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! 🏳️🌈
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These queer books weren't for me, but they might be for you!
* Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style - Paul Rudnick
* The Brightness Between Us - Eliot Schrefer
* Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World - Mark Waddell
* The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka
* Heart of Iron - Ashley Poston
* Girl, Serpent, Thorn - Melissa Bashardoust
* The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez
* Spear - Nicola Griffith
* Sunward - William Alexander#queerBooksForPride #gairdyQBFP
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June 30 🏳️🌈📖
In 100 years, two binary stars will collapse, and the resulting shockwave will destroy all life on planets within 83 light-years. All the Shine worlds are within that radius, as are worlds of other civilizations within the Accord. Thus begin Slow Gods, by Claire North.
Mawukana na-Vdnaze, or simply Maw, was born on a Shine world, where the very act of being born puts you in debt that you must work your way out of. Few do.
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June 29 🏳️🌈📖
I'm always on the lookout for MM books written by gay men, and A Dash of Salt and Pepper, by Kosoko Jackson, was a real delight to find.
Xavier's in a bit of a slump. His boyfriend has dumped him, he's been laid off, and he's living back with his parents in the small town in Maine he grew up in. And he's so incredibly stuck up and full of himself that it hurts. Gurl needs to get a job and get a grip.
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June 28 🏳️🌈📖
Dorothy Gentleman wakes up on the HMS Fairweather, a luxurious interstellar spacecraft, but not in her own body; that's unexpected. Thus begins the queer mystery Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite.
Dorothy is one of the ship's investigators and no stranger to murder. But this is murder most foul as someone is deleting minds from the Library preventing them from being placed back into a new body in the future.
SFF; Woman protagonist, queer characters
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June 27 🏳️🌈📖
The Keeper of Magical Things, by Julie Leong, is decidedly cozy queer fantasy. Certainty is a not-very-powerful mage who just wants to be useful to someone. Mage Aurelia is a powerful, snobby, beautiful, mage who would much rather be doing anything except working with Certainty to catalog minor magical artifacts in a sleepy town. The residents of the sleepy town would much rather not have anything to do with the magical artifacts.
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June 26 🏳️🌈📖
In Mackenzi Lee's The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, Felicity wants to be a doctor, but no medical school will accept her because she's a woman. The baker she is working for thinks he is doing her a favor with a marriage proposal.This simply will not stand.
Felicity sets out to achieve her dreams come hell, high water, or piracy. She's aided by a mysterious woman who has ulterior motives and a friend from her youth who she can't abide.
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June 25 🏳️🌈📖
Dead Hand Rule, by Max Gladstone, is the third book in the Craft Wars. His Craft universe is my favorite fantasy series and I never miss a chance to plug new Craft books.
The world is on the precipice of ending as ancient evils from the stars draw near. Empires, gods, and corporate concerns are all arguing over how to save it -- gotta keep the worshipers happy and money flowing in -- time is running out and not everyone wants the world saved.
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June 24 🏳️🌈📖
In the novella The Summer War, by Naomi Novik, Celia, in a fit of grief and sorrow, unintentionally curses her older brother to live a life without love as he leaves her at home with their father and unwanted middle brother.
But this isn't just hurtful words; Celia is a sorceress just coming into her power, and the curse is very real.
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June 23 🏳️🌈📖
Take a sentient spaceship shuttling passengers between Earth and Alpha Centauri, who doesn't get along with the on-board sentient medical system. Now add Dracula who sneaks onboard, kills all the passengers mid-flight, and sneaks off once they dock -- but since he doesn't show up on camera, no one believes the ship.
That's the start of Of Monsters and Mainframes, by Barbara Truelove, and it continues to build from there.
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June 22 🏳️🌈📖
In an alternative history, the US Congress went through with their plans of importing hippos into Louisiana to address a meat shortage. Sarah Gailey's American Hippo takes that premise, adds in a load of creative characters, and gives us queer hippo cowboys.
Winslow Houndstooth has been hired by the US government to clear out the feral hippos in the Mississippi. They think he's going to hunt them down one by one, but he has a better idea.
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June 21 🏳️🌈📖
In Elizabeth Bear's Angel Maker, Karen is determined to provide some opportunities for her wife Priya, even if they can't be open about their relationship in this steampunk wild-west era, so Karen signs up to do stunts for a motion picture.
Except shortly thereafter, two men are brutally murdered and a Mechanical and Priya are arrested for the crime. It's up to Karen to save her beloved.
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June 20 🏳️🌈📖
Queen Demon, by Martha Wells (@marthawells), is the sequel to Witch King which I've once summarized as "Ziede kicks ass and will stop at nothing to find and rescue her wife". Queen Demon is a fast-follow of the first book, picking up where it left off both in the past and in the present.
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June 19 🏳️🌈📖
The Incandescent, by Emily Tesh, at first feels like it's going to be one of those "magical schools for kids" kind of books that is so overdone.
But this one is different because our protagonist is Doctor Walden, director of the school -- she's both brilliant and queer -- and the story centers on her, not the kids.
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June 18 🏳️🌈📖
The Tomb of Dragons, by Katherine Addison, is the third book in her Cemeteries of Amalo series.
Thara Celehar, a Witness for the Dead, has lost his ability to speak with the dead, but there's still administrative duties -- duties that end up putting his life in danger as he seeks justice for those who cannot find it themselves.
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June 17 🏳️🌈📖
Bookshops & Bonedust, by Travis Baldree, is the prequel to his amazing Legends and Lattes.
Viv, an orc mercenary, is wounded on the campaign trail and left in the quiet seaside town of Murk which is just as exciting as it sounds: not at all.
One day, she stumbles into a dusty bookshop owned by foul-mouthed rattkin Fern, and the two strike up a somewhat unlikely friendship -- at least it's something for Viv to pass the time while she heals.
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June 16 🏳️🌈📖
The Map and the Territory, by A.M. Tuomala, takes place in a world where wizards can quickly travel between mirrors across vast distances. At least until the skies break open above Sharis and the city drops into the sea. Now cartographer Rukha is stuck far from home just as the wizard Eshu stumbles out of a mirror, and neither has any idea what's going on.
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June 15 🏳️🌈📖
In the Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu (@john_chu), Ellie's mother is in a coma, her sister is trying to kill her, and the skunkworks that keeps her universe running has some bugs in it.
Ellie, like her mother, is a Builder. She's able to adjust the machinery in the skunkworks that generates her universe to keep it running. Her cousin Daniel is a Verifier, he checks if the thing that was built is working like it was designed to.
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June 14 🏳️🌈📖
So many stories are told about the protagonist against the monster. In John Wiswell's Someone You Can Build a Nest In, the protagonist *is* the monster. Well, is one monster, there's plenty of monstrous people to go around.
Shesheshen, aforementioned monster, is attacked in her lair, wounded, and escapes. Grievously injured, she's nursed back to health by Homily, a kind woman who seems like she would be really tasty to eat.
#queerBooksForPride #gairdyQBFP
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June 13 🏳️🌈📖
In TJ Klune's Wolfsong, Ox is a large, quiet teen whose father, before he left, told Ox he'd never amount to anything, the world would always give him shit, and real men don't cry. [Spoiler alert: Ox's father is an asshole.]
In his late teens, the Bennetts moved into the house at the end of the rural lane in quiet Green Creek, Oregon that Ox and his mom live on.
#queerBooksForPride #gairdyQBFP
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June 12 🏳️🌈📖
The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley is an incredible feat of worldbuilding with biological technology as we uncover what's really behind Zan and Jayd's tumultuous relationship.
Zan wakes up and remembers she's thrown away a child and led a great army, but not much else. The woman who cares for Zan when she wakes up is called Jayd, and they appear to have a long history together but Zan doesn't remember any of it.
#queerBooksForPride #gairdyQBFP
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June 11 🏳️🌈📖
Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz (@annaleen), takes place in a future San Francisco where the Republic of California has gained independence. A group of service bots wake up in an abandoned kitchen and decide to run it themselves on the DL to buy out their service contracts.
The only problem is that someone is review-bombing their restaurant.
SFF; Found family with themes of body and gender autonomy.
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June 10 🏳️🌈📖
Tasha Suri wraps up her Burning Kingdom trilogy set in an India-like world with The Lotus Empire.
Empress Malini and priestess Priya each lead kingdoms at war against each other, yet are also deeply in love. Malini is fighting to keep her throne against factions that think her true calling is to burn alive. Priya is trying to control the inhuman yaksa that she both worships and fears, who want to remake the world in their own inhuman image.
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June 9 🏳️🌈📖
Lavender House, by Lev A.C. Rosen, is not an easy read. It's set in 1952 San Francisco and even in SF, that wasn't a safe time to be out and queer.
Irene Lamontaine, matriarch of an unconventional (read: queer) family and soap empire, has died, and her wife Pearl suspects murder. Pearl hires Evander (Andy), a former SFPD officer recently fired for being queer, to solve the case. But everyone in Irene and Pearl's found family is a suspect.
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June 8 🏳️🌈📖
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, by Garth Nix, reminded me some of the Dark is Rising series, inasmuch as it takes place in modern-day London and pulls from old-world lore and folk stories. And the magic is wielded by booksellers.
Wait, let me back up.
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June 7 🏳️🌈📖
A Pale Light in the Black, by K.B. Wagers, is what happens if the US Coast Guard became super queer and cool and tasked with helping civilians in distress in space (well, at least in near-earth orbit): the NeoG. The crew of the Zuma's Ghost have a new second-in-command and find themselves targeted by an unknown adversary.
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June 6 🏳️🌈📖
In Architects of Memory, by Karen Osborne, Ash is a salvage pilot working her way out of corporate indentured servitude (yes, we're in that dystopian future timeline) after the humans went to war with the Vai. She's also terminally ill and trying to hide it long enough to buy her freedom and find a cure.
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June 5 🏳️🌈📖
Often when we think about necromantic assassins we assume evil, right? Well, Saint Death's Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney is here to totally disrupt that.
Miscellaneous Stones, or simply Lanie, is born into a family of necromantic assassins. Except she has the wee problem that violence makes her, well, violently ill.
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