Updated June 2024

In the past, LBGTQIA+ authors haven’t always made the bestseller lists, but luckily, that’s changed. Today, queer characters are represented in every genre imaginable. These 12 books picked for Pride Month explore issues in the LGBTQIA+ community, include representation of queer characters, or are written by queer authors, but the common thread among them is they’re all stories you’ll carry with you.

Read or listen to these powerful voices and stories and borrow them through the Libby app from your library this June and beyond.

FICTION

In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
🎧Audiobook

Inspired by Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, this is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure by bestselling author TJ Klune that invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on an extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.

Read it while you wait for Somewhere Beyond the Sea (out Sept 10!).

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
🎧Audiobook

The lives of three women — transgender and cisgender — collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires in “one of the most celebrated novels of the year” (Time).

Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns
🎧Audiobook

In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire — inspired by the iconic 1970s film Taxi Driver — a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity, and financial security... until she decides she’s done waiting.

The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
🎧 Audiobook

In this romantic comedy, two bisexual exes accidentally book the same European food and wine tour and challenge each other to a hookup competition to prove they’re over each other — except they’re definitely not.

Loveless by Alice Oseman
🎧 Audiobook

For fans of Love, Simon and I Wish You All the Best, a funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of a girl who realizes that love can be found in many ways that don’t involve sex or romance.

The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley
🎧 Audiobook

In this sequel to The Guncle (2021), Patrick, a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him as guardian to his niece and nephew one summer, returns for more guncle duties... this time for a big family wedding in Italy.

NONFICTION

Pride by Caitlyn McNeill

These thoughtfully selected quotations have been taken from throughout history, and from a variety of voices, celebrating everything the LGBTQIA+ community has achieved. Containing words of courage, hope, and pride, they focus on inclusivity and remind us that love is one of the world’s greatest powers.

Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch
🎧 Audiobook

This is a stunning look into the life of the iconic American artist, Keith Haring, one of the most emblematic artists of the 1980s by the acclaimed biographer Brad Gooch.

Part of an iconic cultural crowd that included Andy Warhol, Madonna, and Basquiat, Haring broke down the barriers between high art and popular culture, creating work that was accessible for all and using it as a means to provoke and inspire radical social change.

Mother, Nature by Jedidiah Jenkins
🎧 Audiobook

Tender, smart, and profound, this is a story of a remarkable mother-son bond and a moving meditation on the complexities of love.

Pretty by KB Brookins
🎧 Audiobook

Written by a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, this is a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.

Cactus Country by Zoë Bossiere
🎧 Audiobook

A striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest that captures the author’s experience coming of age in a Tucson, Arizona, trailer park.

The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul
🎧 Audiobook

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date — a deeply intimate memoir of discovery, found family, and self-acceptance.

*Title availability may vary by library & region.

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