June Picks for Pride Month

Good readers make good writers, and the more stories you engage in the more likely you’ll discover something new about yourself, your work, and the rest of the world. 

In celebration of Pride we’ve compiled a list of books by queer authors across genres. Each one is a chance to fall into another story, another world, and another place to see and be seen. 

Is there a title we missed that you think belongs on our list? Let us know! And at the end of the month we’ll post the expanded reading list on our blog. 

Happy reading, and Happy Pride!

—The Writer’s Rock

YA / Children’s
Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender
Pet, Akwaeke Emezi
What Are Your Words, Katherine Locke
Red: A Crayon's Story, Michael Hall

Science Fiction & Fantasy
The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin
An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James
Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delaney

Poetry
Homie, Danez Smith,
Harte, Sade LaNay
The Year Of Blue Water, Yanyi
The Tradition, Jericho Brown

Memoir
Zami: A New Spelling Of My Name, Audre Lorde
My Autobiography of Carson McCullors, Jenn Shapland
We Have Always Been Here, Samra Habib
How We Fight For Our Lives, Saeed Jones

Essays / Non-Fiction
Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby
Let The Record Show, Sarah Schulman
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman
We Are Everywhere, Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown

Fiction
100 Boyfriends, Brontez Purnell
The Thirty Names of Night, Zeyn Joukhadar
Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters
You Should See Me In A Crown, Leah Johnson