Top 39 LGBTQI: Books for Pride 2024

Show your pride, support, and good taste with these 39 new LGBTQI+ books. Celebrate Pride Month by attending parades, displaying a flag, telling your loved ones you support them, and exploring great new books by and about the LGBTQI+ community.

Decades ago, finding new books to celebrate Pride Month was a struggle. Today, the challenge is choosing from the many great new releases. This list includes literature, history, kids’ books, graphic novels, sex-positive reads, romances, sci-fi, and more.

Literature and Memoirs

1. Mona of the Manor by Armistead Maupin
2. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris
3. Oye by Melissa Mogollon
4. Starring Joan Crawford by Samuel Garza Bernstein
5. Hollywood Pride by Alonso Duralde
6. With Love, Mommie Dearest by A. Ashley Hoff
7. Now, Conjurers by Freddie Kölsch
8. The Z Word by Lindsay King Miller
9. Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella
10. Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch
11. The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul
12. Another Word For Love by Carvell Wallace

Fun Reads

13. The Bump by Sidney Karger
14. You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian
15. The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley

History and Biographies

16. The Other Olympians by Michael Waters
17. Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg
18. A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland
19. Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang

Graphic Novels

20. The Song of Achilles: Folio Edition by Madeline Miller
21. The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag
22. The Science of Ghosts by Lilah Sturges
23. Homebody by Theo Parish

Historical Fiction

24. The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron
25. Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco
26. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

Health and Humor

27. DIY: The Wonderfully Weird History and Science of Masturbation by Erik Sprankle
28. Butt Seriously by Dr. Evan Goldstein

Romances

29. Don’t Want You Like A Best Friend by Emma R. Alban
30. Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun
31. Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings

Sci-Fi and Fantasy

32. The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang
33. The Mars House by Natasha Pulley
34. Lady Eve’s Last Con by Rebecca Fraimow

Young Adult

35. The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge by Matthew Hubbard
36. The Worst Perfect Moment by Shivaun Plozza
37. The Breakup Lists by Adib Khorram
38. Thirsty by Jas Hammonds

Celebrate Pride Month with these must-read books!

Re-reported from the article originally published in Parade.