Pride 2026 Adult Books

The Ultimate LGBTQ+ Pride Book List - find both fiction and nonfiction titles.

Updated May 29, 2026
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American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era
Lang, Nico
Paper Book
From an award-winning journalist comes a vivid and moving portrait of eight trans and nonbinary teenagers across the country, following their daily triumphs, struggles, and all that encompasses growing up trans in America today "An urgent and heartfelt chronicle of families...
Atmosphere : A Love Story
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * From the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go...
Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot
Hall, Alexis
Paper Book
A charming new LGBTQIA+ romcom from the bestselling author of BOYFRIEND MATERIAL. Audrey Lane is perfectly fine. Really. So what if she left her high-powered job as a Very Important Journalist--and her even higher-powered long-term girlfriend--to live a quiet life as a reporter for the...
Before gender : lost stories from trans history, 1850-1950
Erlick, Eli
Paper Book
Explore the trailblazing lives of 30 trans people who radically change everything you've been told about transgender history Highlighting influential individuals from 1850-1950 who are all but unknown today, Eli Erlick shares 30 remarkable stories from romance to rebellion and...
The book of Luke
Holder, Lovell
Paper Book
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER AND A MARIE CLAIRE BEST BOOK OF 2025 For fans of Survivor and Less, this fast-paced debut novel shines an unflinching light on the drama of reality TV when a gay man returns to the cut-throat...
Brigands & Breadknives
Baldree, Travis
Paper Book
An instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller! Return to the fantasy world of the #1 New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes series with a new adventure featuring fan-favorite, foul-mouthed bookseller Fern Fern has weathered...
Divine Ruin
Douaihy, Margot
Paper Book
INDIE NEXT Pick * Publishers Weekly Editor's Pick * A CrimeReads Best Crime Novel of January 2026 In the latest in the USA Today bestselling, award-winning, critically acclaimed series, New Orleans punk rock nun-detective Sister Holiday plunges into a...
The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
Febos, Melissa
Paper Book
From Melissa Febos, the national bestselling author of Girlhood, comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge. "Only Melissa Febos could...
The Duke
Cowan, Anna
Paper Book
A sapphic regency romance about the duke who fears nothing... until the woman she never forgot walks through the door and brings her to her knees.This deluxe paperback edition features: - Stunning, full-color inside cover design - Dazzling designed...
The Entanglement of Rival Wizards
Raasch, Sara
Paper Book
DELUXE EDITION--featuring turquoise sprayed edges! Ali Hazelwood meets Dungeons & Dragons in this enemies-to-lovers fantasy academia romcom where rival grad student wizards are forced to work together without killing--or falling for--each other.
Gay Mormon Dad
Anderson, Chad
Paper Book
Life is better when you live it as your true self. All his life, Chad Anderson was told he was broken. He believed with all his heart that being a good Mormon would make him straight, because that is what he was told. Chad followed the prescribed road map: mission, marriage, and children....
George Falls Through Time
Collett, Ryan
Paper Book
GEORGE FALLS THROUGH TIME IS. . . "Incredibly entertaining and intelligent." --GARRARD CONLEY "Big-hearted and inspired." --STEVEN ROWLEY "Funny, surprising, profound." --GRANT GINDER "Unputdownable." --LUNA...
Heated rivalry
Reid, Rachel
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NOW A #1 STREAMING SHOW  The epic enemies-to-lovers hockey romance from Rachel Reid, streaming on Crave in Canada and on HBO Max in the U.S. "The book that got me into hockey romance." --NPR's ...
Homebound
Elan, Portia
Paper Book
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * In a dazzling ode to human inventiveness and the desire for meaning, four lives are entangled across time by one unfinished story, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s and destined to...
How to fake it in society
Charles, KJ
Paper Book
Bridgerton meets The Goldfinch in How to Fake It in Society, a stunning queer romance by rising genre star KJ Charles. It is 1821 and Nicolas-Marc, Comte de Valois de La Motte is making a splash in London Society. The son...
The Isle in the Silver Sea
Suri, Tasha
Paper Book
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' BEST ROMANCE NOVELS OF 2025 From World Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri comes The Isle in the Silver Sea, a heart-shattering standalone...
It Rhymes with Takei
Takei, George
Paper Book
Following the award-winning bestseller They Called Us Enemy, George Takei's new full-color graphic memoir reveals his most personal story of all-told in full for the first time anywhere! George Takei has shown the world many faces- actor, author, outspoken activist,...
John of John : a novel
Stuart, Douglas
Paper Book
AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, TIME, Oprah Daily, and Vogue "Douglas Stuart brilliantly weaved a layered, compelling and yet so intimate a story...
Ladies in Hating
Vasti, Alexandra.
Paper Book
INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Named Best Romance of 2025 by Amazon, Kirkus, Chicago Public Library, and more . . . A pair of Gothic novelists trade rivalry for love in this swoony, steamy, sapphic Regency by USA Today bestselling author Alexandra...
The Lilac People
Todd, Milo
Paper Book
2026 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER Finalist for the New England Book Award "Reminiscent of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See . . . Heart-stopping in its suspense and dramatic reveals." --The Boston Globe A moving and deeply humane...
Lucky Seed
Huang, Justinian.
Paper Book
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Lucky Seed is a family saga, a romance, a bodice ripper--a crotch ripper too--a diasporic Asian American family novel, and a thriller. A family story for a family like this could never have just one genre and Huang knows it and has fun...
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
Tourmaline
Paper Book
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER Featured in The New York Times's Nonfiction to Read This Spring Black transgender luminary Tourmaline brings to life the first definitive biography of the revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson, one of the most important and remarkable...
Meet the Newmans : a novel
Niven, Jennifer
Paper Book
A #1 New York Times Bestselling Author An International Bestselling Author For two decades, Del and Dinah Newman and their sons, Guy and Shep, have ruled television as America's Favorite Family. Millions of viewers tune in every week to watch them play flawless...
MEETING NEW PEOPLE
Lavery, Daniel M
Paper Book
"Meeting New People is absolutely brilliant ... I found myself nearly crying with the desire to hold onto this book as long as I could."--Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Run for the Hills From the author of the national bestseller Women...
Minor Black Figures
Taylor, Brandon.
Paper Book
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR! From "literary superstar" (The Boston Globe) and Booker Prize finalist Brandon Taylor, his "most accomplished novel" (The New York Times): the story of a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity
Missing Sam
Umrigar, Thrity
Paper Book
A tense and twisty story of a woman who goes missing on a morning run and her wife's determination to both find her and clear her own name--from the bestselling author of Honor. One night after a party, old grievances surface between married couple...
Next time will be our turn
Sutanto, Jesse Q.
Paper Book
Les Normaux. Volume one
Janssen, Janine
Paper Book
"Les Normaux is one of my favourite webcomics of all time. Featuring a gloriously diverse cast of characters, this story is a celebration of love, friendship, community, and self-expression." -- Alice Oseman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Heartstopper series "A...
Not Your Founding Father: How a Nonbinary Minister Became America's Most Radical Revolutionary
Sankovitch, Nina
Paper Book
A thrilling celebration of a forgotten early American renegade, Not Your Founding Father reconsiders just how radical the American experiment could have been. Early in the morning of October 10, 1776--in the small farming community of Cumberland, Rhode Island, in a house...
Palaver
Washington, Bryan
Paper Book
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction "A heart-wrenchingly honest, often luminescent exploration of how to find and cultivate true connections, sometimes in the unlikeliest of places . . . [...
Playing for Keeps
Bellefleur, Alexandria
Paper Book
Lambda Literary Award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a steamy Sapphic rom-com about two rival publicists who are forced to work together when their mega-famous clients--a popstar and a quarterback--begin to date. Poppy Peterson's life is finally...
Quietly Hostile: Essays
Irby, Samantha
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A GLAMOUR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A hilarious new essay collection from Samantha Irby "engages readers with her characteristic combination of laugh-out-loud moments, heartfelt passages and plenty of awkward experiences.... Quietly Hostile will...
The Red Winter
Sullivan, Cameron
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY AND INDIE BESTSELLER! DELUXE EDITION--the hardcover edition of The Red Winter features beautiful red sprayed edges! A LibraryReads Pick! An Indie Next Pick! A devastating love...
The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture from the Margins to the Mainstream
Savage, Jon
Paper Book
Jon Savage, the author of the canonical England's Dreaming, explodes new ground in this electrifying history of pop music from 1955 through 1979. In demonstrating that gay and lesbian artists were responsible for many of the greatest cultural breakthroughs in the last half of the twentieth...
The Slip
Schaefer, Lucas
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER | WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE | NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALIST One of The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2025 One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2025 For readers of...
Star Shipped
Sebastian, Cat
Paper Book
Cat Sebastian's long-awaited foray into contemporary romance! A witty, emotional, and deliciously slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance between two costars on a popular sci-fi television series. Simon and Charlie, actors on a long-running sci-fi show, can't stand one another....
The T in LGBT: Everything You Need to Know about Being Trans
Raines, Jamie
Paper Book
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A practical and highly accessible guide for those navigating society as a trans person or trying to gain understanding of the trans experience, from psychologist, content creator, and LGBTQ+ advocate Jamie Raines, with over one million YouTube subscribers. Hey...
There's Only One Sin in Hollywood
Newson, Rasheed
Paper Book
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Electric Literature, CrimeReads, The Nerd Daily, Queerty, She Reads, and more! A cinematic, razor-sharp novel following a backlot fixer's daring investigation into the suspicious death of a closeted Black actor within the...
Tomorrow will be different : love, loss, and the fight for trans equality
McBride, Sarah
Paper Book
Sarah McBride is on a mission to fight for transgender rights around the world. But before she was a prominent activist, and before she became the first transgender person to speak at the Democratic National Convention in 2016, she was a teenager struggling with her identity. With...
Transcendent: A Memoir
Cox, Laverne
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Four-time Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox shares her journey as a transgender woman in Hollywood, confronting childhood trauma, shame, gender identity, her transition, body image issues, her search for romantic love, deep-seated...
Transgender History, Third Edition: A Resource for Today's Struggle--And Tomorrow's
Stryker, Susan
Paper Book
The groundbreaking guide to trans history in America, revised and updated for a new political era. Transgender History is the modern classic on transgender life in America since the nineteenth century, encompassing the major movements, writings, and...
The true true story of Raja the Gullible (and his mother)
Alameddine, Rabih
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD "Alameddine is a writer with a boundless imagination."--NPR From the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction comes a tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, a modern saga of family, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son...
We Burned So Bright
Klune, Tj
Paper Book
A heart-wrenching standalone novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, We Burned So Bright follows an elder gay couple on an end-of-the-world road-trip. The road stretched out before them. No other cars, just the headlights on the blacktop. Above, the...
When the Tides Held the Moon
Kelley, Venessa Vida
Paper Book
The Shape of Water meets The Greatest Showman in this beautifully illustrated queer historical cozy fantasy, as a young Puerto Rican immigrant goes through a journey of love and self-discovery after capturing a merman for a Coney Island sideshow act in turn-of-the 20th century New...
Whidbey : novel
Madden, T Kira
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Audacious and instantly gripping . . . hums with cinematic tension, echoing classic thrillers without tipping into pastiche. . . . In Madden's vision, justice is partial at best and closure rare--and yet Whidbey is deeply satisfying." --...

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