All Points West June 2026: Pride Reads

Celebrate Pride month with books by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors.

Updated June 3, 2026
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Private rites
Armfield, Julia
Paper Book
'Brilliantly audacious' GUARDIAN 'Stunning' DAZED 'Her prose sparkles' ELIZA CLARK 'Hauntingly good' iNEWS 'A must read' GLAMOUR 'Brilliant, original' KALIANE BRADLEY 'One of my favourite novels' JEFF VANDERMEER 'Elegant, evocative' CLAIRE FULLER<...
Upright women wanted
Gailey, Sarah
Paper Book
FIGHT THE STATE. BE A LIBRARIAN. A 2021 Hugo and Locus Award Finalist * A 2020 ALA Booklist Top 10 SFF Pick * A Booklist Editor's Choice Pick * Named a Best Book of 2020 (NPR, New York Public Library, Booklist, Bustle, Den of Geek) "A breezy, rousing...
Bury your gays
Tingle, Chuck
Paper Book
Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell. But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level: kill...
Hijab butch blues : a memoir
H, Lamya
Paper Book
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this "raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations" (Linah Mohammad, NPR). "A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on...
Giovanni's room
Baldwin, James
Paper Book
James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel whose frank exploration of sexuality and self-acceptance was decades ahead of its time--named one of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the past 100 years "Baldwin writes . . . with unusual candor and yet with such dignity and...
Hungerstone
Dunn, Kat
Paper Book
The fiercest, most powerful adult debut of 2025 - a brilliant sapphic vampire novel: a story of ambition, female oppression and unstoppable hunger . . .
All this could be different
Mathews, Sarah Thankam
Paper Book
2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' TOP 5 FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF TIME AND SLATE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, Vogue, Vulture,...
On Earth we're briefly gorgeous a novel
Vuong, Ocean
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller * Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction * Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century ...
The guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all. 1
Arai, Sumiko
Paper Book
Fashionable and upbeat high schooler Aya loves listening to rock, but no one else seems to share her interest...until she meets a cool, stylish employee at a CD shop. Dressed in black from head to toe, he has this air of mystery about him, and his taste in music is impeccable. Aya falls hard for him...
The deep dark
Ostertag, Molly Knox
Paper Book
From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator of the New York Times and ABA Indie bestselling The Witch Boy trilogy and The Girl from the Sea, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, love, loss, and magic. Everyone has secrets. Mags's has teeth. Magdalena...

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