Pride 2025 – QRG Recommendation List

June 30, 2025

Here is a list of book recommendations shared during the Queer Reading Group’s meeting on June 12, 2025. We hope to make this a yearly tradition. Please enjoy this collaborative list!

Click and drag the book covers above to scroll through these suggestions. Each book cover links to the catalog.

Percival
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The selected diaries of Lou Sullivan
Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Megan
Leap by Simina Popescu
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

Jacob
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
From the Belly by Emmett Nahil

Carrie
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
Scapegracers by H. A. Clarke

Elizabeth
Black Salt Queen by Samantha Bansil
The First Sister by Linden Lewis

Aidan
Be Sure by Seanan McGuire
Voyage of the Basilisk: a memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan

Sasha
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Lumberjanes volume 1 by ND Stevenson

Violet
Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson

Eliana
Is Love the Answer? by Uta Isaki
I Want to Be a Wall volume 1 by Honami Shirono

Emma
Here for the Wrong Reasons by Annabel Paulsen
You, Again by Kate Goldbeck

Kate
Mamo by Sas Milledge
The Marvels by Brian Selznick

Natasha
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
Hungerstone by Kat Dunn

Kathy
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation volume 1 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu