My Pride Month TBR

Hi friends! 👋🏻 I haven’t made a dedicated TBR for Pride Month in a couple of years and I want to get back into the habit of making one every year.

This time I didn’t want to do a Bingo card style of thing where I get Brownie points for including books or authors who identify one way or are from a specific group of people. I just chose books that I’m very interested and want to read, and if it turns out that the author isn’t cis or white, then that’s a good thing too.

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the miseducation of cameron post by emily m. danforth

I am going to be going on holiday very soon and I don’t want to jump into something too heavy so this one sounds perfect for the end of spring. And even though it looks a little thicker than books I normally read, I have a good feeling I’ll be able to breeze through this one.

cemetery boys by aiden thomas

Am I a little miffed that the Kindle edition of this book cost pretty much the same as a paperback? Yes, but I’m trying to not dwell on it too much because at least a Kindle edition means that I can read it sooner rather than later. And I would rather read it sooner because I’ve wanted to read this book for ages.

what big teeth by rose szabo

I am a little difficult to please when it comes to werewolf books because I like my werewolves to be big and scary like The Wolf-Man rather than literal wolves like Twilight. From the sounds of it, this one sounds like it has actual scary werewolves which does please me, and it’s by a non-binary author, which I believe is something new to me.

aristotle and dante dive into the waters of the world by benjamin alire sáenz

It feels like it’s been a hundred years since I read the first Artistotle and Dante book so hopefully going into the sequel won’t be too much of a struggle. One of the other libraries I’m a member of does have a copy and my fingers are crossed that it doesn’t get snatched up by someone else before I’m able to go.

plain bad heroines by emily m. danforth

I didn’t want this TBR to be entirely YA books and while my library does have a dedicated LGBT+ collection, it is comprised mostly of contemporary fiction, which is fine but it’s not what I want to read all the time. We’ve had plenty of stories about tragedy and oppression, and while I don’t know exactly what happens in this book, I am happy to find a modern queer Gothic book.

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Do you have a Pride TBR? If you do, what are you planning to read?

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