Pride Month 2025: what are your LGBTQ+ book and comic recommendations?

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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab (sapphic vampires)

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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone (science fiction romance)

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Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (lesbian necromancers in space)

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The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (epic fantasy with a dash of romance)

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The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon (epic fantasy)

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The Long Way To a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (cosy science fiction)

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Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle (horror)

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A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (science fiction)

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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (greek myth retelling)

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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (fantasy heist, note the representation is more in the second book of the duology)

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Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James (epic fantasy)

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Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell (space opera)

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The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (fantasy)

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The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez (epic fantasy)

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Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat (ya fantasy)

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All That's Left in the World (ya post-apocalyptic)

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Every Heart a Doorway by Seannan McGuire (dark academia/fantasy)

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Don't Let the Forest In by CG Drews (horror)

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So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole (ya fantasy)

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Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger (ya magical realism/mystery)

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Vicious by VE Schwab (fantasy)

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Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko (ya fantasy)

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All Systems Red by Martha Wells (science fiction. Note: the ace character in question is a robot which is controversial, but speaking as someone on the ace spectrum I think it's good representation in this particular case).

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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (science fiction)

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Cemetery Boys/The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas (ya fantasy)

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Hell Followed With Us/The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White (ya horror)

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Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (ya fantasy)

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Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon (urban fantasy)

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Dragonfall by L.R. Lam (fantasy romance)

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An Unkindness of Ghost by Rivers Solomon (science fiction)

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The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang (fantasy)

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Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle (horror)

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The Incandescent by Emily Tesh (dark academia/fantasy)

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (magical realism)

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The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (fantasy mystery)

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The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon (fantasy dystopia)

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Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick (fantasy)

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To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose (ya fantasy)

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Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (epic fantasy)

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Witch King by Martha Wells (epic fantasy)