10 queer YA books to add to your TBR this Pride Month

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Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan. Image courtesy Penguin Random House /

Though Pride Month is quickly and sadly drawing to a close, Pride doesn’t only have to be celebrated officially in June. By consuming queer media, we can enjoy Pride all year long.

As publishing makes a concerted effort to diversify, most notably in the young adult literature space, there are more fantastic LGBTQ books out there than ever before. Despite (or perhaps because of it) being in the middle of a pandemic, the publishing industry is not slowing down anytime soon, leaving readers with a lot of difficult choices to make in terms of what to read next.

That’s where Culturess steps in with this handy guide to some of the best queer YA for Pride Month.

Here are 10 queer YA books you absolutely must add to your To-Be-Read list this Pride Month.

This list includes very recent new releases like Love & Other Natural Disasters by Misa Sugiura and Jay’s Gay Agenda by Jason June, to slightly older titles like Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian and I Kissed Alice by Anna Birch.

Whether you’re looking for a straightforward rom-com or a more complex story about identity and queerness, there’s a title for you in our roundup with multiple fresh voices and debut authors like Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee and Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass.

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