LGBTQ+ Books to Add to Your Reading List This Pride Month

Pride month is here and what better way to celebrate love than share stories and books we love. Here are a few to give some inspiration if you don't know where to start. 

Title: So Old, So Young

Author: Grant Ginder

Pages: 384

Released: February 17, 2026

Genre: Contemporary Fiction 

Over two decades six college friends get together for parties. The one constant thing they had in common together has changed. With new jobs, cities, spouses and children they have kept their friendship the same despite this. But as time goes on bonds start to break. A story of growing pains and how love can change and grow into different things which can be bigger and better than before. 

Title: Almost Life

Author: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Pages: 384

Released: March 12, 2026

Genre: Romance Fiction

When two women meet in Paris, one spending their summer abroad and another student who has picked up some destructive habits, they create a spark together. A relationship that will define their lives forever. Their story goes through decades of marriage, children and changes. When life becomes at a touching distance can they see it through? A story that captures complicated love and the beauty within it too. 

Title: Is This a Cry for Help?

Author: Emily R. Austin

Pages: 304

Released:January 13, 2026

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

After a mental breakdown, the librarian confronts all things from grief to love and books. Everything was how she imagined alongside her wife at her library. With two cats and a house by the lake, what more could you ask for? When she finds out her ex boyfriend has passed away she ends up spiraling. When she comes back to work she is dealt with backlash from her community. With everything falling about she ends up finding her truest self. 

Title: Girl's Girl

Author: Sonia Feldman

Pages: 256

Released:  June 2, 2026

Genre: Queer Fiction

15 year old Mina’s world are her best friends. When there's a surprise kiss in the mix everything feels fragile. A summer where the balance is shattered they have to confront what is friendship and lust. As Mina goes into adulthood her rituals of girlhood start to differ and as her feelings develop in romance and her perspective of self love changes too. 

Title: Whidbey

Author: T Kira Madden

Pages: 372

Released:  March 10, 2026

Genre: Mystery Thriller

A story of three women connected to one man and a murder. Birdie knows it's as far as it could possibly be. She could run away from her life. A woman on the run. A stranger offers her a proposition for a plan for revenge. A former reality star also is seeking revenge, writing a bestselling memoir isn't enough. These three have never met until now. When all these events lead them together they are all desperate to search for answers of their own.