Mid-Year Duck Prints Press Storygraph Challenge Update

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I’ve been meaning to post a reminder that our Storygraph challenge is ongoing, and a specific update on my personal progress, for a while, and a week before Pride Month starts strikes me as as good a time as any to go HEY, WE’VE GOT A CHALLENGE TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO READ QUEER BOOKS!

So, hey! We’ve got a challenge to encourage people to read queer books! It’s the Duck Prints Press 2025 Queer Book Challenge on Storygraph, and it’s open for everyone to participate! It’s composed of 40 challenges – one required (it’s “read a queer book”) and all the rest bonus for the fun of it. If you haven’t joined us already, I hope you’ll consider doing so. The challenge runs from Jan 1 to Dec 31, so everything you’ve read this year – even before you joined! – can count for filling the prompts.

For fun, I decided to make a bingo card, with the 40 prompts + 2 free spaces to get it square.

…and then I filled it in with my own prompt fills for the year! I might actually get a black-out this year; I’ve already got a higher percentage than I did all last year.


Card list below the read more!

• read a queer book you borrowed from the library: Dungeon Critters by Sara Goetter and Natalie Riess
• read a queer book that has fewer than 50 reviews on Storygraph: Here U Are vol. 2 by DJun
• read a queer book: The Husky and His White Cat Shizun vol. 7 by Meatbun Doesn’t Eat Meat
• read a non-fiction book about a queer topic (such as history or science): Ask Me About Polyamory! by Tikva Wolf
• read a queer book by a transgender and/or nonbinary author: The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl by Emily Reisbeck and NJ Barna
• read a queer book that includes the “portal fantasy” trope: The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish vol. 4 by Xue Shan Fei Hu
• read a queer book from your tbr: Stars of Chaos vol. 4 by priest
• read a biography or autobiography or memoir about or by a queer person: How to Be Ace by Rebecca Burgess
• read a queer book that has won a literary award: Chef’s Kiss by Jarrett Melendez, Danica Brine, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, and Hank Jones
• read a queer graphic novel: Here U Are vol. 1 by DJun
• read a queer book by a Black author: Bingo Love by Tee Franklin, Jenn St-Onge, and Joy San
• queer rep bingo! queer autistic character: Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
• read a queer book that includes the “the grumpy one is soft for the sunshine one” trope: The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish vol. 3 by Xue Shan Fei Hu
• queer rep bingo! nonbinary character: The Flying Ship vol. 2 by Jem Milton
• queer reb bingo! lesbian character: Cannon Ball by Kelsey Wroten
• read a queer book released in 2025: I Ship My Rival x Me vol. 2 by Pepa
• read a queer book that includes the “found family” trope: Galaxy the Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod and Jess Taylor
• read a queer book recommended to you by someone else: Stars of Chaos vol. 3 by priest
• read a queer book that includes the “fake dating” trope: The Missing Piece by Kun Yi Wei Lou
• free space!: Coven by Jennifer Dugan and Kit Seaton
• read a queer book that has more than 5000 reviews on Storygraph: The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch
• read a queer book that includes the “omg they were roommates” trope: not yet!
• queer rep bingo! polyamorous character: The Glass Scientists vol. 1 by S. H. Cotugno
• read a queer book by an Indigenous author (of any nationality): not yet!
• read a book published by Duck Prints Press (they’re all queer!): The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers
• read a queer book by a Latinx author (of any nationality): Star Trek: Celebrations by Vita Ayala, Steve Orlando, Magdalene Visaggio, Hannah Rose May, and Paulina Ganucheau
• read a queer book that includes the “be gay do crimes” trope: Signals vol. 1 by Nika
• queer rep bingo! queer bipoc character: Stars of Chaos vol. 1 by priest
• read a queer book released before 1990: not yet!
• read a queer book that includes the “anti-hero” trope: not yet!
• queer rep bingo! aromantic character: Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence
• read a queer book in translation: Hitorijime My Hero vol. 4 by Memeco Arii
• free space!: Dinghai Fusheng Record vol. 2 by Fei Tian Ye Xiang
• queer rep bingo! transgender character: Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang
• queer rep bingo! asexual character: Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
• read a queer book by an author you share an identity with: I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner
• queer rep bingo! gay character: I Think Our Son is Gay vol. 4 by Okura
• queer rep bingo! queer disabled character: Stars of Chaos vol. 2 by priest
• read a queer book that includes the “there was only one bed” trope: not yet!
• read a queer book by an Asian author (of any nationality): 小蘑菇 vol. 2 by 一十四州
• read a queer book by an Arabic author (of any nationality): not yet!
• queer reb bingo! bisexual or pansexual character: Hitorijime My Hero vol. 8 by Memeko Arii