A Rainbow of Queer Books for 2025: Orange

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HAPPY PRIDE 2025! For Pride this year, we’re changing up our usual rec lists. Instead of doing books with specific identities or themes, we’re focused this time on cover color! Throughout the month of June, we’ll be doing 8 rec lists, each with covers inspired by one of the colors of the original Gilbert Baker Pride Flag. We drew a little additional inspiration from the meaning behind the color and why it was included in the original LGBTQIA+ flag (in this case, orange = healing), but we prioritized color over meaning. The contributors to this list are: Sanne, Tris Lawrence, Nina Waters, polls, Shannon, Linnea Peterson and Owl Outerbridge.

• She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
• Hockey Bois by A.L. Heard
• Meal by Soleil Ho & Blue Delliquanti
• Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
• Nothing Burns As Bright As You by Ashley Woodfolk
• The Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce
• Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence
• Firebird by Sunmi
• Can’t Take That Away by Steven Salvatore
• The Tea Dragon Tapestry by K. O’Neill
• A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
• Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
• A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy

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