A Rainbow of Queer Books for Pride 2025: Indigo

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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, indigo = serenity), but we prioritized color over meaning. The contributors to this list are: Shadaras, polls, Shannon, Linnea Peterson, Nina Waters, and Tris Lawrence.

• The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture by Grace Perry
• Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott
• We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds
• The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake
• Icarus by K. Ancrum
• This Coven Won’t Break by Isabel Sterling
• Dinghai Fusheng Records by Fei Tian Ye Xiang
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan
• Monster of the Week by F.T. Lukens
• Brooms by Jasmine Walls
• Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
• Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall
• Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca
• Galaxies and Oceans by N.R. Walker
• Our Bloody Pearl by D.N. Bryn

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Comments

[mekare]

Oh cool theme! And some gorgeous book covers.

[duckprintspress]

I've really been enjoying the aesthetics of doing lists based on color instead of a specific topic or type of representation. :D