A Rainbow of Queer Books for Pride 2025: Red

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, red = life), but we prioritized color over meaning. The contributors to this list are: Sanne, Neo Scarlett, boneturtle, Nina Waters, Shannon, Shadaras, Tris Lawrence, Linnea Peterson, Owl Outerbridge, Shea Sullivan and 2 anonymous contributors.

• The Devil’s Luck by L.S. Baird
• The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
• Aim For The Heart: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s “The Three Musketeers” ed. by Nina Waters
• Heaven Official’s Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
• Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
• Fat Ham by James Ijames
• Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
• Witches of Ash and Ruin by E. Latimer
• Husband Material by Alexis Hall
• The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
• For Real by Alexis Hall
• Jay Moriarty Violates the Official Secrets Act by Kit Walker
• Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan
• The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado & DaNi
• Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland
• Devilman by Go Nagai

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