Hi everyone! I was quite aware that June was going to be pride month because of all of the gatekeeping on my Twitter timeline, but I didn’t realize until well into June that it might be a fun idea to actually do something on my blog to celebrate pride month. First I thought about writing a pretty personal blog post about my own identity and stuff like that, but then I decided to show you all of the queer books I own instead!
So, I gathered up all of my queer books, ordered them by colour, and took some pictures. Today I’ll be showing you all of my black-green queer books, and then I’ll have another post coming soon in which I’ll show off all of my blue-white queer books.
I’ve done my best to add the identities of every main character in these books. Some of these books do not specifically state a label but do have a f/f relationship (like Girls Made of Snow and Glass) so I used the word sapphic.
Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore – bisexual
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire – sapphic
Top Ten by Katie Cotugno – bisexual
The Edge of the Abyss by Emily Skrutskie – lesbian
The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie – lesbian
Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust – sapphic
Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee – asexual
Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli – gay
Life Within Parole: Volume 1 by RoAnna Sylver – various, including enby and ace characters
I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman – trans and gay
Nice Try, Jane Sinner – bisexual (edit: side character)
Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee – bisexual
More Than This by Patrick Ness – gay
The Gallery of Unfinished Girls by Lauren Karcz – bisexual
i really need to reread simon! i loved down among the sticks and bones sooo much and i’m currently reading the abyss surrounds us and it’s sooooooooo good!!
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I recently reread Simon and it was the beeeest!! AND YAY I’m so glad you’re loving The Abyss Surrounds US!! I’m currently reading the sequel (:
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I love your photos! Also, this is a great idea for a post. I was thinking about photographing my queer books for Instagram, but I don’t know if I’ll have time to find them all and take pictures. My books are scattered all over the place right now because I ran out of shelves.
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Thank you so much! And that makes a lot of sense. I’d love to see your queer books, though!
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You have such a great collection! I can’t wait to see the rest!
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Thank you so much! I’m quite proud of it (:
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Aaaah!! It’s so good that you have so many queer books!! So do I, but most of them are ebooks so I can’t really do pretty posts like this with them 😀 I might take a few pictures of the physical ones that I own, though…
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Aaah I’d love to see your physical books! And you could always just use the cover images for the ebooks, right? I’m super curious to see them, haha
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Lol, if I listed every single queer ebook I have, that would be several hundred 😀 But I might try taking pictures of the physical ones sometime. I actually haven’t read like half of them…
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This is such a cute poooost!!! Also the bisexual rep in Jane Sinner is a secondary character (her best friend) and only mentioned a couple of timeq
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Thank you so much!!! And oh noooo when HMH send out that email about queer reads I thought they meant it was the main character who was bi??? This is so disappointing lol, but thank you for telling me! I’ll edit the post (:
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I love your pictures and your collection of books – so many books I loved and so many I still want to read! I especially can’t wait to read Jane Sinner, it sounds FANTASTIC 😀
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Thank you so much!! I’m super excited to read Jane Sinner too, I heard that there’s amazing depression rep in that one!!
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Awesome post! I love your photos!! 💕
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Thank you so much ❤
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So many wonderful books! ❤
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Thank you, I love them a lot! ❤
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