Happy Pride!
We organized this To Read List by age and reading stage, from board books for the littlest readers to memoir, essays, history, and fiction for grown-ups. We hope you have a wonderful Pride season and feel celebrated!
Board Books
- Love Makes a Family
- Pride Puppy!
- Rainbow: A First Book of Pride
- Pink Is for Boys
For little readers, Pride can begin with simple ideas: love is love, families come in many forms, colors can carry meaning, and everyone deserves room to be themselves.
Picture Books
- Julián Is a Mermaid
- When Aidan Became a Brother
- Bathe the Cat
- Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
These picture books offer affirmation, laughter, and history. They are good for reading aloud, starting conversations, and making room for children to see many ways of being loved and known.
Middle Grade & Graphic Novels
- A Song for You and I
- King and the Dragonflies
- The Magic Fish
- The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet
Middle grade books often meet readers right at the age when body, identity, and belonging start to feel more complicated. These picks give young readers adventure, tenderness, humor, grief, fairy tales, and honest self-discovery.
Young Adult
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club
- Cemetery Boys
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
- The Dos and Donuts of Love
For teen readers, this part of the shelf brings together first love, family expectations, queer history, cultural identity, ghosts, baking competitions, friendship, and the brave work of becoming yourself.
Adult Fiction
- All This Could Be Different
- Necessary Fiction
- Stag Dance
- Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One
These adult fiction picks move through chosen family, work, longing, humor, transition, community, and strange, vivid lives. Together, they make room for queer life to feel full, complicated, and funny.
Adult Nonfiction
- Quietly Hostile
- All Boys Aren’t Blue
- Marsha
- The Stonewall Reader
This section holds history, laughter, and legacy. These books help connect Pride to the people who lived, wrote, organized, resisted, survived, joked, loved, and made room for others to exist more freely.
Pride reading does not have to be one kind of reading. It can be joyful, funny, romantic, historic, tender, messy, or celebratory. We hope this collection gives you a way in, whether you are reading with a child, choosing a gift, building a classroom shelf, or finding something for yourself.
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