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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, turquoise = magic), but we prioritized color over meaning. The contributors to this list are: May Barros, Rhosyn Goodfellow, Linnea Peterson, Tris Lawrence, Sebastian Marie, Shannon, Rascal Hartley, and Nina Waters.

• Journey Home by May Barros
• Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• The Salt in the Sea by J.D. Rivers
• Our Dreams at Dusk by Yuhki Kamatani
• Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse
• Like Real People Do by E.L. Massey
• Like You’ve Nothing Left to Prove by E.L. Massey
• Deadendia: The Broken Halo by Hamish Steele
• The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
• A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall
• Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas
• Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland
• Submerged by Vita Ayala
• Artifice & Access: A Disability in Fantasy Anthology by Ella T. Holmes
• In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
• Twilight Out of Focus by Jyanome
• Thousand Autumns by Meng Xi Shi
• If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann
• Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
• Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley
• The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa
• Jo: An Adaptation of Little Women (Sort Of) by Kathleen Gros
• Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp

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