Queer Joy
Here are some suggestions for your 2024 Book Bingo NW category: Queer Joy. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. GN=Graphic novel (Created May 2024)
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Don't Want You Like A Best Friend
A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other.
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Second Chances in New Port Stephen
Fiction. A trans man returns to his Florida hometown for Christmas after his career goes up in flames, only to cross paths with his high school ex in this charming rom-com about family and second chances. (NoveList)
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The Bennet Women
Fiction. Welcome to Bennet House, the only all-women’s dorm at prestigious Longbourn University, home to three close friends who are about to have an eventful year. EJ is an ambitious Black engineering student. Her best friend, Jamie, is a newly out trans woman studying French and theatre. Tessa is a Filipina astronomy major with guy trouble. For them, Bennet House is more than a residence—it’s an oasis of feminism, femininity, and enlightenment. But as great as Longbourn is for academics, EJ knows it can be a wretched place to find love. (NoveList)
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Delilah Green Doesn't Care
Fiction. A woman revisits old pain and experiences new love when she returns to her hometown for her stepsister’s wedding. (Kirkus)
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Mimosa
GN. Best friends and chosen family Chris, Elise, Jo, and Alex work hard to keep themselves afloat. Their regular brunches hold them together even as the rest of their lives threaten to fall apart. In an effort to avoid being the oldest gays at the party, the crew decides to put on a new queer event called Grind--specifically for homos in their dirty thirties.
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¡Hola Papi!
Nonfiction. What started as a racialized moniker given to him on a hookup app soon became the inspiration for his now wildly popular advice column "¡Hola Papi!", launching his career as the Cheryl Strayed for young queer people everywhere - and some straight people too. JP had his doubts at first - what advice could he really offer while he himself stumbled through his early 20s? Sometimes the best advice to dole out comes from looking within, which is what JP has done in his column and book - and readers have flocked to him for honest, heartfelt wisdom, and of course a few laughs. (NoveList)
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This Way To Change: A Gentle Guide To Personal Transformation And Collective Liberation--Poems, Prose, Practices
Nonfiction. An inspirational roadmap to changing yourself-and the world-through self-healing, transformation, and decolonization from artist, poet, and changemaker Jezz Chung. (Publisher)
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Burning My Roti
Nonfiction. Part memoir, part guide, Burning My Roti is essential reading for a new generation of South Asian women. With chapters covering sexual and cultural identity, body hair, colourism and mental health, and a particular focus on the suffocating beauty standards South Asian women are expected to adhere to, Sharan Dhaliwal speaks openly about her journey towards loving herself, offering advice, support and comfort to people that are encountering the same issues. (Publisher)
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Save Yourself
Nonfiction. Comedian Esposito, who costarred in and cocreated Starz’s Take My Wife, delivers “the dyke’s tale my younger self needed to read†in this powerful yet often lighthearted memoir of growing up gay in a devout Catholic home. (Publishers Weekly)
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Boys Come First
Fiction. Three Black, gay, Millennial men search for love and professional success in Detroit while navigating real friendships, Grindr hookups and family drama in the debut novel from the author of How to Live in Detroit without Being a Jackass. (NoveList)
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