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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The Book of Pride
Nonfiction. Paying tribute to more than 50 extraordinary and influential leaders who sparked the worldwide LGBTQ-rights movement, this important volume tells stories of dedication and triumph through never-before-published original interviews. (NoveList)
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Mortal Follies
Fiction. A young noblewoman must pair up with an alleged witch to ward off a curse in this sapphic romance set 1814.
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Payback's A Witch
Fiction. A young witch , desperate for a normal life, reluctantly returns to her magical hometown for a traditional gathering. (Kirkus)
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Really Cute People
Fiction. Harwood-Jones (The Haunting of Adrian Yates) amps up the warm fuzzies in this wonderfully queer triad romance. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Dos and Donuts of Love
YA. Competing on a televised baking competition in the hope of bringing much-needed attention to her parents' beloved donut shop, Shireen Malik finds things heating up when her fellow contestants include her ex-girlfriend and her new crush, as well as a saboteur. (NoveList)
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Stray City
Fiction. Building a home for herself in the thriving but insular lesbian underground of Portland away from her Midwestern Catholic childhood, a young artist becomes unexpectedly pregnant after a reckless night and is forced to come to terms with her past a decade later when her precocious daughter asks about her father.
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Love & Other Disasters
Fiction, While competing on a popular cooking show, Dahlia Woodson stirs up trouble when she gets involved with a nonbinary contestant, and as their relationship heats up both in and out of the kitchen, she wonders if they have the right ingredients for a happily ever after. (NoveList)
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Thirsty Mermaids
GN. Masquerading as humans to find more wonderful shipwreck wine, three tipsy mermaids party at a seaside tourist trap before discovering the next morning that they do not know how to return to their natural forms. (NoveList)
Format: Graphic Novel
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Continuum
YA Nonfiction. Deaf, trans artist Man meditates on his journey and identity in this brief memoir. (Kirkus)
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There Are Trans People Here
Nonfiction. There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt's writing centers the deep care, love, and joy within trans communities. This poetry collection describes moments of resistance in queer and trans history as catalysts for movements today. It honors trans ancestors and contemporary activists, artists, and writers fighting for trans liberation. There Are Trans People Here is a testament to the healing power of community and the beauty of trans people, history, and culture. (Publisher)
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