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Pride Month Reads: Bingo competition edition!

Pride Month Reads: Bingo competition edition!

If you haven’t already, get your Pride Month bingo card here and get a chance to win some book tokens while reading some amazing queer books. Here are some suggestions to help you cross off as many squares as possible!

 

Most of these books will cross off 2-5 tiles on your bingo card, so choose wisely! If you’re stuck for indie press and debuts, check out the poetry section. If you’re looking for books with a pun in the title, graphic novels are your friend. Please comment with double, triple and quadruple threats of your own! Share to save a booknerd <3

 

 

 

Books with pink covers

Cover of HEre For It by R Eric Thomas. A hand throwing confetti against a pink background.

 

Here For It – R Eric Thomas 3 bingo squares: Pink cover, queer non-fiction, author is a person of colour (poc)

Under The Rainbow – Celia Laskey 2 bingo squares: Pink cover, debut book

Magic for Liars – Sarah Gailey 2 bingo squares: Pink cover, debut book

Detransition, Baby – Torrey Peters 3 bingo squares: Pink cover, debut book, author is trans

Large Animals – Jess Arndt 3 bingo squares: Pink cover, author is trans, indie publisher

We Were Always Here: A Queer Words Anthology – Ryan vance 2 bingo squares: Pink cover, indie publisher

 

 

 

Queer graphic novels

Cover of My Brother's Husband. Two men stand in front of a house with a little girl. One man and the girl look happy, the other man looks worried.

 

Fun home – Alison Bechdel 2 bingo squares: Graphic novel, pun in the title

Are You Listening? – Tillie Walden 2 bingo squares: Graphic novel, someone comes out

Cosmoknights – Hannah Templer 3 bingo squares: Graphic novel, pun in the title, pink cover

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me – Mariko Tamaki 3 bingo squares: Graphic novel, pink cover, author is a poc

Heartstopper – Alice Oseman 2 bingo squares: Graphic novel, someone comes out

Bingo Love – Tee Franklin 3 bingo squares: Graphic novel, author is a poc, someone comes out

My Brother’s Husband – Gengoroh Tagame 3 bingo squares: Graphic novel, author is a poc, not set in Europe/North America

 

 

Books not set in Europe/North America

Cover of The World Unseen. Two women stand by an old car, one in a dress, the other dressed masculine. Both lookng the same direction, possibly at the sunset.

 

Infinite country – Patricia Engel 2 bingo squares: Not Europe/N. America, author is a poc

The Remainder – Alia Trabucco Zeran 3 bingo squares: Not Europe/N. America, author is a poc, indie publisher

Black Water Sister – Zen Cho 2 bingo squares: Not Europe/N. America, author is a poc

Under the Udala Trees – Chinelo Okparanta 3 bingo squares: Not Europe/N. America, author is a poc, debut

The World Unseen – Shamim Sarif 2 bingo squares: Not Europe/N. America, author is a poc

Not That I’d Kiss A Girl – Lil O’Brien 4 bingo squares: Not Europe/N. America, debut, indie publisher, pink cover

You Exist Too Much - Zaina Arafat 3 bingo squares: Not Europe/N. America, author is a poc, debut

 

 

Queer non-fiction

Cover of Unapologetic. Stripes of black, red, yellow and deep green with overlaid white text.

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, by Angela Chen 2 bingo squares: Non-fiction, author is a poc

The Transgender Issue – Shon Faye 2 bingo squares: Non-fiction, author is trans

Wow, no thank you – Samantha Irby 3 bingo squares: Non-fiction, author is a poc, disabled main character/narrator

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Girl’s Confabulous Memoir - Kai Cheng Thom 5 bingo squares: Non-fiction, author is a poc, author is trans, pink cover, indie publisher

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements - Charlene A. Carruthers 3 bingo squares: Non-fiction, author is a poc, indie publisher

 

 

Queer history

Cover of Deep Sniff. Light blue background with a bottle of poppers

 

All The Young Men – Ruth Coker Burks 3 bingo squares: History, non-fiction, pink cover

Outrageous!: The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education - Paul Baker 2 bingo squares: History, pink cover

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments - Saidiya Hartman 2 bingo squares: History, pink cover

Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures - Adam Zmith 1 bingo square: History

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity - C. Riley Snorton 3 bingo squares: History, author is a poc, author is trans

A History of bisexuality - Steven Angelides 1 bingo square: History

 

 

Queer poetry

The cover of THe Human Body is a Hive. Orange and yellow honeycomb on a white background with a bee in the centre.

 

The Human Body is a Hive – Erica Gillingham (indie pub, debut) 3 bingo squares: Poetry, debut, indie publisher

Selah – Keith Jarret 3 bingo squares: Poetry, author is a poc, indie publisher

The Air Year – Caroline Bird 2 bingo squares: Poetry, indie publisher

Hustling Verse: Anthology if Sex Worker’s Poetry – Amber Dawn/Justin Ducharm 3 bingo squares: Poetry, pink cover, indie publisher

I am Nobody’s N*gger – Dean Atta 2 bingo squares: Poetry, author is a poc

Fleche – Mary Jean Chan 3 bingo squares: Poetry, author is a poc, indie publisher

At Least this I know – Andres N. Ordorica 4 bingo squares: Poetry, author is a poc, debut, indie publisher

Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems – Allen Ginsberg 2 bingo squares: Poetry, a classic

 

 

Books with a disabled main character/narrator

Cover of Just By Looking At Him. Painting of a naked man sitting on the shore, looking at another man in the water.

 

So Lucky – Nicola Griffith 1 bingo square: Disabled MC

Far From You – Tess Sharpe 1 bingo square: Disabled MC

Out of the Blue – Sophie Cameron 2 bingo squares: Disabled MC, pun in the title

Queens of Geek – Jen Wilde 3 bingo squares: Disabled MC, pink cover, someone comes out

Mean Little Deaf Queer – Terry Galloway 2 bingo squares: Disabled MC, non-fiction

Full Disclosure – Camryn Garrett 3 bingo squares: Disabled MC, debut, author is a poc

Just by Looking at Him - Ryan O'Connell 1 bingo square: Disabled MC

 

 

Queer classics

Cover of Dancer from the Dance. Two men in a dark club kiss against a wall.

 

Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin 2 bingo squares: Classic, author is a poc

The Colour Purple – Alice Walker 2 bingo squares: Classic, author is a poc

Stone Butch Blues – Leslie Feinberg 2 bingo squares: Classic, author is trans

Dancer From The Dance – Andrew Holleran 2 bingo squares: Classic, debut

Notes of a Crocodile - Qiu Miaojin 3 bingo squares: Classic, author is trans, not Europe/N.America

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - Audre Lorde 2 bingo squares: Classic, author is a poc

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café - Fannie Flagg 1 bingo square: Classic

Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides 1 bingo square: Classic

At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Niell 2 bingo squares: Classic, debut

 

Puns in the titles

Cover of Cafe Con Lychee. Two boys look at each other while eating snacks.

 

Bury the Lede – Gaby Dunn 2 bingo squares: Pun, graphic novel

Check Please! – Ngozi Ukazu 3 bingo squares: Pun, graphic novel, author is a poc

Vagablonde – Anna Dorn 2 bingo squares: Pun, indie publisher

Against Memoir – Michelle Tea 2 bingo squares: Pun, non-fiction

Frankissstein: A Love Story - Jeanette Winterson 1 bingo square: Pun

Café Con Lychee – Emery Lee 3 bingo squares: Pun, author is trans, author is a poc

 

 

 

 

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Georgia Mannion-Krase

27.06.2022

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