Let’s Talk Bookish: Pride Month Reading

Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly bookish meme created by Rukky @ Eternity Books and co-hosted by Aria @ Book Nook Bits and Dini @ Dinipandareads! It’s just moved to a lower-frequency posting schedule which you can check out here. June’s prompt is as follows: Happy Pride! ️‍ What are your favorite books with LGBTQIA+ representation? Are there authors or series you always recommend? What books are on your Pride Month TBR? What do you think makes representation feel genuine? I have to say that I don’t really think of what I read in terms of representing minority groups at the moment: not that it doesn’t, because I am interested in books that are by and about and for groups that are marginalised in society on all kinds of different axes. It’s mostly because I pulled back on the number of obsessive stats about books I was keeping for my mental health, and also because I got somewhat uncomfortable about some of the associated baggage like “own voices”, which became an intense pressure on…