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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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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