Prideopoly: a queer reading challenge

Every June for Pride Month @booksasaurusbex runs a tremendously fun reading challenge called Prideopoly. Starting with a downloadable board and a dice, it's designed to diversify reading and have fun in community in June.

This year we're excited to be collaborating with a list of recommendations! If you decide to join in and need some ideas, here's a good starting point, Below are the prompts with our suggestions;

Poetry or verse - Fleche by Mary Jean Chan

A book with a trial or contest - The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar

A bisexual man as a main character - Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly

A disabled main character or writer - Anything by Talia Hibbert!

Found family - Like Family by Erin White

A transfemme main character - Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao

A questioning main character - Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy

A translated book - Anima Fatua by Anna Lidia Vega Serova

A book from an indie/.small press - A Jingle Jangle Song by Mariana Villa-Gilbert

a neurodivergent main character - Fresh by Margot Wood

A book with more than one queer identity - I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

A novella - This is How you Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

A masculine/stud/butch main character or writer - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Academia or education - The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

Horror or sci-fi/fantasy - Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

The main character has a hobby - If You Still Recognise Me by Cynthia So

Ace book recomended by a friend - Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Romance - D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding by Chencia C. Higgins

BIPOC main character or writer - Where You Go I Will Go by Christina Fonthes

Non-fiction - Friends in Common by Laura C. Forster and Joel White

Indigiqueer rep - Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

An identity not already a prompt - The Heartbreak Bakery by A. R. Capetta

You can find out more about Prideopoly here!