Summer is here – season of the beach read! Here’s a list of fun sunny reads by LGBTQIA+ authors, perfect for the poolside. The following feel-good titles are heartfelt and hopeful, feature authentic queer friendships and steamy romances, and promise to keep you turning pages during your next vacation or staycation.
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A gay fantasy romance novel set in the summer of 1989 on Fire Island. The story follows Joe Agabian’s journey of healing and self-discovery, surrounded by a secret coven of disco-dancing witches who protect their cherished gay paradise.
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A heartwarming novel centered on Francine Stevenson’s accidental encounter with a peculiar 10-year-old boy who shows up at her doorstep after her mother’s sudden death.
A classmates-to-friends-to-lovers romance that’s equal parts raunchy, heartfelt, queer, and Mexican-American, centered on college football (the REAL football)!
A queer rom-com following once childhood best friends forced together to drive their former teacher across the country.
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Farzan Alavi may be looking for love, but after another disastrous break-up, he decides it’s time to (temporarily) throw in the towel. He plans to drown his sorrows at Kansas City’s newest winery. There, the hot sommelier more than treats him like a VIP: the way he flirts with Farzan ignites a lust he didn’t think was possible. Only David Curtis isn’t flirting because he finds Farzan attractive (though, he definitely does think that). David thinks that Farzan Alavi is really Frank Allen, Kansas City’s most influential food critic.
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Music producer on the rise Cyn Tha Starr knows what she likes, from her sickening beats in the studio to the flirty femmes she fools around with. Her ever-rotating roster has never been a problem until her latest fling clashes with Jucee, her best friend and the most popular dancer at strip club Sanity. It makes Cyn see Jucee in a different light. One with far fewer boundaries and a lot more kissing.
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With a relationship and career falling apart, Sammy Espinoza heads back to her fraught hometown to secure an interview with reclusive rockstar Max Ryan—who once ghosted her after a one-night stand.
When demisexual Beth decides she’s done with being a virgin and enlists Serena’s help, her new personal journey just might be the thing to end their friendship for good.
A weekend of wedding chaos unfolds around bridesmaid Athena Matthias, recovering from a year of pain and loss, and throws her into the orbit of old relationships and promising new connections.
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Erica Skyberg is thirty-five years old, recently divorced, and trans. Not that she’s told anyone yet. Mitchell, South Dakota, isn’t exactly bursting with other trans women. Instead, she keeps to herself, teaching by day and directing community theater by night. That is, until Abigail Hawkes enters her orbit. Abigail is seventeen, Mitchell High’s resident political dissident and Only Trans Girl. As their unlikely friendship evolves under the increasing scrutiny of their community, both women, and those closest to them, will come to realize that sometimes there is nothing more radical than letting the world see who you really are.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby, in eAudio on Libby, and in eAudio on Hoopla.