Read These Book Blurbs for Pride Month and Try NOT to Buy Them ASAP

You won't be able to resist these juicy picks.

It’s officially Pride Month! And a great way to celebrate any themed ‘month’, especially ones of social or cultural significance, is to delve into literary and fictional worlds.

Books have always been a way to experience life through the lens of other people—and in lots of cases, you may not want to leave.

We’ll bet you’re spoilt for choice, or perhaps don’t know where to start. We’ve shortened all of our recommendations down to their juicy essence to get you hooked from the get-go.

The Verifiers by Jane Pek.

A Chinese-American lesbian living in New York City is stealth-recruited by an online-dating detective agency that allows wealthy people to investigate people they meet on dating sites. One day, a client goes missing under mysterious circumstances…

Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen.

Four women arrive on an island in the Pacific for a Bachelor-style TV dating show. A woman living on the island watches the contestants from the shadows and the show begins to fall apart. One Goodreads review describes it as “The Bachelor meets Planet of the Apes”.

Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall.

Set in the regency era, a duke is betrothed to a young lady who flees into the night and rejects his proposal. Meanwhile, her twin brother makes the duke begin to question everything he knew about himself and love…

Exalted by Anna Dorn.

One woman runs a popular astrology account, @exalted, on Instagram, and becomes obsessed with stalking someone who has a matching birth chart. Another woman uses the astrological guidance of @exalted to deal with being dumped. Their paths cross.

Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir by Colton Haynes.

Colton Haynes, star of Teen Wolf and Arrow, recounts the story of his dramatic childhood, the highs of his career, coming to terms with his sexuality, working towards sobriety and suffering two seizures before he was thirty years old.

Alright, we know you’re itching to go out and buy all five of these. Use our discount with Booktopia to snatch em all and cuddle up with them this June!