This Pride Month, we’re celebrating by turning the spotlight on powerful voices from the LGBTQIA+ community. Curated in partnership with HarperCollins, our reading list centers the expansiveness of queer journeys and perspectives — from inventive novels to intimate memoirs.

Explore these inspiring titles from LGBTQIA+ authors below.

Self-Sabotage: And Other Ways I've Spent My Time by Jeffery Self

Self’s honest, funny memoir-in-essays is all about chasing your dreams, making big messes, and finding yourself along the way.

The Family Outing: A Memoir by Jessi Hempel

In this striking literary memoir, Hempel takes readers through her family’s remarkable transformation, in which nearly every member embraces their queer identity.

Bad Habit by Alana S. Portero

Translated from Spanish by Mara Faye Lethem

A story of the search for identity and self-realization, this coming-of-age-novel is rooted in the struggles of a trans woman growing up in working-class Madrid.

Walking Practice: A Novel by Dolki Min

Translated from Korean by Victoria Caudle

This literary sensation from South Korea is part psychological thriller, part societal critique. What starts as an alien’s hunt for food transforms into an existential crisis about what it means to be human.

Good Grief by Brianna Pastor

Originally self-published, Pastor’s collection of poems offers hope for anyone who has experienced grief, trauma, anxiety, or depression or has struggled with questions of identity.

Women’s Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery

The New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist’s debut novel about the residents of a women’s hotel in 1960s New York City is poignant, funny, and has already been dubbed a modern classic.

I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays by Michael Arceneaux

Arceneaux’s latest collection of sharply funny essays offer keen observations on making your voice heard in an increasingly noisy world.

The Best Strangers in the World: Stories From a Life Spent Listening by Ari Shapiro

This memoir-in-essays from the beloved host of NPR’s All Things Considered takes readers around the globe to remind us of our shared humanity.

The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World by Mason Funk

This collection of interviews with leaders, activists, and ordinary people captures the true story of the gay rights movement, from the 1960s to present day.

The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland by Michelle Young

Set in World War II-era Paris, Young tells the remarkable true story of an unlikely heroine who infiltrated Nazi leadership to save some of the world’s most treasured masterpieces.