This year, my goal is to read 100 books (which I’m tracking onStoryGraph).

Likewise, there are plenty more on my TBR!

All these books contain LGBTQ+ romances, characters, and/or are written by LGBTQ+ authors.

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Book cover of "The Honeys" by Ryan La Sala, featuring various flowers and the tagline "Sometimes the darkest secrets lurk in broad daylight."

Book cover of "Gorgeous Gruesome Faces" by Linda Cheng, featuring a close-up of a person's face with glittery makeup. Text reads, "You'll love them to death."

Cover of "So Let Them Burn" by Kamilah Cole, featuring an illustration of a woman's face framed by stylized flames and dragon silhouettes, with bold title text

Cover of the book "Ace of Spades" by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, showcasing two characters, each facing opposite directions, with surrounding text emphasizing its finalist award status

Book cover of "The Society for Soulless Girls" by Laura Steven. It features a girl with blood-stained arms holding a book, with the tagline "They'll sacrifice everything to learn the school's secret."

Cover of the book "Cinderella is Dead" by Kalynn Bayron, featuring an illustration of a girl with curly hair in a dress, standing in a forest

Cover of "What Big Teeth" by Rose Szabo featuring a woman with a monstrous open mouth on her face among intricate floral designs

Book cover for "The Invocations" by Krystal Sutherland, showing three women with intense expressions and dark, flowing abstract elements overlaid on their faces

Book cover of "The Lost Girls" by Sonia Hartl features a close-up of a woman with fangs and blood on her lips. The subtitle reads "A Vampire Revenge Story"

Book cover of "Come Out, Come Out, Whatever You Are" by Kathryn Foxfield, featuring a person in white standing with text in bold handwritten-style font

Book cover for "The Loudest Silence" by Sydney Langford. Features two animated characters, one playing a guitar and the other singing, with an audience's hands raised

Book cover of "I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me" by Jamison Shea, featuring a woman's head partially submerged in water with a dark, eerie backdrop

Book cover for "The Poisons We Drink" by Bethany Baptiste featuring a woman with wind-blow hair and a determined expression, standing with mystical smoke swirling around her

Book cover of "The Fell of Dark" by Caleb Roehrig, featuring plastic vampire fangs and the tagline, "Why are the cute ones always undead?"

Cover of "The Coldest Touch" by Isabel Sterling. Illustration features two girls touching hands in a dark, eerie setting. Caption reads, "Death drew them together. Life could tear them apart."

Book cover of "Fragile Remedy" by Maria Ingrande Mora. The cover features a glass bottle with a cityscape inside and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard seal

Cover of the book "Dear Wendy" by Ann Zhao. Two characters lie on a grassy area: one with curly hair, the other with glasses and a laptop

Cover of "Loveless" by Alice Oseman featuring three illustrated characters: one with curly hair in a tuxedo, one with long hair in a dress, and one with shoulder-length hair looking worried

Cover of "How to Die Famous" by Benjamin Dean, featuring illustrated people holding cameras around the title text. "Celebrity comes at a deadly price" at the top

Book cover of "Have You Seen This Girl" by Nita Tyndall, featuring illustrated faces merged into one

"Stylized art with 'Pride Month 2024' text and faces of four people with varying expressions."