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PRIDE Month Picks!

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On today's episode, Adam and Jill are back in the same room finally and are handing out some wonderful LGBTQIA book recommendations for PRIDE month and beyond!

Books mentioned in this episode

Red White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian

Gentleman Jack by Anne Chrome

Courting Mr. Lincoln by Louis Bayard

Check Please by Ngozi Ukazu

The Stonewall Reader, edited by NYPL

Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

Unbroken edited by Marieke Nijkamp

Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia

The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta

Birthday by Meredith Russo

Also here is a great collection of LGBT books written so far this year:

2019 PRIDE month collection

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