Best LGBTQ+ books to add to your shelf this Pride

Based on the hit podcast from Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller, Bad Gays uses humour and nuance to explore the queers who won't be making it onto "LGBTQ+ Icons you need to know" lists and asks "what we can learn about LGBTQ history, sexuality and identity through its villains and baddies?".

In this groundbreaking book, Vaneet Mehta delves into the community, background, and challenges of one of the most overlooked groups in the LGBTQ+ community; bisexual, pansexual, and M-spec men.

Journalist Daisy Jones takes readers on a whirlwind tour of modern lesbian, bisexual and queer women's culture in her debut book, covering everything from affirming haircuts, lesbian bars, TikTok and of course, Carol. Brb, swooning over Cate Blanchett.

Speaking of Carol, no list of best LGBTQIA+ books would be complete without it - or rather The Price of Salt, as Patricia Highsmith's original novel was called.

What does it mean to be queer and autistic? In Queerly Autistic, Erin Ekins explores just that (duh), providing an empowering guide to coming out, safe sex, and practicing self-care. While being aimed at teens, this books is an affirming read for autistic queers and allies of all ages.

This sexy, strange, suspenseful novel is a romance in way you've never seen before. When Rachel, a lapsed Jew with an obsession for calorie counting, meets Miriam, a young Orthodox Jewish woman, neither are prepared for where their obsession and longing will take them.

June Jordan was a bisexual essayist, activist, and poet whose work explored sexuality, gender, race, immigration, representation, the civil rights movement, and much more. This book brings together all her most influentials works in one convenient place.

Author Daniel Harding unpacks what it means to be a gay man today, from coming out, to the GBBF stereotype, through sex, relationships, and community, via conversations with friends and other gay men.

This beautiful and moving anthology brings together a range of - you guessed it - coming out stories from queer people of all different backgrounds, sexualities, and gender identities.

Journalist Shon Faye provides an illuminating, powerful, reasoned argument for trans liberation against the backdrop of the trans panic in the UK in her debut book - which became an instant Sunday Times best seller.

A love letter like you've never experienced before - Amelia Possanza reaches back through history to shine a light on the lives and loves of lesbians role models, interweaving each with her own experience of sapphic life.

Activist and writer Munroe Bergdorf's moving memoir delves in to the different ways we all transtition - from teens into adults, in and out of love, in to new identities - all against the backdrop of her own lived experiences.

We chatted with Munroe about the launch of the book.

Another groundbreaking memoir, author Lamya H reflects on her experiences as a queer, butch Muslim; weaving her life with lesson from the Quran.

Editors Vaneet Mehta and Lois Shearing bring together the voices of 17 (including themselves) contemporary bisexual activists, organisers, and thinkers to capture the layout of the modern bi movement and tackle issues from racism, transphobia, fatphobia, through to explorations of faith and polyamory.

You can read an extract here.

Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate queer theory and history in this fun, informative, and accessible graphic novel, which is the perfect pick for anyone questioning their sexuality or gender - or simply wanting to learn more.

Drawing on his own experiences as a bisexual man, Michael Amherst questions the binary of gay and straight, male and female to rethink desire and the way we conceptualise it. Interwoven between chapters are love letters to Amherst's first love, who died during the writing process.

An honest, heart-felt, and funny look at one young woman's exploration of sexuality, sex, and loneliness - all wrapped up as a gorgeous graphic novel.

An introductory guide to all things bisexuality, from coming out, to biphobia and bi-erasure, finding community, and dating - all told from the perspectives of activism and liberation.