The Best Books to Read This Pride, According to All the Lists

The perfect book to read this pride story told by everyone and their mother

Pride month is here and pop-ups are happening. That means these Pride reading lists will also be held and held. It’s only just started this month, but we already have listings from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, and Goodreads. looks like john’s john by Douglas Stewart is that girl. Not only did Oprah choose this book as her book club’s latest pick, it’s also on everyone’s pride list of must-reads. When looking at the lists side by side, Amazon’s roundup is the shortest and least diverse (Prickly), Goodreads is the largest and newest, and Bookshop.org is the most extensive.

One thing I can However, Amazon’s mix of old, recent, and new titles lags behind when it comes to listings. It’s easy to get swept up in what’s new all the time and forget about the good stuff that came out before. Goodreads, on the other hand, is the opposite: its pride list includes 160 new and recent books. Among them, I’m most looking forward to reading “There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood” by Rasheed Newson, “Muñeca” by Cynthia Gomez, “Whidbey” by T. Kira Madden, and many others. Bookshop.org has a list of poetry collections (soulmate as a verb by Kelsey L. Smoot), Cookbook (by Kelsey L. Smoot)everyone’s table by Gregory Gourdet and J.J. Good) and picture books (From the stars in the sky to the fish in the sea (written by Kai Cheng Thom, illustrated by Kai Yun Ching and Wai-Yant Li).

I also feel it’s worth mentioning that one of the biggest books of the year, Kin by Tayari Jones, is on the Goodreads list. I haven’t read it yet, so I was pleasantly surprised to learn that there are some strange characters. Hairi Blassingham’s debut novel, mentioned above. NYT June’s best releases also made it into Goodreads’ roundup.

*Bonus chips*: Bookshop.org is offering 15% off books on the Pride Reading List.

Can MARA (Make America Read Again) be done?

Brian Bannon, chief librarian of the New York Public Library, answered this question in a recent op-ed. new york times. He began with seemingly contradictory statistics, such as that more New Yorkers are borrowing books from the New York Public Library than they were 15 years ago, yet Americans as a whole are reading less. Having lived in New York, this makes sense to me. City must be one of the following of The most bookish person in this country. I’ve seen people literally reading books while walking down the street. However, the rest of the country…Yeah. Almost all the things we’ve heard about being counterproductive to reading, like increasing phone time and decreasing attention span, are actually reducing reading time. Despite the decline in interest, Bannon thinks we can bounce back on the right foot. Naturally, he suggests investing more in library collections, but he also encourages reading in less obvious places like laundromats and barbershops.