This Pride Month there’s been plenty of creative challenges going around, including this bookish edition. For the “Show Your Pride” book stack challenge I represented the Demisexual flag 🖤🤍💜🩶 in 14 books and comics with queer characters.
I’ve broken them up into the 4 colors of the Demisexual flag. There’s a good mix of titles from the last decade or so from tame middle-grade to oh-so-spicy adult.
BLACK 🖤
Dark Rise
by C.S. Pacat
Features: a bisexual male main character and many bisexual and gender-fluid secondary and supporting characters
Genre: Alt-history, Fantasy
Spice Level: Zesty
READ IT
Carry On
by Rainbow Rowell
Features: gay and bisexual male main characters & other queer supporting characters
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy, Adventure Fantasy, Coming-of-age Fantasy
Spice Level: Zesty
READ IT
The Friend Scheme
by Cale Dietrich
Features: gay male main characters
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Coming-of-age, Shakespeare/Classics Retellings
Spice Level: Zesty/Spicy
READ IT
Six of Crows
by Leigh Bardugo
Features: 3 out of the 6 main characters are queer
Genre: Fantasy, Magic Realism
Spice Level: Zesty
READ IT
WHITE 🤍
Classmates
by Asumiko Nakamura
Features: gay and bisexual male main characters & gay and bisexual supporting characters
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Coming-of-age, School Romance, Music Story
Spice Level: Zesty/Spicy
READ IT
Given
by Natsuki Kizu
Features: gay and bisexual male main characters & a spectrum of queer supporting characters
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Coming-of-age, School Romance, Music Story
Spice Level: Spicy
READ IT
Therapy Game Restart (vol 3)
by Meguru Hinohara
Features: gay and bisexual male main characters & gay, bisexual, and trans supporting characters
Genre: Contemporary Romance, New Adult Romance
Spice Level: Ghost Pepper
READ IT
PURPLE 💜
The Sun and The Star
by Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro
Features: gay and bisexual male main characters
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy, Adventure Fantasy, Myth Punk, Coming-of-age Fantasy
Spice Level: Sweet/Zesty
READ IT
Spell Bound
by F.T. Lukens
Features: a nonbinary main character
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
Spice Level: Zesty
READ IT
Loveless
by Yun Kouga
Features: a spectrum of queer characters from gay and bisexual characters to lesbian and demisexual ones. Some relations are healthy and some are deeply toxic
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
Spice Level: Zesty
READ IT
Prince’s Gambit
by C.S. Pacat
Features: bisexual and demisexual male main characters & a spectrum of queer supporting characters
Genre: Fantasy
Spice Level: Ghost Pepper
READ IT
GRAY 🩶
Versus Anthology “The Mirror of Avarice”
by The Fantasy & SciFi Writers Alliance, “The Mirror of Avarice” by Kat Vancil
Features: gay male main characters
Genre: Supernatural Romance, Paranormal Romance, New Adult Romance, Urban Fantasy, Ghost Story
Spice Level: Zesty
READ IT
Predestined
by Kat Vancil
Features: gay and bisexual male main characters & gay and trans supporting characters
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy, Romantasy, Myth Punk, Small-town Romance
Spice Level: Spicy
READ IT
The Summer Palace
by C.S. Pacat
Features: Short story collection features a spectrum of queer characters
Genre: Fantasy
Spice Level: Spicy
