Pride Month Rainbow Stacks
Pride Month Rainbow Stacks: The Sapphic Edition
Okay, can we talk about something for a second?
Every single Pride Month, the rainbow stack content starts flooding in, and I LOVE it. I love the energy, I love the celebration but if you look closely at most of those stacks, they are overwhelmingly Achillian. Which is wonderful! Gay men deserve all the love and all the rainbow stacks! But babes. BABES. The sapphic shelf is absolutely OVERFLOWING with stunning, beautiful, heart-wrecking stories and I am here today to make sure you know about it.
So consider this your sapphic Pride Month reading intervention. Four stacks. All sapphic. All gorgeous. All waiting for you.
And a quick note before we dive in, some of these I have read and absolutely devoured, and some are sitting on my TBR waiting for their moment. I don't gatekeep recs. My book besties put things in my hands and on my radar and they have never once steered me wrong, so if it made these stacks, it belongs here. Full stop.
Let's get into it.
Stack 1 - The One With Everything
Irresistibly Bound, Anna Stone
Something in the Water, MJ Duncan
The Kaleidoscope Album, Bryce Oakley
The Pendragon Wytch, C.C. Davie
Ribbonwood, Ruby Landers
In the Long Run, Haley Cass
Pirates of Aletharia, Britney Jackson
Look at this stack and TELL me sapphic fiction doesn't have range. Go ahead. I'll wait. You've got spicy romance, you've got fantasy and magic, you've got music, you've got other worlds, you've got PIRATES, you've got literary horror. Every single one of these books has a sapphic love story at its beating heart and every single one is something completely different. This is what I want people to understand: sapphic fiction isn't one thing. It's everything. It contains multitudes and it is doing so beautifully.
Stack 2 - Written by Women of Color 🙌
The Fall That Saved Us, Tamara Jeree
D'Vaughn & Kris Plan a Wedding, Chencia C. Higgins
Ain't Too Old to Grind, Aunt Georgia Lee
Outdrawn, Deanna Grey
Last First Kiss, Tatiana Gómez
This, A Simple, Complex Love Story Naomi Rivers,
Sweet Like Honey, Aricka Alexander
Chef's Kiss, Stephanie Shea
Mechanics of Love, Meka James
This stack makes my heart so full I genuinely don't have the words for it. Every single one of these books was written by a woman of color, and every single one centers a beautiful sapphic story. Diversity in books isn't just about representation for its own sake, it's about the richness and depth and perspective and JOY that comes from hearing stories told through different voices and different lives. This stack is a celebration of that. These authors are telling sapphic stories in their own voices, from their own experiences, and that matters so much. Read widely. Read diversely. Let your bookshelf reflect the full, gorgeous breadth of this community.
Stack 3 - The TBR Calling My Name
Tasting Temptation, J.J. Arias
Bloom Town Genesis, Ally North
Something in the Water, MJ Duncan
Forget Me Not, Shay Paris
Next of Kin, Jae
Chemistry, Rachael Sommers
In the Long Run, Haley Cass
Discovering Nicola, Clare Ashton
Nottingham, Anna Burke
The fact that there are enough sapphic novels in existence that I can have an entire towering stack of books I haven't gotten to yet and still feel genuinely excited rather than overwhelmed. It’s something I don't take for granted for even one single second. A few years ago finding sapphic rep meant hunting for scraps. Now I have a TBR that could double as a piece of furniture. That is growth. That is community. That is authors showing up and saying our stories deserve to be told and readers saying YES, they absolutely do. I am so grateful every single day.
Stack 4 - The Range is IMMACULATE
Margin of Error, Rachel Lacey
I Dare You, Regena Mercy
PYG, Pip Landers-Letts
When Worlds Collide, Erin Zak
Love Detour, Allie McDermid
The Pull of the Tide, Volume 1
Cory Sloan is Swearing, Jamey Moody
Love and Sportsball, Meka James
The Blood We Spill, Jo Havens
Road trips and sports romance and dark fantasy and contemporary slow burns and everything in between. This stack is proof (as if we needed more of it ) that sapphic stories can live absolutely anywhere. Any genre. Any setting. Any tone. Love is always at the center and everything else is just the world these women get to fall in love inside of. I find that endlessly, deliriously wonderful.
So that's what I've got for you as we kick off Pride Month. Four stacks, a whole lot of sapphic love stories, and genuinely so much joy in my heart about the fact that these books exist in the world.
Because here's what Pride Month means to me, underneath all the rainbow stacks and the book recs and the reading lists: it's a celebration of us. All of us. Every single person in this big, beautiful, messy, wonderful queer community.
If you're out and proud: We’re SCREAMING Happy Pride, babe. This life is yours and you deserve every bit of the celebration.
If you're somewhere in the middle, maybe out to some people and not others, maybe still figuring out what your story looks like, happy Pride to you too. I see you. You belong here exactly as you are.
And if you're questioning, if you landed on this little corner of the internet and something about it felt like a light turning on, or a door cracking open, or just a soft exhale of “oh, maybe?!?” WELCOME, babe. Seriously. The queer community is one of the most beautiful things I have ever been a part of and there is room for you here. There has always been room for you here. Your story is yours and whenever you’re ready…. We’ll be here.
All queers welcome. Always. No exceptions.
Happy Pride Month, friends. Now go add approximately forty books to your TBR. I'll be right here cheering you on.
- Tacie 💚
