Author-curated reading lists

In celebration of Pride, we’ve asked some of our favorite authors from the community to share their top picks to read for Pride (and beyond!). Check out selections from Gabe Cole Novoa, John Paul Brammer, Jen Winston, Munroe Bergdorf, and Kenny Ethan Jones.

Gabe Cole Novoa (he/him) is an award-winning, NYT-bestselling author known for speculative fiction about characters examining and discovering their own identities. Gabe has a MFA in Writing for Children and formerly wrote YA dystopian sci-fi under the pseudonym Ava Jae. You can find him on his popular writing-based YouTube channel, "bookishpixie," or across social media sites, @thegabecole.

John Paul Brammer (he/him) is an award-winning author and illustrator from Oklahoma, currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. Brammer writes the advice column ¡Hola Papi! on Substack and also syndicates it in New York Magazine's 'The Cut.' His next book, Samara, is a coming of age hybrid novel that he's also illustrating.

Munroe Bergdorf (she/they) is an internationally-renowned activist, model, author of “Transitional” (Bloomsbury, 2023), and broadcaster. In 2022, she joined British Vogue as a Contributing Editor. A UN Women Changemaker since 2019, she was then appointed as a UN Women UK National Champion in 2023. Munroe also serves as an ambassador for the gender variant and transgender youth charity, Mermaids. On the broadcasting front, she hosts the podcast ‘The Way We Are’, and fronts MTV's hit show, Queerpiphany. Her voice has echoed in venues from Oxford University to the United Nations Headquarters.

Jen Winston (she/they) is a writer and bisexual living in Los Angeles. A Lambda Literary finalist who Publishers Weekly called a "writer to watch," her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and more. You can find Jen on social media talking about queerness and the millennial condition: @jenerous.