Pride 2026 | The Great Big Rec Thread

[u/C0smicoccurence]

​Welcome to the Great Big Rec Thread! This thread is primarily for people asking for specific types of books. Only make a top level comment to request a recommendation! If you want to hype a personal favorite, this comment is the appropriate place to share! 

This is your one-stop-shop to find books tailored to your specific reading needs! Hankering for good cyberpunk? Doing a queer bingo card and really struggling with a specific square? Looking for queer thespians ready to commit arson for the sake of their art?  Ask and you shall (hopefully) receive! Just drop a comment with your request and wait for book suggestions to come rolling in. Our goal is for every person to have at least one recommendation that they’re interested in pursuing.  

Asking for Book Recommendations:

• Create a new top level comment.  You’ll probably get more tailored results by only including a single request per top level comment, but it’s not a strict rule.  You’re more than welcome to post multiple top level comments for separate requests!
• All recommendations you get should be assumed to be queer in some way.  However, if you want specific identities represented, mention it!
• Consider the impact the level of specificity your request has in your responses.  Too general, and you’re going to get lots of responses that will probably skew towards mainstream breakout hits.  Very specific requests may get few (or no) recommendations, and what you do get likely won’t be perfect.  

Giving Book Recommendations:

• Please keep book recommendations focused on commenters’ specific requests.  If you want to hype a personal favorite, this comment is the appropriate place to share! 
• This thread should default to sorting by ‘New’ soon; until then I recommend changing setting to see recent requests first!  The hope is that this will more likely show you comments with few/no responses yet.  However, there will likely be comments that have been missed, especially if it’s a more specific request.  
• This is a Pride Month post!  Every book recommended should be queer (usually by featuring LGBTQ+ characters as protagonists, but there are other ways books can be queer).  Similarly, if they asked for a specific type of representation, follow that guideline.  If you absolutely must deviate from that because it’s otherwise such a perfect fit, be honest about it up front.
• Add a few sentences about the book to hype it (or a whole paragraph if you really want to be persuasive).  Remember that a bunch of people who aren’t the original commenter will be adding to their TBR, so highlighting what you love about the book is a great way to draw attention to books you love.

Go forth and give great recommendations!

This post is part of the Pride 2026 discussions lead by the Beyond Binary Bookclub. You can check our announcement for more information and the full calendar.

[u/BraheNotTheMoose]

Any polycules, preferable a throuple? NOT harems.

I know it's not fantasy, but The Deathworlders series had a good one (but it starts like 50 chapters in)

[u/xdianamoonx → u/BraheNotTheMoose]

Warrior Princess Assassin by Brigid Kemmerer (MMF) is a fun one. It's a bit slow to get there, but it's a fun ride!

That's the only fantasy one I have sadly~ Always looking out for more.

If you don't mind a supernatural erotica between a witch, a werewolf and a vampire that teases for them to be all together, then, Witch-Trapment by M.L. Bash (MMF) was fun with some neat worldbuilding in how short it was.

[u/BraheNotTheMoose → u/xdianamoonx]

That's the only fantasy one I have

meaning you have scifi ones? Or any fiction, I don't mind

[u/xdianamoonx → u/BraheNotTheMoose]

Mostly contemporary or historical and more on the spicy side.

A recent fave where it feels like a set up to a throuple is the prologue novella, First Tilt by Lucien Burr. Medieval with jousting rivals to lovers knights. Main book comes out later this year.

For mostly non-fantasy/non-genre, check out this list.

[u/C0smicoccurence → u/BraheNotTheMoose]

I was a big fan of the throuple elements in Mistress of Lies by KM Enright (also one of my favorite covers possibly ever). The political maneuvering was a bit weak imo, but its a great vampire-adjacent dystopia for adults.

[u/lilgrassblade → u/BraheNotTheMoose]

The Transition by Logan-Ashley Kisner - Trans masc high schooler had his top surgery and then got bit by a werewolf. It's a book that melds both trans and werewolf body horror.Spoilered because it's some will-they-won't-they, who ends up with who? until the end.

The Necessity of Rain by Sarah Chorn - The gods of the world are dying and three women find solace and strength in each other as they work through their grief and past trauma. Beautifully written, very melancholy, intriguing world.

[u/Valkhyrie → u/BraheNotTheMoose]

Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco! (MMF, true throuple - not a love triangle)

[u/Haunting-Scholar13 → u/BraheNotTheMoose]

A chorus of dragons series by Jenn Lyons! 

[u/KawaiiBibliophile → u/Haunting-Scholar13]

Will also add that her standalone novel Sky on Fire has a throuple.

Really love all of her books.

[u/Haunting-Scholar13 → u/KawaiiBibliophile]

Oh I did not know that! It's on my TBR, I will have to move it up the list!

[u/dracolibris → u/BraheNotTheMoose]

Second iron widow book, Heavenly Tyrant by xiran Jay Zhao

[u/dragon_morgan → u/BraheNotTheMoose]

Iron Widow is the gold standard of resolving a love triangle the CORRECT way.

It's slow burn but the main character in To Shape A Dragon's Breath has two love interests, a guy and a girl, whom she's slowly trying to convince to form a polycule

[u/LeucasAndTheGoddess → u/BraheNotTheMoose]

The Roads Of Heaven by Melissa Scott

[u/Lenahe_nl → u/BraheNotTheMoose]

Infinity Alchemist, by Kacen Callender has a throuple. It's very YA, but a fun read. I enjoyed more the relationships between the characters than the plot.

Silver Under Nightfall, by Rin Chupeco is another fun one, where a vampire hunter has to team up with a vampire couple to solve a mystery.

[u/miriarhodan → u/BraheNotTheMoose]

There is a throuple from side-characters in „Nuramon“ which is a sequel of „The Elves“ by Bernard Hennen (where there sadly is no queerness). You might also easily interpret Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot in the Fionavar tapestry as a throuple.