Proud Geek LGBTQ+ Bookshop

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A queer online book shop based in the UK, specialising in LGBTQ+ graphic novels, books, and manga. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚✌🏻@proudgeekbookshop elsewhere. https://linktr.ee/ProudGeekBookshop

A stack of nine LGBTQ+ books about reality TV.

▪️ The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar - for fans of The Great British Bake Off.
▪️ Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly - for fans of MasterChef.
▪️ Love Galaxy by Sierra Branham - for fans of The Bachelor.
▪️ Summer of Love by Lily Easton - for fans of Love Island.
▪️ Reality Check by Lizzie Huxley-Jones - for fans of Love Is Blind.
▪️ Good Luck, Babe by Erin Baldwin - for fans of Race Across The World.
▪️ Marooned by Ben Chalfin - for fans of Survivor.
▪️ Specter Inspectors by Bowen McCurdy & Kaitlyn Musto - for fans of Ghost Hunters.
▪️ Let's Not Go Overboard Here by Erica Hendry - for fans of Below Deck.

Text read: Screw Audible, make the switch

A Stack of nine queer graphic novels with non-binary main characters.

Books included in this stack are:

▪️ Evil-Ish by Kennedy Tarrell – wannabe villains in magical realms.
▪️ Love, Misha by Askel Aden – a fantasy road trip adventure.
▪️ Grand Slam Romance by Ollie Hicks & Emma Oosterhous – spicy kisses, magical girls & baseball drama.
▪️ Specter Inspectors by Bowen McCurdy & Kaitlyn Musto – ghosts, ghouls & queer romance.
▪️ Another Kind by Cait May & Trevor Bream – supernatural fantasy adventure.
▪️ Homebody by Theo Parish – heartwarming & nerdy graphic memoir.
▪️ It Took Luke by Mark Bouchard, Bayleigh Underwood, Micah Myers & Jasmine Walls – pest control & eldritch horror.
▪️ Nether Realms edited by Tab Kimpton & The Neon Caster – an erotic sci-fi comic anthology.
▪️ Spirit World by Alyssa Wong, Haining & Sebastian Cheng – demons, spirits, & big swords.

Text reads: 20 queer books with disability rep to read during disability pride month.

A stack of new queer books available at the Proud Geek - a queer online bookshop based in the UK.

Book cover for Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle.

Text reads: Out today: Fabulous Bodies, a campy supernatural horror full of blood, gore and carnage.

Book covers for ten queer books coming out in July 2026 at Proud Geek Bookshop:

▪️ LOCA by Alejandro Heredia
▪️ Mirrorwoven by Bori Cser
▪️ Heartstopper Vol. 6 by Alice Oseman
▪️ Moss’d In Space by Rebecca Thorne
▪️ Sora & Haena! Vol. 1 by Jackbull
▪️ The Body Riddle by Sam K MacKinnon
▪️ Ladies of the Knight by Fiona Marchbank
▪️ Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle
▪️ Nothing Tastes As Good by Luke Dumas
▪️ Yield Under Great Persuasion by Alexandra Rowland

Book cover for BUUZA!! Volume 1, Good Morning Salwa by Shazleen Khan. Text reads: BUUZA!! is out today - order from Proud Geek and get a signed bookplate.

Text reads: Pride markets this weekend: i'll be at United In Love 26, University Sqaure Coventry Sat 20th from 12pm and then Queens Heath Pride Kings Heath Birmingham Sunday 21st from 10am-5pm

Book cover for Rottenheart by Kat Dunn

10 queer books coming out in June 2026:

- Rottenheart by Kat Dunn
- BUUZA!! Volume 1, Good Morning Salwa by Shazleen Khan
- The Queer Bookshelf: A Reader’s Guide by Layla McCay
- Dogs On Dates by Luke Healy
- 25 Days In Athens by Jack Strange
- Encore! By Miles Toriko Burks
- One Knight Strand by Amie Kaufman & Megan Spooner
- The Unmagical Life Of Briar Jones by Lex Croucher
- The Last Best Quest Ever by FT Lukens
- The Castle Of Stories by Matt Cain

A stack of LGBTQ+ books about bookshops, booksellers and librarians:

▪️ Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree – cosy fantasy, bookshops and adventure.
▪️ The Secret Crush Book Club by Karmen Lee – parents, librarians and small-town romance.
▪️ The Last Bookstore On Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold – dystopian futures, naïve teens, and acid rain.
▪️ Look Up Handsome by Jack Strange – bookshops & sweet contemporary holiday romance.
▪️ The In-Between Bookstore by Edward Underhill – magical bookshops, time travel, and identity.
▪️ How Queer Bookshops Changed The World by AJ West – queer bookshops, booksellers and publishing.
▪️ These Shattered Spires by Cassidy Ellis Salter – magic, adventure, curses and librarians.
▪️ Honour & Heresy by Max Francis – dark academia, mystery and haunted libraries.

A stack of queer books with the spines showing

Text reads: in a rush? We now accept Apple Pay. Images of the Proud Geek bookshop website are included

Test reads: Currently reading The Log Books by Tash Walker & Adam Zmith.

The book cover for The Log Books is also shown

Book cover for John Of John by Douglas Stuart - queer fiction out Thursday the 21st May 2026

Book cover for Queer As Folkloore by Sasha Coward

Book cover for NECTAR - an anthology of 14 transfemme & non-binary erotic comics - suitable for ages 18+.

Text reads: currently reading How Queer Bookshops Changed The World by AJ West

A stack of ten queer books reimagining classic stories. Included in this stack is:

▪️ This Wretched Beauty by Elle Grenier – The Picture of Dorian Gray but as a trans gothic fantasy.
▪️ The Boyfriend Subscription by Steven Salvatore – Pretty Woman but as a spicy gay rom-com.
▪️ One Week to Win the Chocolate Maker by Timothy Janovsky – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but as a gay adult romance.
▪️ Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron – Cinderella but as a sapphic fantasy romance set 200 years later.
▪️ The Death I Gave Him by Em X Liu – Hamlet but as queer science fiction.
▪️ Off With Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta – Alice in Wonderland but as a Korean-inspired sapphic fantasy horror.
▪️ Mismatched by Anne Camlin & Isadora Zeferino – Jane Austin’s Emma but as a queer highschool drama graphic novel.
▪️ Lion’s Legacy by L C Rosen –Indiana Jones but as a gay romance adventure.
▪️ Hollow by Shannon Watters, Branden Boyer-White & Bernice Nelle – Sleepy Hollow but as a sapphic adventure graphic novel.
▪️ Hell’s Heart by Alexis Hall – Moby Dick but as a smutty sapphic eldritch horror space opera.

Ten book covers of queer books coming out in May 2026 at the Proud Geek bookshop:

▪️ Maybe Tomorrow I'll Know by Alex Ritany
▪️ Say Nephew: On Boyhood, Unclehood, and Queer Mentorship by Steven Pfau
▪️ How Queer Bookshops Change The World by A.J West
▪️ Homebound by Portia Elan
▪️ Wonders Never Cease by Lexy Hudson
▪️ First Summer by Ekin Oklap
▪️ Galaxy: As The World Falls Down by Jadzia Axelrod & Rye Hickman
▪️ John of John by Douglas Stuart
▪️ No Fats, No Fems by Max Hovey
▪️ Forgive Me Not by Mari Costa

Map of how to get to the Birmingham Book Extravaganza on the 2nd May 2026

Text reads: I'll be at Birmingham Book Extravaganza at the Uffclume Centre next Saturday, 10.30 - 4pm

Text reads: Screw audible, make the switch!

Book cover for Fruit Fly by Josh Silver

A stack of nine weird and horny queer horror books with their spines showing. Included in this stack are:

▪️ Paradice Rot by Jenny Hval - bodies, plants & a lot of urine.
▪️ Deliver Me by Elle Nash – sex, cruelty & exotic insects.
▪️ Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta – love, monsters & modern life.
▪️ Walking Practice by Dolki Min - horny & bloody alien body horror.
▪️ Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin – nasty & visceral erotic queer novella.
▪️ A Game In Yellow by Hailey Piper - horny lesbians, cosmic horror and a very strange play.
▪️ Herculine by Gracy Byron – cults, secrets & all-trans-lesbian communes.
▪️ He’s The Devil by Tobi Coventry - roommates, paranoia & loneliness.
▪️ Influenca by Jade LFT Peters – zombie hordes & lesbian influencers.

Text reads: 20 books with lesbian characters to read this lesbian visibility week

Book cover for Punk'n Heads graphic novel by Dave Baker & Nicole Goux

text reads: queer book sale: proud-geek.co.uk/sale

Text reads: Currently reading Fruit Fly by Josh Silver

A stack of eight queer books about alien creatures and eldritch horrors

▪️ Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White – cults, monsters & YA horror.
▪️ Walking Practice by Dolki Min – sex, blood & aliens.
▪️ Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir – lesbians, swords & necromancy.
▪️ It Took Luke by Mark Bouchard & Bayleigh Underwood – pest control & eldritch horror.
▪️ We Call Them Witches by India-Rose Bower – family, survival & horror.
▪️ Overgrowth by Mira Grant – plants, aliens & an impending invasion.
▪️ A Rather Vengeful Accord by Danielle Knight – dark academia, competition & necromancy.
▪️ Hell’s Heart by Alexis Hall – sci-fi, harpoons & eldritch monsters.

A stack of new and restocked books with their spines showing for sale on the Proud Geek website.

Text read: Currently reading APPARENTLY, SIR CAMERON NEEDS TO by Greer Stothers.

The book cover is included in the image.

Ten book covers of new queer releases in April:

▪️ Bloom by Robbie Couch
▪️ Fruit Fly by Josh Silver
▪️ Reality check by Lizzie Huxley-Jones
▪️ Triple Threat by Isha Raya
▪️ Someone To Daydream About by Sydney Langford
▪️ Welcome To Dorley Hall by Alyson Greaves
▪️ The Last Death Poet by Stephen Daly
▪️ Punk’N Heads by Dave Baker & Nicole Goux
▪️ Honor & Heresy by Max Francis
▪️ The Boyfriend Subscription by JS Strange

Text reads? Screw audible, make the switch!

Book cover for Bad Queer

Text reads: 50% off selected queer books at proud-geek.co.uk

A stack of nine queer books about grief, loss and death:

▪️ My Brother’s Husband by Gengoroh Tagame – family, prejudice and culture
▪️ The Boy I Love by William Hussey – war, heartbreak and forbidden love
▪️ Under The Whispering Door by TJ Klune – tea, death and reapers
▪️ Lessons In Magic And Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders – witches, grief and magic
▪️ Adversary by Blue Delliquanti – covid, sex and trauma
▪️ I Love You Don’t Die by Jade Song – love, loneliness and throuples
▪️ Ditching Saskia by John Moore & Neetols – loss, frustration, highschool and identity
▪️ The Ghostkeeper by Johanna Taylor – ghosts, mediums and the afterlife
▪️ Waves by Ingrid Chabbert & Carole Maurel – pregnancy, loss and hope

Text reads: I'm currently reading These Shattered Spires by Cassidy Ellis Salter.

The book cover is included in the image

Text reads: 20 trans & non-binary comics to read this trans rights readathon

A stack of new and restocked books with their spines showing for sale on the Proud Geek website.

Text reads: 20 trans & non-binary books to read this trans rights readathon

Book cover for These Shattered Spires by Cassidy Ellis Salter

A stack of 9 queer books about devils and demons:

▪️ The Devil She Knows by Alexandria Bellefleur – demons, exes & lesbian romance.
▪️ Here To Slay by Radhika Sanghani - Buffy meets Hindu mythology.
▪️ Roommate From Hell by Cale Dietrich – roommates, college & fake dating.
▪️ Deadendia by Hamish Steele – trans teens, theme parks & demonic portals.
▪️ He’s The Devil by Tobi Coventry – roommates, paranoia & loneliness.
▪️ Herculine by Gracy Byron – cults, secrets & all-trans-lesbian communes.
▪️ Let Me Out by Emmett Nahil & George Williams – punks, outcasts & satanic panic.
▪️ The Demon of Beausoleil by Mari Costa – horny half-demons, bodyguards & exorcisms.
▪️ The Faithful Dark by Cate Baumer – gothic fantasy, mystery & faith.

Text reads: Get 50% off selected queer books so we can make more room for new stock! Spring 2026 at proud-geek.co.uk

Included in this video:

▪️ The Faithful Dark by Cate Baumer – sanctity, murder and faith.
▪️ Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs To Die – magical fantasy rom-com.
▪️ A Wild Radiance by Maria Ingande Mora – magic, power and rebellion.
▪️ He’s The Devil by Tobi Coventry – weird and modern. gay horror

Text reads: I’m currently reading GEORGE FALLS THROUGH TIME by Ryan Collett.

It’s historical fiction meets lit-fic meets fantasy meets romance about a gay dog walker who falls through time and ends up in the medieval era. There’s humour, apathy and 1300s brutality. So far it’s kind of bleak, but kind of lovely, all told through a stream of consciousness… and also apparently there are Dragons.

George Falls Through Time comes out on 12th March 2026

“Newly laid off George’s internet bill is in his ex-boyfriend’s name. He’s got a spider-infested apartment, and two of the six dogs he’s walking in London have just escaped. It’s pure undiluted stress that sends him into a spiral, all the way to the year 1300.

When he comes to, George recognizes the same rolling hills of Greenwich Park. But the luxuries and phone service of modernity are nowhere. In their place are locals with a bizarre, slanted speech in awe of his foreign clothes, who swiftly toss him in a dungeon.”

Text reads: queer book sale at proud-geek.co.uk/sale

Ten new LGBTQ+ books coming out in March 2026 at Proud Geek Bookshop.

▪️ Bad Queer by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
▪️ Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor
▪️ Hell’s Heart by Alexis Hall
▪️ My Lover, The Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum
▪️ Anderson In Bloom by Jennifer Dugan
▪️ Wayward Souls by Susan J Morris
▪️ These Shattered Spires by Cassidy Ellis Salter
▪️ I Love You, Don’t Die by Jade Song
▪️ The Great Disillusionment of Nick and Jay by Ryan Douglass
▪️ George Falls Through Time by Ryan Collett

Text reads: I’ll be at Coventry book extravaganza at the Albany theatre this Saturday 10.30-4pm

A stack of 11 queer and cosy books to read on rainy days:

▪️ Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell – love, monsters and romance
▪️ Costumes For Time Travellers by A.R. Capetta – costume shops and time travellers
▪️ Homegrown Magic by Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos – sapphic romance and garden magic
▪️ How To Lose A Goblin In Ten Days – halflings, goblins and romance
▪️ Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis – sci-fi, mystery and chosen family
▪️ Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree – high fantasy, low stakes and lots of coffee
▪️ Cubs & Campfires by Dylan Drakes – bears, writing and lots of sex
▪️ House Of Frank by Kay Synclaire – grief, loss and magic
▪️ Monk And Robot by Becky Chambers – tea monks and robots
▪️ The Girl From The Sea by Lee Knox Ostertag – seaside, selkies and sapphic crushes
▪️ Into The Midnight Wood by Alexandra McCollum – roommates, magic and romance

Text reads: currently listening to Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood In Black Gay Britain by Jason Okundaye. The audiobook cover from Libro.FM is included in the image.

Blurb:

In this landmark work, Jason Okundaye meets an elder generation of Black gay men and finds a spirited community full of courage, charisma and good humour, hungry to tell its past - of nightlife, resistance, political fights, loss, gossip, sex, romance and vulgarity. Through their conversations he seeks to reconcile the Black and gay narratives of Britain, narratives frequently cleaved as distinct and unrelated.

Tracing these men's journeys and arrivals to South London through the seventies, eighties and nineties from the present day, Okundaye relays their stories with rare compassion, listening as they share intimate memories and reflect upon their lives. They endured and fought against the peak of the AIDS epidemic, built social groups and threw underground parties; they went to war with institutions (and with each other) and created meaning within a society which was often indifferent to their existence.

Book cover for A Wild Radiance by Maria Ingrande Mora

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Proud Geek Market Dates 2026 - Albany Theatre, Coventry on the 28th of February - Uffclume Centre, Birmingham on the 2nd of May - Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa on the 1st of August - Uffclume Centre, Birmingham on the 12th of September

A stack of LGBTQ+ books for sale at Proud Geek Bookshop - some new queer books and some older queer books that have been restocked.

Audiobook covers on a pink background. Text reads: queer history for non-fiction nerds - LIBRO.FM/PROUDGEEK

▪️ We Call Them Witches by India-Rose Bower - family, survival and eldritch horror.
▪️ How To Lose A Goblin In Ten Days by Jessie Sylva - queer fantasy rom-com.
▪️ On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Schofield - brutal sapphic gothic horror.
▪️ The Log Books by Tash Walker & Adam Zmith - queer British history and helplines.

You can also listen to The Log Books Podcast now wherever you listen to podcasts