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Every summer has its defining books: the ones passed between friends, packed into beach bags, and talked about long after the final page. 📚

Here are eight bestselling reads to add to your summer lineup. 🏖️

Looking to add some incredible LGBTQ+ stories to your shelves? 📚🏳️‍🌈

Don’t miss your chance to enter our Pride Month giveaway! Follow us, like the original post, and tag a book lover you’d share these books with for an opportunity to win.

Head to the original post to enter!

🌈📚 PRIDE GIVEAWAY 📚🌈

We're celebrating love, joy, resilience, identity, history, art, and the extraordinary range of voices in this collection by LGBTQ+ authors and creators.

From literary romance fiction and q***r Arthurian fantasy to poetry, picture books, memoir, design history, and dark, gloriously weird horror — this giveaway is packed with stories and ideas that inform, move, surprise, and stay with you long after the final page.

Here's what's up for grabs:
📚 It Had to Be Him by Adib Khorram
📚 The Lost Book of Lancelot by John Glynn
📚 Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu
📚 Love Is For All of Us by James Crew and Brad Peacock
📚 Poppy's Question by Nicole Melleby
📚 Q***r and How We Got Here by Hazel Newlevant
📚 Q***r x Design by Andy Campbell
📚 ABCs of Q***r History by Seema Yasmin
📚 Love Out Loud by Jarius Joseph and Terrell Joseph
📚 So Many Stars by Caro De Robertis
📚 Mr. Moonlight by Philip Norman
📚 Love Letter to a Garden by Debbie Millman
📚 Itty-Bitty Pride Marquee by Running Press
📚 My Bad by Hugh Ryan
📚 Moonflow by Bitter Karella
📚 The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri

How to enter:
✨ Follow us (Hachette Book Group)
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✨ Tag a q***r book lover you'd share this stack with 🌈
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NOTE: The winner of this giveaway will be DM'd by ONLY this account (Hachette Book Group) at the conclusion of this giveaway.

No purchase necessary. 50 U.S./D.C. 18+. Official Facebook giveaway rules apply. Link in bio. NOTE: Giveaway ends June 30th, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET. The winner of this giveaway will be DM'd by ONLY this account at the conclusion of this giveaway.

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Ilyasah Shabazz penned a beautiful Father's Day piece for Oprah Daily about seeking wisdom from a father she never knew.

In her new book, Malcom in the Desert, Shabazz extracts keen lessons about the value of slowing down, listening deeply, and remembering who we truly are. She calls us to respond to crisis with courage, to meet grief with love, to rediscover faith as a creative force for change, and to dream in more revolutionary colors. These pages paint a new picture of Malcolm X through compassionate prose and galvanizing historical insight that shine alongside Jungian, Buddhist, and Islamic principles and wisdom from leading poets and scholars. Shabazz ties it all together with simple practices to help us answer three central questions: Who are you? What do you care about? What is yours to do?

Malcolm X’s Daughter on Searching for the Father Behind the Legend Ilyasah Shabazz was only a toddler when her father was assassinated. Decades later, she writes about ginger cookies, jazz, butterflies—and the details that still bring him closer.