Some news for you to start 2025: we’ve decided that we’ll be closing the blog. It’s been 5 years of blogging and, as you might have guess, we’ve been steadily running out of content ideas (and motivation) for the past year or so. So, while we still have some energy, we’re calling it quits. We’ve grown with this blog over the last few years: our reading tastes perhaps changed and our reading habits most definitely have. But the publishing landscape also developed, maybe just not as much as we would all have wanted. Still, it’s easier to find books with LGBT representation than it was just five years ago when we first started this adventure. So we’re leaving you in your own capable hands now (with a few pointers for how we found most of the books on our lists).
Reads Rainbow is going to remain up as an archive, and we’ll still add books to our 2025 list if you email us about them, but we will no longer be posting on here (the newsletter is another matter, should we ever feel a sudden urge to recommend, so you can still follow that if you wish). We will also be making our 2024, 2025, and 2026 onwards lists available for everyone to browse (scroll to the end of this post for that!), but they won’t be updated all that regularly.
We’ve had a super fun time blogging for the past 5 years, but the last year or so has… let’s say tested our ability to come up with new rec lists and content. We hope that, over the years, you’ve found some good books to read, some new music to listen to, and great films to watch! If you ever want recs, you will still be able to find us on various social medias, or via email, so feel free to get in touch.
So, for one last time, let us leave you with a few quick links!
2024 releases posts
Books by month | Music by month | YA (Jan-Jun) | YA (Jul-Dec) | sapphic (Jan-Jun) | sapphic (Jul-Dec) | trans & nonbinary | MG & picture books
