You're listening to All The More Books, a weekly show about books of all kinds.

I'm your host, Vanessa Diaz. This episode is airing on Friday, June 13th, and today I'm going to tell you about a few fantastic queer

Latiné books. I am realizing, as I speak these words to you right now, that it is indeed

Friday the 13th, and maybe I should have come up with a cool creepy theme, but I didn't realize it.

Oh, well, I'm human. But you know what? That's fine, because I would really, really rather

talk to y'all about these fantastic queer Latina books for a couple of reasons. I think I've mentioned here before that I'm the captain of our Latine Lit newsletter,

which is exactly what it sounds like. It's a newsletter dedicated to Latine elite. It's a bi-weekly

gig where I discuss new releases, book recommendations, you know, newsy bits, etc. I recently wrote up

a list for that newsletter of queer Latina books for pride and

beyond, because of course we don't only read queer books in June around here, but you knew that

already. And so it feels really important, this pride in particular to talk about queer books,

because queerness and pride as, you know, an event are just under attack left and right. And in spite

of all of that hateful

energy, we continue the celebration and the protest. And of course, I'm always going to be

passionate about Latin elit, but it feels especially important to me right now as I'm watching

all these awful headlines about ICE, just rounding up folks, very specifically brown folks in

two of the cities that are like super important to me as a person who was

raised in San Diego and spent a lot of time in L.A. So again, we're going to celebrate today.

So that's what I'm going to do with these three books that are such fantastic reads. I have a

collection of essays and then accidentally two romances, but that's fine because, you know, it's all

love. But before I talk entirely too much like I am prone to do, let's go ahead and hear from

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