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

I'm your host, Anna Alice.

This is episode number 515.5. And today I'm talking about some of my favorite queer bee trees.

So recently on Book Riot, we put up a list of the best beech reads of all time.

This was a big undertaking. We had a lot of nominations. We had a lot of conversation about which books should

be included and really tried to emphasize the all-time because I think it's really easy to think

about recent books that are good beach reads. But, you know, there's some older backlist titles

that deserve to be in your beach bag, too. So as part of that, I put together

a list of my favorite queer beach reads, and I wanted to share some of those with you.

I find the whole beach reads discussion really interesting because obviously it's not an actual genre. It's, I don't even

know how to describe it, but it is a category we talk about, but people have very different

ideas of what makes a be treat. And that was part of the fun of putting together that list

as we, as we talk about the books that we nominated, we also talk about what makes this a beech read and how we define beatread and the different kinds of beach reads there are.

Because for me, I feel like there's kind of two of the most popular subcategories, which are romance and other feel-good light books,

or mysteries and thrillers, which are almost the opposite.

So it's very funny that those are both considered beach reads.

But I think some people are looking for something really fluffy and light,

and some people are looking for something that's really going to keep them turning the pages.

I tend to lean towards the light side of things. When I think of beach reads, I think of something

very optimistic, romantic, just nothing that's going to bring me down on a beach

day. So that's sort of what I've concentrated on in this list of queer beach reads. But before we

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