2026 Pride Treasure Hunt

It's June, and our annual Pride Month Hunt has returned!

We've scattered a shower of rainbows around the site. You'll solve the clues below to find the rainbows and gather them all together.

  • Decipher the clues below and visit the corresponding LibraryThing pages to find a rainbow. Each clue points to a specific page right here on LibraryThing. Remember, they are not necessarily work pages!
  • If there's a rainbow on a page, you'll see a banner at the top of the page.
  • You have a little less than a week to find all the rainbows (until 12:59pm EDT, Tuesday June 30th).
  • Come brag about your shower of rainbows (and get hints) on Talk.

Win prizes:

  • Any member who finds at least two rainbows will be awarded a rainbow badge Badge: ().
  • Members who find all 11 rainbows will be entered into a drawing for some LibraryThing (or TinyCat) swag. We'll announce winners at the end of the hunt.

P.S. Thanks to conceptDawg for the illustration of a kookaburra! ConceptDawg has made all of our treasure hunt graphics in the last couple of years. We like them, and hope you do, too!

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Rainbow 1

Secret kisses and hockey pucks,

A Canadian-Russian romance deluxe.

A few words delivered peak wattage:

I'm coming to the cottage. (Abby)

Rainbow 2

Named for a journalist with conviction,

And the band played on, his defining note.

This award honors nonfiction,

Previously awarded to a Scapegoat. (Abby)

Rainbow 3

From poets like Whitman and Auden

To neighborhoods broad and golden,

Coney Island to the Navy Yard,

This queer history of a borough we regard. (Abby)

Rainbow 4

The Bennet family, Pemberley and more --

But switch Lizzy for Kit (who we adore).

Now it's your chance to early review

This retelling that's queer through and through. (Abby)

Rainbow 5

This June we’re celebrating Pride,

By collectively creating a nonfiction reading guide.

Whether Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, or Queer,

Choose your ten favorite works and add them here. (Kate)

Rainbow 6

How do you like your literary vampires?

Toxic and lesbian, obviously.

This author feeds immortal desires,

Women hunger across centuries. (Abby)

Rainbow 7

If you’re a lover of products from LibraryThing

And want a daily reminder, perhaps something with cling?

Come pick out a Kaleidoscopic option

Depicting something furry, that might elsewhere be up for adoption. (Kate)

Rainbow 8

A complicated term, but used aplenty

More by young folks than our older gentry.

It’s not quite here and it’s not quite there;

It’s odd, or other, and everywhere.

A lexical uniter across social nooks,

Use this umbrella term to label your books. (Zeph)

Rainbow 9

A common history of this very celebration

It details the people behind the occasion.

Learn about the bar where Pride began,

Where victims of violence one night took a stand,

And the lives of six people who helped cross the line

Giving us something to celebrate in 1969. (Zeph)

Rainbow 10

Perhaps not a book that one would presume

To go on a Pride list in the bloom of June,

But ask any lady in the goth club, she’ll say

That a source for Dracula was probably gay.

A spooky story set in Austrian hills

Where the honored guest is a monster that kills.

While there are no pronouncements of love in sight,

It forgoes a sapphic kiss in favor of a bite. (Zeph)

Rainbow 11

A sweet little picture book telling the story

Of what goes into Pride, in all its glory.

About dragqueens and bikers, and history too,

A young narrator shares what their family will do,

And what happens around town before this joyful date

When everyone’s reminded that who they are is great. (Zeph)