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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for October 2025

It’s October, and you know what that means! Lots of new queer and trans horror heading your way! And plenty…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Oct 7, 2025

The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet by Avery Dame-Griff

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Avery Dame-Griff Is Archiving the Trans Internet

“The history of trans life online is one of sedimentation, with each subsequent change leaving its remains behind to settle and eventually solidify into a mass of images, text, and…

Lauren Herold

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Dec 12, 2023

Eight of the 65 best queer books of 2023: Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky, The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi, Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens, Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante, Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H, The Fake by Zoe Whittall, Freedom House by KB Brookins, and Sorry Bro by Taleen Voskuni

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65 of the Best Queer Books of 2023

Particularly impressive categories this year include memoir/biography, horror — queer and trans horror writers are appropriately giving us their all these days — and comics.

Casey

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Dec 12, 2023

All Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky

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Sex Scenes Belong in Novels: An Interview with Author Ruth Madievsky

“I’ve been working on a new novel which is — you guessed it — about women behaving badly. Or, as my beloved Goodreads prudes will probably think of it: ‘disgusting…

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Dec 11, 2023

Organ Meats by K-Ming Chang

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Queer Desire Is Feral in K-Ming Chang’s Bloody, Spitty “Organ Meats”

Here is an expansive tale of inherited and constructed mythology, queer magic, and gothic girlhood.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Dec 7, 2023

the author Mac Crane in a dark blue and red buttondown, smiling

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Author Mac Crane on the Eroticism of Basketball and Writing Queer and Trans Pleasure

“Basketball is extremely hot, and I wanted that to come through in the book.”

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Nov 27, 2023

Frederich Usher mixing drugs in The Fall of the House of Usher

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Edgar Allan Poe’s Wildest Story Inspired Fall of the House of Usher’s Scariest Moment

There’s something so intimate and terrifying about mouth horror.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Nov 7, 2023

Organ Meats by K-Ming Chang and a photo of the author

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K-Ming Chang on Queer Horror Novel “Organ Meats” and Feeling at Home in the Monstrous

“I feel a sense of belonging among things that are terrifying and cause fear and cause chaos.”

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Nov 3, 2023

He/She/They by Schuyler Bailar

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“He/She/They” Is a Helpful Guide and Call to Action for Allies Everywhere

I’d recommend suggesting it to as many well-meaning cis people as you possibly can.

Stef Rubino

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Oct 24, 2023

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