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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

Brittney Griner and Cherelle Griner attend the 54th NAACP Image Awards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 25, 2023 in Pasadena, California.

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Brittney Griner Is Writing a Memoir About Her Wrongful Russian Imprisonment

Griner’s memoir will talk about her arrest in Moscow, her detention, her trial, her wrongful imprisonment — and the outpouring of support that helped pave the way for her to get…

Heather Hogan

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Apr 11, 2023

Rainbow Reading: Jeopardy’s Amy Schneider Is Writing a Memoir!

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Rainbow Reading: Jeopardy’s Amy Schneider Is Writing a Memoir!

The memoir will come out in October and is available for preorder!

Yashwina

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Apr 6, 2023

The cover of "Recipe for Disaster" where a Blonde person is smushing their face into a sprinkle cake.

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Celebs Share Good Dishes To Get Through Bad Times In “Recipe for Disaster”

For those who find comfort in food while going through the unthinkable.

Shana

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Apr 5, 2023

Dear Prudence by Daniel M. Lavery

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Danny Lavery on What It’s Like To Be an Advice Columnist

“I would imagine a lot of the same things draw to advice columns that draw everyone, which is just that same impulse to run outside if somebody says there’s a…

Yashwina

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Apr 4, 2023

Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick

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This YA Book Is a Great Queer Second-Chance Romance

What would you do if the one person you loved the most was the one person you cannot remember?

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Apr 4, 2023

Zoe Whittall has blunt blonde bangs with straight hair past her shoulders and wears a black tee that says VAG on it as well as a jean jacket. There's a green truck behind her.

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Send Me to Low Femme Paradise

The problem of having to have a body in the world again.

Zoe Whittall

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Mar 27, 2023

a gorgeous layout of the Finding the Fool book which is a gradient blue to purple with moon phases on it, set against a background of color coordinating tarot cards and crystals

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Meg Jones Wall on Queer, Expansive Tarot

“What if we just let all of these cards have gender neutral pronouns and we break them free from these gender binaries and let them be every archetype?”

Nico

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Mar 24, 2023

I Will Find You Again by Sarah Lyu

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Love and Loss Lead to Healing in YA Novel “I Will Find You Again”

Sarah Lyu’s I Will Find You Again deftly captures the volatile nature of teenage girls falling in love with each other for the first time.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Mar 23, 2023

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ilana masad BEINGS

Queer History Meets UFO Lore in Ilana Masad’s Stunning New Novel ‘Beings’

Pick An Actual Category, You Strange Genius

Gabrielle Korn

Benedict Nguyễn interview: a photo of Benedict next to the cover for Hot Girls with Balls

Benedict Nguyễn Finds Performance On the Page

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The Right Isn’t the Only Side We Need To Fight When It Comes to Trans Sports Inclusion

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Alison Bechdel Never Thought She’d Be This Successful

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The Greatest Women Filmmakers Are Mad for a Reason

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Bob the Drag Queen Harriet Tubman Live in Concert: a photo of Bob next to a photo of the book cover

Bob the Drag Queen’s New Novel ‘Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert’ Is More Than a Joke

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Clowning Around With Kristen Arnett

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THE SHUTOUTS by Gabrielle Korn

Maybe Gabrielle Korn Set Her Queer Dystopian Climate Novel ‘The Shutouts’ Too Far in the Future

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