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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 upcoming book Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko, surrounded by stars and against a blue and gray background

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Rainbow Reading: Lesbian Jesus Hayley Kiyoko Wrote a Book

It’s based on her hit song “Girls Like Girls.”

Yashwina

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Mar 23, 2023

Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen

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As Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Ramps Up in My Home State, I Find Myself Returning to This Book

It’s been a rough time to be a queer from Tennessee.

Yashwina

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Mar 22, 2023

The Fake by Zoe Whittal

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“The Fake” Is a Funny-Sad-Sexy Novel About the Psychological Damage Scammers Inflict

It’s a book about a scammer, but The Fake isn’t trying to hoodwink the reader.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Mar 21, 2023

Infamous by Lex Croucher

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New Historical Romance “Infamous” Reads Like Queer Jane Austen

This is the sapphic Regency coming-of-age book you’ve been waiting for.

Casey

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Mar 20, 2023

Three copies of the cover of A Day of Fallen Night. A gold and teal dragon on an orange background. The text reads: A Day of Fallen Night / Samantha Shannon

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“A Day of Fallen Night” Is the Most Satisfying Queer and Trans Fantasy Book I’ve Ever Read

The prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree confirms that Samantha Shannon’s Roots of Chaos series is to queer nerds what The Lord of the Rings is to straight…

Heather Hogan

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Mar 17, 2023

Matricide by Carola Tomaso. A badge reads LOST LESBIAN LIT.

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Lost Lesbian Lit: Mommy Issues! At the Women’s Writers Retreat

Lost Lesbian Lit is a series of essays about lesbian literature from before 2010 with fewer than 25 ratings on Goodreads.

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Mar 17, 2023

Three copies of the cover of The Daughters of Izdihar. A red, orange, and yellow sunset sits above a blue city. The silhouette of a woman in a robe, holding a wand, sits in the middle, between two outlined buildings.

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“The Daughters of Izdihar” Is Fantastical Queer Feminist Rage

I have seen some angry women in fantasy stories before, but I have never felt the kind of fury pulsating off of them the way I did with queer water-bender…

Heather Hogan

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Mar 16, 2023

Faltas by Cecilia Gentili, Virology by Joseph Osmundson, Brown Neon by Raquel Gutiérrez, Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield, Ma and Me by Putsata Reang, How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler, Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam, Pretty Baby by Chris Belcher, Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang, and Manywhere by Morgan Thomas

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Congratulations to the 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalists!

Revisit Autostraddle’s reviews and interviews with this year’s Lambda Literary 2023 shortlisted books and authors.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Mar 15, 2023

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