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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

Queer Books To Read if You Love ‘Yellowjackets’

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Queer Books To Read if You Love ‘Yellowjackets’

Feminist fairytales, girlhood horror, and genre-bending books for the feral gays hungry for more Yellowjackets-adjacent stories!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Mar 6, 2025

Paper Doll by Dylan Mulvaney, Woodworking by Emily St. James, and Liquid: A Love Story by Mariam Rahmani

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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for March 2025

New Torrey Peters! A debut novel from Emily St. James! Queer, Black poetry collections! March is gonna be a great month for LGBTQ literature.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

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Mar 1, 2025

THE SHUTOUTS by Gabrielle Korn

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

“I tried not to do that. I tried to keep the most important thing the story and the storytelling, because I think it gets annoying when you have an agenda.…

Riese

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Feb 17, 2025

The Last Bookstore on Earth

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There Has Never Been a Better Time To Read About Two Girls Falling in Love at the End of the World

The Last Bookstore on Earth is a YA dystopian novel set in a bookstore and full of sapphic yearning.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Feb 7, 2025

Alligator Tears by Edgar Gomez, All the Parts We Exile by Roza Nozari, and Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

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The Most Anticipated Queer Books for February 2025

Check out our top five picks for the month along with the rest of the LGBTQ book slate for February.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

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Feb 1, 2025

Broughtupsy by Christina Cooke

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Read an Excerpt From ‘Broughtupsy’, a Queer Jamaican Diaspora Novel

Chirp of tree frogs floating sonorous, each piercing chirrup rising on the wane of the last. I’m in my childhood home.

Christina Cooke

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Jan 28, 2025

Queer Books About the Environment for When All You Can Think About Is Climate Crisis

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Queer Books About the Environment for When All You Can Think About Is Climate Crisis

These 30+ books are about land, ecology, natural disasters, apocalypse, the harm capitalism does to the planet, despair, hope, growth, death, and rebirth.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Jan 20, 2025

Slapping Leather Queer Cowfolx at the Rodeo

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A New History of Gay Rodeos Explores How Cowboys Have Always Been Queer

Slapping Leather addresses how the idealized white masculine cowboy has always been a myth.

Lauren Herold

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Jan 9, 2025

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