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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

Please Stop Trying To Leave Me by Alana Saab, Horse Barbie by Geena Rocero, and Wish You Weren't Here by Erin Baldwin

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46 Most Anticipated Queer Books Coming Out In June 2024

Hot fresh reads for a hot bookish Pride month!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

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Jun 11, 2024

The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters

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‘The Other Olympians’ Is Essential Reading Heading Into This Year’s Summer Olympics

It’s a fascinating and, oftentimes, frustrating exploration of how we got to where we are in both the sports and gender debate and the limitation of trans rights in general.

Stef Rubino

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Jun 4, 2024

Autostraddle and Bookshop collab with two lesbians reading together

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75 Books for Every Pride Vibe

Browse our curated list of books by LGBTQ authors and receive a discount on books purchased through Bookshop all Pride month long!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Jun 3, 2024

"i want you more" by swan huntley

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‘I Want You More’ Traps a Lesbian Ghostwriter in a Manor With a Devious Food Network Star

Talking to Swan Huntley about her new queer thriller “I Want You More,” building a writing career, whether she takes her own advice, the endless internal void, loving food shows…

Riese

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May 31, 2024

The 7-10 Split and A Little Kissing Between Friends

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This Month, We Get Two Sapphic Romances Featuring Black Main Characters

I hope this means there will be more trad pubs looking to publish Black sapphic stories, because my bookshelf is ready.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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May 30, 2024

Making Gaybies by Jaya Keaney

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When it Comes to Queer Fertility, There Are No Perfect Choices

I was 22 years old when I donated my eggs anonymously at a fertility clinic in New York City.

Lauren Herold

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May 29, 2024

Housemates novel: a triptych of the cover of Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates, a blue tinted image of side by side Philly homes with a pink, green, and blue palette for the the title and outline.

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‘Housemates’ Is a Remarkable Novel, Intimate, Expansive, and Full of Sight

It’s about seeing through images and seeing through words. It’s also a love story, about falling for the way another person sees the world, the magic of realizing someone sees…

Drew Burnett Gregory

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May 28, 2024

Anna Dorn with her book Perfume & Pain

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Anna Dorn Writes Maximalist, Campy Queer Fiction Inspired by Lesbian Pulp

“I have problematic fantasies about being closeted in the 50s and just like having ‘a friend.'”

Keely

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May 22, 2024

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