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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

Cactus Country by Zoe Bossiere

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‘Cactus Country’ Moves Beyond the Expected Borders of the Traditional Transition Memoir

Our stories don’t have to end where they start if we stay open to the potential around us.

Stef Rubino

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May 21, 2024

We Were the Universe by Kimberly King Parson

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In ‘We Were the Universe’, Grief and Motherhood Are Horny

We Were the Universe eschews the conventional grief novel in its horniness, the conventional motherhood novel in its queerness, and even the conventional sex novel in its emphasis on fantasy…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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May 20, 2024

Love the World or Get Killed Trying: the cover of the novel with Alvina Chamberland nude resting on shimmery ice.

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‘Love the World Or Get Killed Trying’ Is a Poetic Cry of Trans Loneliness

The achievement of Alvina Chamberland’s text is how she reveals the deeper loneliness beneath her romantic isolation.

Drew Burnett Gregory

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May 15, 2024

Memory Piece by Lisa Ko

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‘Memory Piece’ Understands the Power of an Archive

Through three interconnected characters, Lisa Ko pens a very queer book about memory, art, and revolution.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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May 13, 2024

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden, and Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

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19 Queer Books About Losing a Parent

These queer books across all genres are all haunted in some way by the death of a parent.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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May 11, 2024

For Your Consideration, Her Royal Highness, Sizzle Reel

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17 Queer “Celebrity Falls For Normal Person” Romance Books If You Liked ‘The Idea Of You’

If you liked “The Idea of You” but wished it was gay, these lesbian, queer and gay novels that feature romance between a celebrity and a normal person will definitely…

Riese

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May 10, 2024

How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix

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‘How it Works Out’ Imagines Many Madcap Alternate Universes of Queer Love

It’s a gorgeous, speculative exercise in romance that’s as bound together as it is fragmented.

Aamina Inayat Khan

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May 8, 2024

Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun

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A Hilarious Sapphic Road Trip Romance About Death and English Teachers

‘Here We Go Again’ by Alison Cochrun delights — despite dealing with death.

ashni

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Apr 30, 2024

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