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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 book cover for Chasing Harmony: A silhouette of a girl sitting at a piano

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Author Melanie Bell on her YA Novel “Chasing Harmony” and the Messy Process of Growing Up Queer

“The people I met who were identified as musical prodigies had long journeys involving conflict between their abilities and personal needs and finding who they were beyond the weight of…

Darcy

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Sep 17, 2022

four square: abandoned mall, choose your own adventure, disneyworld, the TSA

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Things I Read That I Love #328: You Never Called That Girl Back Even Though You Were Dating

Topics include the mall, Tinder, Gabby Petito, the abuse scandal at an acclaimed L.A high school, Choose Your Own Adventure books, Crime Junkie, amusement parks, dog breeds and more!

Riese

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Sep 16, 2022

Three images in a row of the pink cover of the book I'm The Girl. It features a blonde girl with dark brows and smeared red lipstick on a pink background.

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“I’m the Girl” Is a Harrowing, Complex Story of Abuse That’s Difficult To Read

Courtney Summers’ latest thriller tries to hold our culture accountable for its crimes against teen girls. Does it succeed?

Darcy

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Sep 13, 2022

A woman reads a book on a bench, and stars are bursting from it.

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Rainbow Reading: Book Recommendations From Hot People Just Hit Different

It’s a great time to immerse yourself in some LGBTQ+ sci-fi and genre fiction.

Yashwina

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Sep 8, 2022

An image made of two repeating images of the author Sarah Thankam Mathews photo and the cover of her book All This Could Be Different. The author is a South Asian woman with long dark hair wearing a red and black boldly patterned top and orange earrings. She is looking at the viewer. The cover of all this could be different features a painting of a crowded room of a diverse array of people all interacting, drinking, talking, sitting, standing, leaning on each other. It is very colorful.

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A+ Read a Fucking Book Club Q&A with Sarah Thankam Mathews

This time, we’re reading All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews, a book our Managing Editor Kayla called “so good I dreaded finishing it.”

Nico

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Sep 7, 2022

The "Coven" graphic novel book cover features a witch in a red trench coat holding fire in both of her hands.

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Queer Graphic Novel “Coven” Will Fill the Buffy-Shaped Hole in Your Heart

Do you like witches, gays, and found family, and fictional teen angst? Is there a Buffy- or Baby-Sitter’s Club- or Motherland: Fort Salem-shaped hole in your heart? Good news, this…

Heather Hogan

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Sep 6, 2022

The following books: We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds; The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin; Faltas by Cecilia Gentili; Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo; When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar; It Came From the Closet anthology; A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo; The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha; A Short History of Queer Women; The Color Pynk by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley; Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales; Will Do Magic for Small Change by Andrea Hairston; Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner; Magodiz by Gabe Calderon; Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam; Love Me Tender; Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwell; Heretic by Jeanna Kadlec; Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong; Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir; Queer Little Nightmares anthology; Power: The Rise of Black Women in America by Charity C. Elder; When the Angels Left the Old Country; The Long Covid Survival Guide

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103 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way Fall 2022

I can guarantee there is something for everyone on this list of fall 2022 queer and feminist books, whether your jam is graphic novel fairy tales, memoirs about queer family,…

Casey

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Sep 6, 2022

Stef Rubino's Middlesex tattoo, featuring the words "other halves" and a person emerging from petals. Also, the cover of Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.

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“Middlesex” Has a Complicated Legacy — 20 Years Ago, It Changed My Life

When I read Middlesex, I felt that tinge of recognition I think a lot of queer and trans people look for when they realize something is different about themselves.

Stef Rubino

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Sep 4, 2022