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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

A collage of the 8 book covers of the books included in this list

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M/F Romances Featuring Bi+ Women Whose Queer Identities and Communities are Front and Center

“I am looking for content more than simply a small throw-away line that the woman is bisexual. I would love to see bisexual women for whom their queer identities and…

Casey

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Mar 22, 2021

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Things I Read That I Love #317: One Moment Could Be Ecstatic and The Next Perilous

Topics include reviewing the book review, TikTok aesthetics, Choose Your Own Adventure books, Soho House, private school, “A Teacher” and so much more!

Riese

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Mar 19, 2021

The cover of Melissa Brooder's Milk Fed: An orange background with an abstract pink breast on the front.

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The Audacity of Melissa Broder’s MILK FED

Broder’s coming-of age-tale MILK FED is at turns funny, poignant, and squirm-in-your-seat sexy.

Kate Gorton

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Mar 17, 2021

a sunlit photo portrait of Minnie Bruce Pratt and Leslie Feinberg looking at the camera, juxtaposed with the cover of Minnie Bruce Pratt's book MAGNIFIED

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Labors of Love and Loss: An Interview with Minnie Bruce Pratt on the Occasion of “Magnified,” Her Latest Poetry Collection

In Magnified, Minnie Bruce Pratt meditates on “the eternal time of death, the short intense time of work, and the focused, magnified time of the intimacy” shared with her beloved,…

Sarah Heying

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Mar 15, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit Follows Mix Tape Rules

Toni Morrison as an editor; queer sex, food, and obsession; reimagining sex and survival; and more.

Ryan Yates

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Mar 11, 2021

Three repeating images of the cover of We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, with white text printed on a pink&black scribbled background

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For Us and for You: We Want It All Is an Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics and Archive of Trans Literary Movements

In We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel aim to amplify a politics of trans people against capitalism and empire.

Jai Dulani

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Mar 10, 2021

Book cover art for "A Desolation Called Peace". Illustration of a figure looking out of a large geometrically paneled window, where a large saturn-like object floats in a dazzling burst of light and red smoke. Text reads "A Desolation Called Peace — Arkady Martine" "A mesmerizing debut... it left me utterly dazzled." — The New York Times Book Review on A Memory Called Empire. The second slide is a selfie of the author, Arkady Martine, blue eyes staring directly at camera, red hair in soft waves around her face.

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EXCLUSIVE: A+ Members, Read a Generous Excerpt of Arkady Martine’s “A Desolation Called Peace” Here!

We’re delighted to be able to share an exclusive EXTENDED excerpt of A Desolation Called Peace in honor of its launch.

Rachel

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Mar 3, 2021

someone with long hair reading in a forest

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Lez Liberty Lit: Let’s Loiter

It’s ok not to remember everything that you read, a new fund for Black creatives, and what is it like to explore childhood horror through the lens of queer adulthood?

Ryan Yates

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Feb 25, 2021