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Both/And, Extinction Capital of the World, and The Midnight Shift

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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for August 2025

There’s a lot of new hot queer horror headed your way this August. Plus, more LGBTQ+ lit across all genres!

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Aug 5, 2025

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Hot Girls With Balls by Benedict Nguyen, Lonely Crows by Stephanie Wambugu, and Necessary Fiction by Eloghosa Osunde

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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for July 2025

Pride month may be over, but we read queer all year, and these are our top picks for new LGBTQ+ books coming out July 2025.

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Jul 1, 2025

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Girls Girls Girls; The Dry Season Songs of No Provenance

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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for June 2025

Two real queer humans wrote this queer anticipated books list. AI would have put fake books on it.

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Jun 2, 2025

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milk tooth, Sympathy for Wild Girls, and Foreign Fruit

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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for May 2025

Over 50 promising LGBTQ+ books across every genre are heading your way this month! See our top picks for May 2025.

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May 3, 2025

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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for April 2025

April is a stacked month for LGBTQ+ books, so get in here and find out what to add to your TBR stack!

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Apr 3, 2025

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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.

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Mar 1, 2025

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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.

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Feb 1, 2025

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Good Girl by Aria Aber, Voice Like a Hyacinth by Mallory Pearson and The Shutouts by Gabrielle Korn

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48 Most Anticipated Queer Books Coming Out December 2024 and January 2025

The next couple months are bringing lots of new queer books to shelves, but sapphic Romantasy in particular is booming this winter.

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Dec 10, 2024

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model home, sapling cage and another book coming out in september

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72 Most Anticipated Queer Books Coming Out Fall 2024

Tis the season for queer horror, but fans of sapphic books with magic have a lot to look forward to, too!

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Sep 3, 2024

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You're Embarrassing Yourself by Desiree Akhavan. The Pairing by Casey McQuiston. A Map of My Want by Faylita Hicks

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46 Most Anticipated Queer Books Coming Out This July and August

As usual, all genres are represented, but there’s a surprising amount of creepy reads in the thriller/horror realm coming out the rest of summer.

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Jul 2, 2024

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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!

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Jun 11, 2024

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1. The Default World by Naomi Kanakia. 2. Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg. 3. Cecilia by K-Ming Chang. 4. Sluts: Anthology edited by Michelle Tea. 5. Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé. 6. Thunder Song by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe. 7. I Want You More by Swan Huntley. 8Bad Seed by Gabriel Carle. 9. Perfume & Pain by Anna Dorn. 10. Like Love by Maggie Nelson. 11. Memory Piece by Lisa Ko. 12. Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk

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69 Most Anticipated Queer Books for Spring 2024

What’s on the horizon for queer books in March, April, and May? New work from Judith Butler, K-Ming Chang, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and so much more.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Mar 4, 2024