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.
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.
In less than six months, 2025 has already amassed an absolutely stellar line-up of trans novels that range from historical fiction, lyrical explorations of dysphoria and identity, and science fiction set in a futuristic, robot obsessed Korea.
We have to wait SO LONG for the next season. So, to tide us over, I have some queer books to recommend to you that will scratch some of the same itches.
Two real queer humans wrote this queer anticipated books list. AI would have put fake books on it.
Gays really are out here having complicated relationships with our mothers and then writing whole books about it.
Over 50 promising LGBTQ+ books across every genre are heading your way this month! See our top picks for May 2025.
As a population, lesbians tend to be especially hopeful about the possibility of lesbian love blossoming on a reality show that’s supposed to be about straight love or baking cakes. Luckily so many novels have stepped in to make those dreams come true!
One of the most important pillars of girlhood is orbiting your entire personality around the likes of Sylvia Plath and writing your own poetry to deal with the woes of one’s burgeoning sexuality, toxic friendships, and other coming-of-age tragedies.
April is a stacked month for LGBTQ+ books, so get in here and find out what to add to your TBR stack!
Mourning the end of another season of Severance? Well go read these queer books about grief, capitalism, and the horrors of having a job.
Feminist fairytales, girlhood horror, and genre-bending books for the feral gays hungry for more Yellowjackets-adjacent stories!
New Torrey Peters! A debut novel from Emily St. James! Queer, Black poetry collections! March is gonna be a great month for LGBTQ literature.
Check out our top five picks for the month along with the rest of the LGBTQ book slate for February.
These 30+ books are about land, ecology, natural disasters, apocalypse, the harm capitalism does to the planet, despair, hope, growth, death, and rebirth.
For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to stories about sisters.
Catch up on all the great queer poetry from this year!
This year especially I’ve striven to put the spotlight on books that haven’t gotten a lot of mainstream attention.
The next couple months are bringing lots of new queer books to shelves, but sapphic Romantasy in particular is booming this winter.
These stories make you want to curl up on the couch in a thick sweater with a mug of your favorite hot chocolate while sitting next to your twinkling Christmas tree.
From trans memoirs that revel in the beauty of transition to sci-fi novels, manga, and quiet literary dramas that give us a reason to be proud, these books remind us that being trans is, in fact, a celebration!