Literature

Author interviews, guides to the best LGBT Literature, Gay and Lesbian Novels and Memoirs and more!

Book Features Book Lists LGBT Book Reviews

book lists

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for January 2026

New year, new queer books!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

Jan 6, 2026

Friday I'm In Love by Camryn Garrett features a young Black girl wearing a rainbow dress on its cover

lgbt book reviews

A Sweet Sixteen Becomes a Coming Out Party in Queer YA Novel “Friday I’m in Love”

The scene where Mahalia — the Black queer teen at the center of Camryn Garrett’s new novel — comes out to her mom is painful but honest.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

—

Feb 10, 2023

Chaos Agent by Lee Winter features a woman's face smelling a red flower

lgbt book reviews

“Chaos Agent” Has One of the Most Complicated, Heartbreaking Lesbian Romance Protagonists I’ve Ever Read

If everyone was defined by the worst things they’d ever done, then we’d never get a happy ending. And we deserve that, don’t we?

Christina Tucker

—

Feb 9, 2023

The cover of Endpapers, by Jennifer Savran Kelly. The book has a dark yellow background, and the title and author are collaged, interspersed with the collaged parts of a white person's face and the NYC skyline.

lgbt book reviews

“Endpapers” Is a Glimpse Into One Artist’s Fight To Be Themselves

Set against the authoritarian backdrops of the McCarthy era and George W. Bush’s post 9/11 America, “Endpapers” asks: What happens when we stop trying to force ourselves to be something…

Darcy

—

Feb 8, 2023

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H features a person in a hijab against a sunset-like background

lgbt book reviews

Lamya H’s Debut Memoir Is a Testament to the Powers of Faith and Hope

We live in a society so oppressive to those of us who dare to imagine better that we have very little incentive to keep imagining.

Stef Rubino

—

Feb 7, 2023

Burning Butch by R/B Mertz, Brown Neon by Raquel Guitierrez, When We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Cordova, and Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

book lists

Butch Memoirs To Check Out in Honor of “Hijab Butch Blues”

This is not an exhaustive list of butch memoirs, and I would love to hear about more.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

—

Feb 4, 2023

I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself by M Crane features a blue cover and a black shadowy figure

lgbt book reviews

Dystopian Commentary Bares Its Teeth and Heart in “I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself”

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to write a responsible dystopia.

Yashwina

—

Feb 3, 2023

Lives of Great Men by Chike Frankie Edozien

lgbt book reviews

Queer Naija Lit: “The Lives of Great Men” Interrogates the Measures of Masculinity and Greatness

My internal identity journey as a black genderfluid person involves engaging with my relationship to masculinity.

Chinelo Anyadiegwu

—

Jan 30, 2023

Mareid Sullivan's book Lesbian Death is purple and features the words: “That I find it so anxiety-producing to create a project on the lesbian is precisely why I have written this book. I have written this book because I am not a lesbian. I have written this book because associating my work with lesbian makes me endlessly nervous. I have written this book because I find so much richness in lesbian histories and lesbian culture. I have written this book because I have spent endless hours in archives of lesbian activists, and I have loved every minute. I have written this book because lesbians have saved me, gave me a home, gave me language, showed me a future. I have also written this book because lesbian has been weaponized, used to instigate, justify, and perpetuate anti-trans violence and vitriol. I have written this book because I want the generations that worry that lesbian has been or is being forgotten to know that we remember. I have written this book because I feel myself holding on to the political and identitarian commitments that served me but no longer serve my students. I have written this book because I feel scared to be branded as a lesbian scholar (rather than a scholar of the lesbian). I have written this book because I cannot let lesbian go. Mostly, I have written this book because I really do love lesbians.”

lgbt book reviews

Mairead Sullivan’s “Lesbian Death” Tells Us Why the L Isn’t Disappearing

Mairead Sullivan’s new book, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer explores and aims to disrupt our contemporary anxieties around the disappearance of the term “lesbian” as an…

Lauren Herold

—

Jan 27, 2023