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Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie, Big Swiss by Jen Beagin, Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens, and Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

13 Books About Gay Mayhem and “Bad” Queers To Read After Watching Bottoms

Always the Almost, If This Gets Out, The Charm Offensive, Red, White & Royal Blue

16 Gay M/M Romance Novels To Read After “Red, White and Royal Blue”

The following books: Outwrite, Some of Us Did Not Die, How To Write an Autobiographical Novel, and Body Work

9 LGBTQ+ Books Every Queer Writer Should Read

A collage of overlapping book covers, left to right: Cinderella Is Dead, All Boys Aren't Blue, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, the Bluest Eye, and Gender Queer

20 Queer and Feminist Banned Books (And How To Get Them to Kids Who Need Them)

A collage of six books covers, each of books with lesbian sex inside them

55 Literary Books With Great Lesbian Sex Inside Them

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde, Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman, Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns, and Nature Poem by Tommy Pico

Tap Into Queer Rage This Pride With These Scorching LGBTQ+ Books

Thin Skin by Jenn Shapland, essay collection by Stacy Jane Grover, Pageboy by Elliot Page, All Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky, Falling Back in Love With Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom, All the Yellow Suns by Malavika Kannan, Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens, Mrs. S by K. Patrick, and I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes

81 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way Summer 2023

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Māhealani Madden, Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns, If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar, The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo, Ask the Brindles by No'u Revilla, She Is a Haunting by Trang Tranh Tran, The Truth About Me by A. Revathi, and How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler

Quiz: Which Queer Book Should You Read To Close Out AAPI Month?

Required Reading for Jupiter in Taurus

10 Books To Read in the Bathtub

Mare's Nest by Holly Mitchell, I Am the Most Dangerous Thing by Candace Williams, Spellbook For The Sabbath Queen. by Elisheva Fox, and Because You Were Mine by Brionne Janae

Close Out National Poetry Month by Preordering Queer Poetry Books

Negative Money by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, The World Keeps ENding, and the Wold Goes On by Franny Choi, and Freedom House by KB Brookins

8 Poets With New Queer Books To Check Out This National Poetry Month

The following books: Lesbian Love Story by Amelia Possanza, Forever Is Now, Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis, Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby, Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah Johnson, The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher, This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham, Body Horror, A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett, and Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante

114 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way Spring 2023

12 Queer Road Trip Books To Adventure With

Two girls driving in a convertible in a still from The Bachelorette; The cover of Sleepless in Seattle, featuring the Empire State Building; the album cover of Whitney Houston's eponymous album; "He Will Break Your Heart" by Jerry Butler; two people in pirates costumes

Short Fiction Playlist: Five Queer Short Stories Featuring Pop Culture

The books Spectrums, An Unkindess of Ghosts, Neuroqueer Heresies, and How To Be Autistic

Eight Books Across Genres on Queer Autistic Experiences

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

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

We All Loved Cowboys, Snare, Bad Girls, Concerning My Daughter, The Fifth, Tentacle, My Lesbian Experience with Lonelineess, Disoriental

Quiz: What Queer Book in Translation Should You Read?

Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns, She Is a Haunting, Bad Creee by Jessica Johns, Friday I'm In Love, Then Everything Happens at Once, Carmilla by Amy Chu and Soo Lee, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane, Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H, Tell Me I'm Worthelss, and Judas Goat: Poems by Gabrielle Bates

54 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Out Winter 2023

The following books: The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson, Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead, Màgòdiz by Gabe Calderón, and Buffalo Is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel

Eight New Queer Indigenous Books

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