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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for January 2026

New year, new queer books!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

Jan 6, 2026

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Even After We Leave it, Home Stays With Us

Growing up in rural Guilford County, North Carolina, poet and essayist Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers dreamed of escaping, of one day leaving behind the “cow-dotted” fields of her hometown and arriving…

Stef Rubino

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Sep 16, 2024

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A New Biography Transforms Our Understanding of Audre Lorde and the Genre Itself

“Biographies normativize people,” Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs tells me. “It’s like: this is a person, they were born, they died, their life is linear, they’re only one person. My queer…

Lauren Herold

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Sep 6, 2024

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!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

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Sep 3, 2024

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Anarchist Author Margaret Killjoy Crafts Trans Worlds in the Woods

Margaret Killjoy is a master world-builder. Her first young adult book, The Sapling Cage, comes out next month.

Nico

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Aug 29, 2024

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‘A Bánh Mì for Two’ Is a Swoony Sapphic Romance Between Two Foodies

The story combines two of my favorite things: girls falling in love, and finding connection through food!

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Aug 23, 2024

A triptych of Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's new collection I Don't Want to Be Understood.

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Poet Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Takes Risks in Her Stunning New Collection

It’s thrilling to read an artist like Jennifer experiment and play.

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Aug 6, 2024

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Casey McQuiston’s Bi4Bi Romance ‘The Pairing’ Is for Queer Hedonists Everywhere

The bisexual and trans romance is a delectable feast.

ashni

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Aug 6, 2024

Little Fires Everywhere, Dare Me, Tipping the Velvet, Station Eleven, Survival of the Thickest, Killing Eve, Shrill, The Haunting of Hill House, I Love Dick, and Daisy Jones & the Six

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How Gay Are the Books These Queer Shows Are Based On?

My favorite adaptations are always the ones that inject queerness where there previously was none. Here are 69 book-to-queer-TV adaptations along with a look at just how queer the books…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Aug 3, 2024