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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

Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash

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Satanic Panic Depicted in Thriller ‘Rainbow Black’ Feels Strikingly Relevant to the Present

If there’s one word I could use to describe Maggie Thrash’s books, I’d use “tormented.”

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Apr 5, 2024

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Why I’m Compiling Queer and Trans Goodbye Letters to Places We’ve Left Behind

I stand with the grief of maps and the ways I bittersweetly still carry the places I left.

Lexie Bean

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Apr 3, 2024

Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing ofGay Bars SParked a Revolution by Amin Ghaziani

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Queer Nightlife Doesn’t Need Permanent Spaces To Thrive

In Long Live Queer Nightlife, Ghaziani examines how the closing of gay bars over the last 20+ years has helped bring about a new kind of queer nightlife, one that…

Stef Rubino

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Apr 3, 2024

The cover of A Good Happy Girl three times. A close up of a woman eating a sandwich.

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‘A Good Happy Girl’ Oozes With Lesbian Kink and Familial Pain

This is a work of textures, of excess, of grease, of desire. It is a portrait of pleasure as punishment and punishment as pleasure, a gluttonous urge for more until…

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Apr 2, 2024

The covers of Hijab Butch Blues, Big Swiss, and All Night Pharmacy against a grey textured background

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Let’s Celebrate Gay Books! Congrats to the 2024 Lambda Literary Award Finalists!

Here are all the Lambda Literary Award finalists that Autostraddle wrote about this year.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Mar 27, 2024

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“At Her Service” Is a Sweet Sapphic Romance With Crucial Lesbian Kickball Representation

Amy Spalding’s second book in the “Out in Hollywood” series centers on Max, a wee masc lesbian in Hollywood roped into a self-actualization scheme by her influencer roommate and most…

Riese

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Mar 25, 2024

Florida Man: Poems, Revisited by Tyler Gillespie

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This Recently Expanded Poetry Collection Touches on the Ambivalence of Being Queer in Florida

I’m still learning how to be queer in Florida.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Mar 21, 2024

Love and Hot Chicken by Mary Liza Hartong

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Two Women Find Love in a Quirky Southern Town in “Love and Hot Chicken”

Slow burn romance in a small Southern town gives this queer novel its heat.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Mar 20, 2024

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The Best Queer Poetry Releases of 2025

The Best Queer Poetry Releases of 2025

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17 Sapphic Holiday Romances To Devour This Winter

17 Sapphic Holiday Romances To Devour This Winter

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Sa'iyda Shabazz

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10 New Middle Grade Books Featuring LGBTQ+ Main Characters

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Sa'iyda Shabazz

10 Trans Horror Books You Should Read Right Now

10 Trans Horror Books You Should Read Right Now

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48 Lesbian, Queer and Trans Celebrity Memoirs

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Riese

15 Great Queer Novels About Sisters

15 Great Queer Novels About Sisters

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

16 Queer Road Trip Books To Adventure With

16 Queer Road Trip Books To Adventure With

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What Hot Queer Book Published This Summer Should You Read?

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

A/S/L, Make Sure You Die Screaming, and Luminous

7 New Trans Novels To Read This Summer

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Queers at the Table

What Does ‘Queer Food’ Mean?

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Stef Rubino

Best Woman by Rose Dommu and The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

Rose Dommu and Casey McQuiston on Writing Queer Romance That Fucks With the Formula

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Adam Eli

ilana masad BEINGS

Queer History Meets UFO Lore in Ilana Masad’s Stunning New Novel ‘Beings’

Pick An Actual Category, You Strange Genius

Gabrielle Korn

Benedict Nguyễn interview: a photo of Benedict next to the cover for Hot Girls with Balls

Benedict Nguyễn Finds Performance On the Page

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Drew Burnett Gregory

Rachel and Harrison Browne and their book Let Us Play

The Right Isn’t the Only Side We Need To Fight When It Comes to Trans Sports Inclusion

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Stef Rubino

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Alison Bechdel Never Thought She’d Be This Successful

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Drew Burnett Gregory

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Jennifer Beals Is Letting You Into Her Massive ‘The L Word’ Archive

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Sa'iyda Shabazz

Cinema Her Way Marya E Gates interview: side by side author photo and book cover

The Greatest Women Filmmakers Are Mad for a Reason

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Stef Rubino

Bob the Drag Queen Harriet Tubman Live in Concert: a photo of Bob next to a photo of the book cover

Bob the Drag Queen’s New Novel ‘Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert’ Is More Than a Joke

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Elyssa Maxx Goodman

Kristen Arnett interview: a close up author photo of Kristen

Clowning Around With Kristen Arnett

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Drew Burnett Gregory

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