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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

The following queer comfort reads: Fresh by Margot Wood, Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli, She gets the Girl by Rachel Lippincott and Alyson Derrick, and Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

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11 Queer Romance + YA Comfort Reads I Revisit on Bad Days

When I find myself needing comfort from the atrocities of being an adult, these are the books I usually turn to.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Jan 30, 2024

"Critical Role: Mighty Nein Origins" book cover, featuring lesbian character Beauregard Lionette in a fighting stance, repeated three times over a blue background.

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An Exclusive Preview of “Critical Role: Mighty Nein Origins,” Featuring Our Resident Disaster Lesbian, Beauregard Lionett!

Take a look back at Beau’s life before she was the badass monk (pop pop!) we know and love from Critical Role; see what she got up to before she…

The Critical Role Team

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Jan 29, 2024

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New Memoir Explores Growing Up as a Twin and Coming Out in Midlife

There’s no doubt queer people face much more social stigma than twins do, but using the lens of society’s erroneous beliefs about twinship can help deconstruct our culture’s most fallacious…

Stef Rubino

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Jan 29, 2024

Venita Blackburn and the novel Dead in Long Beach, California

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“We’re a Surviving Sort of Species”: Venita Blackburn on Grief and How We Live With It

“I don’t believe in hope. But I’m also optimistic. I have that kind of ancient Greek philosophy about hope, that it arrests man’s despair. It makes you stuck.”

Daven McQueen

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Jan 24, 2024

Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn

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“Dead in Long Beach, California” and the Inevitability of Grief

Venita Blackburn’s debut novel is a masterful feat of storytelling.

Stef Rubino

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Jan 22, 2024

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“Brainwyrms” Is the Perfect Twisted Novel for Clive Barker Queers

There’s an undeniable playfulness in the way Alison Rumfitt presents sex, kink, and violence, but there’s also a seething rage underneath it all.

Juan Barquin

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Jan 17, 2024

Station Eleven, Parable of the Sower, Severance, and How High We Go in the Dark

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Embracing the Dark Pleasures of Dystopian Literature: 10 Novels That Inspired Me To Write My Own

“I worked on this book between 2019 and 2023, years not exactly known for… incredible progress. In many ways, letting myself slip into another, imaginary world — albeit a worse…

Gabrielle Korn

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Jan 16, 2024