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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for May 2026

Great sci-fi and hybrid nonfiction are coming your way this month. Plus a whole lot more.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

May 6, 2026

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

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

It’s Banned Books week. We can do our part and get reading.

Carmen Phillips

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Oct 2, 2023

Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates by Katie Barnes

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“Fair Play” Reflects on the Origins of the Trans Sports Debate and How We Can End It

Throughout the text, Barnes reminds us over and over again: “What began as a good-faith discussion about policy and physiological differences between sexes has given way to a level of…

Stef Rubino

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Sep 21, 2023

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

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

Bring on the literary GAYHEM.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Sep 18, 2023

The cover of Andie Burke's Fly With Me features Stella and Olive standing at an airport window with rolling suitcases looking out at the sunset

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Andie Burke’s “Fly With Me” Takes Sapphic Fake Dating to New Heights

Yes, there’s grief. But Fly With Me is one of the swooniest, funniest, sexiest books I’ve ever read.

Heather Hogan

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Sep 5, 2023

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

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

If you loved “Red, White & Royal Blue,” here’s 15 more gay romance novels, aka m/m romance, featuring two men doing cute and also erotic things together!

Riese

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Aug 31, 2023

Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott

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“Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh” Is a Fun Time-Travel Sapphic Romance

Can you fall in love with a girl when there’s a 200 year barrier between you?

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Aug 30, 2023

The cover of Adrienne Tooley's The Third Daughter, a blue and black cover with various magical items illustrated behind the text.

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“The Third Daughter” Is Sapphic Slow-Burn Fantasy and Feminist Rage

What turned it into an auto-buy was the Post-It note attached to the shelf. A flimsy lime-green placeholder for one of the voicey, detailed recommendation cards that are always tucked…

Heather Hogan

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Aug 26, 2023

Free Them All: A Feminist Call to Abolish the Prison System by Gwénola Ricordeau

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“Free Them All” Makes a Feminist Argument for Prison Abolition

Gwénola Ricordeau has written an ideal academic text. It is, at once, simple to read and complex in its ideology.

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Aug 24, 2023

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