Literature

Author interviews, guides to the best LGBT Literature, Gay and Lesbian Novels and Memoirs and more!

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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

Three copies of the cover of The Daughters of Izdihar. A red, orange, and yellow sunset sits above a blue city. The silhouette of a woman in a robe, holding a wand, sits in the middle, between two outlined buildings.

lgbt book reviews

“The Daughters of Izdihar” Is Fantastical Queer Feminist Rage

I have seen some angry women in fantasy stories before, but I have never felt the kind of fury pulsating off of them the way I did with queer water-bender…

Heather Hogan

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Mar 16, 2023

Faltas by Cecilia Gentili, Virology by Joseph Osmundson, Brown Neon by Raquel Gutiérrez, Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield, Ma and Me by Putsata Reang, How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler, Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam, Pretty Baby by Chris Belcher, Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang, and Manywhere by Morgan Thomas

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Congratulations to the 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalists!

Revisit Autostraddle’s reviews and interviews with this year’s Lambda Literary 2023 shortlisted books and authors.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Mar 15, 2023

lgbt book reviews

Explore NYC’s Underground Queer and Trans Rave Scene in “Raving”

Readers are constantly reminded that so much of what makes white-dominated raves comes from Black culture.

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Mar 14, 2023

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

lgbt book reviews

Queer Novella Reimagines Sherlock Holmes and Watson As College Ex-Girlfriends

“The Mimicking of Known Successes” provides a delightful mashup of science fiction and cozy mystery, with a delicious side of sapphic romance.

Casey

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Mar 9, 2023

Love At First Set by Jennifer Dugan features cartoon women at a gym, one is blonde with her hair up wearing a white tank next to a bench press, and one is a brunette and wearing a dress looking shy

literature

Rainbow Reading: Lifting Queers, Listen Up! New Sapphic Romance Set in a Gym Is Coming

Plus, an upcoming YA book about a Mexican American nonbinary teen promises love in a taqueria.

Yashwina

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Mar 9, 2023

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

book lists

114 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way Spring 2023

New Samantha Irby! New Leah Johnson! Get excited for these upcoming LGBTQ+ and feminist book releases, and support queer authors this spring.

Casey

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Mar 7, 2023

The book matchmaking in the Archive: 19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts

lgbt book reviews

“Matchmaking in the Archive” Connects Today’s Artists and Queer Ancestors

This book contains, notably, an essay by Michelle Tea that is still ringing in my ears.

Nico

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Mar 3, 2023

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Omise’eke Tinsley’s “The Color Pynk” Celebrates Black Femme Art for Survival

A beautiful commitment to and demonstration of Black femme poetics, The Color Pynk offers a radical alternative to the genre of the academic book, one that celebrates Black queer language…

Lauren Herold

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Mar 2, 2023