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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for February 2026

Here are our most anticipated LGBTQ+ book picks for February! There’s a little bit of something for everyone!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

Feb 3, 2026

Cover of Alex D. Ketchum's book "Ingredients for Revolution"

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“Ingredients for Revolution” Offers a New Look at Social Justice Movement History

Cafes became hubs for marginalized members of the communities they were in, and learning their history helps us understand the power of their impact.

Stef Rubino

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Jan 10, 2023

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In a Year Full of Great Sapphic Holiday Romances, “Kiss Her Once for Me” Stood Out

Kiss Her Once for Me is a truly stellar example of not just a holiday romance or a queer romance, but of any kind of romance.

Casey

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Jan 9, 2023

The following books: The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson, Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead, Màgòdiz by Gabe Calderón, and Buffalo Is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel

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Eight New Queer Indigenous Books

Poetry, contemporary YA, science fiction, short stories, essay collections, graphic novels, and more!

Casey

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Jan 7, 2023

Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art by Nicole Morse

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Nicole Morse Wants You To See Trans Feminist Futures in Selfies

Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art is a book about selfies and our relationships to them.

Lauren Herold

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Jan 4, 2023

A woman holds a coffee cup and a book in her hands

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Rainbow Reading: Hey Siri, What’s the Opposite of Listless?

Instead of discourse, you know what we’ve got during this last mellow week? Lists. SO MANY LISTS.

Yashwina

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Dec 29, 2022

God's Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu

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Queer Naija Lit: Hausa Is a Language of Love in Arinze Ifeakandu’s “God’s Children Are Little Broken Things”

To be human is to be, or not. To love, or not.

Chinelo Anyadiegwu

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Dec 28, 2022

The books We Deserve Monuments, How Far the Light Reaches, In Sensorium, Body Work, It Came From the Closet, Brown Neon, Faltas, and When We Were Sisters

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92 of the Best Queer Books of 2022

Almost every category in this 2022 best of list was very competitive.

Casey

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Dec 22, 2022

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

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I’ll Never Look at the Ocean the Same Way After Reading Sabrina Imbler’s “How Far the Light Reaches”

Sea creatures become iridescent queer metaphors in this wonderfully queer memoir.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Dec 16, 2022

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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for February 2026

“Ingredients for Revolution” Offers a New Look at Social Justice Movement History

In a Year Full of Great Sapphic Holiday Romances, “Kiss Her Once for Me” Stood Out

Eight New Queer Indigenous Books

Nicole Morse Wants You To See Trans Feminist Futures in Selfies

Rainbow Reading: Hey Siri, What’s the Opposite of Listless?

Queer Naija Lit: Hausa Is a Language of Love in Arinze Ifeakandu’s “God’s Children Are Little Broken Things”

92 of the Best Queer Books of 2022

I’ll Never Look at the Ocean the Same Way After Reading Sabrina Imbler’s “How Far the Light Reaches”

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