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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

The following books: We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds; The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin; Faltas by Cecilia Gentili; Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo; When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar; It Came From the Closet anthology; A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo; The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha; A Short History of Queer Women; The Color Pynk by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley; Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales; Will Do Magic for Small Change by Andrea Hairston; Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner; Magodiz by Gabe Calderon; Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam; Love Me Tender; Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwell; Heretic by Jeanna Kadlec; Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong; Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir; Queer Little Nightmares anthology; Power: The Rise of Black Women in America by Charity C. Elder; When the Angels Left the Old Country; The Long Covid Survival Guide

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103 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way Fall 2022

I can guarantee there is something for everyone on this list of fall 2022 queer and feminist books, whether your jam is graphic novel fairy tales, memoirs about queer family,…

Casey

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Sep 6, 2022

Stef Rubino's Middlesex tattoo, featuring the words "other halves" and a person emerging from petals. Also, the cover of Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.

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“Middlesex” Has a Complicated Legacy — 20 Years Ago, It Changed My Life

When I read Middlesex, I felt that tinge of recognition I think a lot of queer and trans people look for when they realize something is different about themselves.

Stef Rubino

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Sep 4, 2022

Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins, The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre by Robin Talley, Forward March by Skye Quinlan, and We Used To Be Friends by Amy Spaulding

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Get in Your Back-to-School Feelings With These 10 Queer YA Books

Back-to-school time is my favorite time of the year now that I’m an adult.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Sep 2, 2022

Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

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Slow Takes: “Stone Fruit” and Choosing Given Family

I learned about the concept of chosen family from a heterosexual uncle I don’t talk to anymore.

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Sep 1, 2022

Enjoy Me Among My Ruins by Juniper Fitzgerald

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Juniper Fitzgerald’s Queer Memoir-in-Fragments Examines Her Identities as a Sex Worker and Mother

Enjoy Me Among My Ruins bypasses the expectation to tell one’s story in a neatly contained narrative.

Stef Rubino

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Aug 31, 2022

Diary of a Misfit by Casey Parks

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In “Diary of a Misfit,” Casey Parks Creates Records of Lives Left Out of History

What is most compelling about Diary of a Misfit is how brilliantly organized it is. All at once, we get a biography, a memoir, a family history, and the active…

Stef Rubino

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Aug 30, 2022

A field of wildflowers

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Queer Naija Lit: “We Are Flowers” Documents the Beauty and Resilience of Nigeria’s Queer Community

We Are Flowers, a Queer Nigerian anthology, is defiant and audacious. It has no choice but to be.

Chinelo Anyadiegwu

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Aug 29, 2022

Body Grammar by Jules Ohman

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Rather Than a Coming Out Story, “Body Grammar” Is About Queer Characters Coming Into Themselves

Jules Ohman paints the harsh, sharp-angled modeling industry with soft, tender prose and tells many queer narratives at once in the novel.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Aug 26, 2022

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