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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

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8 Books Featuring Bi+ People in Longterm Relationships

Given that identities are often assumed based on the gender of a person’s current partner(s), how do bi+ folks navigate longterm relationships? What effect does being in a longterm relationship…

Casey

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Sep 22, 2020

on the left, Zaina Arafat, a Palestinian American woman in a light blue tank top looks at the camera. on the left the cover of her book, You Exist Too Much — a typographic cover on top of an abstract painting with swipes of lavender, green, blue, and gold

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Queer Arabs Taking Up Space: An Interview With Zaina Arafat

Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much is the bi Arab romance novel l didn’t know I needed. We chat about the book, first-gen traumas, sexual ambiguity and Arab parents.

Sarah Yanni

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Sep 21, 2020

Two brightly colored figures, one brown with brown hair and one white with red hair, clutch each other and kiss as they seem to be pulled in opposite directions by an imposing crowd of riot police drawn in grays and browns

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In “SFSX,” Tina Horn Builds a Purity-Obsessed Sci-Fi Vision of our Dystopian Present

Autostraddle recently spoke with Tina Horn via video call to chat about the first volume of SFSX, her myriad influences, building community around art, the sex worker rights’ movement, and…

James Factora

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Sep 11, 2020

two women reading from the same book, with a cat

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Lez Liberty Lit: Library Sex

The people who fantasize about library sex, excerpts and fall reading lists galore, Black-owned bookstores and radical bookstores, pandemic creativity and more.

Ryan Yates

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Sep 10, 2020

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Return of the Space Lesbians: Tamsyn Muir’s “Harrow the Ninth” Is a Maze of Grief, Gore, and Possibly Global Warming

Sometimes, what you really need is a story that understands how grief can ricochet through the entire universe.

Lindsay Lee Wallace

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Sep 10, 2020

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How Writing “The Ship We Built,” a Children’s Novel, Helped Me Come Out

The first draft of The Ship We Built was intended as a valentine for one person. Six and a half years later, The Ship We Built has been released as…

Alexandria Bean

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Sep 3, 2020

A photo of a light skinned person taking a library book off the shelf.

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As School Season Begins, Fight for Trans Representation in Public Libraries

The public library is in the unique position to pick up where public education leaves off—to succeed where public education fails. It’s time we start rethinking what a library can…

Ada Wofford

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Aug 27, 2020

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65 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way in Fall 2020

I can confirm that no matter what you’re looking for — YA, non-fiction, memoir, romance, literary fiction, comics, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical fiction, poetry — there are queer and…

Casey

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Aug 27, 2020