In less than six months, 2025 has already amassed an absolutely stellar line-up of trans novels that range from historical fiction, lyrical explorations of dysphoria and identity, and science fiction set in a futuristic, robot obsessed Korea.
V.E. Schwab’s Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil sunk its fangs into me and never let go.
We have to wait SO LONG for the next season. So, to tide us over, I have some queer books to recommend to you that will scratch some of the same itches.
‘So Gay For You’ is a loving portrait of chosen community, a roaming time capsule of queer pop culture, a platonic love story, a behind-the-scenes look at a groundbreaking show and an introspective, juicy celebrity memoir.
“It was our way of subverting expectation, showing that lesbians are different kinds of people with their own relationship dynamics, even in the bedroom.”
Uncommon Favor isn’t just a memoir about Dawn Staley; it’s a history lesson in the growth of women’s basketball.
Two real queer humans wrote this queer anticipated books list. AI would have put fake books on it.
We all know that this sports issue has nothing to do with sports, and it has nothing to do with protecting female athletes. This topic has been a roundabout way to erode rights for transgender people.
In their new book Queer Devotion, Charlie Claire Burgess joins a robust tradition of queer and trans people reclaiming religious symbolism for ourselves.
Alison Bechdel talks fame, privilege, and returning to old characters for her new work of autofiction.
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s “Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” is one of the most successful sapphic novels of all time — and with her queer space thriller “Atmosphere” debuting this June, Reid has come out as bisexual.
Jennifer Beals has put together the ultimate walk down sapphic memory lane with the release of The L Word: A Photographic Journal, a gay tome featuring over 400 candid photographs taken by Beals on the set and behind the scenes.
At their heart, great sex and great basketball rely on the same fundamental principles: trust, attention, collaboration, and a desire to create something with whoever you’re with.
Gays really are out here having complicated relationships with our mothers and then writing whole books about it.
Over 50 promising LGBTQ+ books across every genre are heading your way this month! See our top picks for May 2025.
London Friend’s Lesbian Line, which opened in 1989 and closed in 1999, was one of many gay and lesbian phone lines across the UK.
In a sea of skinny sapphic romance novels, I found Wilsner’s latest to be a refreshing change for the genre.
Overall, Flirting Lessons is about what happens when you try to overcome what other people think about you.
This year, Independent Bookstore Day feels especially important and fraught, as mega-retailer Amazon decided to throw one of its book sales at the same time.
As a population, lesbians tend to be especially hopeful about the possibility of lesbian love blossoming on a reality show that’s supposed to be about straight love or baking cakes. Luckily so many novels have stepped in to make those dreams come true!