Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for April 2025
April is a stacked month for LGBTQ+ books, so get in here and find out what to add to your TBR stack!
April is a stacked month for LGBTQ+ books, so get in here and find out what to add to your TBR stack!
Mourning the end of another season of Severance? Well go read these queer books about grief, capitalism, and the horrors of having a job.
Feminist fairytales, girlhood horror, and genre-bending books for the feral gays hungry for more Yellowjackets-adjacent stories!
New Torrey Peters! A debut novel from Emily St. James! Queer, Black poetry collections! March is gonna be a great month for LGBTQ literature.
Check out our top five picks for the month along with the rest of the LGBTQ book slate for February.
These 30+ books are about land, ecology, natural disasters, apocalypse, the harm capitalism does to the planet, despair, hope, growth, death, and rebirth.
Catch up on all the great queer poetry from this year!
This year especially I’ve striven to put the spotlight on books that haven’t gotten a lot of mainstream attention.
The next couple months are bringing lots of new queer books to shelves, but sapphic Romantasy in particular is booming this winter.
From trans memoirs that revel in the beauty of transition to sci-fi novels, manga, and quiet literary dramas that give us a reason to be proud, these books remind us that being trans is, in fact, a celebration!
If you’re a horror movie fan who wants to see more stories by queer writers, or featuring good queer representation, head to the bookstore instead of the movie theater.
Casey McQuiston’s latest queer romance The Pairing couples its juicy bi4bi storytelling with delectable descriptions of food and drink. Here are some other tasty queer novels that feature food in some way!
Tis the season for queer horror, but fans of sapphic books with magic have a lot to look forward to, too!
My favorite adaptations are always the ones that inject queerness where there previously was none. Here are 69 book-to-queer-TV adaptations along with a look at just how queer the books were.
I think we can all agree there should be MORE queer film adaptations of queer (or queer-coded) books! Here are 32 from 1940 to now.
I love a fucking weirdo narrator — a strange girl who’s always on the outside of things, always looking too closely at everything around her, drawing conclusions nobody wants to hear, perpetually unsure of how to be a human.
Growing up in a Missouri trailer park, Chappell has been outspoken about the Midwest as a center of cultural revolution.
As usual, all genres are represented, but there’s a surprising amount of creepy reads in the thriller/horror realm coming out the rest of summer.
Hot fresh reads for a hot bookish Pride month!
Browse our curated list of books by LGBTQ authors and receive a discount on books purchased through Bookshop all Pride month long!