Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for May 2025
Over 50 promising LGBTQ+ books across every genre are heading your way this month! See our top picks for May 2025.
The Hidden History of Lesbian Phone Lines
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.
Meryl Wilsner Has Done It Again With This Friends-to-Lovers Romance With Killer Sex Scenes
In a sea of skinny sapphic romance novels, I found Wilsner’s latest to be a refreshing change for the genre.
Jasmine Guillory’s First Sapphic Romance ‘Flirting Lessons’ Is a Fun Take on a Classic Trope
Overall, Flirting Lessons is about what happens when you try to overcome what other people think about you.
It’s Independent Bookstore Day, So Go Buy Some Gay Books
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.
15 Queer Romance Books and Sapphic Literary Novels Set On Reality TV Shows
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!
What Queer Poetry Book Would Fix Each Yellowjacket (Or Make Them Worse)
One of the most important pillars of girlhood is orbiting your entire personality around the likes of Sylvia Plath and writing your own poetry to deal with the woes of one’s burgeoning sexuality, toxic friendships, and other coming-of-age tragedies.
How Podcasters Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs Navigated Their Big Divorce Announcement
Read an exclusive excerpt about Kristin and Jenny’s divorce, followed by a clip from the audiobook.
From Wives to Exes to Friends: ‘Slayers, Every One of Us’ Tells the Tale of Two Queer Podcasters and Buffy
The joint memoir tells the emotional tale of Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs fighting to keep their labor of love alive through personal struggles, a global pandemic, and a hellmouth opening up around them.
The Ghostwriting Drama Surrounding Straight Influencer Tinx’s Lesbian Romance Novel, Explained
Many have wondered why straight influencer Tinx wrote lesbian romance novel, Hotter in the Hamptons. But did she even write it?
The Greatest Women Filmmakers Are Mad for a Reason
In her gorgeous new book, Cinema Her Way, writer and film critic Marya E. Gates interviews 19 female filmmakers — including Cheryl Dunye, Karyn Kusama, and Isabel Sandoval — about their work, and their experiences in the film industry.
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!
Sapphic Romance Novel ‘Cover Story’ Brings Us Back to 2005, When It Was Much Harder To Be Out and Famous
What would things have looked like if we got openly queer Kristen Stewart from the beginning of the Twilight franchise?
Bob the Drag Queen’s New Novel ‘Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert’ Is More Than a Joke
“The truth is people who fight for you to have liberty, they fight for you to be a goofy bitch, too.”
With ‘Stag Dance’, Torrey Peters Is Back and Better Than Ever
The laws of masculinity, and the ways in which they restrict and influence gender, infect every story (and novel) included in Torrey Peters’ collection, Stag Dance.
Queer Books To Read if You’re Already Missing ‘Severance’
Mourning the end of another season of Severance? Well go read these queer books about grief, capitalism, and the horrors of having a job.
In ‘Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One,’ It’s Clowns vs. Capitalism
Arnett’s work is a reminder of something we often shy away from: What is the point of experiencing all of the pains of the human condition if we can’t, at some point, get a good laugh in about it?
Clowning Around With Kristen Arnett
“How many scenes have had people work something out at a diner? Can’t that happen at an Olive Garden?”
Queer Books To Read if You Love ‘Yellowjackets’
Feminist fairytales, girlhood horror, and genre-bending books for the feral gays hungry for more Yellowjackets-adjacent stories!
Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for March 2025
New Torrey Peters! A debut novel from Emily St. James! Queer, Black poetry collections! March is gonna be a great month for LGBTQ literature.