Gay books 2025

Searching for new Queer books ? Following a brutal breakup, memoirist Melissa Febos decided to spend three months celibate for the first time in almost 20 years of dating. The first Pride was a riot , after all. When Harriet Tubman shows up and calls upon disgraced music producer Darnell to help her produce a hip-hop album about her legacy, Darnell is forced to confront his own past alongside hers.

When Erica Skyberg decides to transition, she is 35 years old, recently divorced, and working as an English teacher in rural South Dakota. And they know how to keep that celebration going all year long. These are the LGBTQ-led reads you won’t want to miss this year.

The titular narrative—which follows a lumberjack exploring gender in preparation for an upcoming dance—sits cheekily alongside tales of gender apocalypse and taboo romance in this novel-and-stories collection. Before long, however, Cherry must decide exactly how much she wants to risk for her new relationship—and her art.

Over the course of a single summer, she sets out to go on dates with suitors of all genders in hopes of landing a marriage proposal by the beginning of the next semester. At turns hilarious and heartwarming, St. Between YA and fantasy, memoirs and romance, horror and historical fiction, LGBTQ+ stories have become more important than ever.

So they do the only logical thing: They steal a car and embark on a road trip from Chicago to Arkansas in search of him. Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. Johnson was penned by a similarly singular Black transgender woman: renowned artist and organizer Tourmaline, whose work has garnered recognition from TIME, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Years after fleeing from the anger of his father, a reverend and doctor, Davis is preparing to marry the man of his dreams in New York City—without his disapproving parents in attendance. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. But when he learns during his wedding reception that his father has been in a terrible car accident, Davis must confront the past to determine where exactly their relationship went so wrong.

There, protagonist Kalki is a young woman coming into herself, both by exploring her queerness and by engaging in small acts of rebellion against the oppressive regime. Corporate sponsors have overwhelmingly scaled back their Pride sponsorships and initiatives supporting the queer community, and the White House has continued its relentless assault on LGBTQ citizens particularly trans Americans.

The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir releases January 28, from Bloomsbury Publishing, and is available for preorder here. It starts as a joke. The. A true can't miss from one of the American gay literary canon's greats. A wealth of queer and trans books will be released in These are our most anticipated LGBTQ+ titles so far.

and meteoric rise as a designer. When Cherry the clown meets Margot the Magnificent, she is shaken from her complacency on both a personal and a professional level. He soon takes a position as caretaker to the woman, a widow named Grazina, which results in the two forming a life-changing friendship over the course of the following year.

Those three months ultimately stretched into a year—which, as she chronicles in her latest lyrical work of nonfiction, turned out to be one of the most creatively, spiritually, and fulfilling periods of her life. These days, people love to compare any and every lyrical queer love story to Call Me by Your Name.

The Best Queer Books of (So Far) The queer literary landscape is flourishing in spite of near-constant threats. In his second novel, acclaimed poet and author Ocean Vuong follows Hai, a year-old in small-town Connecticut who stands on the brink of taking his life when an elderly woman suffering from dementia convinces him to reconsider.

Staff Picks: Our 10 Most Anticipated Books of Lesbian vampires, a queer basketball novel, and more top our list of the year’s buzziest reads. Or maybe you know her by her reputation as an It girl and fashion icon. This post is brimming with the most-anticipated queer books for From fantasy to romance.

So she turns for support to the only other trans woman she knows: her year-old student Abigail. A lesbian romance between a clown and a magician is no laughing matter in the latest novel from the acclaimed author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth.

Thankfully, is full of options you can add to your list! Lilith, Sash, and Abraxa have never met in person, but they share a past: As teenagers, they found each other online and tried to build a video game together called Saga of the Sorceress. Here are 15 of the most anticipated queer books of , including the newest from Torrey Peters, V.

E. Schwab, and Nicola Dinan.