The most popular gender books of 2025

Books about gender ask what it means to be a woman or a man, and who decided. Expectations at home, at work and in love are examined in novels, memoirs and essays. Some are angry, some are funny, and all of them make the familiar look newly strange. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.

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Liquid
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Liquid

Mariam Rahmani

2025 · 2026 edition

320 pages

The Re-Write
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The Re-Write

Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

Published 2025

288 pages

Mere
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Mere

Danielle Giles

Published 2025

384 pages

The Plunge
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The Plunge

Lila Raicek

2025 · 2026 edition

336 pages

Be Gay, Do Crime
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Be Gay, Do Crime

Venita Blackburn, Emily R. Austin, Anna Dorn, Temim Fruchter, Marisa Crane, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Myriam Lacroix, Maame Blue, Francesca Ekwuyasi, Alissa Nutting, Myriam Gurba, Priya Guns, S. J. Sindu, Aurora Mattia, Soula Emmanuel, Sam Cohen

Published 2025

261 pages

Authority
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Authority

Andrea Long Chu

2025 · 2026 edition

288 pages

No One Knows
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No One Knows

Osamu Dazai

Published 2025

256 pages

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