The most popular queer books of 2022

Queer books are for stories that do not fit a tidier label. Characters and authors here resist categories of gender and desire, and the writing is often as inventive as the lives it describes. Expect novels, essays and memoirs that are playful, political and proudly themselves. This list shows the ones first published in 2022.

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A Girlhood
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A Girlhood

Carolyn Hays

2022 · 2023 edition

288 pages

Island Time
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Island Time

Georgia Clark

Published 2022

412 pages

Flung Out of Space
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Flung Out of Space

Grace Ellis, Hannah Templer

Published 2022

208 pages

Bad Gays
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Bad Gays

Huw Lemmey, Ben Miller

Published 2022

304 pages

The T4t Issue
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The T4t Issue

Cameron Awkward-Rich, Hil Malatino

Published 2022

148 pages

Critical Role
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Critical Role

Sam Maggs, Jody Houser, Cecil Castellucci

2022 · 2023 edition

224 pages

Critical Role
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Critical Role

Cecil Castellucci

Published 2022

56 pages

The Ivory Key
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The Ivory Key

Akshaya Raman

Published 2022

388 pages

Vagabonds!
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Vagabonds!

Eloghosa Osunde

2022 · 2023 edition

320 pages

After Sappho
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After Sappho

Selby Wynn Schwartz

2022 · 2023 edition

Listen
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Listen

RJ Scott

Published 2022

278 pages

Extasia
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Extasia

Claire Legrand

Published 2022

496 pages