The most popular queer books of 2025

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 2025.

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Hungerstone
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Hungerstone

Kat Dunn

Published 2025

286 pages

Hazelthorn
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Hazelthorn

C. G. Drews

Published 2025

355 pages

Heap Earth Upon It
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Heap Earth Upon It

Chloe Michelle Howarth

2025 · 2026 edition

288 pages

The Broposal
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The Broposal

Sonora Reyes, Sonido Reyes

Published 2025

384 pages

Queen Demon
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Queen Demon

Martha Wells

Published 2025

382 pages

Liquid
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Liquid

Mariam Rahmani

2025 · 2026 edition

320 pages

Holy Terrors
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Holy Terrors

Margaret Owen

Published 2025

560 pages

Sunward
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Sunward

William Alexander

Published 2025

224 pages

Mere
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Mere

Danielle Giles

Published 2025

384 pages

Loca
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Loca

Alejandro Heredia

Published 2025

352 pages