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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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

Deadstream
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Deadstream

Maria Romasco-Moore

Published 2025

320 pages

A/S/L
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A/S/L

Jeanne Thornton

2025 · 2026 edition

496 pages

Always Raining Here
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Always Raining Here

Hazel Bell, Alexandra Holt, Hazel and Bell

Published 2025

256 pages

Lord of Ruin
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Lord of Ruin

K. M. Enright

Published 2025

464 pages

Tarnished
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Tarnished

Erica Rose Eberhart

Published 2025

296 pages

Togetha
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Togetha

Keith F. Miller, Jr.

Published 2025

448 pages

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