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Take Me With You Is Steven Rowley at His Most Mature and Heartfelt
Steven Rowley’s latest novel uses an alien abduction to explore queer grief, long-term love, and what it means to be the one who stayed. His most emotionally mature work yet, and a close contender for his best.
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In Between Days Is Camryn Garrett’s Most Heartbreaking and Most Necessary Book Yet
Camryn Garrett’s fifth novel follows a teenager who discovers her late father had a secret boyfriend and a queer life she knew nothing about. Fresh in form and devastating in feeling, In Between Days is one of the most honest accounts of queer grief in recent YA fiction.
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Smash or Pass Is the Sapphic YA Debut We Didn’t Know We Needed
Birdie Schae’s debut is a warm, funny, and sharply observed sapphic YA novel about a high-masking autistic girl whose summer at beach volleyball camp dismantles everything she thought she knew about herself. The slow-burn romance earns every page, and Ellie is one of the most fully realized protagonists in recent queer YA.
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Douglas Stuart’s John of John Is Quietly Stunning but Slow
Douglas Stuart returns with John of John, a slow and stunning third novel set on the Isle of Harris. A broke art school graduate comes home to find his father hiding the same secret he is. Two closeted men, one windswept island, and almost no language for what they feel.
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Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s Almost Life Is Achingly Human
Erica and Laure meet on the steps of the Sacre-Coeur in 1978 and spend the next three decades orbiting each other across continents and marriages. Almost Life is a decades-spanning love story about the lives we build instead of the ones we actually want.
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We Burned So Bright Is TJ Klune at His Most Tender and Devastating
Don and Rodney have been married for forty years. Now a black hole is heading for Earth and they have about a month left. TJ Klune’s We Burned So Bright is a queer love story set at the end of the world, funny and heartbreaking in equal measure.
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Hell’s Heart by Alexis Hall Is a Bold Swing That Doesn’t Quite Land
Author Alexis HallPublisher Tor BooksDOP March 10, 2026 Quick Take Hell’s Heart is Alexis Hall’s first science fiction novel and a queered retelling of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, recasting Ishmael as a trans woman and dropping her into a neon-drenched, gritty space future where Earth is long dead and humanity survives on spermaceti harvested from…
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Star Shipped: A New Era for Cat Sebastian’s Queer Romance
Star Shipped is a near-perfect contemporary romance and a genuine achievement for an author who was already operating at the top of her field. Simon and Charlie are two of the most fully realised characters in recent queer romance, and their story, messy and slow and funny and deeply kind, is the kind that stays…
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The Open Era by Edward Schmit Is the Queer Sports Romance We’ve Been Waiting For
The Open Era is a queer rivals-to-lovers romance set against the backdrop of the US Open, following Austin Hardy, the first openly gay man to compete in a Grand Slam, as he navigates sudden visibility, a worsening anxiety disorder, and an unexpected connection with his most formidable competition.
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One Week To Win The Chocolate Maker
One Week to Win the Chocolate Maker by Timothy Janovsky is a queer romance novel that leans heavily into whimsy, nostalgia, and comfort. This LGBTQ+ love story clearly draws inspiration from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, queering the premise into a romantic competition centered around chocolate, inheritance, and connection.