Features
Features is where Queer Book Club goes deeper. Beyond the review and beyond the list. Into the conversations, history, publishing landscape, and cultural moments. We talk about what queer literature looks like right now and where it’s going next.
Every feature on this page is written with a single standard in mind: queer representation must be central to the work being discussed, not incidental. We don’t cover books or authors where queerness is background detail or subtext. We cover the writers, publishers, awards, and cultural moments where LGBTQ+ lives are the whole point, and we write about them with the seriousness and depth they deserve.
All Features
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The Ultimate Sapphic Reading List: Essential WLW Books Across Every Era
A century of women loving women, in print.
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Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s Almost Life Is Achingly Human
Almost Life follows Erica and Laure, two women who meet on the steps of the Sacré-Coeur in Paris in the summer of 1978. They spend the next three decades orbiting each other across continents, marriages, and choices they can never fully take back. It is a decades-spanning love story about the lives we build instead…
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Queer Books at Canada Reads: A 25-Year History of LGBTQ+ Representation on Canada’s Biggest Literary Stage
Canada Reads has been running for 25 years. Five books, five champions, four days of debate, one winner. It is the most watched literary competition in the country and one of the few places where Canadian fiction becomes genuinely national news.
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The Queer Writer’s Guide to LGBTQ+ Publishers: Where to Submit Your Work
If you’ve written a queer story and you’re ready to find it a home, the landscape of LGBTQ+ publishing is richer, more varied, and more welcoming to new voices than it’s ever been.
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Canada Reads 2026 Is Here, and Queer Canadian Literature Has Never Looked This Good
The 2026 shortlist features five books debating from April 13 to 16. Two of them carry explicit, central queer representation. Not side characters. Not subtext. Two books where queerness is the whole point. Where LGBTQ+ lives get the same weight and seriousness that Canadian literary fiction has long reserved for other experiences.