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 Book They Told Him to Burn: The History and Enduring Legacy of Giovanni’s Room
Giovanni’s Room turns 70 this year, and Baldwin’s Paris love story still cuts just as deep. A young American, a doomed affair, and a reckoning with desire that society refused to name. Seventy years later, this landmark of queer literature hasn’t aged a day.
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We Burned So Bright Is TJ Klune at His Most Tender and Devastating
Author T.J. KlunePublisher Tor BooksPub Date April 28, 2026 Quick Take We Burned So Bright follows husbands Don and Rodney, who have lived a good long life together, through the highest highs of love and family and lows so low they felt like the end of the world. Now the world is ending for real.…
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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.