LGBTQ+ Book Reviews

Honest, opinionated reviews of queer and 2SLGBTQ+ literature, from debut novels to canonical texts. Every review covers what the book does, who it’s for, and where it sits in the broader queer literary landscape.

QueerBookClub.org reviews queer literature the way it deserves to be reviewed — on its own terms, with real attention to craft, representation, and the specific conversations each book enters. We cover gay fiction, sapphic novels, trans narratives, bisexual lit, queer speculative fiction, and memoir across every identity in the 2SLGBTQ+ community. Want to join our team of reviews? Contact Us!

Our reviews are written for readers who care about queer stories, not just stories that happen to include queer characters. Representation needs to be central — not background, not subtext, not a single scene. If a book centers queerness, we take it seriously. If it sidelines it, we say so.

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Perverts by Mac Crane Is the Queer Book We’ve Been Too Polite to Ask For

Mac Crane’s debut story collection makes the taboo not just speakable but necessary. Seventeen stories about desire, shame, and the system that polices both. The most essential queer collection of 2026.
Nathan Tavares Sends Queer Disco to the Moon and It’s Out of This World.

Nathan Tavares swings big with an alternate-1977 queer sci-fi novel about disco, fascism, and alien adjudicators. It almost sticks the landing. A review with real reservations and genuine admiration.
The Summer Boy Is Good, It’s Just Not Lie With Me.

Beautiful prose and precise observation, but The Summer Boy never quite finds the emotional hook that made Lie with Me so devastating.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…