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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.
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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
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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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.
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George Falls Through Time
George Falls Through Time is a thoughtful, quietly engaging novel that blends queer fiction, sci-fi fantasy, and emotional introspection into a story that feels both whimsical and grounded. Sitting somewhere between millennial malaise, low-grade ennui, and a full-blown burn-my-life-down moment, the book uses time travel not as a flashy gimmick, but as an emotional tool.
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Book Review: Giovanni’s Room
David is an American in Paris, engaged to a woman, and falling in love with Giovanni, a bartender he cannot stop thinking about. Baldwin’s 1956 novel is still one of the most honest books ever written about desire, cowardice, and the cost of refusing to live truthfully.