fiction

International Relations Trades the Boat Race for a Boardroom, and It’s a Charmer

Zac Hammett trades the rowing shell for the diplomatic circuit in this fake dating to fake marriage romance. The tropes…

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Two Liars, One Book, and a Dual POV So Precise It Should Be Studied: Fruit Fly Is a Triumph

A dual POV novel with two voices so exact neither ever cheats, Fruit Fly takes the Yellowface question about who…

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Queer Books Worth Reading in August 2026: Sapphic Chess and a Novelist Who Steals a Man’s Story

August 2026 brings a sapphic YA fantasy about chess-playing fae rivals, Nina LaCour's most ambitious novel yet, and a gay…

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Queer Dystopian Books: 9 Novels for the End of the World As We Know It

Nine queer dystopian novels for right now, from Jonathan Parks-Ramage's climate satire to Hanya Yanagihara's century-spanning epic. Because queer readers…

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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…

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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…

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Queer Books Worth Reading in July 2026: New Releases from Heartstopper to Chuck Tingle

July 2026 brings the Heartstopper finale, the most transgressive queer short story collection of the year, Chuck Tingle at full…

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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…

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Books by Trans Authors: 21 Essential Reads Across Every Genre

Twenty essential books written by trans and nonbinary authors, spanning literary fiction, memoir, speculative fiction, YA, and poetry. No outside…

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Book vs Book: Gay Tennis

Two gay tennis novels arrived within three months of each other in 2026. Both are set at the US Open.…

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