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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.
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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.
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The Best Queer Books of May 2026: Our Picks
Eleven queer books worth your time before Pride Month. Douglas Stuart, Julián Delgado Lopera, Maia Kobabe, and more. New LGBTQ+ fiction, nonfiction, and YA releasing in May 2026.
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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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Under the Whispering Door
Wallace Price was a workaholic lawyer who didn’t particularly like people. Then he died. Now he’s at a tea shop run by a ferryman named Hugo, somehow falling in love with being alive for the first time. Warm, funny, and genuinely moving. A novel about showing up for your own life.