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Every week for the Tuesday edition of Our Queerst Shelves, I compile a list of that week’s most exciting new LGBTQ books. Since I first started keeping track of upcoming LGBTQ new releases, this list has grown even bigger. I follow a ton of different queer book blogs, as well as Bookstagram, BookTok, and BookTube
We’ve officially entered summer, and if you’re like me, your free time looks like a stack of books with a nice cold drink next to you. Of course, that doesn’t mean you’ll always Reading Those books, and in fact, you may be adding more books to the pile, but the dream and the goal are
Some writers, like Danny McBride, have their finger on the proverbial pulse of masculinity; From eastward and downwardsFrom Kenny Powers to Jesse Gemstone, McBride has an unmatched ability to create flawed people who make us laugh and laugh with identification. In his first short story collection exciting stories of modern menMcBride focuses his gaze on
Sign up for the Quick Strike newsletter The latest fishing news, tips and tricks Dylan Smith, an angler from Idaho Falls, has reclaimed his place in the Idaho record books with a 40-plus-inch lake trout. The monster laker came from Payette Lake, the same body of water where he broke the state catch-and-release laker record
During increasingly political times, we are often reminded of an important fact every June: The first Pride parade was a protest. The modern gay rights movement is generally attributed to the Stonewall riots, which occurred in New York City in June 1969. Despite changes in social norms and acceptance for queer people, we are still
Published on June 23, 2026 10:05 am When I was a child, we spent part of the summer at my grandparents’ cabin in northern Saskatchewan. It was truly rustic: forget TV, it didn’t even have plumbing. My mother would pack a suitcase full of books on long-term loan from the public library for my brother
IIn March 2023, Alex Murdaugh, 54, received two life sentences for the murders of his wife and young son at the family’s hunting lodge in Colleton County, South Carolina. From the early 20th century, three generations of his family were elected as state prosecutors in the “Lowcountry”, a vast expanse of lush, marshy marshland on
AAnnie and Vernice (or Niecy, as Annie calls her) are “foster friends” raised in their hometown of Honeysuckle, Louisiana, in 1950s America. The heroes are defined by their motherlessness and their individual tragedies and their individual drives to escape pre-written destinies. In this haunting novel of motherhood and sisterhood, Tayari Jones writes about unknowability –
There’s a lot of history to celebrate on America’s 250th birthday Library Company of PhiladelphiaIt is the oldest public rare book collection in the United States, founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin. The nation’s forty-five-year-old, historic nonprofit once extended borrowing privileges to delegates to the First and Second Continental Congresses and the Constitutional Convention. Before