Every month, Our Queerest Shelves features a roundup of that month’s best queer books. Now that we’re halfway through the year, I’ve combined all those picks into one collection: The Best Queer Books in 2026. The list currently has over 100 books, and I’ll be updating it throughout the year. Anyone can browse the Book
How to date a fundamentalist By Aruni Kashyap (Queer Guy Fiction) fixer chao by Han Ong (gay fiction) (reissue) chosen family by Madeleine Gray (lesbian fiction) hot girls with balls (Sapphic Trans Women Satire) by Benedict Nguyen (Paperback Release) second wife by Jackie Thomas-Kennedy (Bisexual Women’s Fiction) (Paperback Release) emperor of happiness (Queer Fiction) by
A few weeks ago, I shared a list of 650+ new queer books coming out in the first half of 2026. Now, I’m back with a spreadsheet of 250+ new weird books coming out in the second half of the year. You can see these are very different numbers, and that’s because I usually learn
Every Pride month, I try to pack my reading list with as many LGBTQ+ books as possible. Not that I don’t read a lot of weird books the rest of the year, but I always love an excuse to read some themed books. There are countless LGBTQ+ historical fiction books I could recommend — and
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Paul Rudnick about his new novel, Tuxedo Society.