Big Books of 2026

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She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-ChanThe Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat SebastianTeach the Torches to Burn by Caleb RoehrigAll the World Beside by Garrard ConleyBy Any Other Name by Erin Cotter
Queer Books Set Pre-1800
104 books — 9 voters
Felix Ever After by Kacen CallenderAll Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. JohnsonPet by Akwaeke EmeziYou Should See Me in a Crown by Leah JohnsonThe Deep by Rivers Solomon
Queer Books By Black Authors
114 books — 65 voters

The Stolen Queen by Fiona DavisThe Queens of Crime by Marie BenedictThe Amalfi Curse by Sarah PennerThe Sirens by Emilia HartThe Other March Sisters by Linda Epstein
Historical Fiction 2025
322 books — 154 voters
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham JonesWitchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady HendrixThe Starving Saints by Caitlin StarlingBlood on Her Tongue by Johanna van VeenBat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
Horror to Look Forward to in 2025
200 books — 145 voters

The Broposal by Sonora ReyesNobody in Particular by Sophie GonzalesRunnin' No More by G.T. DípèWhen the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida KelleyTarnished by Erica Rose Eberhart
2025 LGBTQIA+ Books
504 books — 175 voters
My Friends by Fredrik BackmanNostalgia by Iris LakeWild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghyWe Do Not Part by Han KangThe Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Anticipated Literary Fiction 2025
326 books — 143 voters

Junie by Erin Crosby EckstineHarlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher MurrayWhen Sleeping Women Wake by Emma Pei YinHappy Land by Dolen Perkins-ValdezIsaac's Song by Daniel Black
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2025
148 books — 31 voters
Nesting by Roisín O’DonnellOur Evenings by Alan HollinghurstAudition by Katie KitamuraGliff by Ali SmithThe Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Booker Prize Eligible 2025
177 books — 173 voters

Into The Deep Blue by Jennifer E. ArcherA Fae in Finance by Juliet BrooksGarbage Town by Ravi GuptaFirst Love Language by Stefany ValentineTarnished by Erica Rose Eberhart
2025 Debut Novels
324 books — 322 voters
This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry HermanReady to Score by Jodie SlaughterBury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. SchwabCoffeeshop in an Alternate Universe by C.B. LeeWe Can Never Leave by H.E. Edgmon
queer releases june 2025
179 books — 26 voters

And the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsTell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka BruntBorrowed Time by Paul MonetteThe Great Believers by Rebecca MakkaiMillennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
Best Books about HIV/AIDS (Fiction and Non-Fiction)
339 books — 231 voters
Lore Olympus by Rachel SmytheCult Girls by Natalie GrandSaga, Volume 10 by Brian K. VaughanDemon in the Wood by Leigh BardugoChivalry by Neil Gaiman
Great Graphic Novels (released in) 2022
237 books — 135 voters