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The first thing I read in March was Isn’t It Obvious by Rachel Runya Katz, a bi4bi M/F romance that I really enjoyed. I mean, the main character runs a queer teen book club, so of course I was going to love it. The book I spent most of March reading was Hell’s Heart by […]
Heated Rivalry—a M/M queer and steamy hockey romance adapted from a book of the same name by Rachel Reid—has taken hold of the collective consciousness and not let go. Its season finale garnered 10.6 million US viewers, and its production has even brought talks of republishing a secretly published predecessor written in the ’80s by […]
There have never been more new queer books coming out every week—but that doesn’t mean they’re easy to find. When I put together my round-up of new queer releases each month for Our Queerest Shelves, it requires a ton of research, including sifting through early reviews for any mentions of queerness, because that’s not always […]
One of the things I write about consistently for Our Queerest Shelves is new queer book releases. To keep track of them, I note upcoming releases in a spreadsheet, which has grown significantly over the years. I’ve spent the last month trying to update it with 2026 queer books as gathered from dozens of lists […]
I am currently involved in a Secret Reading Project that is taking up almost all of my TBR, so I’m not sure what I’ll be reading in January. I will be squeezing in Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly for my book club, which I’m looking forward to. It’s a queer litfic novel about […]
You’ll Never Forget Me by Isha Raya (January 13) Killing Eve fans, take note. This is a sapphic cat-and-mouse thriller about an actress, Dimple, who accidentally killed her rival, Irene, at a party. Years later, she has put it behind her and is enjoying her newfound success with Irene out of the way. But Irene’s […]
First up, the All the Books books! There’s Always Next Year by Leah Johnson and George M. Johnson is a cute YA romance with two points of view and two queer romances (M/M and F/F). Almost the entire book takes place on New Year’s Day, and it felt like a teen holiday movie—if those movies […]
First up, I have a couple of books I need to read before 2026. I’m currently reading The Curse of the Cole Women by Marielle Thompson (out December 2nd), a sapphic gothic novel I’m planning to recommend on the December 2nd episode of the All the Books podcast. My other reading obligation is The Lilac […]
I already shared with you the queer books I read during the 24-hour readathon, so I’m skipping those. Here are the other queer books I finished in October, ordered roughly on a scale of not-horror to horror. For my book club, I read This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and […]
I’ve been doing the readathon twice a year every year for more than a decade now. In the early years, I did them on my own, taking to social media to share my progress and cheer other people on. It’s transformed over the years, though. First I convinced my roommate to do them, who now […]
