New gay fiction 2024

New year, new LGBTQ+ books to look forward to! These are 12 of the best queer books has to offer, and they're begging to be on your TBR. These queer novels set for release in blaze a path toward queer visibility and acceptance by centering the stories of sexual and gender minorities. As we look toward , there’s an exciting new round of queer books on the way to steal our hearts, shock us, and make us swoon.

From celebrity memoirs, to historical fiction, to classic. To get a fuller picture of the scope and variety of queer titles released this year, I asked culture critics Ilana Masad and Sarah Neilson to spearhead this list of the best LGBTQ+ books of , along with additions from Them staffers and contributors. LGBTQIA+ Books This is a list for queer books (fiction and non-fiction) where the main theme or main character is LGBTQIA+.

Authors feel free to add your book. Some sublists: Sapphic fiction Trans&Nonbinary Fiction Ace books of Bi books of Lesbian Books of Adult Queer Romance flag All Votes Add Books To. And with styles that range from contemporary dramedy and dazzling romance to out-of-this-world speculative fiction, they offer an array of stories and settings for every type of reader. So clear your reading schedule: Here are the most highly anticipated queer novels set for release in Sign up for the free Celadon Books newsletter, and get book giveaways, news, and recommendations sent straight to your inbox.

Like Happiness is a stunning coming-of-age debut novel that delves into gender, sexual orientation, racial identity, and the charged power dynamics of fame. In the novel, author Ursula Villarreal-Moura uses dual timelines to tell the story of Tatum Vega, a woman who years ago shared a destructive relationship with a famous author named M.

In the present timeline of , Tatum lives in Chile with her partner Vera and works at a museum in a job that she loves. Her fraught days in New York with M. Publication date : March 26, We cannot wait to read Exhibit, the latest novel from bestselling author R. Kwon, who also wrote The Incendiaries and edited the Kink: Stories anthology. In Exhibit, renowned photographer Jin Han meets injured ballerina Lidija Jung outside a fancy San Francisco party, setting the stage for a fiery love affair.

The women stay up all night, despite Jin being married to her college sweetheart Phillip, and find themselves drawn to one another through their shared artistic passions. As their relationship deepens, Jin shares her truths with Lidija — including the disclosure of a family curse she was told she needed to keep secret.

Eventually, she shares her body, too. Publication date: May 21, He hopes to give the teenagers the adventure of a lifetime. A surreal tale about passion, obsession, and female friendship, Cecilia is suffused with themes that would make it the perfect book club pick. In the novella, Seven crosses paths with Cecilia, a woman whom Seven knew as a girl and who has beguiled her for years. When the two get on the same bus, it triggers a flood of intense, vivid memories that overwhelm Seven with desire and blur the lines between the past and the present, real and imagined.

With same-sex relationships on the verge of criminalization, black sheep Obiefuna is sent away to boarding school after his father witnesses him in a moment of same-sex passion. While Obiefuna is forced to hide who he is from the violent, regimented world that surrounds him, his family also struggles. Publication date: June 4, In Thirst , Marina Yuszczuk uses dual-timeline narratives set in very different eras to illustrate the eternal power of desire and the limits of mortality and female agency.

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In the first timeline, a 19th-century vampire leaves Europe for Argentina and adapts to life in Buenos Aires, where Yellow Fever will soon devastate the population. When she meets a vampire in a cemetery, the women connect on a profoundly deep level. Publication date: March 5, Shortly thereafter, Fatima vanishes after a gay bar raid. Bessem is left to wonder whether Fatima was married off, banished, or worse — until a chance encounter with a mutual friend 13 years later encourages her to start searching for the lost love of her life.

Publication date: March 12, In it, Eisenberg tells the story of Bernie and Leah, two close friends and artists who share an apartment in Philadelphia. The pair also decide to document their travels through art, and in the process, learn much about life and love. Publication date: May 28,