5 of the Most Exciting New Queer Books Out in 2025 That I Just Learned About

As long-time readers of Our Queerest Shelves know, I keep a giant spreadsheet of upcoming queer book releases. I use it to make monthly new queer book roundups, like 11 Must-Read New Queer Books Out in March 2025. Some of the biggest releases I hear about six months or even more than a year before the publication date (shout out to Cemetery Boys: Espíritu by Aiden Thomas, which won’t come out until September 2026). Others I only discover days before their pub date or, sadly, afterward, which means it missed its window to be featured in these roundups.

Currently, I have more than 500 queer books out in 2025 on this spreadsheet, and it will only grow, especially as we learn more about fall new releases. Today, I thought I’d share five of the most recent additions to the spreadsheet. They have pub dates ranging from April to October. There’s a gay middle grade fantasy book in the world of Percy Jackson, an essay collection about horror movies and trans narratives, nonfiction about the “myth of LGBTQ+ solidarity” by a Black feminist writer, a collection of LGBTQ fairy tale retellings, and a sapphic gothic retelling.

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