queer book recs
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Hello, readers! Today I’m stepping out from behind Year of Queer Lit for a very personal announcement. My debut novel, The Last Five Yards, is officially out today under my pen name, K.M. Craven. It is a slow-burn sapphic second-chance romance about Maren, a neurodivergent swimmer turned coach, and Reese, the former diver who left…
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Here at Year of Queer Lit, we believe Cyber Monday could use a lot more queer books. So, we’re creating something new. On November 30, 2026, we’re bringing readers and queer authors together for a one-day celebration featuring e-books priced at just $0.99, $1.99, and $2.99. We’ll also help readers find paperback editions perfect for…
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The 3rd Annual LGBTQIA+ Book Blast is officially almost here! Friends. THE BOOKS ARE LISTED. (LINKS AT THE BOTTOM) The 3rd Annual LGBTQIA+ Book Blast officially takes place August 26, 2026, but because apparently some books cannot be contained by a calendar, a few of this year’s deals are already live! 📚✨ And this year…
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Vampires are my thing. They have always been my thing and they will always be my thing. There is something about the vampire as a figure that has always carried queerness in its bones, the outsider, the one who loves differently, the one who exists outside the rules of the world they move through. These…
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Fiction gets a lot of love in queer lit spaces and rightfully so. But sometimes the most powerful queer stories are the ones that actually happened. These three memoirs wrecked me, delighted me, and made me think about my own life in ways I was not expecting. They are very different books about very different…
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I am a sucker for a fantasy world that feels so fully realized you forget you are reading fiction. The kind of world where you can feel the history underneath every scene, where the magic system has rules that actually make sense, and where you close the book wishing you could live there, or at…
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Summer reading should hit you right in the feelings. These five queer YA books delivered that and then some. I loved every single one of them and I am not even a little bit sorry about recommending them all at once. Clear your schedule and stock up on tissues for at least two of them.…
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June is here and that means it is time to celebrate with books. This list has something for everyone, organized by genre so you can skip straight to your corner of queer lit and find your next read. Happy Pride, friends. Sapphic Fantasy Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca ThorneTwo badass women, an established…
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Join Us for the First Annual YoQL UNO Reading Challenge This June! Okay friends, I am so excited about this one. Like, embarrassingly excited. Because this June we are doing something I have wanted to bring to this community for a while now and I cannot wait to see how much fun we have with…
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I am going to be honest with you. Mystery is not always my first instinct when I am browsing for something to read. I tend to drift toward sapphic fantasy like a moth to a very gay flame. But every now and then a mystery comes along that grabs me by the collar and does…
