Best gay novels 2025

Staff Picks: Our 10 Most Anticipated Books of Lesbian vampires, a queer basketball novel, and more top our list of the year’s buzziest reads. 1 All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission. 2 Between YA and fantasy, memoirs and romance, horror and historical fiction, LGBTQ+ stories have become more important than ever. Thankfully, is full of options you can add to your list! The. 3 By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Add these books to your summer reading list! 4 The Best Queer Books of (So Far) The queer literary landscape is flourishing in spite of near-constant threats. These are the LGBTQ-led reads you won’t want to miss this year. 5 Cheers to reading queer all year! An asexual librarian leverages her viral video about being a late bloomer into a scavenger hunt where the prize is her first kiss, but she starts to regret the plan when her crush seems to reciprocate her feelings. 6 Here are 15 of the most anticipated queer books of , including the newest from Torrey Peters, V. E. Schwab, and Nicola Dinan. 7 The day after the election, November 6, having spent the previous evening cooking and consuming a healthy meal of grass-fed beef and roasted green beans and quinoa as a form of self-care, I sat at the kitchen table eating every single piece of our leftover Halloween treats. KitKats whose wrappers were red as the electoral map. 8 Mason Deaver, best selling and award winning author of young adult fiction, makes their adult fiction debut with a sappy, compelling, and queer twist on fake dating romances. 9 Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. 10 . 11