Best gay books 2023
Screw all these book bans! Support queer authors and LGBTQ publishing by picking up any or all of these highly recommended page turners this month and relaxing by the pool or in the shade with a queer-themed work of fiction!
THE SPARE ROOM
The coronavirus pandemic was tough on us emotionally and psychologically when we found ourselves in lockdown and sometimes in situations that could be stifling. But for Kelly Doyle, staying with a friend and her husband as a &#;break&#; opens a pandora&#;s box that is worse than creature locked down at abode in Andrea Bartz&#;s provocative new thriller, The Spare Room. Bartz is the New York Times bestselling author of We Were Never Here and in this page turner we follow Kelly as she leaves her tiny apartment and ambivalent husband to stay with childhood friend, Sabrina—now a glamorous bestselling author with a handsome, high-powered husband. Kelly takes up the offer of the spare room of their remote Virginia mansion, and she loves living with them—so much so that all parties agree to a ménage à trois arrangement. But soon there
It was another fantastic year for LGBTQ books, as evidenced by the sprawling list of 65 standout titles across every genre published by Casey Stepaniuk earlier this month. Her list is a great present of the range and depth of the year&#;s foremost queer books. But I wanted to zoom in a bit and give a personal list, one narrowed down from my have stack of homosexual books I worked my way through over the past year. I mind it would be fun to accomplish a ranked list of the 12 queer novels that stood out to me this year. And by &#;fun,&#; I mean pleasurably agonizing. This was not an effortless list to place together. There are several novels that almost made the cut and might even be just as worthy of a spot on the list but were nudged out for some abstract reason that would be difficult for me to perfectly explain. What I like about this final 12 is that they&#;re all very distinct novels from one another, even as some of them can easily be lay into conversation with one another. Together, they form a thrilling tapestry of my year in queer reading.
Many of the novels on the list complete not have standalone revie
Queer Books, Comics & Manga
As we enter , we're taking a look at some of the excellent gay and bisexual books being released this year. From queer YA romance to queer adult fiction and campy fantasy novels, here are 20 of our most anticipated Achillean books coming out in
Note: some release dates of these books may be pushed back to later dates.
Always the Almost - Edward Underhill
YA Romantic Drama
February
A trans pianist makes a New Year's resolution on a frozen Wisconsin night to conquer regionals and win back his ex, but a new young man complicates things in Edward Underhill's heartfelt debut.
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Miles Jacobson has two New Year’s resolutions: 1) win back his ex-boyfriend (and star of the football team) Shane McIntyre, and 2) finally beat his slimy arch-nemesis at the Midwest’s biggest classical piano competition. But that’s not going to be so easy. For one thing, Shane broke up with Miles two weeks after Miles came out as trans, and now Shane’s stubbornly ignoring him, even when they literally bump into e
The day after the election, November 6, having spent the previous evening cooking and consuming a fit 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 free piece of our leftover Halloween treats. KitKats whose wrappers were red as the electoral map. Bags of popcorn labeled, preposterously, Lesser Evil. Coconut-chocolate bars called Unreal.
Around lunchtime, grave into this who-cares sugar binge, I opened my email and saw a new Substack post from Patrick Nathan, an superior writer and an especially astute critic of all the ways—both explicitly and implicitly—our country has embraced authoritarianism. America, he writes in his newsletter, not as a country but as a mythology and set of unifying ideals, is dead. It’s clearer than ever, he says, that “there is no ‘we’ on a national level, and there won’t be anytime soon.”
And yet, writes Nathan, “if America is dead, our communities survive.” If our national politics has become petty more than farcical theater, our towns and capital councils and neighborhood