2SLGBTQIA+ Books for Adults - NEW 2025 & 2026

New books for adults published since 2025!

Updated June 4, 2026
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John of John
Stuart, Douglas
Paper Book
The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo. Oprah's Book Club Book of the Month.'John of John has the emotional range and sense of sympathy of his earlier books, but this book is special, it...
Is this a cry for help?
Austin, Emily
Paper Book
Emily Austin, the bestselling "queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines" (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous new novel following a librarian who comes back to work after a mental breakdown only to confront book-banning crusaders in an...
Hungerstone
Dunn, Kat
Paper Book
The fiercest, most powerful adult debut of 2025 - a brilliant feminist vampire novel: a story of ambition, female oppression and unstoppable hunger . . .
Build-A-Boyfriend Project : A Novel
Deaver, Mason.
Paper Book
Bestselling and award-winning author Mason Deaver's adult romance debut follows a journalist in a dead-end job who agrees to teach his disastrous blind date how to be a better boyfriend. Readers will delight in this sweet and steamy queer romance with trans representation! ...
Simply more a book for anyone who has been told they're too much
Erivo, Cynthia
Paper Book
We burned so bright
Klune, TJ
Paper Book
We Burned So Bright is the heartfelt, queer, road trip of a novel from TJ Klune, the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Cerulean Chronicles and The Bones Beneath My SkinHusbands Don and Rodney have lived a good, long life. Together, they've experienced the highest...
Atmosphere
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * From the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go...
Bury our bones in the midnight soil
Schwab, Victoria.
Paper Book
The Heart-Stopping International Sensation! Instant No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller No. 1 New York Times Bestseller The Radio 2 Book Club Pick From V. E. Schwab, a genre-defying, unforgettable novel to sink your teeth into . . .
The emperor of Gladness : a novel
Vuong, Ocean
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Heartbreaking, heartwarming yet unsentimental, and savagely comic' Guardian 'Some of the most beautiful writing I've experienced in my lifetime' Oprah Winfrey READERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE...
To the moon and back : a novel
Ramage, Eliana
Paper Book
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK: "A breathtaking debut about family, identity, and love across generations." --Reese Witherspoon "Eliana Ramage will break your heart and take you to the stars. From painfully accurate depictions of adolescence to effortless jumps through time and...
The keeper of lonely spirits
Anderson, E. M. (Fantasy fiction author)
Paper Book
In this mesmerising, wonderfully moving queer cozy fantasy, an immortal ghost hunter must confront his tragic past in order to embrace his found family. Find an angry spirit. Send it on its way before it causes trouble. Leave before anyone learns his name. After over...
The bones beneath my skin
Klune, TJ
Paper Book
'The sci-fi romance adventure you never knew you needed' Jennifer L. Armentrout, author of Fall of Ruin and Wrath An action-packed supernatural road trip featuring an extraordinary young girl and her two unlikely protectors. The Bones Beneath My Skin...
The three lives of Cate Kay
Fagan, Kate (Sports writer)
Paper Book
" The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets First Lie Wins in this electric, voice-driven debut novel about an elusive bestselling author who decides to finally confess her true identity after years of hiding from her past. Cate Kay knows how...
In the land of... Simplicity
Lubchansky, Mattie
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER . From the acclaimed author of horror sensation Boys Weekend, a vibrant new graphic novel about a timid academic sent out from the walled dystopian security territory of New York City to investigate a cult in the wilds of the Catskill Mountains "Mattie...
Minor black figures
Taylor, Brandon
Paper Book
Over a hot summer in New York a painter falls for a priest, in this captivating modern love story from the Booker-Prize shortlisted Brandon Taylor 'A genuinely swoony summer romance' New York Times 'Brilliant' Raven Leilani 'Stunning' Observer
Checked Out
Paper Book
In which a queer library worker searches for love, artistic validation in New YorkCity, and the perfect book An aspiring cartoonist and book lovin' lesbian, Louise works a dead-end day job at a shoe store, where she spends most of her time brooding over a coworker who will...
Stop me if you've heard this one
Arnett, Kristen
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2025 From the New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things, a sparkling and funny new novel of entertainment, ambition, art, and love - for anyone who's ever been called funny as an insult ...
We could be rats
Austin, Emily
Paper Book
A "one-sitting-read" (Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author) about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination--from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts...
Spent a comic novel
Bechdel, Alison
Paper Book
'The funniest, most satirical cartoon she has ever written - as well as, perhaps, the most prescient' OBSERVER \"Very funny and self-hating in a good way\" ZADIE SMITH From her pygmy goat farm in Vermont, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel wonders- Can she pull humanity...
The dry season : finding pleasure in a year without sex
Febos, Melissa
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Girlhood, an examination of celibacy as well as the solitude, the freedoms and the feminist heroes discovered along the way - a wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge
Woodworking
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE 2025 Named A Best Book of 2025 by Vox, Elle, NPR, Bustle, Marie Claire, Chicago Review of Books, Chicago Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Them, Xtra, and Autostraddle Matty Maggiacomo's...
Hell's Heart
Hall, Alexis.
Paper Book
Hell's Heart is a queer speculative fiction retelling of Herman Melville's classic story.Here, a small party go hunting for a giant space creature - and experience love and loss along the way.Earth is a ruin, and the scattered remnants of humanity scavenge what they can from the stars....
Necessary fiction
Osunde, Eloghosa
Paper Book
'A vital work for our times' IRENOSEN OKOJIE 'Radical, gorgeous ... a queer love song, honouring chosen family' BIG ISSUE 'Beautiful ... this is prose worth spending time with' MARIE CLAIRE 'A gorgeously deeply humane book' NICOLE DENNIS-BENN 'A vivid, stirring...
Palaver
Washington, Bryan
Paper Book
A modern literary romcom and a life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washington.
Palaver
Washington, Bryan
Paper Book
A modern literary romcom and a life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washington.
Little Faggot
Tea, Michelle
Paper Book
A Literary Hub Notable Small Press Book of 2025 A new epic novel about a teenage queer runaway from cult classic author of Black Wave and Valencia Michelle Tea. In Spencer's fantasies, the breezy, queer streets of Provincetown, MA, are utopia, a place...
You weren't meant to be human
White, Andrew Joseph
Paper Book
This grotesque adult horror explores unwanted pregnancy through the parasitic terror of Leech and Brainwyrms, screaming with trans rage as queer and reproductive rights erode. Alien meets Midsommar in this chilling debut adult novel from award-winning author Andrew...
Veal
Nolan, Mackenzie
Paper Book
Offering the atmosphere of Twin Peaks and the queer camaraderie of comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, Veal is a thrilling exploration of friendship, fear, and the thin line between justice and vengeance. Delores 'Lawrence' Franklin is a failed capitalist and a runaway headcase. Following a...
Step bi step : the ultimate guide for bisexual, pansexual and queer young people
Clarke, Laura
Paper Book
Am I really bisexual if I haven't kissed someone of the same gender? How do I handle people sexualising my identity? What does it mean if I like one gender more than others? With advice from bi+ activists and influencers including Megan Jayne Crabbe, Sofie Hagen, Pearl Mackie,...

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