2SLGBTQIA+ Books for Adults - NEW 2024 & 2025

New books for adults published since 2024!

Updated May 5, 2025
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Motheater
Codega, Linda H.
Paper Book
In this nuanced queer fantasy set amid the Appalachian Mountains in Virginia, the last witch of the Ridge must choose sides in a clash between industry and nature. After her best friend dies in a coal mine, Benethea "Bennie" Mattox sacrifices her job, her relationship, and her...
Loves of My Life : A Sex Memoir
Paper Book
From the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex. "In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund White's love of sex makes us proud to be human. And the story of his sex life reads like a beautifully crafted, very moving...
In-Between Bookstore : A Novel
Underhill, Edward
Paper Book
"What would you tell your teen self if you could go back in time? Underhill's tender, innovative debut is the smartest take on this trope I've ever read. . . and for the record, I read it in a single sitting. A beautiful, thoughtful study of how we find our truest selves, and whom we choose to...
Bones Beneath My Skin
Klune, TJ
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY AND INDIE BESTSELLER! A spine-tingling standalone novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune--a supernatural road-trip thriller featuring an extraordinary young girl and her two unlikely protectors on the...
Three Lives of Cate Kay : A Novel
Paper Book
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK! "This story swept me away with its big dreams, love, and unexpected twists." --Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club January '25 Pick) The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets First Lie Wins in this electric, voice-driven debut...
Because Fat Girl
Paper Book
For everyone who's ever felt too big, too weird, too queer--or just too much--comes a happily ever after for the rest of us. Hollywood isn't nice to women like Diana Smith, but that hasn't stopped her from being unabashedly queer, plus-sized, and determined to make award...
Last Gifts of the Universe : A Novel
Paper Book
AN AUDIBLE BEST OF THE YEAR PICK for 2024! A dying universe. A search for answers. An adventure at the end of a trillion lifetimes. When the Home worlds finally achieved the technology to venture out into the stars, they found a graveyard of dead...
Seal of Salvage
Paper Book
Steeped in Newfoundland's unique folklore and superstitions, A Seal of Salvage is a coming-of-age novel about unrequited love between adolescent boys that slips between history and mythology. Set in 1950s rural outport Newfoundland and blending historical fiction with magic realism, A Seal...
The guncle abroad
Rowley, Steven
Ebook
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER An Indie Next Pick Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Italy. Patrick O'Hara is back. It's been five years since his summer as his niece Maisie and nephew...
Crooked teeth : a queer Syrian refugee memoir
Ramadan, Ahmad Danny
Paper Book
FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNER GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 EVERGREEN AWARD AN AUDIBLE BEST BOOK OF 2024 A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place. "Writing this memoir is a betrayal...
Pairing: Special 1st Edition
McQuiston, Casey
Paper Book
A Best Book of the Year for The New York Times, People, Elle, USA Today, Saveur, and more! LIMITED FIRST PRINT RUN--featuring sprayed edges with a stenciled script design. Only available for a limited time and while supplies last. In #1...
American Teenager : How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era
Paper Book
* NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A 2025 STONEWALL BOOK AWARD HONOREE * From an award-winning journalist comes a vivid and moving portrait of eight trans and nonbinary teenagers across the country, following their daily triumphs, struggles, and all that encompasses growing up...
Broughtupsy
Cooke, Christina
Paper Book
Finalist, 2025 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Fiction Ms., A Must-Read Book Cosmopolitan, A Best New Book of January Nylon, A Best Book of the Month Named a Most Anticipated Book by Elle, Goodreads, Write or Die, Electric Literature, Literary...
Cure for Drowning
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-pushing love story but a Canadian historical novel that boldly centres queer and non-binary characters in unprecedented ways. ...
Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out
Love, Ryan.
Paper Book
The feel-good read of 2024. Perfect for fans of Mike Gayle, Beth O'Leary and Alice Oseman's Heartstopper. Selected as one of the Independent's 19 debut authors set to make their mark in 2023 'Gentle, honest and beautifully authentic' Julietta...
Interesting Facts about Space : A Novel
Paper Book
A fast-paced, hilarious, and ultimately hopeful novel for anyone who has ever worried they might be a terrible person--from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead. Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black...
The fiancee farce. [online electronic book]
Bellefleur, Alexandria
Ebook
Lambda Literary award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a steamy sapphic rom-com about a quiet bookseller and a romance novel cover model who agree to a modern-day marriage of convenience... Tansy Adams' greatest love is her family's bookstore,...

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