Booker Prize finalist Taylor’s latest follows a gay Black artist from the South who is struggling a bit to find his place in the Manhattan art scene. Wyeth is navigating bad art shows, pretension, and even backstabbing as he tries to settle into a new art ecosystem. Then he meets Keating, who left the priesthood, and he begins to question the way Blackness fits into white art spaces...or rather, how it doesn’t. —Erica Ezeifedi

I’ve seen a lot more bi4bi M/F romances recently, and I’m here for it. Yael is a high school librarian whose anonymous podcast has become much more popular than she expected. She hires Kevin, a remote editor/producer, to help, so she has the time to still do her day job and run the after school queer teen book club.

When Ravi shows up at the book club to volunteer, he and Yael immediately butt heads: he’s the same guy who climbed out of her window after a one-night stand with her roommate. As they work together, sparks begin to fly at the same time that Yael is falling for sensitive Kevin over email—but what neither of them know is that Kevin also goes by his middle name, Ravi, and Yael goes by Elle on her podcast. It’s a hidden identity romance! I especially like that this one is so much about the queer teen book club: their bisexuality is important to the two main characters, including in an M/F relationship. —Danika Ellis

Arthur and Sal are a married vampire couple that proves some stereotypes aren’t accurate: they’re out in daylight, they eat garlic, and they run a bed and breakfast in Oregon. The problem is that the mayor is found dead with puncture wounds that point at Arthur and Sal, the two vampire residents in an “idyllic” town not friendly to the paranormal. Obviously they’ll need to solve this murder quickly in order to prove they aren’t murdering vampires! —Jamie Canaves

The author of The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen brings us a fresh gothic mystery following two ex-lovers who must find some way to reconcile under the flickering gaslight of Lackaday House, where they’ve both been summoned to compete for the hand of a young bride—and all the wealth she’ll inherit. Zeb has no interest in playing into these games, but when he tries to leave, he discovers there’s no way out. In this game of love and haunted houses, winning is less important than making it out alive. —Rachel Brittain

If you’ve been craving a swoony, witchy sapphic romance, this one will cast its spell on you. Bryn swore she’d never return to Grimoire Academy, but when she inherits her former professor’s treasured spellbook collection, she finds herself face-to-face with Amelia Hexford—her old school’s untouchable queen, now the headmistress. A flustered Bryn agrees to stay on as a teacher, and soon the two witches are circling each other in the tight quarters of the staffroom. With sparks flying as brightly as their magic, this enemies-to-lovers (with a dash of academia) romance is both spicy and enchanting—perfect for readers who like their love stories equal parts steamy and spellbinding. —Nikki DeMarco

The author of the Last Binding trilogy and Swordcrossed returns with this Cinderella retelling. It’s a queer Gothic romance about the ghost of a murdered girl trapped in her father’s house, who makes a bargain to be almost-alive and free for three nights. Spoiler: three nights won’t be enough. —Liberty Hardy

Buckle in for a queer The Great Gatsby in New York in 2075! In this futuristic retelling, Nick Caraway befriends the ultra-wealthy Jay Gatsby, in a city where money can buy you tech-enhanced bodies and longer life spans. But will the allure of wealth keep Nick from carrying out his secret mission as a cyber hacker assigned to investigate Gatsby? —Liberty Hardy

It’s a new charming fantasy from the author of The Teller of Small Fortunes! Certainty is a novice mage unable to perform much magic and, therefore, not much of a help. But when she’s paired up for a task with overachiever Aurelia, whose talents have alienated everyone, the two form an unlikely bond that may bloom into something more. —Liberty Hardy

In this sapphic historical dark fantasy, a young loner searches for the killer who took the life of her mother, Madam Butterfly, the head of a gang. Her hunt will take her deep into the gang’s violent world and the city’s seedy underbelly, where the body count continues to grow. —Liberty Hardy

Here’s a new sapphic fantasy from the award-winning author of the Burning Kingdoms series! A witch and a knight fated to fall in love and be torn apart over and over must find a way to halt the cycle of their story. Meanwhile, a mysterious assassin is on the prowl, looking to permanently destroy anyone with a story like theirs. —Liberty Hardy

This is a queer retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Rappaccini’s Daughter —can I be vulnerable with you and admit I’ve never heard of it? Regardless, I love a sapphic gothic, and this one looks fantastic. Cordelia’s search for her missing brother leads her to the town of Farrow, but even the man her brother was an apprentice to claims to never have met him. She’s taken in by a botanist, Lady Evangeline, who hires her as a maid and companion to her daughters, Prim and Briar. Cordelia grows closer to Briar, but when she finds evidence her brother was once at the estate, she realizes Lady Evangeline has been keeping secrets. —Danika Ellis

I just finished this dark, bisexual, M/F/M/F, why choose, fantasy gothic, and I had a great time with it. I would advise that you read the content warnings closely before picking it up, though. This follows Adam, who is searching out the Scottish manor his late grandfather told so many stories about. By his side is his best friend, Nicola. When they find it, they’re welcomed by the mysterious owner, Eileen, and the gruff groundskeeper, Finley. A storm strikes, and they’re trapped in the house together—which seems to stoke their suppressed desires. This is a steamy, kinky, brooding gothic fantasy I couldn’t stop reading, and I can’t wait for book two in the trilogy. —Danika Ellis

In this sapphic gothic, when marine archeologist Marta Khoury is called to a remote Scottish isle to explore a recently uncovered Victorian shipwreck, she expects salvage to be the most interesting thing she finds. Instead, she’s snowed in as the Cuban Missile Crisis rages halfway across the globe and becomes convinced a shadowy figure stalks her every step, even as she searches for the ship’s artifacts, which have, mysteriously, disappeared. —Rachel Brittain

Herculine was supposed to be an escape. The narrator ran from her life in New York City to the all trans girl commune in the woods that her ex-girlfriend started to get away from her demons—not just the metaphorical demons of transphobia and poverty, but also the actual entity stalking her. Soon, though, Herculine proves to have its own demons. There are strange cryptograms on the wall. The girls are keeping a secret. And as she dives deeper, she encounters “disemboweled pigs, cultlike psychosexual rituals, and the horrors of communal breakfast.” —Danika Ellis

Ruth feels trapped in her life and trapped in the closet in the small, conservative town of Kill Devil, Kentucky. When her manager at the craft store where she works finds out she’s living with her girlfriend, Ruth gets fired. But she’s not going down without a fight. In an act of revenge, Ruth attempts to shoplift yarn from the store, and instead, she finds herself captured by the religious group that runs the store (and the whole town). As Ruth comes face-to-face with the dark secrets behind Kill Devil, will she be able to make it out alive? —Emily Martin

From the author of Don’t Let the Forest In comes a new YA horror novel. This one is about Evander, who has lived in the shadows of the Hazelthorn estate under the orders of his billionaire guardian, Byron Lennox-Hall, since he was a small child. He’s forbidden to leave the estate, to explore the gardens, or to be anywhere near Byron’s grandson, Laurie—ever since Laurie tried to kill him. But when Byron dies and Evander inherits the estate, he has to team up with Laurie to find the murderer. Along the way, they struggle with the deadly garden escaping its walls and the family secrets that won’t stay buried. (The author describes Evander as “bi in the way of being nervous of all genders, equally. “) —Danika Ellis

This award-winning and beautifully illustrated sapphic graphic novel centers on 17-year-old Maika, who is searching for answers after the death of her mother and the discovery of a murderous monster living inside of her. After killing a room filled with child enslavers, she ends up escaping with a fox girl named Kippa and a strange cat named Ren Momorian. It’s a dark story as Maika struggles to keep control of the literal monster inside of her while also navigating a world full of child slavery and the brutality of war. —Elisa Shoenberger

As Chris M. Arnone wrote about recently, there are very few intersex memoirs. In this one, Georgiann Davis writes about growing up in a poor family that borrowed money to appear well off. She struggled to fit in as a child, dropping out in seventh grade to sell weed. Eventually, she learns the secret her family has been keeping from her: she’s intersex. The publisher’s description says, “She connects her personal experiences of medical abuse, fatphobia, and fear of the intersex body with incisive critiques of whiteness, the opioid crisis, and gendered and queer oppression.” —Danika Ellis

This essay collection is about finding comfort in horror movies: “From fears about sickness and disability, to trans narratives and the predator/victim complex, to the struggle to live in a world that wants you dead, she explores horror’s reciprocal impact on our culture and—by extension—our lives.” Woven throughout is Lisowski’s own story, including her trans childhood in the South. This comes highly recommended by Torrey Peters and Jeanne Thornton! —Danika Ellis