I have finally reemerged from the depths of Most Anticipated Books of 2025 lists! I’ve been looking through dozens of lists across blogs, Instagram, Goodreads, and more to build a database of hundreds of new queer books out in 2025. It’s obviously not a complete list, but it’s a start! It also has very few titles out in the fall, the biggest publishing season, because those usually get publicized later. By any metric, though, I have amassed a giant list of new queer books in a spreadsheet, searchable and sortable by representation and genre. And I want to share them with you!

Despite the abundance of queer books getting published these days, they can still be tricky to find. That’s why newsletters like Our Queerest Shelves and lists like this one are still useful. For example, I probably looked at 20 upcoming books lists before I found out there is a new Alison Bechdel book coming out in May!

I’m just letting paid suscribers (aka All Access members) in on this peak behind the curtain: this is the spreadsheet I use to build my monthly new queer books list for Our Queerest Shelves. All Access members also get lists of new queer books as bonus content throughout the year, plus they get access to all the paywalled content across Book Riot’s 20+ newsletters.