This sapphic literary novel made a big splash when it was published in the UK, and now it’s finally making its North American debut. In 1990s Ireland, teenage Lucy is slowly realizing her desires don’t match the life she is expected to live. She is falling in love with her best friend, Susannah, but she is determined to hide it. Just before graduation, she finally confesses to Susannah, and they start a beautiful, heart-wrenching, secret relationship. When Susannah wants to stop hiding, though, Lucy is forced to make an impossible choice.

Six and Green are two Asian American trans women who are dating. Together, they are competing in the men’s pro indoor volleyball league—but on rival teams. They travel around the world to compete, broadcasting their relationship to parasocial fans, but when their teams face off against each other in the championship, they also face a P.R. crisis that could blow up their reputations. This is an “outrageous and deeply serious satire,” and I can’t wait to read it!

The author of Vagabonds! is back with an exploration of queer life in Nigeria today. It follows a rotating cast of dozens of queer people in Lagos as they navigate romantic, familial, friend, and sexual relationships. They find love even while dealing with bigotry. Kaveh Akbar, author of  Martyr!, says: "I can’t believe how alive Eloghosa Osunde’s Necessary Fiction is, how supersaturated and smart… Hustle, heart, privacy, sex, yearning so strong it buckles you—it’s all here. The ink practically hovers off the page."

This new romance from writing partners and spouses Karelia and Fay Stetz-Waters features two rival chefs who enter a tension-filled marriage of convenience to utilize a loophole that will allow them to save a green space from corporate development. They might have been culinary school rivals with benefits back then, but now everything is strictly for show. Until it isn’t, of course. —Jessica Pryde

In the description of this book, it is being compared to Murderbot, Firefly, Thelma & Louise, Ex Machina, and This is How You Lose the Time War . Those are some big shoes, and I’m already sold! But if you need to know more, it’s a sapphic sci-fi adventure about a space treasure hunter named Wylla who finds a piece of tech that changes her life. It’s an AI mask, HAWK, and the consciousness of the woman who wore it is somehow still alive inside it. The truth behind how this could have happened sends Wylla and HAWK across the stars in search of answers. —Liberty Hardy

It may be a few weeks away, but put this queer romantasy down on your TBR now. Set in a near future, a woman named Kiana, who can read blood memories, becomes unwell after uncovering an usual memory that contradicts what her people have learned about history. It’s up to the sword-wielding Vale to help keep Kiana safe as she becomes more ill and goes searching for dangerous answers she may regret learning. —Liberty Hardy

From the author of the Sidekick Squad series, Clash of Steel , and more comes a fantasy YA book about two teen girls from different universes who fall in love in a magical coffee shop. Brenda is from our universe and has a "19-step plan to save the world through science." Kat is the Chosen One in her universe and is trying to run away from her destiny. As their universes collide, they’ll have to find a way to save them both—and go on a second date. This looks so fun!

Amélie is trapped in a loveless and violent marriage. Sahara is the enslaved woman that Amélie’s husband brings back from one of his many journeys. Together, the two women will learn to fight back and seek happiness on their own terms. —Eileen Gonzalez

I loved Mattie Lubchansky’s previous graphic novel, Boys Weekend, a satirical trans horror story, so I can’t wait to pick up her newest one. Simplicity follows a trans man living in the walled city of New York in 2081. He’s hired to do an anthropological survey of the cult of Simplicity in the Catskills. He’s charmed by this community, but he begins to have visions of monstrous and beautiful creatures—and then members of Simplicity start to go missing.

I’ve been firmly on the Chappell Roan fan bandwagon since "Pink Pony Club," so I am very tempted by this adorable Little Golden Book biography. There’s even a two-page rainbow spread featuring her performing with drag queens. It makes me happy that kids have queer celebrities like Chappell Roan to look up to—though I would guess most of these are destined for adult fans’ bookshelves.