The Best Queer Books of 2024, According to NPR
Today, I have another installment of “The Best Queer Books of 2024, According to…” Previously, I sifted through The New York Times, Amazon, Publishers Weekly, and Barnes & Noble lists for the queer titles included. This time, I’m highlighting the NPR picks.
The year-end NPR list is a little different from most. They put out a list of hundreds of “Books We Love” from the year, which you can sort by category, like “Book Club Ideas” or “Seriously Great Writing” or “Historical Fiction” or “It’s All Geek to Me” or “Rather Short” or a combination of different aspects. There isn’t an LGBTQ filter, but that’s where I come in!
There are 351 books on the 2024 NPR list, so there’s a very good chance I missed some, but I spotted 31 queer titles included in a range of genres. It’s nice that they included queer books I haven’t seen mentioned in other lists, like Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin and A Thousand Times Before by Asha Thanki. Then again, they also included the new Abigail Shrier on this list—the author who wrote the incredibly transphobic and harmful book Irreversible Damage. So, that’s a real dent in how seriously I can take their recommendations.
Regardless of the source, these are some fantastic queer books of 2024 you might not have heard about elsewhere, so without further ado, here are the 31 best queer books of 2024, according to NPR.
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Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Women’s Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery
Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
All Fours by Miranda July
The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo
The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly
Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix by Gabe Cole Novoa
Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet by Molly Morris
The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso
Hombrecito by Santiago Jose Sanchez
How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger
A Thousand Times Before by Asha Thanki
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo
Four Squares by Bobby Finger
A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
Henry Henry by Allen Bratton
You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian
How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly
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How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir by Shayla Lawson
The City in Glass by Nghi Vo
The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle #5) by Nghi Vo
Mean Boys: A Personal History by Geoffrey Mak
Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson
Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn
Metal from Heaven by August Clarke
Have you read any of these? Let’s chat in the comments!
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