8 Queer Books Out This Week To Add To Your TBR

This book was originally published in Farsi in the UK, and it was banned in Iran. It was then translated into French, and now it’s available in English. It follows two men falling in love during the Iranian Cultural Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. They leave their village to look for a place to be together safely in a country where homosexuality is punishable by death.

This is the third book in the Harlem Renaissance Mystery series, which started with Dead Dead Girls. The first book follows Louise as she tries to run from her past and enjoy her life with her girlfriend, but when young Black women are murdered outside the speakeasy she works for, she’s reluctantly pulled into the investigation. By book three, Louise thinks she’s escaped all that by living in Paris, but then she receives a letter from an old friend in Harlem who sends her on a search for a missing young woman.

This is a new danmei/Boys’ Love series from the author of the very popular Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu series — and they’re set in the same universe. Originally published in Chinese, this historical wuxia series is about two rival investigators who have to join forces to solve the case of the murders of the envoy from the Kingdom of Khotan, and the theft of the precious jade they were delivering. As the two work together, their animosity turns into something else entirely.

There’s not enough fat men in M/M romance! This cover delights me. Bernard feels like he’s doomed in relationships. He’s 35, gay, fat, hairy, and his previous relationships went poorly. Then he reunites with his childhood friend Rory, who is struggling to reconcile his religious beliefs with his queerness. As they fall for each other, they’ll both have to decide if they’re willing to take the risk on love.

From the author of The Tea Master and the Detective, Fireheart Tiger, and many more comes a new sapphic SFF story. In this space opera, navigator clans guide their ships through the area of space known as the Hollows, where deadly Tanglers live. When a Tangler escapes the Hollows for the first time, each clan sends a representative to hunt it down. Việt Nhi of the Rooster clan and Hạc Cúc of the Snake clan are forced to work together on this mission, and their prickly personalities clash — until they don’t.

This is a platonic love story between two queer disabled teens! Casey has always dreamed of being a singer — but now she’s had sudden, profound hearing loss and is mourning losing her connection to music. Hayden dreams of being on Broadway, but his family all thinks he’ll follow in their soccer star footsteps, and his Generalized Anxiety Disorder means he hasn’t been able to tell them the truth. Casey and Hayden bond over their shared love of music, and soon they’re sharing the secrets they haven’t been able to tell anyone else.