Gay novels 2024

New year, new LGBTQ+ books to look forward to! These are 12 of the best queer books has to offer, and they're begging to be on your TBR. As we look toward , there’s an exciting new round of queer books on the way to steal our hearts, shock us, and make us swoon. From celebrity memoirs, to historical fiction, to classic. These queer novels set for release in blaze a path toward queer visibility and acceptance by centering the stories of sexual and gender minorities.

To get a fuller picture of the scope and variety of queer titles released this year, I asked culture critics Ilana Masad and Sarah Neilson to spearhead this list of the best LGBTQ+ books of , along with additions from Them staffers and contributors. As always, though, it’s this year’s literary landscape that I personally am most excited about: from essays and memoirs to Schitt’s Creek -esque sibling shenanigans, there’s a new release for.

Behold, my beloved list of the best queer books of There are so many damn good queer books being published these days. We are so lucky! Got it? This slice-of-life graphic novel of queer millennial ennui — the English-language debut of German cartoonist Nino Bulling — is a knock-out.

best gay books of 2024

It follows year-old queer Berliner, Ingken, trying to figure out where they land in their own transness and navigating a long-term relationship with Lily, also trans. The result is a depiction of queer contemporary Europe that is as life-like as it is affecting.

With intricate art done solely in ballpoint pen, Ferris dismantles the false division between high and low art, as she — through Karen whose journal comprises the vehicle for the story — renders with equal dedication the fine art on the walls of the galleries Karen visits and the B-movie horror magazine covers she adores.

But, of course, it is. Something, Not Nothing is a collection of comics Sarah Leavitt made in the two years following the death of her partner of 22 years, Donimo. Homebody particularly excels in its use of an extended metaphor of the body as a house. The second book in the Alamaxa duology, The Weavers of Alamaxa continues to build on what made the first installment so successful: a complex friendship between two feminist women.

In the final book, Nehal and Giorgina grow not only their magical weaving abilities, but their relationship with each other and their lovers. Politically, The Weavers of Alamaxa also shines, in its smart interrogation of collective and personal freedom, democracy, and how all kinds of oppression — and liberation — are linked. The transformative powers of story are key to R.

The plotting is as tight as ever and the world-building continues to soar, as Suri integrates intricate South Asian-inspired cultures and histories into the narrative. The ensuing story is a delight start to finish. Vo seamlessly weaves into a base of historical fantasy elements of horror and mystery to create an incredibly unique genre-mashup.

This page-turning historical adventure traces the rise to power of a mixed race queer woman pirate captain who sailed the Caribbean seas in the mid s — or so the legends say. The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye refuses to sanitize the brutal, violent details of 17th century piracy. The result is an epic tale that forgoes hero worship for a nuanced portrait of a complicated woman surviving in her time and place.

Carrasco takes us back to Washington Territory, , a setting she has recreated so vividly you can smell the gunpowder, the horse shit, and the sweat at the queer night club. Also: their ex-girlfriend and ex-Pinkerton agent is in town! What more could you want? An encounter between two trans people in a small Massachusetts town in is the catalyst for this remarkable story that moves back and forth in time, as the protagonist Max reflects on his past from adulthood in How could I imagine the shape of my own love?

Historical novels set during WW2 are, in general, extremely overdone. This wildly unpredictable novel has some elements of horror folk legends, with its historically rich yet vague small town European setting. But its characters — butch-femme couple Angelina and Jagvi — feel distinctly like authentic modern queers. This splatterpunk-lite novel features five queer youth who undergo horrors real and supernatural, thoroughly imagined and realized.

The characterization of the group when they are both teens and later as adults is impeccable. This is Anne of Green Gables, but make it gay, dark, and gruesome. The story focuses on a wealthy Black family whose children, Ezri and their two sisters, grew up in a McMansion in a white suburb of Dallas.