🌈 What's COMING OUT (pun intended) this April? Which books are you excited for? Which books are you adding to your TBR? Any other queer releases you know of?
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🌈 What's COMING OUT (pun intended) this April? Which books are you excited for? Which books are you adding to your TBR? Any other queer rele
Note: Some dates may have changed. We haven’t read all of these books, so please check reviews for more details on queer identities represented and The StoryGraph for content warnings!
ID: A post of fifteen slides. Background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow for each slide. Slide 1 has a white square which reads "167 queer books coming out this April!". The 167 is in matching horizontal rainbow stripes and April is in purple text. Text between the number and month are all caps black font. Slide 2-14 features a white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a purple rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. Slide 15 features the same setup with 11 book covers and 1 pale purple rectangle. End ID.
Holy Terrors (Little Thieves Book 3) by Margaret Owens
The Payack Girls by Alex Travis
Covenant Volume 3 by Lysandra Vuong
The Central Avenue Poetry Prize 2025 edited by Beau Adler
Restaurant Kid: A Memoir of Family and Belonging by Rachel Phan
The Ephemera Collector by Stacy Nathaniel Jackson
A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan Book 2) by Robert Jackson Bennett
Reluctant Witch (A Course in Magic Book 2) by Melissa Marr
Run Away with Me by Brian Selznick
Sweet Obsession (Dark Olympus Book 8) by Katee Robert
Where Shadows Meet (Where Shadows Meet Book 1) by Patrice Caldwell
Ecstasy: Poems by Alex Dimitrov
Worthy of the Event: An Essay by Vivian Blaxell
Realistic Fiction by Anton Solomonik
Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewall by Stephanie Burt
Renegade Girls by Nora Neus, Illustrated by Julie Robine
Messy Perfect by Tanya Boteju
Unsex Me Here by Aurora Mattia
Glitter in the Dark by Olesya Lyuzna
The Coven Tendency by Zoe Hana Mikuta
Direct Descendant by Tanya Huff
Deadstream by Mar Romasco-Moore
Blackblood by Kree Sullivan
King’s Legacy (Tennessee Russo Book 2) by L.C. Rosen
Hiraeth (The Tempest Series Book 5) by T.D. Cloud & Ambi Sun (illustrator)
Pink Zombie Rose: Major Arcana, Volume 1 by Dia VanGunten, Beppi
The Break of Dawn by Eule Grey
The Essence of the Eye (Terat Series Book 2) by Jemma Topaz
Just a Peck by Chelsea Jean
My Lady Hiraya by Steven Sy
Air & Essence (Fate of the Acna Book 2) by Mikayla Hornedo
Waters of Destruction (An Orchid Isle Mystery Book 2) by Leslie Karst
You are Not Your Bones & Lesser Misfortunes by Alice Scott
Blood Cypress (Selected Papers from the Consortium for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena Book 7) by Elizabeth Broadbent
Only Hope by Ruby Landers
The Villain's Beast by Kate Hawthorne
Call Forth the Moonlight: A Magíqon's Guide to Gryphon Liberation by Z.M. Celestaire
Into the Fiery Woods by Riley Taylor
Black Smoke Rising by Caroline Cuell
Storm & Sea (Storm & Sea Saga Book 1) by Tereza Kane
Roll for Love by M.K. England
Slayers, Every One of Us: How One Girl in All the World Showed Us How to Hold On by Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs
Don’t Sleep With the Dead by Nghi Vo
Make Sure You Die Screaming by Zee Carlstrom
Boys with Sharp Teeth by Jenni Howell
Ollie In Between by Jess Callans
Authority: Essays by Andrea Long Chu
She Was Monstress: An Anthology of Monster Women curated by Robin Jo Margaret
Nightingale (Birds and Butterflies Book 3) by Frances M. Thompson
Below the Hunter Moon (Silver Rapids Book 2) by A. Knightley
Rabbis of the Garden State by Daniel Meltz
A Vow of Wrath & Ruin by K.W. Foster
Tonight, I Bleed (The Witches of Halstett Book 2) by Katharine J. Adam
i cut my tongue on a broken country by Kyo Lee
I Love you S’more by Auriane Desombre
Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory
Lies of a Toymaker by Kelly Ann Jacobson
Legacy of the Gods (The Black Rose/White Orchid Trilogy Book 2) by Eleanor Rose, Chase St. Clare and August Oliver
Holy Wrath by Victoria Mier
Wishing Well, Wishing Well by Jubilee Cho
Motes of Inspiration (Chronicles of Nerezia Book 5) by Claudie Arseneault
A Line You Have Traced by Roisin Dunnett
Vincent & Sivan (Rum-Soaked Awakenings Book 1) by Cali Kitsu
Kylan (The Wydle Street Boys Book 3) by N.R. Walker
The Revenge Game (The Revenge Club Book 1) by Jax Calder
A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters by Rita A. Rubin
Chaos King (Infinity Alchemist Book 2) by Kacen Callender
Firecamp by Jaycie Morrison
a body more tolerable by jaye simpson
Pride or Die by CL Montblanc
Notes From a Regicide by Isaac Fellman
Francine’s Spectacular Crash and Burn by Renee Swindle
You Belong to Me by Hayley Krischer
Family Week by Sarah Moon
The Influencers by Anna-Marie McLemore
That’s What She Said by Eleanor Pilcher
The Queen Bees of Tybee County by Kyle Casey Chu
Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa
No One Taught Me How to Be a Man: What a Trans Man's Experience Reveals about Masculinity by Shannon T. L. Kearns
The Gentleman & His Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide
Hey, Mary! By Andrew Wheeler & Rye Hickman
I Hated You in High School by Kathleen Gros
When the Harvest Comes by Denne Michele Norris
Love at First Spin by Lauren R. Stephens
Crossing Arizona by Bree Wiley
Every Reason to Stay (Bears of Firefly Valley Book 3) by Ryder O’Malley
French 75 (Miami Nights & Club Lights Book 3) by Addison Beck
A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic (Adenashire Book 1) by J. Penner
The Forgotten Summer of Seneca by Camryn Garrett
Coming Up Clutch by Anna Gram
Whisk Me Away by Georgia Beers
Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt
Girl Crush by C.H. Williams
Some Body like Me by Lucy Lapinska
Acts of Cupidity (Afterlife Agency Book 1) by E.S. Drake
Survival and Other Surprises by Casper E. Falls
Lone Yellow Flower by Erika Gill
Venom Bound (Blood Tethered Book 2) by I.S. Belle
Jeevansaathi (Janam Janam Ka Saath Book 2) by Talia Bhatt
Steamy On Set by D.S. Walls
Hands On: Stories of Sexuality Work, Intimacy, and Healing edited by Remi Newman
Notes From A Queer Cripple: How to Cultivate Queer Disabled Joy (and Be Hot While Doing It!) by Andrew Gurza
If We Were a Movie by Zakiya N Jamal
Eat the Ones you Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
Down in the Sea of Angels by Khan Wong
Anywhere You Go by Bridget Morrissey
Tales from Beyond the Rainbow: Ten LGBTQ+ Fairy Tales Proudly Reclaimed by Pete Jordi Wood
The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum
Toxic Summer by Derek Charm
The Fantasies of Future Things by Doug Jones
When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley
Saint Death’s Herald (Saint Death Book 2) by C.S.E. Cooney
Advocate (The Warden Book 3) by Daniel M. Ford
Eleven Percent by Maren Uthaug
Everything Is Fine Here by Iryn Tushabe
My Dad Is the Best by Fran Pintadera
KinnPorsche Vol. 3 by Daemi & Avaritia (illustrator)
The Pool of Aeslin (Erwain Trilogy Book 2) by Mariah Stillbrook
An Ugly World for Beautiful Boys by Rob Costello
Love in Magnolia by Nicole Spencer-Skillen
Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation by Sim Kern
Mothers of Fate by Lynne Hugo
That Broke into Shining Crystals by Richard Scott
Let’s Talk About Abortion by Carly Kol & Illustrated by Emulsify Art
Iron Tongue of Midnight (Forge & Fracture Saga Book 3) by Brittany N. Williams
Every Sweet Thing is Bitter by Samantha Crewson
Bone Dresser by Nico Vincenty
Shape Families by Lynn Parrish Sutton, illustrated by Jake Tebbit
Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Simon Pleasance (Translator)
The Lost Selkie by Eule Grey
I Remember Lights by Ben Ladouceur
Cocky Bastard by Charlie Novak
The Floral Arrangement by Elizabeth Luly
A Single Dad to Heal Him by Traci Douglass
The Stand-In Dad by Alex Summers
The Prodigal Son (The Goode Brothers Book 4) by Sara Cate
Romanced and Ridden (Consorting with Monsters Book 1 ) by Rowan Merrick
A Body Not Her Own by Eileen Farren
Gross Misconduct by AJ Truman
A Vampire in the Bathhouse by Niko Izuki
Love at Second Sight by F.T. Lukens
All Fired Up by M.K. England
Sleeping Children by Anthony Passeron, Frank Wynne (translator)
My Best Friend’s Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner
Once Upon You and Me: A Spicy Gay Age-Gap Romance by Timothy Janovsky
The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod
Right Beside You by Tucker Shaw
Beetle & the Chimera Carnival (Beetle & the Hollowbones Book 2) by Aliza Layne
Nav's Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love by Jessica Lewis
How to Have a Killer Time in D.C. (Oliver Popp's Travel Guides to Murder Book 1) by Sam Lumley
Unstoppable You (Sapph in the City: Book Six) by Chelsea M. Cameron
The Case of the Tortured Souls by Travis E Holley
Manzakar (The Slave-Soldier Series Book 1) by R. Laham
The Lilac People by Milo Todd
Shattered Star (Mechanized Hearts Book 2) by Fae Rynn
Just A Little Fling (Just A Little Book 3) by Kerry Kilpatrick
Kill Your Darlings (Hunters of Ironport Book 3) by Lou Wilham
Siren Protection Factor (Wet Hot Monster Summer Book 5) by Latrexa Nova