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Fave Five: Bi Adult M/F Romances, Part II These are M/F Romances where half the couple is bi. For part I (and links to bi4bi posts), click here. Never Been Shipped by Alicia Thompson People Watching by Hannah Bonam-Young For One Night Only by Jessica James Unromance by Erin Connor Best Hex Ever by…

Annual reminder that I've got a holiday romcom out "A super-steamy queer holiday romance that deals with serious topics, such as substance addiction, identity exploration, and family strife, while still managing to be uproariously funny and incredibly romantic." —Library Journal (⭐ review)

Fun fact - next year will be 10 years of LGBTQReads. Wanna see what the first version of this post looked like? lgbtqreads.com/2016/05/16/t...

So pleased to see BEING ARO on this list!! 💚

my book is on this list!!! i shall pass out!

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fiction: January-June 2026 I, in the Shadows by Tori Bovalino (January 13th) Maybe this is possession; maybe this is truly what it is to be haunted. There’s a ghost hanging out in Drew Larpin’s new room. He’s a fellow Pine Hollow high schooler named Liam, and…

Via @lgbtqreads.bsky.social post on the Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Romances coming January - June 2026. Love Is A Contact Sport, a Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, MM romance is out 6/16/26 on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social Pre-orders welcome! Events, too! bookshop.org/p/books/love...

Fave Five: Queer Hockey Romance Standalones For more m/m hockey titles, click here. For queer hockey romance series, click here. It's a Love/Skate Relationship by Charli J. Corson (f/f YA) Time to Shine and The Shots You Take by Rachel Reid (m/m) Shoot Your Shot by Lexi LaFleur Brown (bi m/f)…

oh wow. I'm incredibly honored to find REARS & VICES on LGBTQReads' *Most Anticipated* Romances 2026 list!!! 🤯😭😭😭 Thank you, Dahlia!!! 🏴‍☠️🫶🏳️‍🌈 (this time with the proper link, lol!) lgbtqreads.com/2025/12/17/m...

Via @lgbtqreads.bsky.social. Most anticipated LGBTQ+ Romance: January - June 2026. The list includes many books you should consider, including my forthcoming novel Love Is A Contact Sport. Book & pre-order information in attached posts. lgbtqreads.com/2025/12/17/m... #Romancelandia #LGBTQBooks

So delighted to see LIKE IN LOVE WITH YOU included in @lgbtqreads.bsky.social's Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Romance for Jan-July 2026. THANK YOU to @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com for being such an enormous advocate for LGBTQ+ authors, stories, and worlds!! lgbtqreads.com/2025/12/17/m...

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Romances: January-June 2026 Pumped by K.M. Neuhold (January 2nd) I’m just a nerd, standing in front of a bench press, asking it not to humiliate me in front of my gym crush I’ve never walked into a gym on purpose in my life, and I’m not sure which part is more shocking, the…

Hyped to see The UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET on this list! Jane, I hope you would have liked what I did with the characters—I used them only lightly and put them back largely as I found them, just a bit queerer 🏳️‍🌈

Happy 250th Birthday, Jane Austen! RIP, Jane - you would've really loved how much queer literature is explicitly gaying up your work. *** For generally Austen-inspired work, check out: I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner George has major problems: They’ve just inherited the failing family…

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Adult Fiction: January-June 2026 Trying something different this year and breaking up by genre, so if you're looking for SFF/H, Crime Fiction, or Graphic Novels, just keep scrolling! (Yes, some of those distinctions are a little fuzzy. I did my best.) Romance will still be…

So exciting to see Sebastian J. Plata's upcoming psychological thriller INTRUSIVE INTENTIONS on the @lgbtqreads.bsky.social Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Adult Fiction Jan-June 2026 list! 💙💜 lgbtqreads.com/2025/12/15/m...

Happy 250th Birthday, Jane Austen! RIP, Jane - you would've really loved how much queer literature is explicitly gaying up your work. *** For generally Austen-inspired work, check out: I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner George has major problems: They’ve just inherited the failing family…

WHAT DO YOU MEAN VILE LADY VILLAINS IN THE MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQ+ FICTION ROUNDUP BY @lgbtqreads.bsky.social 🥺🥺😭 Thank you so much for including my stabby sapphics in such wonderful company! lgbtqreads.com/2025/12/15/m...

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Adult Fiction: January-June 2026 Trying something different this year and breaking up by genre, so if you're looking for SFF/H, Crime Fiction, or Graphic Novels, just keep scrolling! (Yes, some of those distinctions are a little fuzzy. I did my best.) Romance will still be…

Fave Five: YA with Queer Filipino MCs Rest in Peaches by Alex Brown Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala My Heart Underwater by Laurel Flores Fantauzzo Lovely Dark and Deep by Elisa A. Bonnin Chasing Pacquiao by Rod Pulido Bonus: These are all Young Adult, but for Middle Grade, check out Lulu…

Oh, and it's free today. KOBO www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... B&N www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-magpie... APPLE books.apple.com/us/book/the-... AMAZON amzn.to/48HyBv1

Gift Guide: Picks for Young Readers Looking for great picks for voracious readers 10 and under? Here's a guide for that! *** The Batcat series by Meggie Ramm - a ridiculously cute graphic novel series both my kids (under 10) love, with a nonbinary grump of a main character who's simultaneously a…

We’re so excited for our deep dive of KJ Charles’s The Magpie Lord. We talk about the clear chops displayed in this romance --strong plotting, complex characterization, and a beautiful understanding of what happily ever after looks like.

Just a reminder that if you pre-order your copy of Margin of Error (in any format), just fill out the form below, and I'll send you some themed goodies in the mail! You can also pre-order a signed paperback from @northshirebooks.bsky.social! 💗

Someone please teach me the trick for buying ebooks for people in other countries?? A bunch of people signed up for books from outside the US, but only two authors did, so I'm gonna be doing a bunch of sending myself, and I cannot figure out how...

I signed up for this and @bycrandall.bsky.social not only sent me a copy of their book "The No Girlfriend Rule" - which could not be more up my alley as a fat nerdy sapphic myself - but also a handmade card, buttons based on her next book, and some little DnD goodies. 🥺 Thank you so much!! 💕

Gift Guide: Gifts for TV Lovers Find the perfect book for the TV lover in your life based on their faves!  *** For students of TV Culture, check out: Hi Honey, I’m Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baume From flamboyant relatives on Bewitched to closely-guarded…

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Middle Grade: January-June 2026 Brady Mason's Perfect Fit by Nicole Melleby (January 13th) Brady Mason couldn’t care less about fashion. She likes what she knows: baseball, comfortable clothes, and pork roll with egg and cheese. When Brady’s friends notice that she looks…

I just finished updating my "Ultimate List of Sapphic Holiday Romances," and I can hardly believe the count: we are officially at 465 titles! If you're looking for a festive sapphic book to snuggle up with this month, check out the list on my website: jae-fiction.com/sapphic-holi...

you can take the girl out of the gothic but you can't take the gothic out of the girl! thank you @mollytempleton.com ❤️

★ Adib Khorram’s “searing, deeply felt” YA novel ONE WORD, SIX LETTERS is a “powerfully relevant and affirming story about trying to connect with oneself while navigating homophobia, misogyny, and toxic masculinity”

hey remember when they got Zenyatta from Overwatch to be one of the voice actors on my gay Christmas romcom audiobook

Fave Five: Queer Christmas Romance Audiobooks All links are libro.fm affiliate; each purchase earns a small percentage of income for the site. In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae, narrated by Melissa Moran (f/f) Second Chances in New Port Stephen by TJ Alexander, narrated by Aden Hakimi and…

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Middle Grade: January-June 2026 Brady Mason's Perfect Fit by Nicole Melleby (January 13th) Brady Mason couldn’t care less about fashion. She likes what she knows: baseball, comfortable clothes, and pork roll with egg and cheese. When Brady’s friends notice that she looks…

Rebel guerillas fight a fascist empire, but don't quite win. From the ashes, they choose hope, recovery, building community, & working towards a new life on the utopian planet Refuge. #Hopepunk #sapphic #solarpunk #cozy #sf 💙📚 🌈📚🪐 books2read.com/rl/aplaceofr...

Fave Five: New and Upcoming YA Starring Trans Girls These are 2024-26 releases. Lucy, Uncensored by Mel Hammond and Teghan Hammond One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller Fawn's Blood by Hal Schrieve Queen of Faces by Petra Lord This Wretched Beauty by Elle Grenier Bonus: These are all prose novels,…

Gift Guide: Gifts for TV Lovers Find the perfect book for the TV lover in your life based on their faves!  *** For students of TV Culture, check out: Hi Honey, I’m Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baume From flamboyant relatives on Bewitched to closely-guarded…

Fave Five: Queer Hockey Romance Series For more m/m hockey titles, click here. Puck Struck by Kate Cochrane (f/f) Game Changers by Rachel Reid (m/m) The Comebacks by A.J. Truman (m/m) Out on the Ice by Kelly Farmer (f/f) Breakaway by E.L. Massey (m/m and m/f) Bonus: These are all Adult, but for…

It’s my duty to remind you of my queer Portland magical girl stories 📚💙 I’ve created an entire new magical girl series that happens to center on trans women and lesbians and Oregon and I’d love for you to get acquainted with it! Two full novels and a tie-in novelette await you: magicariot.com/buy

New Releases: December 2025 There’s Always Next Year by George M. Johnson and Leah Johnson (2nd) Andy was supposed to shed her too-serious student journalist persona and reinvent herself on New Year’s Eve. Instead, she puked on her crush, dropped her phone in a fish tank, and managed to get her…

Support independent bookstores *and* LGBTQReads by shopping at our Bookshop! bookshop.org/shop/LGBTQRe... There are over a hundred shelves organized to help you find what you're looking for, and shipping today is free *plus* 20% off a future order!

Read my cozy plus size m/m romance 'More to Love right now for FREE on Koboplus or Everand. Wrestling coach Emmy Park is content living romance through books—until he meets Jamir Cunningham, the charming owner of his favorite shop. bit.ly/moretolovero... #mmromance

My goal has been more than met, but the Chace Verity Christmas Chsale will continue through December. Queer romances of different subgenres for half off 💪💪 itch.io/s/167653/cha...

The Sapphic Book Advent Calendar has started! jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book... From today until December 25, you get to open a new door every day, revealing: 🎁 a free ebook 🎁 a book giveaway 🎁 or a book on sale by one of the 110 participating authors!

Reader’s Guide: World AIDS Day 2025 Young Adult Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian It’s 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He’s terrified that someone…

Need some guidance through the Bookshop 25% off sale? For queer litfic, check out: Necessary Fiction by Eloghosa Osunde: bookshop.org/a/2228/97805... We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin: bookshop.org/a/2228/97816... Stop Me If You've Heard This Before by Kristen Arnett: bookshop.org/a/2228/97805...

It's Creator Day on Itchio! Today 100% of earnings go to indie creators, so it's the perfect day to stock up on ebooks. Gift them to friends for the holidays, hoard them for later, read them immediately, have books ✨🖤 All my books on Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io 3 for $9.99: itch.io/s/146541/ard...

All my ebooks are half price for Creator Day at itch! Today only, itch isn't taking a cut, so all the money goes to creators. Want some queer sci-fi or fantasy romance in your life? You can buy individual books for $1.49-$3.49 or the whole bundle for $30 feliciadavin.itch.io...

November 2025 Deal Announcements Adult Fiction Lambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winning author Bill Konigsberg's CAGE FREE, the author's first novel for adults, a gay coming-of-middle-age story, pitched as THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU reimagined by David Sedaris and set in a wacky Florida…