The 2SLGBTQ+ Canadian Literary Canon: A Reading List Through History Canada's queer literary tradition runs from Jane Rule's pre-decriminalization lesbian novel to Samra Habib's Canada Reads-winning queer Muslim memoir. A reading list through the whole 2SLGBTQ+ family, from 1964 to now....

Queer Summer Reading List: Fun, Flirty, and Impossible to Put Down Fun, fierce, and a little flirtatious. The QBC queer summer reading list has something for everyone, from Tuscan comedies to trans memoirs to sapphic beach reads....

Nathan Tavares Sends Queer Disco to the Moon and It’s Out of This World. Nathan Tavares swings big with an alternate-1977 queer sci-fi novel about disco, fascism, and alien adjudicators. It almost sticks the landing. A review with real reservations and genuine admiration....

The Aesop Queer Library Is Back and the Canadian Reading List Deserves Your Full Attention Aesop clears its shelves every Pride season and fills them with free queer books. The 2026 Canadian reading list spans 21 titles across three cities....

The 2026 Lambda Literary Fiction Winners: Four Books Worth Knowing The 2026 Lammys named four fiction winners. Here's a spotlight on each one, from a gothic Carmilla retelling to a trans history of Nazi Berlin....

Queer Books Worth Reading in July 2026: New Releases from Heartstopper to Chuck Tingle July 2026 brings the Heartstopper finale, the most transgressive queer short story collection of the year, Chuck Tingle at full throttle, and a wave of sapphic gothic horror. Fing 14 LGBTQ+ books worth your…

The Summer Boy Is Good, It’s Just Not Lie With Me. Beautiful prose and precise observation, but The Summer Boy never quite finds the emotional hook that made Lie with Me so devastating....

Books by Trans Authors: 21 Essential Reads Across Every Genre Twenty essential books written by trans and nonbinary authors, spanning literary fiction, memoir, speculative fiction, YA, and poetry. No outside voices, just the work itself....

Two gay tennis novels arrived within three months of each other in 2026. Both are set at the US Open and are rivals-to-lovers debut romances. Publishing coincidences like this do not happen. We put them head to head across five rounds to find out which one takes the…

Queer Novels by Decade: LGBTQ Books from the 1920s to Today From coded 1920s fiction to 2026 sapphic love stories, 35 queer novels that capture what each decade demanded of its readers and its writers.

Take Me With You Is Steven Rowley at His Most Mature and Heartfelt Steven Rowley's latest novel uses an alien abduction to explore queer grief, long-term love, and what it means to be the one who stayed. His most emotionally mature work yet, and a close contender for his best.

Queer Books Worth Reading in June 2026: The Complete Pride Month New Releases Guide June 2026 is one of the strongest months for queer publishing in years. Here is every LGBTQ+ book worth reading this Pride Month, organized by genre across memoir, literary fiction, romance, mystery, YA, and…

In Between Days Is Camryn Garrett’s Most Heartbreaking and Most Necessary Book Yet Camryn Garrett's fifth novel follows a teenager who discovers her late father had a secret boyfriend and a queer life she knew nothing about. Fresh in form and devastating in feeling, In Between Days is one of the…

Smash or Pass Is the Sapphic YA Debut We Didn’t Know We Needed Birdie Schae's debut is a warm, funny, and sharply observed sapphic YA novel about a high-masking autistic girl whose summer at beach volleyball camp dismantles everything she thought she knew about herself. The slow-burn romance earns…

The Best Queer Books of May 2026: Our Picks Eleven LGBTQ+ books worth reading this May, from Douglas Stuart's John of John to Julián Delgado Lopera's Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You. New queer fiction, nonfiction, and YA releasing before Pride Month 2026.

Douglas Stuart's third novel is his slowest and his most atmospheric. Our review on why it's worth the patience.

It’s Trans Day of Visibility and the last day of Trans Read-A-Thon. The 2026 Lambda Literary finalists for Transgender Fiction dropped recently and this shortlist is stacked. 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #transdayofvisibility #tdov2026 #readinglist queerbookclub.org/2026/03/30/t...

Let the debates begin! We’ve pulled together an essential queer book list, what would you add or remove from this a-z list? #queerbooks #readmore #queerbookclub #lgbtq #booklist queerbookclub.org/2026/03/28/o...

The book they told James Baldwin to burn turns 70 this year. We wrote about its history and why it still matters. #GiovannisRoom #JamesBaldwin #QueerBooks #QueerBookClub #Lgbtq queerbookclub.org/2026/03/14/t...

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Top 5 books of the year👇 So many great books this year, it was hard to bring it down to 5! What were you favourites? 5. Henry Henry by Allen Bratton 4. I Might Be In Trouble by Daniel Aleman 3. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar 2. Rejection by Tony Tulithimutte 1. In Tongues by Thomas Grattan

Yes, libraries are invaluable for their collections and public services they offer, but also social contact without the expectation to interact with anyone or spend any money is so important to so many people

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