LGBTQ Reads

Hello and welcome! LGBTQ Reads is a platform that focuses on highlighting carefully selected LGBTQIAP+ books for readers of all ages. It is managed by author and blogger Dahlia Adler.

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Fave Five: YA Fantasy with Nonbinary MCs

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New Releases: June 24, 2025

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Can two girls—one enchanted, one the enchantress—save their kingdom and each other? Two hundred years ago, a slighted deity stole the magic from Auréal and vanished without a trace. But seventeen-year-old Odile has a plan. All her life, her father, a vengeful sorcerer, has raised her for one singular task: infiltrate the royal palace and steal the king’s crown, an artefact with enough power to restore magic. But to enter the palace, she must assume the identity of a noblewoman.
Fave Five: Contemporary Trans M/M YA

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New Releases: June 17, 2025

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They Wish They Were Us meets Nothing Left to Tell in this young adult thriller about three girls with entangled pasts who compete for glory in their private school’s annual tournament, putting their survival skills and their relationships to the test. Gardner isn’t like other boarding schools. They take in those who’ve been rejected everywhere else, they offer a survival skills class that has students killing and gutting animals, and then there’s the Tournament.
Fave Five: Picture Books About Queer Dads

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Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Middle Grade: July-December 2025

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Destinies collide when a village goat herder meets the palace princess in Goat Magic!Trill, a spirited goat herder with a unique ability to communicate with her flock, yearns for a life beyond mountain pastures. Her “goat magic” feels common compared to the sorcery taught in the city’s prestigious magic schools, which are off-limits to her. Meanwhile, Princess Alya, known as the “Ordinary Princess” and heir to the kingdom of Capeya, doubts her own royal potential.
New Releases: June 10, 2025

2 weeks ago | lgbtqreads.com | Dahlia Adler

Fiora Barrowling lives in a world where sorcerers rule over humans. After surviving an encounter with The Radiance—the very worst of the sorcerers—she’s whisked away to the incredible Incorruptibles (“Inc”) Academy, a school for resistance fighters in training. But most of the other students think Fiora hasn’t earned her place there, and when things start to go wrong and it seems the sorcerers have a spy in the academy, all eyes are on Fiora.
Authors in Conversation: Camille Kellogg and Susie Dumond

2 weeks ago | lgbtqreads.com | Susie Dumond |Dahlia Adler

Today on the site I’m delighted to welcome Sapphic Romance authors Camille Kellogg and Susie Dumond, whose newest releases (The Next Chapter and Bed and Breakup, respectively) both release this month! Here’s a little bit about each book, as told by the authors:Bed and Breakup by Susie Dumond is a second-chance romance about two ex-wives who fell in love while renovating a historic inn in a quirky spa town in the Ozarks.
Fave Fave: Royal M/M YA Romance

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Exclusive Cover Reveal: According to Plan by Christen Randall

3 weeks ago | lgbtqreads.com | Dahlia Adler

Today on the site I’m delighted to welcome Christen Randall to reveal the cover of their upcoming bi4bi contemporary YA romance, According to Plan, releasing February 3, 2026 from Simon & Schuster! Here’s the story:As editor-in-chief of their school’s literary magazine, Mal Flowers expected senior year fall to be full of cozy sweaters, good coffee, and copyediting.