Best gay novels 2024

Stuck waiting for the hot weather to finally get here? An emotional and unflinching story about Arab masculinity and homoeroticism. Josephina is She is sexually assaulted — and then kills her attacker. A confident and raw novel from a talented young writer, portraying the unravelling of teenage girl as she plunges into self-destruction.

The breakout poetry collection of a soon-to-be major poet in a multiform, poetic conversation between queer and trans artists and writers. In a queer, noir technothriller of fractured identity and corporate intrigue, a trans woman faces her fear of losing her community as her past chases after her.

Set in a Jewish folklore-inspired reimagining of 19th century Eastern Europe, this queer dark fantasy debut pits two estranged husbands and a daring spymaster on opposite sides of a civil war.

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Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, C. Pacat, Ava Reid, and Katherine Arden. An exploration of what it means to be sexually promiscuous in contemporary culture, edited by cult-favourite author Michelle Tea. Like folklore. It was just something everyone knew, a rule to be followed.

Ever gotten lost in a book? Or on your bicycle? Or both at once, by falling through a portal on the page? Anything is possible in this collection of fifteen very short stories and one comic. A collection of fun, playful, vulgar, inventive, sexual, and weird writings from queer and trans Arab writers. These dazzling stories from the internationally acclaimed author of Bad Girls erase 2024 fine line between fantasy and reality, and establish her as an impressive literary voice.

Even the most dull neighbourhoods have something curious and sinister lurking just beneath the perfectly manicured lawns. Over a dull, torrid summer in the Pennsylvania suburbs, strange lights linger on the horizon, and subterranean connections reach out their tendrils in the dark, signalling another, otherworldly, possibility….

One of the first queer YA novels to appear in the UK, best again after many years out of print, with a new introduction and afterword. A dazzling novel about the inextricable link between the personal and the novel set against the decadence of Hollywood and postwar Los Angeles.

Death is neither the beginning nor the end for the children of Bridlington in this debut trans YA horror book for fans of Rory Power and Danielle Vega. A delightful queer Victorian love story, featuring a boldly brash trans hero, the beguiling botanist who captures his heart, and gay buoyant bicycle race by the British seaside — from the author of The Duke Undone.

From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel spanning the s and present day, about a young writer and the community he builds in New York City, and his lonely life 30 years later when an unexpected injury lands him at the local queer senior centre.

A brilliant, beautifully imagined story collection set largely in Nigeria, exploring themes of masculinity and suppressed queerness through the lens of un conditional love. From the author of Nudes and Animals Eat Each Other comes an unsettling story of motherhood, manipulation and murder.

This stunningly accomplished debut poetry collection deconstructs and redefines notions of Blackness, queerness, and masculinity through the lens of myth, pop culture, and the high jump.