Your Favorite Queer Books of 2024 So Far

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Another First Chance by Robbie Couch (Queer Guy YA Contemporary)

Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly (Queer Fiction)

The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang (M/M Romantasy)

The Mars House by Natasha Pulley (M/NB Sci-Fi)

Truly Madly Deeply by Alexandria Bellefleur (Bi4Bi M/F Romance)

Wander in the Dark by Jumata Emill (Gay YA Thriller)

This is one of my favorite reads of the year, too! It’s an F/F friends-to-rivals-to-lovers romance with a road trip, ADHD representation (in both main characters), and an exploration of the stresses of being a high school English teacher. It’s a rom-com about death. I wrote a full review at the Lesbrary with all my thoughts, but suffice it to say, I highly recommend this one!

It’s always nice when one of the biggest literary fiction titles of the year is queer. This is a bestseller that comes highly recommended by authors like Tommy Orange, Lauren Groff, John Green, Clint Smith, and more. It follows Cyrus, a twentysomething queer poet who has been numbing his pain with drugs and alcohol. His mother was killed when her plane was shot down over Tehran in a senseless act of violence by the U.S. military. His father recently died of a heart attack. As he becomes sober, Cyrus goes looking for meaning, and he finds it by researching martyrs. When he hears about an artist dying of cancer in an exhibition at a museum, he is determined to meet her.

This one was a bit of a surprise for me; I haven’t heard a ton about it, but clearly, I’ve been missing one of the big queer books of the year! This is a dark fantasy inspired by Jewish folklore, and it also made Book Riot’s The Best Books of 2024 (So Far) list. Here’s how R. Nassor recommends it: “In a gut-punch of a queer Jewish folklore-inspired dark fantasy, former Tzar, Dimitri, may still have the queerest, deadliest, and loveliest friends, but ever since his husband, Alexey, came back from the dead and overthrew him, they’ve been in hiding. Dimitri’s spymaster, Vasily, hopes that by infiltrating the court, he can gather intelligence to take back the throne. But Alexey will summon any demon to build a great empire, and he won’t let a little thing like morality stop him. To counteract Alexey’s evil, Dimitri and Vasily must risk it all — even learning dark magic that could corrupt their souls — in an evocative series debut.”