My Top 6 Queer Books of 2024 (so far)

Happy Pride Month!! I've read 50 books this year and am here to yell about my top 6 LGBTQ reads from the first half of 2024 - we got space gays, assassin sapphics, and Regency trans cuties! Please leave your favs from this year below :)

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[kizzyneetyan]

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett is a murder mystery fantasy that's just casually gay and I LOVED it so much

[miyayume_eclectic_dream]

The moment I read the blurb I knew I would love Most Ardently! Such a lovely book.

[Lillyjoy]

My favs from this year are Bookshops & Bonedust and Basil & Oregano, both books are so heartwarming and so good! I also loved Hooky which has a queer romance but it’s not as prominent as the other two

[lisathebookcat]

I finally read Role Playing by Cathy Yardley and I'm so mad I waited so long. It had such good Demi rep (TW for phobia). Also I loved Skater Boy as well

[frannook]

ohmygoodness why haven't i found your channel any sooner when trying to find other queer booktubers is literally what i try to do everyday *sigh*
anyways. GREAT RECS.
the first book you talked about made me think of one I'm currently reading called Cascade Failure by LM Sagas and it is SO flippin good and I have a feeling you'd absolutely LOVE IT :D

[zlicko]

The book that I am reading right now is sapphic and ace. It's called Someone You Can Build a Nest In. I must also mention that it's weird - that's the best I can describe it. WEEEIRRD

[OddNiffer]

I read Winters Orbit by Everina Maxwell for the first time this year and what I was expecting to be shallow fun queer romance turned into exciting sci-fi political drama with a really heart-felt slow burn romance. AUGH IT WAS SO GOOD.

[jefferyjones]

Thank you for this list. I am interested in checking some of these out.

[EchoLarkAuthor]

I need to read every single rec on this list ASAP, honestly xD

[lindysmagpiereads]

Thanks, this was fun to watch! That earring 😂
My favourite queer novel so far this year is I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself.

[intersexcryptid]

...I also have had August Kitko sitting on my shelf for a while... maybe I need to read that one...

[nikolahetn]

My favourite queer books I've read this year are:
💙In Other Lands - this book owns my heart, can't recommend it enough, Elliot is now one of my all time favourite characters I love him so so much 😭
❤You Should Be So Lucky - this is perfection, I cried from happiness reading this book, so warm and wholesome 🥲 also I loved the themes and how they were handled, another addition to my all time favourite books
🤎The Space Between Worlds - so awesome both in concept and execution, I did not see the plot twists coming at all, loved it
🖤All Systems Red and Artificial Condition - Murderbot is such a great character, can't wait to read next novella in the series, I had the best time
🧡She Who Became The Sun - I could not stop reading, the writing is beautiful and it has great characters and commentary

[natcatsbookishcafe]

I added a couple of these to my never ending TBR lol. I’ve been continuing to love the Monsterous series by Lily Mayne 😈. Got to love gay monster romance set in a post apocalyptic American where monsters and their boyfriends take on the US Military 🎉

[kytten]

my favs? oh boy. here's 11. (no particular order)
The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste
To a Darker Shore by Leanne Schwartz (queer rep? autism rep? let's GO)
Necrobane (The Warden, #2) by Daniel M. Ford
Merciless Saviors (The Ouroboros, #2) by H.E. Edgmon (hi i will die for H.E. Edgmon thank you please read their books)
The Feast Makers (Scapegracers, #3) by H.A. Clarke (hi i will also die for H.A. Clarke please read this trilogy)
The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo
Darker by Four (Darker by Four, #1) by June C.L. Tan
Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Under This Red Rock by Mindy McGinnis
The Diablo's Curse by Gabe Cole Novoa
An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson

[angelaholmes]

Im definitely will be reading skater boy
Here's my favorites so far this year
A marvellous light by freya marske
Stars in your eyes by kacen callender i absolutely enjoyed how the book deals with serious issues
Tryst six venom by Penelope Douglas i did enjoy godkiller need to read the sequel

[celiairis]

I would definitely recommend Pet by Akwaeke Emzi! It's a great ya book with a trans protagonist! It's about a girl who finds out that her supposedly utopian society has a drak secret. It's really great and has a prequel which I think is good but mot as great. I would loon up the trigger warnings as it does drive into some upsetting topics. But I think it's 100 per cent a great read!

[KadyAz]

My favorite queer reads this year so far:
Night's Edge by Liz Kerin (lesbians and dealing with a vampiric virus in society)
Trouble by Lex Croucher (a hilarious historical romance with bisexual and trans rep)
The Prospects by KT Hoffman (a gay baseball romance with a trans main character)
You Again by Kate Goldbeck (two very messy bisexuals fall into friendship, then love)

[zachreads]

"Iron Widow but bleaker and gayer" guess what got added to my tbr!

Here's some of mine
-A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske (+ the other two in the series)
-Taken by the Witch Queen by Luna Fury (my new fav smut author/series)
The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec (5☆, made me cry, but most of the gay is in the second half)
-Dragonfall by L.R Lam (best gender fluid society)
-The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska
-The Hidden Guardian by J.D.L Rosell

Happy Pride!!! 🌈 🌈 🌈 and happy birthgay!!!