Gay fiction 2024
It’s that time of year again! Behold, my beloved list of the finest queer books of 2024. There are so many damn good queer books being published these days. We are so lucky! I thought I’d give a little bit on my rationale for choosing the five books per category (six for lit fic, since it’s the most competitive). This year especially I’ve striven to put the spotlight on books that haven’t gotten a lot of mainstream attention. For example, I didn’t include The Pairing by Casey McQuiston or All Fours by Miranda July (which I personally loved!) because the latter was nominated for a National Book Award and McQuiston is such a high profile queer romance composer that their first book has been made into a movie, with an apparent sequel on the way. Got it? Let’s receive into the books!
Comics/Graphic Novels and Memoirs
Firebugs by Nino Bulling
This slice-of-life graphic novel of queer millennial ennui — the English-language debut of German cartoonist Nino Bulling — is a knock-out. It follows 30-year-old gay Berliner, Ingken, trying to figure out where they ground in their hold transness and navigating a long-term relationshi
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Tryst Six Venom
By Penelope Douglas
Berkley — US / Paperback / 9780593641989 / Out April 2024 / £12.99
It’s away games, back seats, and the locker room after hours in this spicy unused adult romance, now with bonus material.
Selamlik
By Khaled Alesmael & translated by Leri Price
World Editions / Paperback / 9781642861488 / Out April 2024 / £16.99
An emotional and unflinching story about Arab masculinity and homoeroticism.
Amma
By Saraid de Silva
Weatherglass Books / Paperback / 9781739260149 / Out April 2024 / £12.99
1951, Singapore. Josephina is 10. She is sexually assaulted — and then kills her attacker.
Juliet The Maniac
By Juliet Escoria
Melville Dwelling Publishing / Paperback / 9781685891275 / Out April 2024 / £16.99
A confident and raw
– sapphic MC
– god’s come to fuck things up
– the rebellion is fracturing
– and this cursed mask might be the only thing that can stop a god — but at what cost?
– last in THE VAGRANT GODS
– m/m
– a fugitive engineer plans to rescue her sister, no matter the cost the universe
– a time-traveler in regency London in a fling with the crown prince
– their paths are intertwined by prophecy and space
– space opera + found family!
– sapphic
– elves, fae, & humans once co-existed, but now only the elves remain
– except wait, we just found this long-lost city and it’s… fae??
– and now their politics are kinda our problem, as well as their relationships
– lgbtq+ male MC
– twelve heirs to a centuries’ old empire embark on a voyage to celebrate peace
– then, the murders began
– Death on the Nile, but with magic & chaotic
Peregrine Seas by R.C. Ballad (July 1st)
Prince Peregrine couldn’t be happier to be kidnapped by pirates.
Peregrine wasn’t cut out for the restrictive life of a nobleman – he’s empty for adventure, prone to duelling, and his family refuse to believe he’s any kind of male at all. Despite his royal origins, he has more in common with the outcasts and rebels aboard the Cygnus that anyone onshore.
He just needs to convince the captain of that before his ransom’s paid.
Captain Alastar Macdara knows better than to trust an English prince. He has his hands full keeping his ragged crew together, and the last thing he needs is to be burdened with some foppish dandy—however charming. This particular hostage is more trouble than Alastar planned for: used to getting his have way, as stubborn as Alastar and not frightened to tell him when he’s wrong. But Alastar knows a thing or two about being an outcast, and his honourable streak refuses to enable him send Peregrine assist to a life of misery.
The ransom might be off, but that doesn’t mean Peregrine is part of the crew. Now he must prove he’s courageous and quick-witted enough to earn his place on the Cygnus before Alastar