June is Pride Month! To help bookstores and libraries celebrate, we’ve put together this roundup of poetry, fiction, and anthologies to spotlight all month and year-round. (We publish longer reading lists each month as well—check out our most recent reading list for Pride Month for more books to feature!)
Anthologies
ALOCASIA: 99 queer writers on plants and nature
ALOCASIA | February 20, 2026
Distributor: Ingram
ISBN: 979-8218855826
This anthology, edited by Sarah Clark and Ashely Adams, is “a collection of the succulent and the thorny of contemporary queer literature that explores the self and relationships through nature and plants.”
Be Gay, Do Crime
Dzanc Books | June 3, 2025
Distributor: Publishers Group West
ISBN: 978-1-938603-31-0
This short fiction anthology, edited by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley, is a “celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca Ekwuyasi.”
Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry
Green Linden Press | February 6, 2024
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 978-1-7371625-8-2
This anthology of work by one hundred poets—including Frank Bidart, Jericho Brown, Natalie Diaz, Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, and more—showcases “four generations of living writers, as varied in their subjects and styles as the nation they represent.”
Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers
LittlePuss Press | February 4, 2025
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 978-1-964322-00-1
The portable paperback edition of this Stonewall Book Award–winning collection of science fiction and fantasy from transgender authors, originally published in 2017, includes a new afterword from editors Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett.
MONARCH 2026
fifth wheel press | March 3, 2026
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 978-1-969406-02-7
This new awards anthology recognizes “the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses.”
Fiction
The Iron Below Remembers by Sharang Biswas
Neon Hemlock | March 25, 2025
Distributor: Itasca Books
ISBN: 978-1-952086-94-6
In this novella that is “equal parts pulp caper and meta-textual academic text,” protagonist “Professor Laxman Yadav is dating Saviour, one of the world’s most famous superheroes, while also investigating possibly the most important archeological find of all time.”
Nearly Roadkill: Queer Love on the Run by Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan
Generous Press | September 9, 2025
Distributor: Microcosm Publishing
ISBN: 9798991642859
The thirtieth-anniversary “reboot” edition of this cyber-erotic romantic thriller written in the 1990s “includes an updated lens for today’s readers, as GenZ investigative journalist Drew uncovers what just might be the greatest queer love story of all time.”
The Moonstone Covenant by Jill Hammer
Ayin Press | November 12, 2024
Distributor: Publishers Group West
ISBN: 9781961814158
In Hammer’s fantasy novel, “Istehar Sha’an, whose unique powers allow her to communicate with trees and books, has led her community of refugee forest people to a remarkable place.”
I Remember Lights by Ben Ladouceur
Book*hug Press | April 24, 2025
Distributor: Independent Publishers Group
ISBN: 9781771669351
According to Loghan Paylor, Ladouceur “has crafted a raw, intimate portrait of queer desire and resilience against the well-researched and cunningly detailed backdrop of Expo 67 and 1970s Montreal.”
Unsex Me Here by Aurora Mattia
Nightboat Books | April 1, 2025
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 9781643622705
According to Publishers Weekly, Mattia “dazzles with this genre-spanning collection of stories about queer and trans characters navigating desire and love.”
Root Rot by Saskia Nislow
Creature Publishing | March 25, 2025
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 978-1-951971-25-0
This debut novella “explores predatory family dynamics, the boundaries of bodies and home, and how individuals choose to participate in or push back against structures that would harm them.”
The Sea Gives Up the Dead by Molly Olguín
Red Hen Press | April 29, 2025
Distributor: Publishers Group West
ISBN: 9781636282718
In this short story collection, “historical fiction, horror, and fantasy tangle together in a queer garden of love, grief, and longing.”
Poetry
I Hope This Helps by Samiya Bashir
Nightboat Books | May 13, 2025
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 9781643622729
Bashir’s genre-bending collection “reflects on the excruciating metamorphosis of an artist, ‘a twinkle-textured disco-ball Jenga set’ constrained and shaped by the limits of our reality.”
the past is a jean jacket by Cloud Delfina Cardona
Hub City Press | October 14, 2025
Distributor: Publishers Group West
ISBN: 979-8-88574-059-3
“Reminiscent of being in a heavily postered room with rock music blasting,” Cardona’s debut poetry collection is a “time capsule of a 90s queer, Latinx teenhood.”
Things a Bright Boy Can Do by Michael Chang
Coach House Books | May 20, 2025
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 9781552454978
In this collection, “the titans of pop culture and poetry wrestle at Chang’s whimsy, their poems a series of flings and retorts at the end of a late-night spree.”
My Love Is Water by Rob Macaisa Colgate
Ugly Duckling Presse | June 1, 2025
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 978-1-946604-34-7
In this hybrid collection of drama and poetry “tracing the disintegration of a recent relationship,” the narrator “traverses a Chicago apartment filled with gay ghosts and broken Tagalog.”
Scream/Queen by CD Eskilson
Acre Books | March 22, 2025
Distributor: Chicago Distribution Center
ISBN: 978-1-946724-87-8
This debut poetry collection “examines queerness, mental illness, and transgender identity through the lens of thrillers and B movies.”
Ar:range:ments by Esther Kondo Heller
Fonograf Editions | March 11, 2025
Distributor: NYU Press
ISBN: 979-8987589052
In this collection, “the action of arranging becomes a means of sounding out a collective utterance of Black survival with joy amidst grief, colonialism, medical racism, and loss.”
Interlocutor Goddess by Jasmine Reid
Autumn House Press | September 30, 2025
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 978-1-63768-111-4
This debut poetry collection “challenges societal norms, particularly the family as a political construct, while reflecting on the trans experiences of a queer Black woman.”
