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My favorite (mostly) queer reads of 2025
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items Some of my fav reads of 2025, mostly they are gay bc I am gay and that is mostly what I read.
I read A LOT so this is my curated list of my highest rated books from this year so far.
If you read/have read any of these pls DM me on instagram bc I ...
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Fantasy (mostly gay but not always)
Romance (gayyyyyyy)
Fantasy (mostly gay but not always)
This ranges from high fantasy with epic adventures and complex magic systems to fantasy world but no magic system to learn to maybe this is more magical realism
This is a beautiful epic fantasy in a new world. It is laugh out loud funny, heart wrenching, and totally fresh. Bonus: you don’t have to learn a magic system, so if fantasy isn’t your thing, this is a great place to start!
The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson, Paperback
Time travel + I turned my best friend into a cat + my despotic lover is trying to ruin my life = a rousing good time
Shoestring Theory by Mariana Costa
A fantasy that drops you right in and interrogates home, memory, and natural beauty
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Help! I accidentally cursed myself and my academic rival and now we have to go on a quest to find a wizard that can help us before it’s too late! And oops maybe we both like each other?
Sorcery and Small Magics (The Wildersongs Trilogy, #1)
Epic fantasy with beautiful, sinister magic, a star-crossed sapphic romance, and a war that no one is ready to fight.
The Jasmine Throne|Paperback
Lesbians and vampires, enough said.
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil|Hardcover
I did not technically read this in 2025 but I did read its sequel and this is my favorite book of adulthood so it is on this list goddammit. Gay, magic, Jewish folklore, spies, dream sharing, found family, war, absolute emotional turmoil (for you, th...
The Sins on Their Bones: Book One of The Cursed Crown series|Paperback
A nonbinary MC, a romance with a dragon, need I say more?
Dragonfall (Dragon Scales, #1) by L.R. Lam
Romance (gayyyyyyy)
My general rule of thumb for romance is that I listen to audiobooks for contemporary and read historicals in print. Can’t tell you why. But when a contemporary makes it on this list, it usually means the narrator(s) of the audiobook is stellar
A road trip with your favorite English teacher and your high school frenemy/crush
Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun
Fake dating romance!!! She’s an actor trying to recover her image, she’s a small town waitress who dreams of costume design, can I make it any more obvious?
Dream On, Ramona Riley (B&N Exclusive Edition)|BN Exclusive
KJ Charles is a queer, historical romance author who I will read without question. Do the books all kind of run together so I don’t really remember what specifically happens in this one? Yes. Are they an amazing good time while I read them? Also yes.
The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting|Paperback