{"id":9025,"date":"2026-07-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/all-the-biggest-new-lgbtq-books-of-2026-so-far\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:00:00","slug":"all-the-biggest-new-lgbtq-books-of-2026-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/all-the-biggest-new-lgbtq-books-of-2026-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Biggest New LGBTQ Books of 2026 (So Far)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div class=\"bubblewrap bubblewrap--first\">\n<p>Every month, Our Queerest Shelves has a roundup of the best queer books out that month. Now that we\u2019re halfway through the year, I\u2019ve combined all of those picks into  a collection: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bookriot.com\/collection\/best-queer-books-2026\/\">The Best Queer Books Out in 2026<\/a>. There are currently just over 100 books on the list, and I will be updating it throughout the year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bookriot.com\/collection\/best-queer-books-2026\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"787\" height=\"887\" src=\"https:\/\/s2982.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-16-at-11.53.32\u202fAM.jpg.webp\" alt=\"a collection titled The Best Queer Books Out in 2026\" class=\"wp-image-652581\" style=\"width:700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s2982.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-16-at-11.53.32\u202fAM.jpg.webp 787w, https:\/\/s2982.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-16-at-11.53.32\u202fAM-266x300.jpg.webp 266w, https:\/\/s2982.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-16-at-11.53.32\u202fAM-768x866.jpg.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Anyone can browse Book Riot collections and click the covers to find the publisher\u2019s description, the Book Riot recommendation, and links for where to purchase the title.<\/p>\n<p>All Access members can create their own private and public collections, so if you want to keep track of the new queer releases on your TBR, that\u2019s the best way to do it!  <\/p>\n<p>Check out our guide on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bookriot.com\/my-collections\/\">how to use collections<\/a>, and<strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bookriot.com\/join\">join All Access<\/a> <\/strong>for $6 a month to get started. <\/p>\n<p>All Access members also get access to our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bookriot.com\/meet-the-new-release-index-now-included-with-all-access\/\">New Release Index<\/a> and member-only content!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bookriot.com\/new-lgbtq-books-of-2026-so-far\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every month, Our Queerest Shelves has a roundup of the best queer books out that month. Now that we\u2019re halfway through the year, I\u2019ve combined all of those picks into a collection: The Best Queer Books Out in 2026. There are currently just over 100 books on the list, and I will be updating it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s2982.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/nri.jpg.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[632,1133,2711],"class_list":["post-9025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-biggest","tag-books","tag-lgbtq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}