The library is OPEN!No, really, the library is open, and libraries across the country need our support now more than ever. One of the best ways you can do so is by utilizing their services, like checking out the new queer books coming out next year!If "read more" is one of your 2025 New Year's resolutions, you're in luck. 2025 is packed full of LGBTQ+ new releases. Whether it's from returning favorite queer authors or one of the promising debuts, fiction or nonfiction, there is an abundance of queer books coming out next year that we cannot wait to get our hands on!Here are the top 10 LGBTQ+ books we're most excited to read in 2025."Murder in the Dressing Room" by Holly StarsSee on InstagramMurder in the Dressing Room is the debut novel from UK comedian, writer, and drag queen Holly Stars. When drag queen Lady Lady is found dead in her dressing room, her fellow performers all become the prime suspects, including her own drag daughter, Misty Divine! The police have been predictably less than helpful, so it's up to Misty to figure out who poisoned Lady and why before they strike again.Murder mysteries have an inherent amount of campiness to them, so a drag murder mystery is honestly a no brainer. I'm also a firm believer that you should judge a book by its cover, and if I wasn't sold before, the cover illustration by the immensely talented Roosa Mari makes this a standout on any shelf.Murder in the Dressing Room comes out January 14, 2025 from Berkley Books, and is available for preorder here."The Loves of My Life" by Edmund White (@) From Lambda Literary Award winning author Edmund White comes an honest and loving memoir spanning over 60 years of gay love and sex. The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir follows White across a vast array of time and place. It's a love letter to all the things great and small, beautiful and ugly, about queer sex and the culture around it. It's also a fascinating vignette of gay culture in America for the past 70-odd years. A true can't miss from one of the American gay literary canon's greats.The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir releases January 28, 2025 from Bloomsbury Publishing, and is available for preorder here. "Stag Dance" by Torrey PetersSee on InstagramFrom Torrey Peters, author of the New York Times best selling author of Detransition, Baby, comes her much anticipated follow up, Stag Dance, a collection of one novel and three novellas. Stag Dance, the eponymous novel, follows a group of lumberjacks putting on a dance where some of them will attend as women. When the largest, burliest, and most unassuming looking of the men decides that he will attend a woman, he finds himself in competition with one of the younger, prettier men, all coming to a head on the night of the big dance. Accompanying Stag Dance are three novellas: "Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones," "The Chaser," and "The Masker."Stag Dance releases on March 11, 2025 from Random House, and is available for preorder here. "Stop Me If You've Heard This One" by Kristen ArnettSee on InstagramI, personally, have been actively excited about this one since September 2023. Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of With Teeth and Mostly Dead Things and the internet's cool lesbian dad. Arnett's work is actually a huge part of why I wanted to become a writer, and I couldn't be more excited for her third novel, Stop Me If You've Heard This One, about a down on her luck lesbian clown and the connection she forms with a hot older magician.Things could be worse for Cherry Hendricks, but things could also be better. Cherry is a professional clown and good at it too but still has to pick up shifts at the aquarium for some extra cash. She's also struggling to balance dating, her relationships with her fellow performers, and her judgmental mother. It's a lot to juggle, even for a clown. But everything changes when Cherry meets Margot the Magnificent, a hot, older, lesbian magician who seemingly has everything figured out. Stop Me If You've Heard This One releases March 18, 2025 from Riverhead Books, and is available for preorder here."Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert" by Bob the Drag QueenSee on InstagramFrom RuPaul's Drag Race season 8 winner and stand up comedian Bob the Drag Queen comes her debut novel, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert. It takes place in a modern day US where histories greatest heroes have inexplicably come back, including Harriet Tubman. Tubman, along with four formerly enslaved men whom she helped free, decide to tell their story via a hip-hop album and accompanying live performance. She enlists the help of Darnell Williams, a hip hop producer who was highly successful before being outed. Together, they must find a way to confront a dark past in the hopes of building a brighter future.Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert releases March 25, 2025 from Gallery Books, and is available for preorder here."Awakened" by A.E. OsworthSee on InstagramA.E. Osworth's sophomore novel, Awakened, is full of things I love (trans people) fighting to save the world from things I hate (AI). It's another one I've been stoked for for month, from another author who's been hugely influential to me as a writer, with another cover I can't stop looking at. 2025 is really stacking up to be a bang up year for books.Awakened follows Wilder, a 30-something queer from Brooklyn, who wakes up one morning to find they now have the magical ability to understand every language. They are then taken in by a coven of trans witches, each with a unique magical ability of their own. As Wilder is finally starting to get the hang of this whole magic thing, a malicious AI threatens the fate of the coven- and the world. This ragtag bunch are the only ones who have any hope of stopping the AI before it's too late.Awakened releases on April 29, 2025 from Grand Central Publishing, and is available for preorder here."The Emperor of Gladness" by Ocean VuongSee on InstagramOcean Vuong is a literary genius, and in a real "I'd listen to Chapell Roan sing the phone book" situation, Vuong is one of those authors I'll read anything from. Prose or poetry, regardless of premise, I'll pick up anything he writes because it is always, without fail, an ineffably moving slice of the human experience. As a big fan of Vuong's work, I do think that his upcoming novel, The Emperor of Gladness, may be my favorite yet.In East Gladness, Conn., 19-year-old Hai stands on a bridge, ready to jump. He's only stopped when he hears shouting from across the river from Grazina, an elderly widow with dementia. After coming down off the ledge, Hai quickly becomes Grazina's caretaker, and the two form an intense bond that alters both of their lives.The Emperor of Gladness releases May 13, 2025 from Penguin Press, and is available for preorder here."Marsha" by TourmalineSee on InstagramModel, activist, and foremost Marsha P. Johnson scholar Tourmaline is finally compiling all she's gathered about the trans pioneer into a book, the first-ever full biography of Johnson. For more on Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson, we published an article in October featuring everything we know so far and an interview with Tourmaline about the project, and why Johnson means so much to her personally.Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson releases May 20, 2025 from Tiny Reparations Books, and is available for preorder here."Disappoint Me" by Nicola DinanSee on InstagramNicola Dinan, the Lambda Literary Award nominated author of Bellies (a personal favorite), returns for her sophomore novel, Disappoint Me, following a trans poet's somewhat serious head injury and the changes it inspires her to make. Max, a 30-year-old published poet now working for a tech company, is feeling dissatisfied and disillusioned. After falling down the stairs at a New Year's Eve party and hitting her head, she decides there's no time like the present to give it all up and try being a trad wife for a change.Max meets Vincent, a Chinese-American corporate lawyer with a love of baking, and the two begin a romance the likes of which Max had only dreamed of experiencing. As idyllic as it seems, the heteronormative American dream isn't enough. Max and Vincent still have to navigate the complexities of their pasts, their families, and cultural expectations of race and gender if they want their dream-like romance to remain a reality.Disappoint Me releases May 27, 2025 from Dial Press, and is available for preorder here."The Build-a-Boyfriend Project" by Mason DeaverSee on InstagramMason Deaver, best selling and award winning author of young adult fiction, makes their adult fiction debut with a sappy, compelling, and queer twist on fake dating romances. The Build-a-Boyfriend Project follows Eli Francis and his job at online magazine Vent, where he would be a writer if his boss wasn't so determined to keep him stuck being his assistant. After Eli's boss hears about Eli's horrendous date with the good looking yet socially awkward Peter Park, he suggests Eli teach Peter how to date and be a better boyfriend, all so Eli can write an article about it.Eli keeps taking Peter on these simulated dates, but not to write the article he'd been assigned. He's interviewing Peter for a deeper piece on growing up queer in the South, and Peter's learning how to come-of-age for dating as an adult. But as Eli's interviews go deeper, so grows their connection, until he's not sure how simulated these dates are anymore.The Build-a-Better Boyfriend Project releases August 5, 2025 from Avon Books, and is available for preorder here.