Year-End Lists

Them: The 32 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023]

• Cover Story
  Celia Laskey
• Palaver
  Bryan Washington
• Both/And

  Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color
  Denne Michele Norris (editor)
• Hungerstone
  Kat Dunn
• The Starving Saints
  Caitlin Starling
• Atmosphere
  Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Herculine
  Grace Byron
• Best Woman
  Rose Dommu
• Black Flame
  Gretchen Felker-Martin
• When the Harvest Comes
  Denne Michele Norris
• Great Black Hope
  Rob Franklin
• The Emperor of Gladness
  Ocean Vuong
• This Place Kills Me
  Mariko Tamaki & Nicole Goux
• Stag Dance
  Torrey Peters
• The Möbius Book
  Catherine Lacey
• The House of Beauty

  Lessons From the Image Industry
  Arabelle Sicardi
• Pink Candy Kiss
  Ami Uozumi
• Actress of a Certain Age

  My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success
  Jeff Hiller
• The Other Wife
  Jackie Thomas-Kennedy
• Crawl

  Stories
  Max Delsohn
• Realistic Fiction
  Anton Solomonik
• Alligator Tears

  A Memoir in Essays
  Edgar Gomez
• The South
  Tash Aw
• Hot Girls with Balls
  Benedict Nguyễn
• Trauma Plot

  A Life
  Jamie Hood
• Beings
  Ilana Masad
• A Sharp Endless Need
  Marisa Crane
• You Weren't Meant to Be Human
  Andrew Joseph White
• Aggregated Discontent

  Confessions of the Last Normal Woman
  Harron Walker
• To the Moon and Back
  Eliana Ramage
• Uncanny Valley Girls

  Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love
  Zefyr Lisowski
• Woodworking
  Emily St. James