Recs if you like The Open Era...

We should all be reading queer, all year, but this list is full of upcoming queer books of all makes and models coming out in 2026. If you have a rec to add, just please keep in mind we’re looking for 2026 releases!

Are you tired of how white MM sports romance is?? Gather round, homos!

🤎At least one of the MMCs is a person of colour 🤎

*includes bi & pan characters and everyone under the queer & trans umbrella

Please let me know if there are any I should add.

this is an ongoing list of lgbtqiap+ books (across all genres, and age groups) that are planned to be released in 2026. if you’re an arc reader, you can also check whether any of them are available as arcs!! feel free to suggest books to add, since I’ll work on this list over time as well 🥰

last books added in: january!

Yes, queer and trans folks play sports. These are those books.

ownvoices books across genres by queer men/masc authors that feature queer men as main characters

disclaimer: this is all just based on my own research and may not always be 100% accurate to the author’s identity - feel free to comment any edits or suggestions!

I love hockey romances as much as the next person but sometimes you want another sport to take center stage. So here is a collection of sports romance books where one (or all of them) is playing a sport that isn't hockey.

Feel free to leave any recomendations for the list.

(Contains both YA and Adult romance)

fun/casual lgbt books. predominantly contemporary romance, trying to avoid lit fic. more for when i am looking for a palette cleanse.

tennis romance novels

Achillean/MM sports romance

• Hockey
• Ballet / Dance
• Tennis
• Wrestling
• Football
• Exy
• Formula 1
• Fencing
• Motocross
• Baseball
• Jousting
• Soccer ...

It’s time to fill those TBR piles again! April means the start of Spring and also another quarterly upcoming romance episode! We’re talking about romances hitting shelves and ereaders during April, May & June 2026! Whether historical, paranormal, contemporary or Romantasy, we’ve got something for everyone in fifty or so recs across every single genre. As a reminder, we haven’t read most of these, but we have big plans!

Books where sexy ankles get the attention they deserve!

Also includes hurt/comfort with ankle-related injuries, because why not!

romance releases i’m looking forward to

Shamelessly yoinked from a certain other reading app that shall not be named... this is a list of recently published (2025-2026) LGBTQ+ fiction across a spectrum of genres and identities!

(Disclaimer: I haven't read most of these, but so many compelling covers made me want to save them all in a list to continue referencing into the future.)

All the Illumicrate, Afterlight, Evernight, Starbright, etc. picks for 2026

My goal this year as a tennis fan is to read queer romance books, which I surprisingly have never read any of before. So this list contains books I either want to read or am interested in reading.

queer books across all genres because you can read queer all year

Books about tennis that I love. Open to suggestions. (Fiction books not memoirs/biographies)

as a queer (former) tennis player, i just wanted a place to keep track of all of the queer tennis books ive read or want to read