Recs if you like Being Aro: A Collection of Aromantic Fiction about Love, Connection, and Empowerment...

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!

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!

Short story, essays, comics, and/or poetry collections focusing on queer and trans folks. Please note: there are some collections listed where not every story is queer, but there is intersectionality, and since that is important, I have included them.

Ace spectrum representation in fiction! We've got a little of everything - aroace, grayace, demi...my main condition for this list is that the ace character has to explicitly be asexual.

Recommendations welcome!

a list of books with ace rep. i have read some of these but not all, so if any of these don't have ace rep or have harmful rep pls do let me know! 🖤🩶🤍💜

a complication of books on aromanticism, fiction works include characters on the aro spectrum and non-fiction feature educational accounts of aromanticism!

always open for recommendations - they’re unfortunately hard to find

Recommendations welcome!!!

Novels with Asexual Representation geared towards Middle Grade and Young Adult

my collection of books with ace/aro-spec characters (mainly mcs and lis) throughout different genres

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.)

Anthologies of fiction or comics that are either specifically themed around or prominently feature queer characters, stories, or authors

Books with Aromantic &/or Asexual characters that matter

Books with pride flags on the cover art! Or using other design elements to obviously evoke a pride flag.

A mix of fiction and nonfiction. Recs welcome.

Arospec characters and authors. A good amount of these are available at Quatrefoil Library in Minneapolis, MN

aro and/or ace rep

A list of the YA books published in 2026. Please comment if any are missing.