Recs if you like Thirty Love...

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.

Getting a bit fed up of the amount of gay men written by straight women. Please recommend me more books!

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!

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)

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

Be the trend setter of your book club or bookish friend group by getting to know the authors of next year’s publication cycle. These books are all by new talent in the publishing world from both the Big 5 and small, traditional publishers.

Be sure to also check out these authors on social media for ARC opportunities, and show these authors some love by requesting a purchase with your local library, or pre-ordering a copy yourself!

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 ...

Your discoverabilibuddies are back! It's a new year which means we're dropping our Winter 2026 reads episode, in which we talk about the million trillion 2026 romance books coming out in January, February and March. As a reminder, we have not necessarily read all these books, but they are on our TBRs and should be on yours!

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.)

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.

Ps: different types of mm recs

Some are interconnected or completed series and they all involve a sport

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