Recs if you like Take Me With You...

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!

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.)

Books that contain some sort of grief story line. Someone has died, someone is grieving, someone is trying to move forward or find closure. Normalizing grief and proof that it demands to be felt. These are books that could be preferred over "traditional" grief books that can be too heavy and technical on a grieving brain but help a griever feel seen and understand their own grief more.