Queer Your Reading Challenge

Queer stories that are under 200 pages

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created by quillnqueer

last updated August, 2026

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Depart, Depart!

Sim Kern

Knit One, Girl Two

Shira Glassman

Ghost Wall

Sarah Moss

Passing

Nella Larsen

Hold Your Own

Kae Tempest

The Queen of Ieflaria (Tales of Inthya, #1)

Effie Calvin

Tommy Cabot Was Here (The Cabots, #1)

Cat Sebastian

To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Becky Chambers

Caroline's Heart

Austin Chant

This is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar

A Spindle Splintered

Alix E. Harrow

In the Vanishers’ Palace

Aliette de Bodard

The Unworthy

Agustina Bazterrica

Open Throat

Henry Hoke

Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame

Neon Yang

The Deep

Rivers Solomon

Navigational Entanglements

Aliette de Bodard

Hell Has No Limits

José Donoso

Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

Sonia Sulaiman

He Hears Death

A.L. Davidson

Lie With Me

Philippe Besson

The Salt Grows Heavy

Cassandra Khaw

The Edges

Angelo Tijssens

Murder by Memory

Olivia Waite

Finna

Nino Cipri

In the Absence of Men

Philippe Besson

Spear

Nicola Griffith

We Hexed the Moon

Mollyhall Seeley

Out of the Drowning Deep

A.C. Wise

Every Heart a Doorway

Seanan McGuire

Comments

kathytrithardt

If you want more recs, these are all under 200 pages as well: Nick & Charlie by Alice Oseman In The Vanisher’s Palace by Aliette de Bodard Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole A Spindle Splintered by Alix E Harrow This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Caroline's Heart by S.A Chant To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian Tommy Cabot Was Here by Cat Sebastian The Factory Witches of Lowell by C. S. Maleric Their Troublesome Crush by Xan West The Queen of Ieflaria by Effie Calvin Hold Your Own by Kae Tempest A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson Passing by Nella Larsen Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman Depart! Depart! by Sim Kern

quillnqueerOP

I'll add some of these in asap!

NasIsReading

Ooooh I love a short and quick read as much as next ADHD gay with a need for ticking boxes and feeling accomplished 😂 bonus points for making it queer too! Definitely saving this!!