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It's July! As pride month draws to an end, what better way to carry that energy forward than to curl up and explore some new queersff worlds? The number doesn't quite compare to the big wave of pride publications, but we're happy to report that there's still a lot of cool books coming out this month. Here are our top 12 picks!

1. Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle: Love is real! Chuck Tingle returns with another horror novel, this time about a grave robber and a dead rockstar come back to life. 
2. The Dragon Has Some Complaints by John Wiswell: From the author of "Someone You Can Build a Nest In", comes a new book about a disabled four three-headed dragon with a different personality per head. He infiltrates the local dragon riding academy for snacks but finds himself an excitable dragon rider instead. 
3. Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne: A new first in series from the author of the Tomes & Tea series! Follow MC Torian aboard an alien spaceship with sentient moss. You can find an early spoiler-free review by u/Ryukotaicho here 
4. We Were Never Here by Sophia Hannan: An exciting debut involving art thieves, ghost hunting, haunted mansions and murder. 
5. Felicity Complex by August Clarke: A dystopian cold war era satire set in a luxury nuclear bunker for billionaires, staffed by lab-grown women who may not be as compliant as intended…
6. Null Entity by Seth Haddon: The sequel to Volatile Memory, we're back for bloody revenge on the techbros running the galaxy
7. Misery's Wife by Joan Tierney: This is a queer cli-fi reimagining of a Portuguese folktale, featuring a trans woman MC. There's a jester involved, as a bonus. 
8. Ladies of the Knight by Fiona Marchbank: We saw this is a graphic novel about sapphic knights and it immediately made the list 
9. I Do Not Apologize for My Position on Men by Rae Wilde: A collection of standalone sapphic horror short stories, a quadrilogy of connected stories, and an interactive pick-a-path novelette. 
10. The Language of Knives by Haralambi Markov: An intriguing collection of queer short stories based on Slavic mythology
11. The Flayed Man by Chloe Lauter: Set in the Mojave Desert, MC is a doctor who struggles to manage her familial curse of bloodthirstiness, while also finding herself in a budding romance with a paramedic. 
12. Perverts by Mac Crane: A short story collection exploring queer bodies and desire. (Disclaimer: Not all the stories are speculative)

For the full list of July 2026 queer releases, please refer to our storygraph tag or our google sheet

Our sources were Smokedshelves’ Goodreads List, Netgalley, Locusmag and Queer Lit

Which new releases are you most excited for? Have we missed anything on our lists? Let us know in the comments 👇

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I'm quite happy with it but it has a 2 stitch garter edge on either side and they flop inwards in resting position (as seen in the image).

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