Year-End Lists

Casey Stepaniuk: The Best Queer Books of 2024, as published by Autostraddle, with the poetry list filed separately here

Comics/Graphic Novels and Memoirs

• Firebugs
  Nino Bulling
• Portrait of a Body
  Julie Delporte
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two
  Emil Ferris
• Something, Not Nothing

  A Story of Grief and Love
  Sarah Leavitt
• Homebody
  Theo Parish

Fantasy

• The Weavers of Alamaxa
  Hadeer Elsbai
• Yoke of Stars
  R.B. Lemberg
• The Lotus Empire
  Tasha Suri
• A Pirate's Life for Tea
  Rebecca Thorne
• The Brides of High Hill
  Nghi Vo

Historical Fiction

• The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye
  Briony Cameron
• Rough Trade
  Katrina Carrasco
• City of Laughter
  Temim Fruchter
• Some Strange Music Draws Me In
  Griffin Hansbury
• The Cure for Drowning
  Loghan Paylor

Horror

• Feast While You Can
  Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta
• Cuckoo
  Gretchen Felker-Martin
• Grey Dog
  Elliott Gish
• Model Home
  Rivers Solomon
• Withered
  A.G.A. Wilmot

Literary/Contemporary Fiction

• Love the World or Get Killed Trying
  Alvina Chamberland
• Housemates
  Emma Copley Eisenberg
• The Default World
  Naomi Kanakia
• How It Works Out
  Myriam Lacroix
• A Small Apocalypse
  Laura Chow Reeve
• Greta & Valdin
  Rebecca K. Reilly

Memoir/Biography

• Cactus Country

  A Boyhood Memoir
  Zoë Bossiere
• Pretty

  A Memoir
  KB Brookins
• Survival Is a Promise

  The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
  Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• Mama

  A Queer Black Woman's Story of a Family Lost and Found
  Nikkya Hargrove
• How to Live Free in a Dangerous World

  A Decolonial Memoir
  Shayla Lawson

Mystery/Thriller

• Nothing but the Truth
  Robyn Gigl
• I Want You More
  Swan Huntley
• The Rivals
  Jane Pek
• Rough Pages
  Lev A.C. Rosen
• Rainbow Black
  Maggie Thrash

Nonfiction

• Dinner on Monster Island

  Essays
  Tania De Rozario
• Vantage Points

  On Media as Trans Memoir
  Chase Joynt
• The Call Is Coming from Inside the House

  Essays
  Allyson McOuat
• American Teenager

  How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era
  Nico Lang
• Miss Southeast

  Essays
  Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers

Romance

• A Little Kissing Between Friends
  Chencia C. Higgins
• A Shore Thing
  Joanna Lowell
• Whenever You're Ready
  Rachel Runya Katz
• How You Get the Girl
  Anita Kelly
• Make Room for Love
  Darcy Liao

Science Fiction

• Private Rites
  Julia Armfield
• In Universes
  Emet North
• Time's Agent
  Brenda Peynado
• Power to Yield and Other Stories
  Bogi Takács
• These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart
  Izzy Wasserstein

Young Adult Contemporary/Historical/Romance

• Just Another Epic Love Poem
  Parisa Akhbari
• Time and Time Again
  Chatham Greenfield
• How It All Ends
  Emma Hunsinger
• Make My Wish Come True
  Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick
• A Bánh Mì for Two
  Trinity Nguyen

Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

• Spells to Forget Us
  Aislinn Brophy
• Not for the Faint of Heart
  Lex Croucher
• The Fox Maidens
  Robin Ha
• The Deep Dark
  Molly Knox Ostertag
• I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call
  Jamison Shea