Year-End Lists

Autostraddle: The Best Queer Books of 2025, compiled by Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

[see also 2018]

• Stop Me If You've Heard This One
  Kristen Arnett
• We Could Be Rats
  Emily Austin
• Spent

  A Comic Novel
  Alison Bechdel
• Terry Dactyl
  Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
• How to Fuck Like a Girl

  Essays
  Vera Blossom
• Herculine
  Grace Byron
• The Dry Season

  A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
  Melissa Febos
• So Gay for You

  Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All
  Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig
• Uncanny Valley Girls

  Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love
  Zefyr Lisowski
• Simplicity
  Mattie Lubchansky
• Sympathy for Wild Girls

  Stories
  Demree McGhee
• Hot Girls with Balls
  Benedict Nguyễn
• Stag Dance

  A Quartet
  Torrey Peters
• To the Moon and Back
  Eliana Ramage
• Woodworking
  Emily St. James
• Girls Girls Girls
  Shoshana von Blanckensee
• Lonely Crowds
  Stephanie Wambugu