12/31/2025
With 2025 coming to a close, we asked our rec list contributors a simple – but also insanely difficult – question: pick their two favorite q***r books from among all the titles they read in 2025. This list is the result – not books that came out in 2025, but those that we read during the year past and adored. What are your two favorite books from among all those you read in 2025?
The contributors to the list are: Alex, MJ, Shadaras, , Vee Sloane, D.V. Morse, polls, Linnea Peterson, Maggie Page, Sebastian Marie, , Rascal Hartley, Dei Walker, Nina Waters, and S. J. Ralston.
Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame by Neon Yang
The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
Love in the Light: A Musical Novel by Luke McQuillan
Metal from Heaven by August Clarke
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
Dead Hand Rule by Max Gladstone
The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin
When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley
Liar City by Allie Therin
DILF: Did I Leave Feminism? by Jude Doyle
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders
Navigating With You by Jeremy Whitley & Casio Ribeiro
Skullrunner by Vyvre Argent
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
Swordcrossed by Freya Marske
Peerless by Meng Xi Shi
The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang
Stars of Chaos by priest