New Queer SFF 2025 Challenge

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17 participants (80 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

The goal is to read 12 SFF books published in 2024/2025 by queer authors and/or with queer characters/themes, or however else you choose to define it.

Challenge Books

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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

V.E. Schwab

560 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

Bury Your Gays

Chuck Tingle

10 hours, 11 minutes • audio • 2024

fiction horror lgbtqia+ science fiction dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Ascension by S.T. Gibson

Ascension

The Summoner's Circle #2

S.T. Gibson

400 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ romance dark emotional medium-paced
The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai

The Memory Hunters

Mia Tsai

448 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction fantasy science fiction
Volatile Memory by Seth Haddon
Volatile Memory
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Seth Haddon

Volatile Memory

Seth Haddon

missing duration info • audio • 2025

fiction lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous emotional tense fast-paced
My Lady Hiraya by Steven Sy

My Lady Hiraya

Steven Sy

288 pages • digital

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+
When They Burned The Butterfly by Wen-yi Lee

When They Burned The Butterfly

Wen-yi Lee

480 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+
Black Salt Queen by Samantha Bansil

Black Salt Queen

Letters from Maynara #1

Samantha Bansil

416 pages • digital • 2025

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Lightfall by Ed Crocker

Lightfall

The Everlands Trilogy #1

Ed Crocker

16 hours, 38 minutes • audio • 2025

fiction fantasy adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman

Notes from a Regicide

Isaac Fellman

336 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction lgbtqia+ science fiction emotional reflective sad medium-paced