{"id":58818,"date":"2025-08-11T09:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58818\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:07:14","slug":"5-of-the-most-anticipated-queer-books-out-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58818\/","title":{"rendered":"5 of the Most-Anticipated Queer Books Out in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"bookblurb__coverlink\" href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/click\/camref:1101lkCeo\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fhells-heart%2F55291244%2F\" data-ean=\"9781250394958\" data-asin=\"1250394953\" data-title=\"Hell&#039;s Heart\" data-author=\"Hall, Alexis\" title=\"Buy from Thriftbooks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bookblurb__image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"cover of hell's heart\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/hells-heart-e1750673348892-300x0.jpg.optimal.jpg\"\/><\/a><a product-id=\"1250394953\" href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/click\/camref:1101lkCeo\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fhells-heart%2F55291244%2F\" target=\"_blank\" butter=\"butter\" nofollow=\"nofollow\" title=\"Buy from Thriftbooks\" data-title=\"Hell&#039;s Heart\" data-publisher=\"Tor Books\" data-releasedate=\"2026-03-10\" data-ean=\"9781250394958\" data-asin=\"1250394953\" data-author=\"Hall, Alexis\" class=\"butter\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hell\u2019s Heart<\/a> by Alexis Hall (March 26, 2026)<\/p>\n<p>The successor to <a title=\"Buy from Thriftbooks\" product-id=\"125031318X\" href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/click\/camref:1101lkCeo\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fgideon-the-ninth_tamsyn-muir%2F19770028%2F\" target=\"_blank\" butter=\"butter\" nofollow=\"nofollow\" data-title=\"Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Series, 1)\" data-publisher=\"Tor Books\" data-releasedate=\"2020-07-14\" data-author=\"Muir, Tamsyn\" data-ean=\"9781250313188\" data-asin=\"125031318X\" class=\"butter\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gideon the Ninth<\/a>\u2018s \u201clesbian necromancers in space\u201d tagline is here: this is \u201csapphic Moby Dick in space!\u201d You likely know Alexis Hall from their queer romances, like <a title=\"Buy from Thriftbooks\" product-id=\"1728206146\" href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/click\/camref:1101lkCeo\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fboyfriend-material_alexis--hall%2F24165005%2F\" target=\"_blank\" butter=\"butter\" nofollow=\"nofollow\" data-title=\"Boyfriend Material: A Fake Relationship to Lovers Romance\" data-publisher=\"Sourcebooks Casablanca\" data-releasedate=\"2020-07-07\" data-author=\"Hall, Alexis\" data-ean=\"9781728206141\" data-asin=\"1728206146\" class=\"butter\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Boyfriend Material<\/a> and <a title=\"Buy from Thriftbooks\" product-id=\"1538753766\" href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/click\/camref:1101lkCeo\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fwhen-a-duke-pursues-a-lady-ways-of-love%2F36970699%2F\" target=\"_blank\" butter=\"butter\" nofollow=\"nofollow\" data-title=\"A Lady for a Duke\" data-publisher=\"Forever\" data-releasedate=\"2023-06-06\" data-author=\"Hall, Alexis\" data-ean=\"9781538753767\" data-asin=\"1538753766\" class=\"butter\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">A Lady for a Duke<\/a>, and this is their sci-fi debut. As you\u2019d expect from that tagline, it follows someone hunting down a space monster. In this post-Earth universe, they rely on these creatures for fuel. I\u2019ll just quote author Ruthanna Emrys\u2019s review: \u201cThis is Hall\u2019s best, weirdest, and most snarkily delightful book yet. Whether you like even-more-queer\u00a0Moby Dick\u00a0retellings, space whales, disaster bi drama, Jovian gaslamp science fiction, razor-sharp satire of capitalist theology, Locked-Tomb-style obscure jokes, Cthulhu cultist crew members, thematically-important infodumps about xenobiology\u2014or better yet all of those things tied together in intricate perfection\u2014this will be your jam.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hell\u2019s Heart by Alexis Hall (March 26, 2026) The successor to Gideon the Ninth\u2018s \u201clesbian necromancers in space\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-58818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}