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										<h1 class=”post-title” itemprop=”name headline”>The Best Queer Historical Fiction of the Century (So Far)</h1>
																<p class=”post-metadesc”>Here are Book Riot’s picks for the best queer historical fiction of the century so far—plus, a bonus list of 15 new LGBTQ books out this week.</p>
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<p>Last week, I shared Book Riot’s picks for the <a href=”https://bookriot.com/best-queer-mystery-thriller-books-of-the-century-so-far/”>Best Queer Mystery/Thriller Books of the Century (So Far)</a>. This time, I’m here with the queer books that made it onto our list of the <a href=”https://bookriot.com/the-best-historical-fiction-books-of-the-century-so-far/”>Best Historical Fiction Books of the Century So Far</a>. For mysteries and thrillers, I had to include some honorable mentions. This time, I have a full list of queer books that made the final cut. Coincidentally, this is the list I curated…</p>

<p>All Access members can find a bonus list of 15 new queer books out this week at the end of this post.</p>
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<p>I was hard-pressed to decide which Taylor Jenkins Reid book most deserved a spot on this list—<em><a product-id=”2368124691″ href=”https://prf.hn/click/camref:1101lkCeo/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fdaisy-jones–the-six_taylor-jenkins-reid%2F19623944%2F” target=”_blank” butter=”butter” nofollow=”nofollow” title=”Buy from Thriftbooks” data-title=”Daisy Jones and the six” data-publisher=”CHARLESTON” data-releasedate=”2019-06-18″ data-ean=”9782368124697″ data-asin=”2368124691″ data-author=”Jenkins Reid, Taylor” class=”butter” rel=”noopener”>Daisy Jones and the Six</a></em>is a wildly fun ride and<em><a product-id=”1501161938″ href=”https://prf.hn/click/camref:1101lkCeo/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fthe-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo_taylor-jenkins-reid%2F13538475%2F” target=”_blank” butter=”butter” nofollow=”nofollow” title=”Buy from Thriftbooks” data-title=”The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel” data-publisher=”Atria Books” data-releasedate=”2018-05-29″ data-ean=”9781501161933″ data-asin=”1501161938″ data-author=”Reid, Taylor Jenkins” class=”butter” rel=”noopener”>The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo</a></em>is brilliant, plain and simple. But<em>Atmosphere</em>is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her very best. It’s equal parts character study and romance, but it’s also an exploration of what life was life for queer people, for women, and for those working on NASA’s space shuttle program in the 1970s and ’80s.<em>Atmosphere</em>is a microcosm of a particular moment in history, and it epitomizes everything Reid does so well as an author. —Rachel Brittain</p>
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<p>De Robertis has achieved something exceptional with<em>Cantoras</em>by writing about what it was like to live in Uruguay’s dictatorship through the lives of five gay women who are looking for family, solace, love, safety, and freedom. Reading this during the current downfall of democracy in the U.S. was alarming but also hopeful. There is a beautiful spirit woven throughout the entire novel about creating family, enduring, finding/making a refuge, and what the future can be. Very few books have left me holding them as if to hug them into my body forever the way<em>Cantoras</em>did. And for all the sprinkles on top, De Robertis beautifully narrates the audiobook. —Jamie Canaves</p>
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<p>I don’t say this lightly:<em>Fingersmith</em>is the best book I’ve ever read. It follows Sue, a petty thief in Victorian London who is taking on the con of a lifetime. She’ll pose as a lady’s maid for Maud and convince her to marry a man calling himself Gentleman, the mastermind of this operation. Then, Gentleman will put Maud in an asylum, and he and Sue will split her vast inheritance. Things get complicated when she begins to fall for Maud. Sarah Waters’s stunning writing is reason enough to pick this up, and the romance is unforgettable, but it’s the twisty plot packed with reveals and betrayals that elevates this to a modern classic. —Danika Ellis</p>
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<p>We already named this one of the<a href=”https://bookriot.com/best-romance-books-of-the-century-so-far/”>best romance books</a>of the century so far, but in addition to the memorable love story,<em>Telegraph Club</em>shines in how firmly it is rooted in time and place; it could not take place anywhere other than San Francisco in the 1950s. Teen Lily Yu struggles to reconcile her budding romance with a female classmate with her role as the “good Chinese girl” at home. She faces racism at the local lesbian bar, and homophobia in Chinatown. Meanwhile, her father faces deportation for being swept up in the Red Scare, and her aunt develops technology for the space race. This is a beautifully written story that will transport you. —Danika Ellis</p>
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<p><em>Mademoiselle Revolution</em>is a brilliant novel that touches on the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution, and the complex intersections of racism and identity. Through the biracial daughter of a plantation owner fleeing the Haitian Revolution, Sivak explores how a person can be simultaneously marginalized and complicit in the marginalization of others. Absolutely riveting historical fiction. —Rachel Brittain</p>
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<p>My favorite setting to read about in historical fiction is 1920s Paris.<em>The Last Nude</em>is based on the life of Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka, and it made me fall in love with Ellis Avery as an author and de Lempicka as an artist. It’s about her relationship with one of her models, Rafaela, who was the inspiration for six paintings. It’s beautiful and melancholy, and completely pulls you into the setting—what I wouldn’t give to spend five minutes in the queer art scene of 1920s Paris. It will make you think about art, doomed romance, discovering your sexuality, our relationships to our bodies, queer history, and the nature of betrayal. —Danika Ellis</p>
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<div class=”wp-block-book-blurb-block-main book-blurb bookblurb-block bookblurb”><div class=”bookblurb__content”><a class=”bookblurb__coverlink” href=”https://prf.hn/click/camref:1101lkCeo/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fthe-lilac-people_milo-todd%2F53525123%2F” data-ean=”9781640097667″ data-asin=”164009766X” data-title=”The Lilac People: A Novel” data-author=”Todd, Milo” title=”Buy from Thriftbooks”><img decoding=”async” class=”bookblurb__image” src=”data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=’http://www.w3.org/2000/svg’%20viewBox=’0%200%200%200’%3E%3C/svg%3E” alt=”the cover of The Lilac People” data-lazy-src=”https://s2982.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-Lilac-People-300×0.jpg.optimal.jpg”/></a><h3 class=”bookblurb__booktitle”><a product-id=”164009766X” href=”https://prf.hn/click/camref:1101lkCeo/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fthe-lilac-people_milo-todd%2F53525123%2F” target=”_blank” butter=”butter” nofollow=”nofollow” title=”Buy from Thriftbooks” data-title=”The Lilac People: A Novel” data-publisher=”Counterpoint” data-releasedate=”2026-05-05″ data-ean=”9781640097667″ data-asin=”164009766X” data-author=”Todd, Milo” class=”butter” rel=”noopener”>The Lilac People</a> by Milo Todd</h3><div class=”bookblurb__description”>
<p>Given how many award-winning books have been written in this setting, it can feel like every possible angle has been covered—but<em>The Lilac People</em>proves that idea wrong. It follows trans men struggling to survive both Nazis and Allied forces, revealing the little-known history of Allied forces keeping queer Holocaust survivors imprisoned. This is an original and much-needed addition to the genre. —Danika Ellis</p>
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<p>In 1617, nearly all the men of Vardø, Norway are killed in a freak storm off the coast. The women of the isolated town have to come together and overcome grief and any anxiety around gender roles to survive—but when a witch hunter comes to town, everything risks crumbling. This is a true story that Hargrave brings into vivid life, from the bleak, cold seaside to the subversive characters. This is a book set centuries ago but infused with a very familiar-feeling modern story: of queerness, radical womanhood, and a patriarchal status quo determined to stamp out anything that threatens it. —Leah Rachel von Essen</p>
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<div class=”wp-block-book-blurb-block-main book-blurb bookblurb-block bookblurb”><div class=”bookblurb__content”><a class=”bookblurb__coverlink” href=”https://prf.hn/click/camref:1101lkCeo/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fthe-song-of-achilles_madeline-miller%2F289680%2F” data-ean=”9780062060624″ data-asin=”0062060627″ data-title=”The Song of Achilles: A Novel (P.S.)” data-author=”Miller, Madeline” title=”Buy from Thriftbooks”><img decoding=”async” class=”bookblurb__image” src=”data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=’http://www.w3.org/2000/svg’%20viewBox=’0%200%200%200’%3E%3C/svg%3E” alt=”The Song of Achilles book cover” data-lazy-src=”https://s2982.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-Song-of-Achilles-300×0.jpg.optimal.jpg”/></a><h3 class=”bookblurb__booktitle”><a product-id=”0062060627″ href=”https://prf.hn/click/camref:1101lkCeo/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fthe-song-of-achilles_madeline-miller%2F289680%2F” target=”_blank” butter=”butter” nofollow=”nofollow” title=”Buy from Thriftbooks” data-title=”The Song of Achilles: A Novel (P.S.)” data-publisher=”Ecco” data-releasedate=”2012-08-28″ data-ean=”9780062060624″ data-asin=”0062060627″ data-author=”Miller, Madeline” class=”butter” rel=”noopener”>The Song of Achilles</a> by Madeline Miller</h3><div class=”bookblurb__description”>
<p><em>The Song of Achilles</em>deserves every accolade it earns and every bump in the bestseller charts. It won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2012 and it is one of the first books that BookTok sent into the stratosphere.</p>



<p>We all needed a book that emphasizes the love story between hero Achilles and exiled prince Patroclus from<em>The Iliad</em>. It will break your heart that Achilles chooses glory and destiny to fight in the Trojan War over peace and Patroclus. The book will break your heart over and over, and you’ll be glad for it. It also feels like it may have helped raise the profile of feminist and queer reframings of mythological stories.—Elisa Shoenberger</p>
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<p>Bursting with ghosts and birds, Joukhadar’s poetic novel alternates between two timelines. In contemporary New York City, a Syrian American trans boy grieves his mother who died in a strange fire five years prior, and an illustrated journal uncovered in Little Syria divulges the mysterious life of Laila Z, a Syrian American bird painter who wrote to “B” about the U.S. and disappeared over half a century ago. Adorned with medals for the Stonewall Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction, this hopeful story of ongoing conversations with beloveds delves into art, community, ornithology, personal histories, and resilience. —Connie Pan</p>
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<h2 class=”wp-block-heading”>15 New Queer Books Out April 14, 2026</h2>

<p>As a bonus for All Access members, here are 15 queer books out this week, including the F/F YA romance <em><a title=”Buy from Thriftbooks” product-id=”0593465350″ href=”https://prf.hn/click/camref:1101lkCeo/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fsummer-official%2F56247901%2F” target=”_blank” butter=”butter” nofollow=”nofollow” data-title=”Summer Official” data-publisher=”G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers” data-releasedate=”2026-04-14″ data-author=”Weatherspoon, Rebekah” data-ean=”9780593465356″ data-asin=”0593465350″ class=”butter” rel=”noopener”>Summer Official</a></em> by Rebekah Weatherspoon, the trans biography <em><a title=”Buy from Thriftbooks” product-id=”0063304112″ href=”https://prf.hn/click/camref:1101lkCeo/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fjan-morris-an-authorized-life_sara-wheeler%2F56222466%2F” target=”_blank” butter=”butter” nofollow=”nofollow” data-title=”Jan Morris: A Life” data-publisher=”Harper” data-releasedate=”2026-04-14″ data-author=”Wheeler, Sara” data-ean=”9780063304116″ data-asin=”0063304112″ class=”butter” rel=”noopener”>Jan Morris: A Life</a></em> by Sara Wheeler, and the queer nonfiction book <em><a title=”Buy from Thriftbooks” product-id=”059349797X” href=”https://prf.hn/click/camref:1101lkCeo/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fnasty-work-how-to-resist-systems-explore-desire-and-liberate-your-sex-life_ericka-hart%2F56221214%2F” target=”_blank” butter=”butter” nofollow=”nofollow” data-title=”Nasty Work: Resist Systems, Explore Desire, and Liberate Yourself” data-publisher=”Storehouse Voices” data-releasedate=”2026-04-14″ data-author=”Hart, Ericka” data-ean=”9780593497975″ data-asin=”059349797X” class=”butter” rel=”noopener”>Nasty Work: Resist Systems, Explore Desire, and Liberate Yourself</a></em> by Ericka Hart.</p>

<p><em>All Access members, read on for 15 new queer books out this week.</em></p>
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<p><em><a title=”Buy from Thriftbooks” product-id=”1668085534″ href=”https://prf.hn/click/camref:1101lkCeo/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Famerican-spirits-a-novel%2F55882530%2F” target=”_blank” butter=”butter” nofollow=”nofollow” data-title=”American Spirits: A Novel” data-publisher=”Simon &; Schuster” data-releasedate=”2026-04-14″ data-author=”Dorn, Anna” data-ean=”9781668085530″ data-asin=”1668085534″ class=”butter” rel=”noopener”>American Spirits</a> </em>by Anna Dorn (Sapphic Fiction)</p>

<p><em><a title=”Buy from Thriftbooks” product-id=”B0FFRVGWKC” href=”https://prf.hn/click/camref:1101lkCeo/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fsuper-castle-fun-park%2F56089157%2F” target=”_blank” butter=”butter” nofollow=”nofollow” data-title=”Super Castle Fun Park” data-publisher=”Arsenal Pulp Press” data-releasedate=”2026-04-14″ data-author=”Zomparelli, Daniel” data-ean=”9781834050263″ data-asin=”B0FFRVGWKC” class=”butter” rel=”noopener”>Super Castle Fun Park</a></em> by Daniel Zomparelli (Queer Fiction)</p>
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<p><em><a title=”Buy from Thriftbooks” product-id=”B0G275CVDQ” href=”https://prf.hn/click/camref:1101lkCeo/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fthe-girl-next-door-luke-greenfield%2F1000139857%2F” target=”_blank” butter=”butter” nofollow=”nofollow” data-title=”The Girl Next Door” data-publisher=”Bold Strokes Books” data-releasedate=”2026-04-14″ data-author=”Beers, Georgia” data-ean=”” data-asin=”B0G275CVDQ” class=”butter” rel=”noopener”>The Girl Next Door</a></em> by Georgia Beers (F/F Romance)</p>

<p><em><a title=”Buy from Thriftbooks” product-id=”1668098105″ href=”https://prf.hn/click/camref:1101lkCeo/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fwife-shaped-bodies-a-novel%2F55882154%2F” target=”_blank” butter=”butter” nofollow=”nofollow” data-title=”Wife Shaped Bodies: A Novel” data-publisher=”S&;S/Saga Press” data-releasedate=”2026-04-14″ data-author=”Cranehill, Laura” data-ean=”9781668098103″ data-asin=”1668098105″ class=”butter” rel=”noopener”>Wife Shaped Bodies</a></em> by Laura Cranehill (Sapphic Horror)</p>

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<p><em><a title=”Buy from Thriftbooks” product-id=”0593465350″ href=”https://prf.hn/click/camref:1101lkCeo/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fsummer-official%2F56247901%2F” target=”_blank” butter=”butter” nofollow=”nofollow” data-title=”Summer Official” data-publisher=”G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers” data-releasedate=”2026-04-14″ data-author=”Weatherspoon, Rebekah” data-ean=”9780593465356″ data-asin=”0593465350″ class=”butter” rel=”noopener”>Summer Official</a></em> by Rebekah Weatherspoon (F/F YA Contemporary)</p>

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