I’ve watched whole lives transform in my classrooms and outside of them because of the stories we read, because of the work we did together, because of our difficult and revelatory and compassionate conversations, and because we were never afraid to face the truth.

The novel explores queer romance, corporate feminism, and reimagined community at the end of the world.

The perfect bath time book is right around 200 pages or less.

If you’re a horror movie fan who wants to see more stories by queer writers, or featuring good queer representation, head to the bookstore instead of the movie theater.

Reading picture books was a way I connected with my son when he was a preschooler, and I was able to teach him about things like racism, empathy and of course, LGBTQ+ issues.

In an excerpt from her new essay collection Thin Skin, Jenn Shapland examines childfreedom.

The Call Is Coming From Inside The House is an ideal read for anyone interested in any one of its disparate themes: horror movies, queer parenthood, mental health, bisexuality, true crime, and more.

Isle McElroy’s new novel provides a nuanced approach to gender within its body swap premise.

Talking to Swan Huntley about her new queer thriller “I Want You More,” building a writing career, whether she takes her own advice, the endless internal void, loving food shows despite not being a cook.

Hot fresh reads for a hot bookish Pride month!

The Last Girls Standing gave me big Yellowjackets vibes.

The achievement of Alvina Chamberland’s text is how she reveals the deeper loneliness beneath her romantic isolation.

It’s a gorgeous, speculative exercise in romance that’s as bound together as it is fragmented.

“So I really look at this book as a guide for the average car owner for regular people like you who aren’t out there trying to fix their cars in their driveways, who aren’t trying to soup up their vehicles, who do not have a passion for cars.”

This is a work of textures, of excess, of grease, of desire. It is a portrait of pleasure as punishment and punishment as pleasure, a gluttonous urge for more until both small joys and small discomforts are compounded into the same nauseating grotesquerie.

Particularly impressive categories this year include memoir/biography, horror — queer and trans horror writers are appropriately giving us their all these days — and comics.

Ellie Engle Saves Herself isn’t solely for children. If you’ve ever found yourself on a journey of self understanding, you will see yourself in Ellie.

For fans of second-chance romance, friends to lovers, and ‘celebrity falls for regular person’ tropes.

However you choose to engage with Banned Books Week, I hope you’ll think about the books that have led you to the person you are today.

You have a year to complete this assignment, and there will be no test.