Readers and booksellers share their favorite LGBTQ titles of 2024

Casey McQuiston’s “The Pairing,” Julia Armfield’s “Private Rites” and Billy-Ray Belcourt’s “Coexistence” were among the favorite queer titles of booksellers and readers.

LGBTQ-inclusive books remained top targets of bans and “soft censorship” throughout 2024, but titles that centered queer characters and explored topics related to sexual orientation and gender identity continued to find fierce advocates in readers and booksellers.

We asked NBC Out readers and booksellers across the country about their favorite lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer books of 2024. Here’s a selection of what we heard:

A version of King Lear that is queer and climate-dystopian, “this book is haunting and surreal,” said Kelsey Jagneaux, the events coordinator at Tombolo Books in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Macmillan Publishers“It delivers on all the heightened drama of its source material while perfectly reimagining the contentious daughters of this modern Lear,” Jagneaux said.

Readers may recall Armfield’s powerful debut novel, “Our Wives Under the Sea,” which balanced elements of horror and the supernatural while exploring the story of a lesbian couple involved in a deep-sea research mission.

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