It’s The Golden Girls, but with older gay men! I feel like that’s enough of a pitch, but I’ll go on. Teddy, Barry, Ron, and Sid share a pink mid-century house in Palm Springs, and they take their monthly Golden Girls drag performance very seriously. They bicker, and they lament being single, but they’re enjoying their golden years together. When Teddy’s estranged sister shows up on their doorstep, dragging her teen granddaughter behind her, secrets the four men have been hiding begin to come to light. This looks like a delight, and I think it would be a great match for fans of The Guncle. —Danika Ellis

What if Anne Boleyn woke up in her coffin the day after her beheading and plotted her revenge? (And also, what if she was bisexual?) In this take on her story, Anne sews her head back on and teams up with a sex worker, Alice, to kill Henry VIII. It’s not just out of spite: Anne is also ensuring that her daughter, Elizabeth, remains the heir to the throne. As Anne and Alice work together, they grow closer, and Anne gets a glimpse of life outside of the golden cage of being a royal. —Danika Ellis

You know what’s even more exciting than “Cat Sebastian’s next book”? Cat Sebastian’s first contemporary. I love her historicals and breathe in every one as they release, but there’s something exciting about an author who is excellent at writing the past translating that to the present. Star Shipped is about two guys who definitely don’t like each other, thanks to having extremely opposite personalities and having to work closely together for the past several years. But there’s a road trip! And knowing Cat, there are going to be so many Feelings I won’t be able to handle it. —Jessica Pryde

From the author of Chef’s Kiss and A Gentleman’s Gentleman comes the queer and trans Regency romance we’ve been waiting for. Verbena’s family is in ruins, and she’s forced to secure their future by marrying. Luckily, she has a solution: a lavender marriage with her very queer friend Étienne. When the poet Flora publishes verses hinting at her knowledge of their scheme, it puts the arrangement at risk. Verbena confronts her—only to be unexpectedly charmed by Flora. What Verbena doesn’t know is that Flora is also the struggling novelist William, who sets out to woo Verbena. This looks like a delightful Regency romp with a genderfluid main character! —Danika Ellis

If Sky Daddy was 2025’s unhinged take on Moby-Dick, Hell’s Heart is 2026’s. Given that Moby-Dick is my favorite book of all time, I am always eager to read anything that claims it as an influence. This spacefaring version follows the narrator I in pursuit of spermaceti, a hallucinogen produced by Leviathans swimming in Jupiter’s currents. With women cast in the roles of Ishmael, Ahab, and Queequeg, this book promises a story even more queer than the original, and that’s saying something. —Isabelle Popp

Sapphic gothic novels are having a moment, and I am here for it. I can’t resist the combination of sapphic longing and a creeping sense of doom. At Briarley School for Girls in 1928, something sinister is spreading, rotting meat and curdling milk. Then the body count begins to climb. Emily is convinced her captivating classmate Violet’s death was not natural, and she intends to prove it. She teams up with rival Evelyn to try to contact Violet from beyond the veil. Through the medium of Evelyn, Violet warns that the danger has only begun. This promises “teenage repression, queer desire, and the everyday horror of coming of age.” —Danika Ellis

Kenzie is a nonbinary kitchen witch who casts a loves spell on their crush, Hayden, only to have him slip and fall… into a coma. When Kenzie visits him at the hospital, they tell the nurse that Hayden is their boyfriend. It was just to convince the nurse to let them in, but now Hayden’s family thinks they’re dating, and Kenzie doesn’t even know whether Hayden is straight. To make things even more complicated, now that Kenzie is spending more time with Hayden’s family, they might just be falling for Hayden’s brother. (It’s a witchy YA While You Were Sleeping!) —Danika Ellis

The author of Brewed With Love is back with another sapphic YA fantasy romance. Monroe is a junior recruit for the Bureau of Mystical Affairs, tracking down the source of a love spell gone wrong. She’s totally focused on her first assignment and has no time for distractions—except that Iris, the daughter of the Bureau’s director, just asked her to fake date to make her ex jealous. As you can imagine, sparks fly between them, but can she solve the case and get the girl? —Danika Ellis

In this queer YA space opera, teen Ishara Ming searches for the sentient spacecraft that destroyed her whaling ship, leaving her the only survivor. Putting together a group of misfits, Ishara heads out into space once again, thirsty for revenge. —Liberty Hardy

(Yes, this is another queer sci-fi Moby-Dick retelling out this month!)

Silas is a reluctant time traveler: he keeps getting thrown back in time, forced to relive hours or days in his pre-transition body. He’s sure he’s a unique scientific anomaly—until he meets Jude, who has the same symptoms. Jude has met a future version of Silas, and he says that they need to work together to fix their problem. The more time they spend together, the closer they become, but just as a solution comes into sight, Jude begins to question whether it might be better to change the past instead and save both of them heartache. (Jude is on the aro/ace spectrum.) —Danika Ellis

Alexis Henderson, author of The Year of the Witching and House of Hunger, turns to YA audiences for her latest horror novel. This one follows Roslyn Volk, a bisexual teen girl who lost her sister Adeline a year ago after a mysterious incident in the woods. Looking for answers, Roslyn tracks down the strange traveling group of girls with whom Adeline spent her last summer. The girls are beautiful and intriguing, but Roslyn soon learns they hold a dark secret: in exchange for their lives, the girls travel by caravan, reaping souls for Death himself. —Emily Martin

Olivia Gray has just started 7th grade, and it feels like everything is changing. Her classmates, including her best friend, are obsessed with dating. She can’t relate, and it’s making her feel left out—in fact, soon she realizes she’s literally disappearing. She flickers in and out of sight as the topic of romance comes up, and only the school librarian and her new friend Jules can see her. With these new connections, she slowly comes to terms with her asexual identity. —Danika Ellis