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Queer March 2026 Book Releases

March is a loooong list of WTRs, so let's jump right in!

A Change of Pace by J.A. Stevens

(March 3rd)

The cover for A Change of Page by J.A. Stevens features a woman with light skin and brown hair in a curly Grecian updo, wearing men's Regency garb with the shirt and waistcoat unbuttoned. She sits in a leather chair with her legs splayed open with a glass of wine in one hand and a smirk on her face. Behind her is a bookshelf, a lit fireplace, and a painting of a nude woman against a floral background hung on an arsenic green wallpaper with pink blossoms.

In Regency London, famously rakish Miss Georgina Pace comes to the rescue of an innocent man targeted by a corrupt gambling house, and in her pursuit of justice, becomes entangled with the enigmatic Lady Mortimer.

A Lady for All Seasons by TJ Alexander

(March 10th)

The cover for a Lady of All Seasons by TJ Alexander features a 1/4th profile of a woman with reddish brown hair in a Grecian bun facing away from the camera. A big pearl earring dangles from her visible ear. The title of the book is presented on what looks to be a the cover page of a vintage book with pink floral illustrations on both top corners.

Another queer Regency setting, a woman must marry to save herself and her odious family from abject poverty. When the gossip-savvy Verbena learns of a ruinous rumor regarding a dear friend, the "very queer" Etienne, she proposes a marriage of convenience that would secure both their futures. Until, that is, a mysterious and celebrated poet begins dropping hints in verse that she is onto their scheme. But poet Flora Witcombe has a secret of her own, and if she can't woo Verbena as Flora, perhaps she can woo her as her other self, struggling novelist and minor noble William Forsythe.

Nobody’s Baby by Olivia Waite

(March 10th)

The cover for Nobody's Baby by Olivia Waite features an illustration of a lounge with a large hexagonal window looking out into space. The turquoise walls are lined with circular green lounge chairs and round tables, and in the center is a frilly white bassinet with a sleeping baby inside, wrapped in a red blanket. Three people lean over it, two men and a woman, dressed 1950s-like clothes in shades of tan. The woman holds a magnifying glass up to the baby to inspect it.

On a luxury interstellar liner called The Fairweather, fertility is supposed to be on pause during a long-haul journey across the stars. So when a baby appears on the doorstep of her nephew, ship detective Dorothy Gentleman must determine who produced the rogue infant and why it was abandoned while her nephew and his partner grow more attached, and a rival detective snoops.

Whidbey by T Kira Madden

(March 10th)

The cover for Whidbey, by T Kira Madden is mostly black, but the center features a painting of a rocky, desolate beach framed by woods with blurred edges, as if possibly being viewed through a hole in the wall. The painting is very textured, with heavy brushstrokes visible, in a dark neutral palette.

Birdie Chang becomes a woman on the run when her childhood abuser, Calvin Boyer resurfaces. While on a ferry to Whidbey Island, a place as far away from life as she can manage, she is offered the chance for revenge from a stranger; as it turns out, Birdie was not Calvin's only victim. Three different narratives collide when Calvin turns up murdered; Birdie, a former reality tv star and fellow victim, and Calvin's loving mother.

The Fox and the Devil by Kiersten White

(March 10th)

The cover of The Fox and the Devil, by Kiersten White features an illustration of a bright red fox is wrapped around the Eiffel Tower and surrounded by roses and filigree designs.

Van Helsing's daughter returns home one evening to find her father dead and a surreal, beautiful woman looming over his body. Anneke is convinced that her father's inexplicable death is connected to a string of other mysterious dead bodies strewn across Europe, and utilizes a team of crack detectives and the latest forensic and investigatory techniques in her vengeance-fueled search for the serial killer. However, Anneke is concealing important evidence: coy, intermittently blood-soaked letters addressed to her and signed "Diavola." And the closer Anneke gets to the truth, the less sense the world seems to make.

Witch of the Shadow Wood by Tori Anne Martin

(March 10th)

The cover of Witch of the Shadow Wood, by Tori Anne Martin features two women with light skin and dark hair touching hands while sitting on the roots of a large tree swirling with magic. The woman on the left has curly hair and wears a blue gown with slashed sleeves and a white under dress with a sword laid across her lap. The woman on the right has a long braid and wears a cloak made of leaves and a grey tunic and trousers.

Fifteen years ago, Greta was traded away to the witch in the woods by her father and abandoned by her brother, Hans. She takes on a new name, Miria, and becomes apprenticed to the old witch. Two years ago, she fell in love with a young woman, lost in the woods, whom she rescued. Now, she has learned that young woman is to be married off against her will to the very man who abandoned her so long ago. Soon, Miria will leave her woods, stop a wedding, rescue a lover, and get revenge.

Hell’s Heart by Alexis Hall

(March 10th)

The cover of Hell's Heart, by Alexis Hall features an illustration of a large, fleshy pink eyeball with octopus-like tentacles against a black, starry background.

"Earth is dead. Which leaves us stuck living in atmospheric domes on planets that will kill us if we blink wrong, or run out of fuel. And by “fuel” I mean “the cerebrospinal fluid of gargantuan, quasi-psychic space monsters”.
I joined the hunt hoping to get paid and maybe laid, but mostly paid.\ Instead, I followed a captain chasing abominations in the skies of Jupiter.
We battled the Möbius Beast itself, there in the red eye of the world.
Spoiler: we lost."

Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran

(March 10th)

The cover of Spoiled Milk, by Avery Curran features a vintage ink drawing of a group of school girls with a variety of bobbed hair-styles. The right side of the illustration is tinted red and dripping horizontally across the page as though blood has spilled across it.

It's 1928 and Emily Locke's last year at an isolated girl's boarding school when the most brilliant student and Emily's idol falls to her death on her 18th birthday. Emily and her rival Evelyn are in rare agreement: Violet's death was no accident. Their primary suspect is the French schoolmistress who seemed to be just a little too close to the girl, and like any sensible teenaged girls in the late 1920s, they turn to spiritualism to aid their investigation, and Evelyn ends up becoming a medium for the spirit of the recently deceased, who has a dire warning for what is to come.

My Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum

(March 17th)

The cover of My Lover, the Rabbi, by Wayne Koestenbaum is bright red, with bold white and black print that calls to mind the covers of old Truman Capote books. In the center is a grey-scale rose, overlaid with green and pink rectangles of different sizes, slightly offset from where you might expect the rose's stem and petals to be colored in.

Rears & Vices by E.M. Caro

(March 17th)

The cover for Rears & Vices, by E.M. Caro features three men against the backdrop of a pristine blue sky and ocean and the rigging of a sailing ship. The man on the left is light-skinned with brown curly hair, wearing a loose white shirt with ruffled cuffs and tight, high-waisted brown trousers. His arm is around the shoulders of the middle man, who has copper skin, black hair in a tight vintage style and wearing a cream waistcoat, dark blue or grey cravat, and white trousers. He is carrying a grey tricorn hat. The man on the right is facing away from the other two, but standing close. He is pale, ginger, wearing a white shirt with a cravat and ruffled cuffs, blue trousers, and his wrist rests on the pommel of a sword at his belt.

In 1816, Royal Navy captain Everard Anderson is begrudgingly grateful to be called away from his demoted peacetime schooner to judge a court martial alongside his former lover and lieutenant, Preston D'Arcy. When he realizes that another former flame, Vitya, is on the docket, Everard delays the trial with a bit of perjury (to the appropriate tune of With Catlike Tread from Pirates of Penzance) to save him from a hanging. This costs himself and D'Arcy everything when Vitya is revealed to be an infamous pirate captain whose head is wanted by three different royal crowns, and the two navymen are commandeered into piracy.

I Am Agatha by Nancy Foley

(March 17th)

The cover for I Am Agatha, by Nancy Foley features a shovel stuck straight up and down in desert dirt with a pair of hands folded almost demurely over the handle. The background is a pale, dusty gradient of brown dirt, red hills, purple mountains, and yellow sky.

Bristly painter Agatha moves to rural New Mexico with the aim to add to the local reclusive curmudgeon population, until she meets Alice, a widow struggling with dementia who stands daily vigil at her daughter's backyard grave and melts Agatha's relatably bitter little heart. Before she can enact a scheme to allow them to live together, Alice's wayward son comes along with other plans, and Alice disappears. Agatha enlists the help of a plucky local teen and with a pair of shovels and her trusty pickup, the unlikely pair embark on an unusual mission that might answer the question of whether some secrets should stay buried.

Daughter of the Hunt by K Arsenault Rivera

(March 17th)

The cover of Daughter of the Hunt, by K Arsenault Rivera is framed by metal filigree against a green, mandala-like background. Green vines hang in front of a pair of deer antlers, between which are nestled five moon phases, with a bottom-heavy crescent moon topping the page.

The second book in the Oath of Fire Series begins with a sacrifice. The Pelops family is cursed, and as the eldest child, is it Iphigenia's duty and privilege to be offered up to Artemis. Horrified that Iphigenia's family offered her up without her consent, Artemis takes her as a disciple and teaches her the way of the hunt. But Iphigenia is a kinder person than I am and desires to free her family of the curse for the sake of her siblings.

Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

(March 24th)

The cover of Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave features an illustration of two women back to back. One faces toward the viewer, smoking a cigarette. She is light-skinned with straight brownish red hair in a blunt shoulder length cut and wears a black sleeveless dress. The other has her back to the viewer and is reading a book. She has long, wavy blonde hair and wears a red short-sleeved shirt with a low back and a tight yellow skirt. The background is a tight row of Parisian apartments, and they appear to be seated on a cobbled street beside the water.

On the steps of Sacré-Coeur, in 1978 Paris, a pair of students meet and a mere summer fling turns into a romance that spans decades; through marriage, children, and secret trysts, life ultimately leads Erica and Laure back together. But will they be brave enough to seize the chance?

The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann

(March 24th)

The cover of The Beheading Game, by Rebecca Lehman features the image of a painting of Anne Boleyn, the top half of her face cut off mid-eye, and ripped horizontally across her neck to expose the title on a yellow background.

Hours after Anne Boleyn's execution, she wakes up. Excuse me?? Her head is wrapped in linen at her feet inside her makeshift coffin, and the bitch gets up, puts it back on, and embarks on a quest for revenge against reviled Henry VIII before he can marry her own lady-in-waiting, Jane Seymour. Disguised as a commoner, Anne learns about the real world with the help of a befriended prostitute to ensure her daughter's place as heir to the throne of England and get back at Henry.

Afterbirth by Emma Cleary

(March 24th)

The cover of After Birth, by Emma Cleary is pitch black, with a kaledescoped image of a flower bouquet in the center, making it difficult to tell what kind of flowers it contains. They appear to be Queen Anne's Lace, fiddle-heads, forget-me-nots, and bougainvillea. The shape calls to mind a uterus.

After the end of an unfortunate romance, Brooke arrives in Vancouver to care for her sister Izzy as she prepares to undergo reproductive surgery. But the hallways of Izzy’s rapidly decaying apartment building are stalked by an ominous figure known only as Medusa, which isn't great for the recovery process. Old wounds are reopened as Brooke finds traces of the horror movies her ex-girlfriend loved bleeding into real life and she begins to exhibit strange symptoms of her own. The line between self and sister begins to blur, and sisterly concern tangles into obsession.

This Will Be Interesting by E.B. Asher

(March 24th)

The cover of This Will Be Interesting by E. B. Asher is navy blue with a curled ribbon alternating white and blue containing the title in text that alternates between pink and white. Weaving in an out of the ribbon are illustrations: a yellow ship with white sails and a red flag, coupled silhouettes of various genders facing each other romantically, a pink quill pen, a mask, and a circus tent.

The delightfully stereotypically named Galwell True is resurrected by his friends after he already went and sacrificed himself heroically to save the world ten years ago. The Deathrose Guild tasks River Pricemark (omg I just got it at this very moment as I'm typing, I'm not even joking. PRICE MARK) with his assassination, which is probably warranted since he's supposed to be dead, but her plans are predictably interrupted by a nosy journalist (scribe-sheet writer, in-universe) who also happens to be River's childhood crush. Complicating matters, Queen Thessia, tired of playing the damsel and not quite ready to live happily ever after with her kingly husband, discovers her ex-lover Galwell is in danger and completely ruins her own honeymoon to intercede. Boasting underground lairs, magical grottos, horseball matches, and masquerades, This Will Be Interesting certainly seems ready to deliver on its title, especially when Galwell, who has sworn off romance, meets a beautiful criminal who is determined to corrupt him in more ways than one.

Which of the truly unreasonable amount of queer books releasing in March excite you the most? Did I miss one or twelve? Let me know!

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