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All the (More!) Books! February 27, 2026

All the Books!

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Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

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🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This week, Danika talks about their most-anticipated queer books coming out in the spring. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Keep track of new releases with Book Riot's New Release Index, now included with All Access membership. Click here to get started today! Books Discussed: Work to Do by Jules Wernersbach (April 7) The Lost Daughter Of Sparta by Felicia Day & Rowan McColl (March 17) Koharu and Minato: Happy Life with My Girlfriend Vol. 1 by Hyaluron & Daruma (April 14) Olivia Gray Will Not Fade Away by Ciera Burch (March 17) Hell's Heart by Alexis Hall (March 26) The Celestial Seas by T.A. Chan (March 31) This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here are listening to All the More Books, a weekly show about books of all kinds. I'm your host,

0:16.0

Danica Ellis, and today I'm talking about some of my most anticipated new queer books out in the spring.

0:23.2

Now, publishing has a very interesting relationship to seasons.

0:28.0

So if you look at publishers' definitions of, say, spring, they vary widely and they are very different than what I think of as in

0:41.9

spring.

0:42.9

So when I say spring, I just mean March, April, May.

0:47.3

Just to keep it simple, I'm saying March, April, May.

0:50.7

So these are the queer books that I'm most excited about that are coming out in the next few

0:56.9

months. I have some realistic ones, some graphic novels, and I've got a pairing that I think

1:05.6

is very interesting that is coming out a week apart from each other. If you are interested in keeping track of new releases in one convenient place,

1:15.6

if you are wondering how to know about interesting upcoming books,

1:20.6

you should check out the new release index.

1:22.6

This is Book Riot's curated database of new books, organized by genre and release date, and it's

1:29.1

included with the all-access membership. So there's no reason not to. Liberty does a lot of the

1:37.8

selection, so you know it's good, you know it's good stuff, and I usually add in even more queer books. So you can also filter by

1:46.9

queer books. So if that's something that you're interested in, I think it's a really useful tool.

1:53.0

And it's very pretty to scroll through all the books, especially all the queer books, in my opinion.

1:59.0

So you can head to the link in the show notes

2:01.3

at bookriot.com slash all the books to sign up today. Today's episode is brought to you by

2:09.4

23rd Street Books, an imprint of McMillan and publisher of Everything in Color, a love story by

2:15.3

Stephanie Stalvey. Interrogating her upbringing in an evangelical

2:18.9

community, Stephanie Stalvey weaves a story of faith, alienation, romance, and acceptance in this

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