August 2025 Queer Releases

A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white square with a thin outline and text that reads "151 queer books coming out in August". The 151 is in matching horizontal rainbow stripes and August is in purple text. Text between the number and month are all caps black font.

🌈 What's COMING OUT (pun intended) this August? Which books are you excited for? Which books are you adding to your TBR? Any other queer releases you know of?

Check out the embedded link for more information about the book. Books are listed above their respective graphic.

We do our best to screen books for AI usage and do not include books with covers that are made by generative AI, or books written by generative AI. If there was a mistake, please let us know.

Note: Some dates may have changed. We haven’t read all of these books, so please check reviews for more details on queer identities represented and The StoryGraph for content warnings!

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  • Emerge: 2024 Lambda Literary Anthology edited by monét cooper

A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a purple rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.
A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a purple rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.
A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a purple rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.

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A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a purple rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.
A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a purple rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.

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A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a purple rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.

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A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a purple rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.
A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a purple rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.


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A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a purple rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.

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A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a purple rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.
A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a purple rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. Each spot has a book cover.

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A graphic with a background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow. In the middle is a white white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a purple rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. The first row has four book covers, the second row has 3 covers and 1 light purple rectangle, while the third row has 4 light purple rectangles.

We post an open call for new releases around the 20th of the month preceding on Twitter/X, Blue Sky and Threads. Authors can add their books to these posts to be included in future new release lists. Or you can email andy@rainbowcratebookbox.com with the title/series name, author, book cover, cover artist/designer and a link to more information/purchase options (Goodreads/Author website/Itch.io). Books must not have be outlined, written or edited with gen AI; and must have a cover made by a human.

ID: A post of fourteen slides. Background is made up of a diagonal oriented 6-stripe rainbow for each slide. Slide 1 has a white square which reads "151 queer books coming out in August". The 151 is in matching horizontal rainbow stripes and August is in purple text. Text between the number and month are all caps black font. Slide 2-13 features a white grid outline with a column on the left that has the release date in white over a purple rectangle and book covers in three rows of 4 book covers each. All spots contain a book cover. Slide 14 features a similar set up but with 7 books displayed. The first row has four books, the second row has 3 covers and 1 light purple rectangle, while the third row has 4 light purple rectangles. The column on the left that has the release date in white over a purple rectangle. End ID. 

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