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April 2026: 🌅 LIGHT VS DARK 🌌
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our April 2026 theme is…
🌅 LIGHT VS DARK 🌌
Can there be light without dark? This month we’re exploring the shades of gray that make up humanity. These characters have experienced it all. But which will win: the light or the dark?
🌅 BOOK 1 for April is Holy Wrath by Victoria Mier! In an age of darkness, all healer Ophelia wants is for a Saint to claim her. She’s worked tirelessly to prove herself worthy of the Mysteries. When she’s tasked to care for an injured enemy prisoner, Ophelia is ready to prove her devotion. She will convert the Umbra Knight to the Church of the Host and finally be claimed by a Saint. However, as she grows closer to the Knight, Ophelia begins to question the Church.
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🌅 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Gothic Fantasy
REP: wlw, physically disabled queer mc w/ anxiety & PTSD, masc lesbian li, BIPOC scs
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
LENGTH: 427 pgs
🌌 BOOK 2 for April is The Crack at the Heart of Everything by Fiona Fenn! After helping his childhood friend conquer the realm, Orpheus can’t believe his queen is banishing him from the castle. As he takes his leave, Fenrir, the ex-general, accosts him and joins his exile. It doesn’t help that his handsome rival keeps stepping between him and certain doom. As Orpheus grows closer to Fenrir, he must decide what it means to atone and what redemption for his past would mean.
🌌 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:- Signed edition
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- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: Art Gallery
🌌 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Adult Fantasy
REP: mlm, gay mc w/ anxiety, pansexual li, nonbinary sc, queernormative world
SPICE: ★☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 399 pgs
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March 2026: 🪐 COSMICALLY QUEER 🚀
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our March 2026 theme is…
🪐 COSMICALLY QUEER 🚀
We’re embarking on a journey across the universe. Explore queer new horizons that will get you lost among the stars!
🪐 BOOK 1 for March is No Shelter But the Stars by Virginia Black! When Kyran and Davia are marooned together on an inhospitable planet, they must learn to navigate divergent backgrounds and cultural experiences to survive. The last thing on their minds is falling in love.
🪐 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:- Signed edition
- New dust jacket with Iridescent spot gloss
- Illustrated Full Color hardcase
- Character art endpapers (same front and back)
- Gilded edges
- Bonus Content: Two Playlists
🪐 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Science Fiction
REP: wlw, sapphic mcs, queernormative worldbuilding, mobility aid representation
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
LENGTH: 329 pgs
🚀 BOOK 2 for March is Kestrel by Adrienne Lothy! Niko was the best bounty hunter in the galaxy, until a devastating accident. When an elusive assassin starts executing galactic leaders, Nico is determined to find him and bring him to justice. What he discovers in the course of a deadly game of cat and mouse, will change everything he thought he knew about the galaxy.
🚀 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:- Signed edition
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- Illustrated hardcase with Gold foils
- Character art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: Short Story and Nacho Recipe
🚀 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Science Fiction
REP: mlm, paraplegic demisexual gay mc w/migraines & depression, gay li w/anxiety, depression, OCD & c-PTSD, nonbinary sc and aliens, queernormative worldbuilding
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
LENGTH: 362 pgs
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February 2026: 🐉 HERE THERE BE DRAGONS 🐲
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our February 2026 theme is…
🐉 HERE THERE BE DRAGONS 🐲
Better watch your step, fierce and monstrous creatures of myth and legend are roaming the lands.
🐉 BOOK 1 for February is The Blood-Born Dragon by J.C Rycroft! Des has always had a plan. That plan was to keep her nose clean and for once attempt to keep out of trouble as a traveling sellsword. Everything goes awry when a battle ends with her blood bonded to the first dragon that’s hatched in centuries.
🐉 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:- Signed bookplates
- New dust jacket with silver foil & spot gloss
- Illustrated hardcase with silver foil
- Character art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: full color map, art gallery, & bonus scenes
🐉 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Romantic Fantasy
REP: wlw (sapphic, bi4bi), queer cis woman main character, bisexual cis woman love interest with PTSD, lesbian cis woman side character
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
LENGTH: 383 pgs
🐲 BOOK 2 for February is Hunted by Misu Loy! The renowned Guardians of Vale have always been the shield of Valdenia and Raine Chambrin desperately wants to be accepted into their ranks. He has always known he's different, but never expected the entrance trials to reveal he is actually THE secret. He finds himself being hunted, on the run from everyone and everything he’s ever known.
🐲 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:- Signed bookplates
- New dust jacket with silver foil & iridescent gloss
- Illustrated hardcase with gold foil
- Character art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Deleted scene, & book 2 excerpt
🐲 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Fantasy
REP: mlm, ace-demi main character, late-blooming bisexual love interest, ace-demi side characters
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 393 pgs
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January 2026: ☀️ MARKED BY THE DIVINE 👑
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our January 2026 theme is…
☀️ MARKED BY THE DIVINE 👑The Gods have left their mark. In the race for power, only the destined will rise.
☀️ BOOK 1 for January is Cry, Voidbringer by Elaine Ho! Hammer was stolen from her home and conscripted into the Faceless army, it’s the only life she’s known. But when she’s forced to watch over a godschild with potential powers, she finds her priorities changing. Cry, Voidbringer is the saga of how far one will go for freedom and control—and how easily it can all be taken away.
☀️ OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:- Signed edition
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- Clothbound Hardcase with Silver Foil
- Art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: full color art gallery
☀️ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Epic Fantasy
REP: wlw & mlm, bisexual male mc, lesbian mc, bisexual li, pansexual li, nonbinary sc, gay sc, queernormative world
SPICE: ★☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 454 pgs
👑 BOOK 2 for January is The Prince’s Poisoned Vow by Hailey Turner! The land of Maricol is poisoned and prolonged exposure will kill you. Royal machinations have been turning the gears of war and tensions are primed to spark. Guided by the Star Gods, the characters will have to decide who and what they trust, because the wrong choice could cause everything to burn down in flames.
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- New dust jacket with bronze & gold foils, & spot gloss
- Illustrated case with pale gold & copper foils
- Art endpapers (Different front and back)
- Printed edges
👑 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Epic Fantasy
REP: bisexual mc, gay mcs, sapphic mc, asexual mc, gay sc, sapphic sc, queer normative world
SPICE: ★★★☆☆
LENGTH: 628 pgs
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December 2025: 🏃♀️ RUN AWAY WITH ME ⛺️
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our December 2025 theme is…
🏃♀️ RUN AWAY WITH ME ⛺️
Have you ever wanted to leave all your responsibilities behind? Get ready to be swept away on thrilling adventures with our December books!
🏃♀️ BOOK 1 for December is Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne! Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea is a cozy fantasy following a loyal queen’s guard who’s been pushed to her limit. When Reyna runs away with her girlfriend, the town of Tawny was not exactly what they pictured. They’ve got their work cut out for them: renovating a dilapidated bandit hideout into a dual tea shop and bookstore, winning over the locals, and negotiating with dragons that want to burn down the town!
🏃♀️ OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - Hardcover edition!
- Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with iridescent gloss & spot gloss!
- Illustrated full color art hardcase!
- GORGEOUS aerial fight scene art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: short story, full color art gallery
🏃♀️ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Cozy Fantasy Romance
REP: Sapphic love story (main romance), gay love story (implied, side romance), lesbian mc, pansexual mc, nonbinary sc, gay sc, neurodivergent (Anxiety, ADHD, Autism) mcs and scs
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 371 pgs
⛺️ BOOK 2 for December is Static Crush by Alistair Reeves! Static Crush follows android, Hale, who is meant to make life easy for his owner. Hale is never meant to want or to feel. But then Hale meets the next door neighbor, Rayner. Rayner asks Hale questions he was never meant to consider. As the processing errors pile up, Hale becomes increasingly more nervous his owner will recycle him. Hale will have to decide whether to risk it all with Rayner or stay with his owner.
⛺️ OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - First Time in Print!
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- New dust jacket with orange, light teal, & gold effect foils and spot gloss!
- Illustrated case with silver oil slick foil!
- Black & white art endpapers (Different front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: Full Color Art Gallery
⛺️ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Adult Science Fiction
REP: mlm, gay male mc, gay male love interest, disabled Latinx femme sc, pansexual Black sc
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
LENGTH: 520 pgs
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November 2025: 🏳️🌈 QUEER & QUIRKY 🤪
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our November 2025 theme is…
🏳️🌈 QUEER & QUIRKY 🤪Explore the world through a different and often humorous lens. This month we’re bringing you some silly romps from all over the universe!
🏳️🌈 BOOK 1 for November is an extra special collection of Starship Teapot Volumes 1 & 2 by Si Clarke! This volume contains The Left Hand of Dog, Judgement Dave and the bonus prequel Normal Life! Starship Teapot is packed with preposterous scenarios, queer and quirky characters, and oodles of humour while showing that the universe is a very strange place indeed.
🏳️🌈 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with iridescent gold starburst foil, & iridescent directional gloss
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- GORGEOUS character art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: Prequel short story
🏳️🌈 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Science Fiction
REP: Aro-ace agender transfem mc, ADHD-like traits in a sc, no gender in space
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 388 pgs
🤪 BOOK 2 for November is Shroom for Improvement by Jemma Croft! Shroom for Improvement is full of silliness, a low-angst slow burn romance, fae magic and even more silliness! We follow Claude Stinkhorn who inherits a sentient house full of mysteries and the weirdest people! Claude must perform an ancient magical mushroom fae ritual to keep his new house alive. There’s only two months until the ritual date, Claude is going to need expert help.
🤪 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with iridescent & spot gloss
- Illustrated case with gold foiling & iridescent gloss
- Beautiful art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: Special Scene
🤪 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Whimsical Fantasy
REP: mlm, Gay brown-skinned plus-sized mc, white pansexual mc, non-binary sc
SPICE: ★★★☆☆
LENGTH: 443 pgs
🌈 Limited subs are open now starting with the October box! Start a subscription for yourself or a loved one at the link below to start celebrating the holidays early with some queer cheer!
October 2025: 🫦 HELP, MY ROOMMATE'S HOT! 🔥
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our October 2025 theme is…
🫦 HELP! MY ROOMMATE’S HOT! 🔥
🫦 BOOK 1 for October is Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao! Make Room for Love is a sweet, tender and sexy romance following two women who unexpectedly become roommates. Mira and Isabel have their differences, but as they learn about each other, undiscovered passions are ignited.
🔥 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - Hardcover edition!
- New dust jacket with pale gold foiling
- Illustrated hardcase with dark purple foiling
- Character & environmental art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
🔥 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Adult Romance
REP: wlw, Indian American and Jewish bi trans woman mc, Chinese American butch lesbian mc, Asian American queer and trans scs
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
LENGTH: 314 pgs
🫦 BOOK 2 for October is And They Were Roommates by Page Powars! And They Were Roommates follows Charlie, the new scholarship student at Valentine Academy for boys. Between the high pressure environment of new classes, and maintaining a high enough GPA to keep his scholarship, Charlie is doing his best. To make matters worse, Charlie’s unexpected roommate has enlisted his help in writing love letters for the student body. Surely with romance in the air, Charlie won’t fall in love.
🔥 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with gold & red foiling & spot gloss
- Illustrated case with gold foiling & iridescent gloss
- Character art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: Bonus Chapter & Playlist
🔥 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: YA Romance
REP: mlm, transgender mc, bisexual li, gay sc
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 317 pgs
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September 2025: ✨ WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS ✨
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our September 2025 theme is…
✨ WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS ✨✨ BOOK 1 for September is House of Frank by Kay Synclaire, a warm and hopeful story of a lonely witch consumed by grief who discovers a whimsical cast of characters in a magical arboretum — and the healing power of found family.
✨ OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - New dust jacket with purple foil, spot gloss & glow in the dark printing
- Illustrated hardcase with gold foiling & glow in the dark printing
- GORGEOUS landscape art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Short Story and Pronunciation Guide
✨ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Cozy Fantasy
REP: wlw, Black lesbian mc, Black pansexual li, gay man sc, trans woman sc, asexual sc, mainly queer cast
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 341 pgs
✨ BOOK 2 for September is To Hive & to Hold by Amy Crook, a sweet and tender tale of an apothecarist with magic bees and the magical tattooist who comes to visit and falls deeply for him.
✨ OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - Signed edition!
- Holographic gold, silver, and green foiling, as well as holographic gloss
- Illustrated case with holographic gold and tan foiling
- Art endpapers by the author with iridescent gloss (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Color accents in the interior
- Bonus short story
✨ BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:GENRE: Fantasy
REP: mlnb, gay male mc, nonbinary li, lesbian sc, Black sc, nonbinary, polyamorous and queer cast
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
LENGTH: 420 pgs
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August 2025: 👻 COZY HORROR 🔪
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our August 2025 theme is…
👻 COZY HORROR 🔪
👻 BOOK 1 for August is Someone You can Build a Nest in by John Wiswell! A monster in search of someone to lay her eggs finds more than she bargained for when a human cares for her after an encounter with monster hunters. From the perspective of the monster, this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance explores what happens when you make the fatal mistake of falling in love.
👻 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: - Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with iridescent gloss
- Illustrated hardcase with silver foiling
- GORGEOUS character art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
👻 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Macabre Fairytale
REP: wlw asexual relationship, asexual main character experiencing ace awakening, asexual love interest, bisexual secondary character, minor gay and lesbian characters, minor nonbinary characters, queernormative worldbuilding, disability representation including: deafness, language aversion, lack of sense of smell, chronic pain, amputees, congenital lack of limbs, lack of internal bones, neurodivergence, PTSD, mobility aids
SPICE: ☆☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 382 pgs
🔪 BOOK 2 for August is How to Survive this Fairytale by S.M. Hallow! Twining together a dark fairytale retelling with mental health and disability representation plus queer normative world-building splashed with a cozy horror game, How to Survive This Fairytale is rewriting Happily Ever Afters.🔪 OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- Signed edition!
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- Illustrated case with spot gloss
- GORGEOUS character art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: Bound-in Q&A with the author
🔪 BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Fairytale Horror Romance
REP: mlm, Achillean main character with PTSD, depression, and eating disorders, Achillean love interest with a physical disability, Physically disabled secondary character
SPICE: ★☆☆☆☆
LENGTH: 292 pgs
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July 2025: 🏴☠️ HOIST THE COLORS 🏴☠️
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The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our July 2025 theme is…
🏴☠️ HOIST THE COLORS 🏴☠️
🏴☠️BOOK 1 for July is Fragments of a Fallen Star by Viano Oniomoh! Fragments of a Fallen Star is a whimsical and heartwarming New Adult fantasy adventure romance about grief, healing, and falling in love.🏴☠️OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with gold and black foiling & spot gloss
- Illustrated hard case with gold foil
- GORGEOUS Character art endpaper
- Printed edges
- Bonus glossary
🏴☠️BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Fantasy Romance
REP: Black cisgender lesbian FMC, Black cisgender demisexual FLI, Aroace side character, Trans and nonbinary side characters, all queer and POC main cast
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
LENGTH: 398 pgs
🏴☠️BOOK 2 for July is Peter Darling by S.A. Chant! Peter Darling is a bold and beautifully done, touching queer retelling of Peter Pan set in a 1900s England!
🏴☠️OUR RAINBOW CRATE EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- Signed edition!
- New dust jacket with gold foiling & pearl gloss
- Illustrated case with black foiling
- Beautiful art endpapers (same front and back)
- Printed edges
- Bonus Content: Short story
🏴☠️BOOK AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Adult Urban Fantasy
REP: Queer trans male main character, Queer physically disabled cis male love interest, Queer cis male secondary character
SPICE: ★★☆☆☆
LENGTH: 216 pgs
🌈 Limited subs are open now! Start a subscription for yourself or a loved one on our website to make 2025 a year full of queer!
Theme announcements are uploaded on the 1st of each month prior!
Next announcement: the May 2026 theme reveal on April 1st! See you then!
Follow our Instagram and turn on Notifications to make sure you don't miss out on announcements! Check out all of our previous themes in our Past Theme Gallery.