15 New Queer Romances of 2025 to Read & Swoon Over All Year Long
We’re reading queer books throughout the year, but while it’s Pride Month, why not showcase the plentiful offerings of queer romances out this year?
Whether you’re looking for a fake dating scheme, a historical love that ups the stakes, a destination romance that journeys across Portugal’s Camino de Santiago, or a YA offering about embracing spontaneity, we’ve got all your Pride romance needs covered.
Scroll down to see 15 of Swooon’s favorite queer romance books that have been released in 2025.
I Think They Love You
Julian Winters
Denz Carter has put love on the back burner in order to become the next best successor to 24 Carter Gold, his family’s multimillion-dollar company. When his father announces his retirement, Denz’s string of hookups has his family thinking commitment isn’t exactly a priority for him. When Denz’s ex Braylon reappears in his life, and Denz is in desperate need of a fake boyfriend to show his family just how committed he can be, the pair’s bogus relationship starts bleeding into both of their real lives.
The Relationship Mechanic
Karmen Lee
In the second installment of the Peach Blossom series, car mechanic Vini would love to be in love, but when that love comes in the form of Jessica, a city girl only in town for a short stay, Vini has hesitations on falling too deep for someone who won’t stick around. Jessica hasn’t caught feelings in a long time, but the sight of Vini rescuing her from her broken down car on the side of the road reminds her that love could still be on the table…if only Vini would open up and trust her.
The Broprosal
Sonora Reyes
Everyone has always thought best friends Han and Kenny were meant to be together, and the two are finally getting married, except it’s under dire circumstances. Han loses the job that would’ve given him a visa, and Kenny refuses to lose his best friend. So the two are getting ready to walk down the aisle to save their friendship, but something else may be born of their hopeful scheme, too.
A Gentleman’s Gentleman
TJ Alexander
Lord Christopher Eden, a trans man who lives his life in the privacy of his estate, has received some shocking news. If he plans to keep his estate and title, he has been ordered to find a wife, a problem since he has no interest in women. With the beginning of the London season, Christopher hires James Harding, a valet who will take him to the plentiful social events crowding his calendar. When Christopher realizes he only looks forward to the ride to and from said events, the challenge of marriage to someone else starts feeling impossible.
My Best Friend’s Honeymoon
Meryl Wilsner
Unfortunately for Elsie Hoffman, by the time she realizes she doesn’t want to marry her longtime boyfriend, it’s when he’s already down on his knee, ring in hand. With the fallout from the breakup, Elsie just needs an escape and begs her nonbinary best friend Ginny to go with her on the nonrefundable honeymoon trip her ex gifts to her in the breakup. Ginny, recognizing Elsie’s inability to really ask for what she wants, makes her a deal: On this trip Ginny will do anything Elsie wants, so long as she asks for it. What starts as silly pranks soon escalates to sensual dares, taking the best friends over the edge of their friendship and hurtling into something new (and kinky) altogether. But can a relationship started on vacation survive the reality waiting for them back home?
When the Tides Held the Moon
Vanessa Vida Kelley
Set in 1910 New York, Benny Caldera’s dreams of abandoning his post as a blacksmith and becoming a full artist, and gains the opportunity when his iron tank garners the attention of a sideshow commissioner who invites Benny to join the cast. The star of the sideshow, trapped in Benny’s tank, is merman Río, who Benny comes to find himself growing fond of. But can what they have truly be love if Río lives captive in a world Benny himself built? And is Benny willing to lose it all, even Río, to prove his love?
If We Were a Movie
Zakiya N. Jamal
Rochelle Coleman knows her future is bright. She’s looking forward to college and doing everything she can to bolster her resume with unique extracurriculars, which is why she applied for a job at Horizon Cinema, the local Black-owned theater on Long Island. Only Rochelle didn’t realize that her arch nemesis and former friend Amira works there, too, making Rochelle Amira’s new charge. Their animosity becomes low priority when the workers learn that Horizon Cinema is under threat of closing. Amira and Rochelle put their past aside to save the theater and might just save their relationship along the way.
Futbolista
Jonny Garza Villa
College futbolista goalkeeper Gabi has big plans to become one of the greatest players of all time, but there is a secret weighing him down. One that can’t be ignored when he starts getting tutored by kind and patient classmate Vale, who Gabi once kissed and tries not to think about. As their tutoring lends itself to a blossoming friendship, Gabi fears that what he’s always known about himself—that he is bisexual—could be the one thing that will keep his futbolista dreams from coming true. Gabi will have to weigh two damning choices: Finally be honest about who he is and risk his career, or stay silent and lose his first opportunity to fall in love?
Solo Stan
Talia Tucker
New York City makes for the perfect backdrop of Talia Tucker’s sophomore YA rom-com. Even when all his friends ditch him, all teen Kai wants is to see his favorite band play. When the show is canceled, the band makes a more interesting offer: Anyone willing to participate in a city-wide scavenger hunt and make it to the end will gain access to a secret concert. If he wants to make it to this new show, he can’t do it alone, so Kai teams up with fellow solo concertgoer Elias to work their way across the city. Over the course of the day, the boys learn to work together, slowly forming a friendship, and if they’re willing to truly be vulnerable with one another, possibly something more.
Kiss Me, Maybe
Gabriella Gamez
Twenty-seven-year old Angela Gutierrez has never been kissed, and now her family, who has always assumed she was straight, is hounding her about getting into a relationship. Angela has the perfect idea: create an online scavenger hunt with a kiss with Angela waiting at the end. But she’ll need some help, and bartender Krystal doesn’t mind offering a hand, especially since love is off limits for her. The only problem is Angela starts realizing the only woman she wants to kiss is the one she can’t.
Dream On, Ramona Riley
Ashley Herring Blake
From the mind that brought readers Delilah Green Doesn’t Care comes a new sapphic small town romance series sure to run away with readers’ hearts. Ramona Riley’s dream of becoming a costume designer has all but died ever since she returned home to Clover Lake following a family accident. When a Hollywood movie selects her small town as the set, she knows this could be her last chance to get her dreams back on track. When the movie’s star, Dylan, Hollywood actress and wild card, asks Ramona to help her adjust to small town life, Ramona agrees. The pair slowly remembers that they share a past, and if they keep flirting with each other, potentially a future.
Love in Focus
Lyla Lee
For a romance columnist, Gemma Cho is feeling pretty pessimistic about love as of late. After getting dumped again, Gemma decides it’s time to focus on her work, and then she’s assigned a project on capturing what modern love looks like. Of course, the photographer on the project just had to be Celeste, the hot woman who dumped her and moved to South Korea without ever fully explaining what went wrong. Everything should remain professional, but the chemistry is still palpable between the collaborators who question if this reunion might just be their second chance.
And They Were Roommates
Page Powars
Valentine Academy for Boys has a new student in the recently transitioned Charlie, who has no plans of sharing his gender identity with his new peers. This plan comes to a crashing halt when Charlie is assigned a roommate who could upend everything: Jasper Grimes. He’s smooth, charming, and totally doesn’t remember breaking Charlie’s heart a year before he transitioned, and certainly doesn’t recognize him now. Jasper offers to let Charlie get what he wants, a room all to himself, if Charlie helps him with his side hustle writing love letters on behalf of other students. Working together to craft romantic letters that touch the heart and showcase vulnerability, Charlie’s got nothing to worry about…right?
Get Real, Chloe Torres
Crystal Maldonado
Crystal Maldonado takes readers on the road trip of a lifetime in this epic sapphic summer treat. Everything is changing for Chloe Torres: She’s just turned 18, she’s graduating and about to head off to art school, and her best friends Ramona and Sienna aren’t even there to help her through it all since their friendship collapsed. But Chloe is not one to give up and convinces Ramona and Sienna that the trio should reunite to see their favorite band perform one last time. And so begins the road trip that could mend a broken friendship…and rekindle the flame that broke them up in the first place.
Every Step She Takes
Alison Cochrun
Sadie Wells just admitted something to Mal, her seatmate on a plane, that she’s never even admitted to herself: She’s gay. While this confession should feel anonymous, a twist of fate brings the two back together: Sadie is joining a tour along Portugal’s Camino de Santiago…and Mal is on it, too. Even more, Sadie booked the tour not knowing it was for queer women. As the tour travels across the beautiful tropical backdrop of Portugal, Sadie realizes this is her opportunity to have all her queer firsts, and Mal offers to help Sadie on her queer journey. Vacation only lasts for so long, and as Sadie and Mal’s relationship grows deeper, their final stop could mean their last time together.
