Best gay thriller books

We found 17 thriller books written by queer authors that feature LGBTQ+ protagonists to celebrate PRIDE—and to fill your TBR list with queer books to read all year long.

When you're looking to get lost in a book, sometimes you need your reading material to match your mood. With Marie Claire' s series " Buy the Book ," we do the heavy lifting for you. We're offering curated, highly specific recommendations for whatever you're looking for—whether you're in your feels or hooked on a subgenre trending on BookTok.

These LGBTQ thrillers are perfect for staying up past your bedtime glued to a book: they're compelling, twisty, and gloriously queer.

This year also brings many works from trans authors who are using the tropes of psychological thrillers and horror fiction to explore the meaning of otherness and reclaim space at the center of the narrative. Another great merger of legal mystery and psychological thriller. Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt Tor Nightfire, February

Discover the top 10 must-read best gay thriller books! From obscure novels to modern bestsellers, these books offer a powerful and diverse representation of the queer experience.

In the past few years, books written by and about queer characters have become more visible to the general reading public. Gradually, straight, cisgender readers are discovering the pleasure of reading books by authors whose identities are different from their own. This is true in the mystery and thriller reading world as well.

Favorite Gay Thrillers How to describe the list? A mystery, a suspense, an adventure, a sci-fi, a paranormal, action with that extra bit of danger, fear, maybe on the darker side. That little extra psychological manipuation that makes your heart race, makes you hold your breath and gasp, makes you sit on the edge of your seat and bite your nails.

So, it was with a heart full of excitement and a mind open to the myriad hues of queer experience that I plunged into the world of the best gay thriller books. But why stop at thrillers? Or the sapphic fantasy books , where queer women traverse fantastical realms, their journeys a mesmerizing blend of magic and reality.