Over the last year, countless powerful and important LGBT+ books have been published – and they’ve helped queer people feel seen in new and exciting ways. Queer literature has always been vital to our community – it provides a window for us to see ourselves represented and for big questions to be explored and answered. LGBT+ books have taken on a new significance since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. As queer spaces shuttered, LGBT+ people have been forced to look elsewhere to explore their identities, see themselves reflected, and to ponder over some of the big issues of our time.