The Big Gay Book Club
Episodes
Episode 32 - Carry On
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month your hosts, Amy and Chris, read Carry On by Rainbow Rowell, the first book in the Simon Snow series, which follows the adventures of a magi...
Episode 31 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month your hosts, Amy and Chris, readThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. In this salacious historical fiction that dramatiz...
Episode 30 - A Botanical Daughter
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month your hosts, Amy and Chris, read A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock. In this sumptuously floral tale of two men’s pursuit of love - whet...
Episode 29 - Bury Your Gays
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month, your hosts, Amy and Chris, read Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle. Their Season 3 premiere is packed full of everything this time of year has...
Episode 28 - Season Two Superlatives!
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SPOILERS galore in this bonus season two episode all about superlatives. Our hosts, Chris and Amy, discuss all their favorite moments from the novels ...
Episode 27 - In Other Lands
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month our hosts, Amy and Chris, read In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan. Their Season 2 finale (wow!) promises to be a hoot. This was a book Am...
Episode 26 - This Is My Body
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month our hosts, Chris and Amy, read This Is My Body, podcast alum Lindsay King-Miller’s sophomore novel that Chris has affectionately deemed a...
Episode 25 - All Systems Red
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this special bonus Pride Month episode, our hosts, Chris and Amy, read All Systems Red, the first book in The Murderbot Diaries. Murderbot may not ...
Episode 24.5 - Interview with Natalie Naudus
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this special supplementary episode, our hosts Chris and Amy had the wonderful opportunity to speak with Natalie Naudus, author of Gay the Pray Away...
Episode 24 - Gay the Pray Away
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month our hosts, Chris and Amy, read Gay the Pray Away by Natalie Naudus, a sweet and hopeful tale about a teenage girl who, despite growing up i...
Episode 23 - Manhunt
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month our hosts, Chris and Amy, survived the harsh New England dystopian nightmare that is Manhunt, a trans-centric and unabashedly queer horror ...
Episode 22 - Owlbound By Winter's Beak
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts, Chris and Amy, are very thankful for the big gay blanket this month as they explore the frozen Wingspan Continent with Tyrus and his many f...
Episode 21 - When Haru Was Here
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts, Chris and Amy, read the hauntingly devastating When Haru Was Here this March! Admittedly, Chris picked this one up based on the cover alone...
Episode 20 - A World Worth Saving
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts, Chris and Amy, feel very lucky to have gotten to read Kyle Lukoff’s A World Worth Saving this month! This middle school grade-level read ...
Episode 19 - The Nightmare Before Kissmas
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts, Chris and Amy, have extended the holiday spirit into 2025! Come on down to Christmas City, where the snow is white and the space heaters ar...
Episode 18 - When the World Tips Over
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts, Chris and Amy, have so much to say about Jandy Nelson’s prolific third novel, When the World Tips Over, that Episode 18 has a run time of...
Episode 17 - Stars, Hide Your Fires
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts, Chris and Amy, fly away, into the stars, for this episode in which they read Jessica Mary Best’s debut novel, Stars, Hide Your Fires. Int...
Episode 16.5 - Full Shift
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts, Chris and Amy, present a special bonus Halloween episode in which they discuss Full Shift, the teen (were)wolf graphic novel written by Jen...
Episode 16 - Payback's a Witch
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts, Chris and Amy, get witchy for this month’s Halloween themed episode! They’ve read the first book in the Witches of Thistle Grove series...
Episode 15 - Somewhere Beyond the Sea
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts, Chris and Amy, welcome you back to Marsyas Island for their highly anticipated (as least for them) season two premiere! With less than a mo...
Episode 14 - Season One Superlatives
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SPOILERS galore in this one shot bonus episode all about superlatives. Our hosts, Chris and Amy, discuss all their favorite moments from the novels th...
Episode 13 - The Girl from the Sea
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts, Chris and Amy, welcome you to their season one finale. Thirteen books, fifteen episodes, one year of podcasting - it's all been leading to ...
Episode 12 - Red, White and Royal Blue
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts Alex and Henry–oops, sorry, Chris and Amy–thoroughly enjoyed the sensationally queer romance novel Red, White and Royal Blue, written by...
Episode 11.5 - Interview with Lindsay King-Miller
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus Pride Month episode, Amy and Chris had the amazing opportunity to speak with Lindsay King-Miller, the author of their June book of the m...
Episode 11 - The Z Word
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Pride Month! Our hosts, Chris and Amy, have a lot to say about The Z Word, Lindsay King-Miller’s debut horror novel about Pride and its proble...
Episode 10 - All That's Left in the World
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Would our hosts Chris and Amy survive in post apocalyptic America? Would they find love at the end of the world? What truly is the ideal date? These q...
Episode 9 - Chef's Kiss
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
April showers brought us the wonderful tempura encrusted flower that is Chef's Kiss! - written by Jarrett Melendez, illustrated by Danica Brine, color...
Episode 8 - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts Chris and Amy present their longest episode yet! This month, they've had the pleasure of reading and discussing Aristotle and Dante Discover...
Episode 7 - The Heartstopper Mega Episode
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts Chris and Amy spend nearly two hours gushing over everything Heartstopper, the mega sensation of a graphic novel series drawn and written by...
Episode 6 - Twelfth Grade Night
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts Chris and Amy read the perfectly bite-sized work of queer teen romantic fiction (possibly the best four word combination ever concocted), Tw...
Episode 5 - Kiss Her Once for Me
25 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts Chris and Amy have a lot to say about the queer and chaotic (in all the best ways) Christmas rom-com, 'Kiss Her Once for Me,' by Alison Coch...
Episode 4 - Echo
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts Chris and Amy get ~s~p~o~o~k~y~ this month as they read Echo, by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, a Dutch writer who takes inspiration from some of the ...
Episode 3 - The Spare Man
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts Chris and Amy read a very neat book by Mary Robinette Kowal about a dog, named Gimlet, in space! Oh, and there are several other cool things...
Episode 2 - Heartstopper Vol. 1 + 2
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts Chris and Amy spend one hundred minutes gushing over Alice Oseman's wonderful series, Heartstopper. No topic is off the table as they dive i...
Episode 1 - The House in the Cerulean Sea
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts Chris and Amy discuss the House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune. Be warned, because you will soon be wrapped in a big gay blanket through n...
Episode 0 - Getting to Know Your Hosts
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our hosts Chris and Amy explore everything there is to know about them and their shared love of reading and writing. How did they meet? When did their...