Original research

Queer romance reader-fit research

This hub publishes documented aggregate audits of the evidence behind Queer Romance Books. Each study includes the question, frozen observation date, method, limitations, correction route and downloadable data.

2026 reader-fit evidence index

The first study asks a deliberately narrow question: how much of the current book-profile corpus can support a trustworthy same-lane next-book comparison under a strict two-meaningful-trait rule?

Read the 2026 study and method

What this research does not claim

These audits describe this site’s selected evidence corpus. They do not rank books, represent every queer romance reader, or turn missing information into a negative judgment.

Update and correction policy

The index is scheduled for annual review, or after a material evidence-graph expansion. Corrections include a dated explanation and a regenerated dataset version.