The Queen of Tuesday is a book by American author Darin Strauss, published in August 2020.

It has been a critical and commercial success, with positive reviews in newspapers and radio and television broadcasts across the country.

Strauss writes a hybrid of family memoir, biography, and fiction, as he tells the story of Lucille Ball, as she gained fame through her television show, I Love Lucy, and finds solace from her husband's infidelity via a love affair with Isidore Strauss, the author's grandfather.

In 1949, at a party on Coney Island thrown by Fred Trump Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz have to convince a skeptical CBS to greenlight a television show starring a red-headed caucasian woman and a man from Cuba.

Writing in The New York Times, Elisabeth Egan called the book "a delight", and included it in its beach reading list.