Way back last December, we made a post of one book each we were excited for for every month from January to June (which you can find here). It’s now the end of June, we’re halfway through the year, and so here’s part two of that. One book from each of us for every month until the end of the year.
You have no idea how hard this was to do. Just one book? When there are so many amazing releases still to come? But we had to limit it that much because, like we said in the last post, there’s just so many exciting releases coming (no, really, on the year, our list is touching FOUR HUNDRED BOOKS).
As ever, we will be doing posts of releases per month, but here are twelve (very gay) books we just can’t wait for!
July
Charlotte
This is How You Lose the Time War
Amal el-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Release date: 16th July
Goodreads
Rep: wlw mcs
Genre & tropes: hate to love
Anna
Shatter the Sky
Rebecca Kim Wells
Release date: 30th July
Goodreads
Rep: bi mc, wlw relationship
Genre & tropes: fantasy, saving a loved one
August
Charlotte
These Divided Shores
Sara Raasch
Release date: 27th August
Goodreads
Rep: mlm relationship
Genre & tropes: fantasy
Anna
The Black Flamingo
Dean Atta
Release date: 8th August
Goodreads
Rep: gay, mixed-race mc (ownvoices)
Genre & tropes: novel in verse, coming of age
September
Charlotte
Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
Release date: 10th September
Goodreads
Rep: wlw relationship
Genre & tropes: fantasy
Anna
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
Junauda Petrus
Release date: 17th September
Goodreads
Rep: Black wlw mcs (ownvoices), mc with a serious illness
Genre & tropes: contemporary, romance
October
Charlotte
The Athena Protocol
Shamim Sarif
Release date: 8th October
Goodreads
Rep: lesbian mc (ownvoices)
Genre & tropes: mystery
Anna
Orpheus Girl
Brynne Rebele-Henry
Release date: 8th October
Goodreads
Rep: lesbian mcs (ownvoices), trans side character, gay side character
Genre & tropes: contemporary, coming of age, romance
November
Charlotte
The Impossible Contract
K. A. Doore
Release date: 12th November
Goodreads
Rep: wlw relationship
Genre & tropes: fantasy
Anna
Feed
Tommy Pico
Release date: 5th November
Goodreads
Rep: gay Native American author
Genre & tropes: poetry
December
Charlotte
The Kill Club
Wendy Heard
Release date: 17th December
Goodreads
Rep: wlw mc
Genre & tropes: mystery
Anna
Down Among the Dead
K. B. Wagers
Release date: 3rd December
Goodreads
Rep: wlw mc
Genre & tropes: science fiction
What are some of the ones you can’t wait to read?
Are any of them on our list?
