Most Anticipated 2021 Releases: January to June

It’s a busy start to 2021 for this blog, what with our favourite books and tv/film/other media of 2020 posts, but now we come to the exciting stuff. Our 12 most anticipated releases of January to June 2021. There are, obviously, a vast number of books we couldn’t include here, so this is not the be all and end all of everything we’re excited about.

This year we are also going to do our best to actually read every book that we select in these two posts (instead of deciding to try it in September, leaving Anna with a near impossible task).

Also an important note from Anna: there are books I was able to choose as my most anticipated because I haven’t read them yet, because unlike Charlotte I’m a little baby forever stuck in a reading slump and I don’t read ARCs we’re granted on time.

Related: Twitter’s anticipated releases in 2021.

January

Charlotte

Persephone Station
Stina Leicht
Release date: 5th January
Goodreads
Rep: nonbinary and sapphic mcs
Genre & tropes: science fiction

Anna

Night Tide
Anna Burke
Release date: 26th January
Goodreads
Rep: bi mc, lesbian mc with MS, lesbian & bi side characters
Genre & tropes: contemporary, romance, hate to love

February

Charlotte

The Boy from the Mish
Gary Lonesborough
Release date: 2nd February
Goodreads
Rep: Indigenous Australian gay mc
Genre & tropes: contemporary

Anna

A Dark and Hollow Star
Ashley Shuttleworth
Release date: 23rd February
Goodreads
Rep: f/f relationship, m/m relationship, trans, nonbinary & genderqueer characters
Genre & tropes: fantasy, fae, found family

March

Charlotte

Knit, Purl, a Baby and a Girl
Hettie Bell
Release date: 30th March
Goodreads
Rep: bi mc, wlw relationship
Genre & tropes: contemporary, romance

Anna

The Unbroken
C.L. Clark
Release date: 23rd March
Goodreads
Rep: Black lesbian mc, bi mc with physical disability due to injury, Black side characters, wlw side characters, mlm side character, nonbinary side character
Genre & tropes: fantasy, mother-daughter relationsip, princess & her soldier

April

Charlotte

Aru Shah and the City of Gold
Roshani Chokshi
Release date: 6th April
Goodreads
Rep: bi character
Genre & tropes: middle grade, fantasy, mythology

Anna

These Feathered Flames
Alexandra Overy
Release date: 20th April
Goodreads
Rep: lesbian mc & li
Genre & tropes: fantasy, slavic vibes

May

Charlotte

Black Water Sister
Zen Cho
Release date: 11th May
Goodreads
Rep: Malaysian lesbian mc
Genre & tropes: paranormal

Anna

Thanks a Lot, Universe
Chad Lucas
Release date: 11th May
Goodreads
Rep: gay mc
Genre & tropes: middle grade, contemporary

June

Charlotte

The Chosen and the Beautiful
Nghi Vo
Release date: 1st June
Goodreads
Rep: Asian sapphic mc
Genre & tropes: historical fantasy, Gatsby retelling

Anna

The Witch King
H. E. Edgmon
Release date: 1st June
Goodreads
Rep: trans gay mc, mlm li
Genre & tropes: fantasy, fae, witches, arranged marriage

It was all but impossible to stick to only six books, but we managed it eventually! Are any of your most anticipated releases on here?

Don’t forget to check back each month for the news of all LGBT books coming out!

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