Book Releases: May 2021

There are over 100 LGBT releases in May. And that’s just those we currently know about. So, aiming to keep this intro short and sweet, let’s dive straight in!

As ever, you can find all our previous releases posts here and the rainbow emoji indicates an author who id’s as LGBT.

Dream Dungeon by Eli Wray (nb/nb 🌈) – 1
The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak by Grace Lau (poetry 🌈) – 1
Every Time We Meet by A. M. Leibowitz (f/f) – 1
Burning the Night by Glen Huser (gay mc) – 1
First by Arleen Paré (poetry 🌈) – 1

Silent Knight by Layla Reyne (m/m) – 3
When You Get the Chance by Tom Ryan & Robin Stevenson (gay mc, queer mc 🌈) – 4
Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee (Afro-Puerto Rican, Japanese American trans bi mc, gay li, Cuban nonbinary ace character with anxiety, Cuban lesbian character 🌈) – 4
Films of Endearment by Michael Koresky (memoir 🌈) – 4
All Kinds of Other by James Sie (trans gay mc, gay mc 🌈) – 4

Indivisible by Daniel Aleman (Mexican-American mlm mc 🌈) – 4
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon (wlw mc 🌈) – 4
Touching Creatures, Touching Spirits by Judy Grahn (essays 🌈) – 4
Any Place But Here by Sarah Van Name (bi mc, lesbian & bi side characters) – 4
The Renunciations by Donika Kelly (poetry 🌈) – 4

The Essential June Jordan ed. by Jan Heller Levi and Christoph Keller (poetry 🌈) – 4
The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel (memoir 🌈) – 4
Everybody by Olivia Laing (essays 🌈) – 4
It Had to Be You by Georgia Clark (m/m 🌈) – 4
Judgement Day by Josie Jaffrey (f/f) – 6

Heretics by V. S. Holmes (lesbian mcs) – 8
Insatiable by Rhys Everly (m/m 🌈) – 10
Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (sapphic mc, nonbinary li) – 11
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (f/f) – 11
We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker (f/f 🌈) – 11

Incredible Doom by Matt Bogart & Jesse Holden (lgbt cast; cw child abuse) – 11
The House of Always by Jenn Lyons (bi mc, side f/f) – 11
Thanks a Lot, Universe by Chad Lucas (gay mc) – 11
Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler (Russian Jewish bi mc, Syrian Jewish wlw character 🌈) – 11
The Other Side of Perfect by Mariko Turk (side m/m) – 11

Baby & Solo by Lisabeth Posthuma (mlm mc) – 11
Black Water Sister by Zen Cho (Malaysian lesbian mc) – 11
Before. After. Always. by Morgan Lee Miller (f/f 🌈) – 11
Erebus Dawning by A.J. Super (lgbt characters) – 11
Bet the Farm by Fiona Riley (f/f 🌈) – 11

Cowgirl by Nance Sparks (f/f 🌈) – 11
Give in to Me by Elle Spencer (f/f 🌈) – 11
Hidden Dreams by Shelley Thrasher (f/f 🌈) – 11
Unrivaled by Radclyffe (f/f 🌈) – 11
Origins by Jen Jensen (f/f 🌈) – 11

A Woman to Treasure by Ali Vali (f/f 🌈) – 11
In the Spotlight by Lesley Davis (f/f 🌈) – 11
War of Dragons by Jessica Cluess (lesbian character) – 11
Prize Money by Celeste Castro (f/f 🌈) – 11
Reflections from Both Sides of the Glass Ceiling by Stephanie Battaglino (memoir 🌈) – 11

How to Feed a Horse by Janice Dewey (poetry 🌈) – 11
Stone Fruit by Lee Lai (sapphic mcs) – 11
The Anatomy of Desire by L. R. Dorn (bi mc) – 11
Arcadia by Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam, trans. by Ruth Diver (nonbinary intersex mc) – 11
Hillbilly Queer by J.R. Jamison (memoir 🌈) – 11

Heartstopper: Volume Four by Alice Oseman (gay mc, bi mc, wlw & trans characters 🌈) – 13
Blackheart Knights by Laure Eve (sapphic mc, nonbinary side characters 🌈) – 13
One Weekend in Aspen by Jaime Clevenger (f/f 🌈) – 15
Queer Between the Covers ed. by Leila Kassir & Richard Espley (nonfiction 🌈) – 15
All the Rage: A Partial Memoir in Two Acts and a Prologue by Brad Fraser (memoir 🌈) – 18

A Door Behind a Door by Yelena Moskovich (lesbian mc) – 18
Love’s No Joke by Cheri Ritz (f/f 🌈) – 18
Pas de deux by E. J. Noyes (f/f 🌈) – 18
Fence: Disarmed by Sarah Rees Brennan (m/m) – 18
It Goes Like This by Miel Moreland (f/f, lesbian mc & li, bi character, nonbinary character 🌈) – 18

May the Best Man Win by Z.R. Ellor (trans gay mc, m/m 🌈) – 18
Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan (lesbian mc, bi li 🌈) – 18
Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater (gay mc, bi li) – 18
In the Ravenous Dark by A.M. Strickland (pan mc, lesbian li, ace nonbinary side character, polyamory 🌈) – 18
Off the Record by Camryn Garrett (Black bi mc; cw sexual abuse, sexual harrassment, sexual assault) – 18

Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman (nonfiction) – 18
The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams by Jonathan Ned Katz (nonfiction) – 18
Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall (bi mc 🌈) – 18
The Lights of Prague by Nicole Jarvis (bi mc, gay & lesbian characters 🌈) – 18
Edge of the Woods by Jules Robin Kelley (bi mcs 🌈) – 18

Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica (lesbian character) – 18
Darryl by Jackie Ess (mlm mc, trans character) – 18
Sage and King by Molly Ringle (m/m) – 18
Embodied ed. by Wendy Chin-Tanner & Tyler Chin-Tanner (poetry & comics anthology; trans & sapphic characters 🌈) – 18
The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend Is My Girlfriend by Maddy Court, Illustrated by Kelsey Wroten (nonfiction 🌈) – 18

Twilight Man by Liz Brown (nonfiction)
The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley (m/m; cw for rape, murder, blood, violence, guns) – 20
Fat and Queer ed. by Bruce Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales and Tiff Joshua Ferentini (lgbt cast 🌈) – 21
Burn It All Down by Nicolas DiDomizio (gay mc 🌈) – 25
The Boi of Feather and Steel by Adan Jerreat-Poole (nonbinary mc 🌈) – 25

Misogynoir Transformed by Moya Bailey (nonfiction 🌈) – 25
Hard Sell by Hudson Lin (m/m 🌈) – 25
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar (sapphic Indian-Bengali mc, bi Bangladeshi-Bengali Muslim mc 🌈) – 25
Not My Problem by Ciara Smyth (lesbian mc 🌈) – 25
Pumpkin by Julie Murphy (gay mc, wlw mc) – 25

Tools of a Thief by D. Hale Rambo (sapphic mc) – 25
How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby (sapphic mc with depression and anxiety, nonbinary li, side sapphic couple 🌈; cw panic attacks) – 25
How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole (Black sapphic mcs 🌈) – 25
All Fired Up by Jenn Burke (m/m) – 25
Hard Reboot by Django Wexler (f/f) – 25

Aetherbound by E. K. Johnston (queer mc, trans character) – 25
Playing the Palace by Paul Rudnick (m/m 🌈) – 25
Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea by Ashley Herring Blake (wlw parents 🌈) – 25
What Are Your Words? by Katherine Locke & Anne Passchier (genderqueer mc) – 25
Day for Night by Jean McNeil (bi mc) – 25

Hang the Moon by Alexandria Bellefleur (bi mc, m/f 🌈) – 25
The Guncle by Steven Rowley (gay mc 🌈) – 25
After Francesco by Brian Malloy (gay mc 🌈) – 25
The Ivies by Alexa Donne (sapphic character) – 25
Coming Home by Rebecca J. Caffery (gay mc, pan mc, m/m 🌈) – 25

The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain (gay mc) – 27
The Lost Mage by Ben Alderson (m/m 🌈) – 29
Queer Media in China by Hongwei Bao (nonfiction) – 31

What are you most looking forward to?