Book Releases: June 2021

If you think that a lot more LGBT books come out during Pride than all the other months, you would be correct! And this post is a real-life proof. Took days to prepare, but here we are: 166 LGBT books out this June!

And yes, you read that right: one hundred and sixty six. Surely, you will find something for yourself here.

As always, a rainbow emoji next to the title indicates the author is part of the LGBT community – if I made any mistakes here, please do correct me. And if you need some more books, you can find all our previous monthly releases posts here.

🌈 One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (bi mc with anxiety, Chinese American lesbian li, Black sapphic character, Puerto Rican American trans character, gay Jewish character, Black gay character, Black pan character) – 1 tw past homophobic violence, off page death
🌈 The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (Vietnamese bi/pan mc, biracial Chinese bi/pan character) – 1
🌈 Sing Anyway by Anita Kelly (nb/f relationship) – 1
🌈 Dare to Live, Dare to Love by Nicole C. Moon (bi mcs, m/f relationship) – 1
🌈 Stone’s Mistake by Adrian J. Smith (f/f relationship) – 1

🌈 The Witch King by H. E. Edgmon (trans gay mc, Black mlm li, sapphic side character, nonbinary lesbian side character, bi ace side character) – 1 tw transphobia, abuse (verbal and physical), blood, gore
🌈 The Ghosts We Keep by Mason Deaver (nonbinary mc) – 1 tw child/sibling death, grief, PTSD, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, self harm & suicide ideation, misgendering
🌈 Jay’s Gay Agenda by Jason June (gay mc, Chinese American gay li, gay genderqueer character, gay character) – 1 tw vomiting
🌈 The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons (biracial Black mlm trans mc, gay li, bi character, nonbinary character) – 1
🌈 The (Un)popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez (transmasc pan bipolar mc, gay Jewish li) – 1 tw transphobia, deadnaming, misgendering

🌈 The Girl from the Sea by Molly Ostertag (lesbian mc, f/f relationship) – 1
🌈 Trouble Girls by Julia Lynn Rubin (lesbian mc, bi li) – 1 tw domestic abuse, sexual assault, past child sexual abuse
🌈 The Love Song of Ivy K. Harlowe by Hannah Moskowitz (lesbian mc, f/f relationship, lesbian characters) – 1
🌈 The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer (mlm mc & li) – 1
Better Together by Christine Riccio (wlw mc) – 1

🌈 Never Kiss Your Roommate by Philline Harms (lesbian mc, Black bi li with dyslexia, bi character, pan character, m/m relationship) – 1 tw outing, assault, kidnapping
🌈 Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (Black lesbian mc, Black gay mc) – 1
🌈 Poison Ivy: Thorns by Kody Keplinger & Sara Kipin (sapphic mc, f/f relationship) – 1
🌈 Skate for Your Life by Leo Baker (memoir) – 1
🌈 Continuum by Chella Man (memoir) – 1

🌈 Strange Creatures by Phoebe North (lgbt mcs) – 1
🌈 Confessions of a Teenage Closet Case by Alex Blades (m/m relationship) – 1
The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin (bi mc) – 1
🌈 The Lucky List by Rachael Lippincott (lesbian mc, biracial Japanese American lesbian li) – 1 tw death of a parent
The Street Belongs to Us by Karleen Pendleton Jimenez (gnc Mexican American mc) – 1

🌈 The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei, trans. Ari Larissa Heinrich (sapphic mc) – 1
🌈 Nen and the Lonely Fisherman by Ian Eagleton & James Mayhew (m/m relationship) – 1
🌈 Water Horse by Melissa Scott (bi mc) – 1
Lizzie & Dante by Mary Bly (side m/m relationship) – 1
🌈 The Pride Omnibus by Joe Glass, Cem Iroz, Héctor Barros, Jacopo Camagni & Ryan Cody (lgbt cast) – 1

A Night at the Sweet Gum Head by Martin Padgett (nonfiction) – 1
Cracking Up by Katelyn Hale Wood (nonfiction) – 1
The Case for Gay Reparations by Omar G. Encarnación (nonfiction) – 1
Buy Me Love by Martha Cooley (f/f relationship) – 1
Choosing Eleonore by Andrée A. Gratton, trans. by Ian Thomas Shaw (sapphic mc) – 1

Scarlet Dandelions: The Zither and the Sword by Fynn Chen (f/f relationship) – 1
The Nichan Smile by C. J. Merwild (lgbt characters) – 1 tw violence, death, torture, sexual abuse
🌈 Future Feeling by Joss Lake (trans mcs) – 1
Las Biuty Queens by Iván Monalisa Ojeda (lgbt cast; short stories) – 1
🌈 The 2000s Made Me Gay by Grace Perry (essays) – 1

🌈 Satisfaction Guaranteed by Karelia Stetz-Waters (f/f relationship) – 1
🌈 Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia (Black lesbian mc) – 1
🌈 With Teeth by Kristen Arnett (lesbian mc) – 1
Wendy, Darling by A.C. Wise (gay character) – 1
Tomoko Takes the Lead by Kit Rosewater & Sophie Escabasse (sapphic characters) – 1

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca (f/f relationship) – 1
Camilla by Clare M. Coombe (lesbian mc, f/f relationship, bi character) – 1
🌈 My Place at the Table by Alexander Lobrano (memoir) – 1
The Engagement: America’s Quarter Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage by Sasha Issenberg (nonfiction) – 1
House of Villadiva by Chris Andoe (nonfiction) – 3

🌈 We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights ed. by Amelia Abraham (nonfiction) – 3
🌈 All the Things She Said by Daisy Jones (memoir) – 3
🌈 Ballad of a Happy Immigrant by Leonardo Boix (poetry) – 3
Glass Coffin by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch (f/f relationship, m/m relationship) – 3
🌈 You’re The One That I Want by Simon James Green (m/m relationship) – 3

The Pirate Mums by Jodie Lancet-Grant & Lydia Corry (sapphic parents) – 3
An Experiment in Leisure by Anna Glendenning (sapphic mc) – 3
🌈 Into the Lightning Gate by Robert Roth (gay mc) – 7
Big London Dreams by Clare Lydon (f/f relationship) – 7
🌈 Cunto and Other Poems by Joelle Taylor (poetry) – 7

The Marvelous by Claire Kann (lesbian mc, bi/pan mc) – 8
🌈 Girls at the Edge of the World by Laura Brooke Robson (f/f relationship) – 8
🌈 Fire With Fire by Destiny Soria (Mexican American bi mc, mlm characters) – 8 tw torture, blood
🌈 Fifteen Hundred Miles From The Sun by Jonny Garza Villa (Mexican American gay mc, Vietnamese American gay li, bi, gay, lesbian & pan characters) – 8
Love and Other Natural Disasters by Misa Sugiura (Japanese American lesbian mc, Japanese American lesbian li, Taiwanese American lesbian li, Black bi character, Japanese American gay character, Filipino American gay character) – 8 tw homophobia, mention of parent’s death

🌈 The Sea is Salt and So Am I by Cassandra Hartt (bi male mc) – 8
Renegade Rule by Ben Kahn, Rachel Silverstein & Sam Beck (sapphic mcs) – 8
🌈 Both Can Be True by Jules Machias (genderfluid mc) – 8
🌈 Almost Flying by Jake Maia Arlow (wlw mc) – 8
How Do We Relationship?, Volume 3 by Tamifull (f/f relationship) – 8

🌈 The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (Indian inspired characters and setting, lesbian mcs) – 8 tw homophobia, gore, violence, execution by burning, forced drug use
🌈 ¡Hola Papi! by John Paul Brammer (memoir) – 8
🌈 Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi (memoir) – 8
🌈 The Passenger by Chaney Kwak (memoir) – 8
The Sacred Band by James Romm (nonfiction) – 8

🌈 The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian (m/m relationship) – 8
Skye Papers by Jamika Ajalon (bi mc, f/f relationship) – 8
🌈 Doubting Thomas by Matthew Clark Davison (gay mc) – 8 tw for paedophilia accusations
🌈 Queen of All by Anya Leigh Josephs (plus-sized neurodivergent lesbian mc, Black plus-sized li) – 8
🌈 Gentleman’s Club by N.T. Herrgott (trans mc) – 8

🌈 Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures by Ivan Coyote (nonfiction) – 8
🌈 Love is All, Vol. 4 by various authors (short stories; lgbt characters) – 8
To Write as If Already Dead by Kate Zambreno (nonfiction) – 8
Keeping Kellan by Amy Aislin (m/m relationship) – 9
🌈 Gender Euphoria ed. by Laura Kate Dale (nonfiction) – 10

🌈 Monstrous Design by Kat Dunn (bi mc, biracial lesbian mc, gay side characters) – 10
Bleeding Hearts by Ry Herman (f/f relationship) – 10
The Paper Garden by Caitlin Vance (short stories, lgbt characters) – 10
🌈 Are You This? Or Are You This?: A Story of Identity and Worth by Madian Al Jazerah & Ellen Georgiou (memoir) – 10
🌈 The Queer Bible ed. by Jack Guinness (essays) – 10

🌈 Bi The Way: Tall Tales and Lessons Learned by Aaron Myers (nonfiction) – 10
Foreign Facades by D.J. Fronimos & Elke Lakey (f/f relationship) – 11
🌈 We Will Always Be Here by Jenny Kalvaitis & Kristen Whitson 🌈 (nonfiction) – 15
Belonging: Portraits from LGBTQ Thailand by Steve McCurry (nonfiction) – 15
Dads by Bart Heynen (nonfiction) – 15

Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury (trans li, trans & lesbian side characters) – 15
Indestructible Object by Mary McCoy (bi mc, polyamory, queer/nonbinary parents) – 15
Blue Flag, Volume 8 by KAITO (bi male mc, m/m relationship, bi female mc) – 15
The Tangleroot Palace by Marjorie Liu (short stories; lesbian mc, biracial (Chinese, Scottish) wlw mc, gay mc) – 15 tw murder, death, violence, gore, blood, rape, suicidal ideation, miscarriage, dismemberment
🌈 The Hellion’s Waltz by Olivia Waite (f/f relationship, bi mcs) – 15

The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee (gay mc) – 15
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris (gay characters, m/m relationship) – 15
Saving Seymour by L. N. Loch (m/m relationship) – 15
🌈 Bath Haus by P. J. Vernon (gay mc) – 15
And Then the Gray Heaven by RE Katz (nonbinary mc) – 15

Desires After Dark by MJ Williamz (f/f relationship) – 15
Her Consigliere by Carsen Taite (f/f relationship) – 15
🌈 Measure of Devotion by CF Frizzell (f/f relationship) – 15
Not Guilty by Brit Ryder (f/f relationship) – 15
Opposites Attract by Meghan O’Brien, Aurora Rey & Angie Williams (short stories; f/f relationships) – 15

Swift Vengeance by Jean Copeland, Jackie D & Erin Zak (f/f relationship) – 15
A Turn of Fate by Ronica Black (f/f relationship) – 15
Under Her Influence by Amanda Radley (f/f relationship) – 15
Wasteland by Kristin Keppler & Allisa Bahney (f/f relationship) – 15
When in Doubt by VK Powell (f/f relationship) – 15

🌈 Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture by Aaron Lecklider (nonfiction) – 15
🌈 Disrupting Dignity by Stephen M. Engel & Timothy S. Lyle (nonfiction) – 15
Trans Medicine by Stef M. Shuster (nonfiction) – 15
🌈 Nonbinary by Genesis P-Orridge (memoir) – 15
🌈 The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc (memoir) – 15

🌈 In Our Words ed. by Victoria Villasenor & Anne Shade (anthology) – 15
Old Love by Nancy J. Hedin (f/f relationship) – 17
🌈 Swipe Right by Tagan Shepard (pan mc, f/f relationship) – 17
Bound for Ruin by Quirah Casey (m/m relationship) – 17
🌈 Save the Date ed. by Ann Roberts (short stories; f/f relationships) – 17

The Great Silence by Doug Johnstone (lesbian character) – 19
Lying with Lions by Annabel Fielding (sapphic mc) – 21
🌈 A Flight in the Heavens by Gabrielle Gagne-Cyr (sapphic mcs, f/f relationship) – 21 tw violence, dismemberment, psychopathic behaviour
🌈 Bi the Way by Lois Shearing (nonfiction) – 21
🌈 Transitions by various authors (nonfiction) – 21

🌈 Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom by Azura Tyabji & Jackson Neal (poetry) – 21
A Proximate Remove by Reginald Jackson (nonfiction) – 22
All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running by Elias Rodriques (mlm mc) – 22
Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie (Black lesbian mc) – 22
The Face Of It by Rosie Williams (f/f relationship) – 22

🌈 Darling by K. Ancrum (Russian bi ace li, lesbian side character, bi side character, mixed race (Irish & Ojibwe) bi side character, Ojibwe bi side character) – 22
Violet Ghosts by Leah Thomas (trans mc) – 22
The Papercutter by Cindy Rizzo (Jewish wlw mc) – 22
🌈 Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor (short stories; bi mcs, polyamory) – 22
The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison (gay mc) – 22

🌈 Transmutation by Alex DiFrancesco (short stories; trans characters) – 22
Star Eater by Kerstin Hall (bi mc, bi side character, sapphic side characters, gay side character) – 22 tw gore, cannibalism, violence, implied rape
🌈 Catalyst Gate by Megan O’Keefe (bi/pan mc) – 22
🌈 The Pleasure of the Text by Sami Alwani (anthology; polyamory) – 22
Rare Vigilance by M. A. Grant (m/m) – 22

🌈 Cinders of Yesterday by Jen Karner (f/f relationship) – 22
🌈 Outlove by Julie Rodgers (memoir) – 22
🌈 Antiman by Rajiv Mohabir (memoir) – 22
🌈 Bear Boy by Justin Barker (memoir) – 22
Subtle Blood by K. J. Charles (m/m relationship, bi mc) – 23

🌈 A Shock by Keith Ridgway (gay mc) – 24 (July 6th for US release)
🌈 A Length of Road by Robert Hamberger (memoir) – 24
🌈 The Way it Breaks by Polis Loizou (bi mc, bi character, gay character) – 24
The Bone Way by Holly J. Underhill (f/f relationship) – 26
🌈 Storm Bound by Rhys Everly (m/m relationship) – 28

A War of Swallowed Stars by Sangu Mandanna (Indian-coded cast, sapphic mc & li) – 29
Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta (f/f relationship, Korean-coded bi mc, Korean-coded lesbian mc) – 29 tw torture, violence, blood
🌈 This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron (Black bi mc, sapphic parents) – 29
🌈 Stranger Things: Rebel Robin by A.R. Capetta (lesbian mc) – 29
Generation Misfits by Akemi Dawn Bowman (nonbinary character) – 29

Warn Me When It’s Time by Cheryl A. Head (f/f relationship) – 29
Bone House by K-Ming Chang (wlw mc) – 29
Damaged Like Me by Kimberly Dark (essays) – 29
🌈 How We Do Family by Trystan Reese (memoir) – 29
The Queer Nuyorican by Karen Jaime (nonfiction) – 29
Tales of Idolized Boys by Sachi Schmidt-Hori (nonfiction) – 30

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