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Most Anticipated 2021 Releases: July to December

It’s that time of year again when we put an impossible task before ourselves: choose only one (1) book per month you’re most excited about. When we know and are waiting for dozens of them? It’s like choosing a favourite pet.

It’s a tiny bit easier because we also have a rule: neither of use is allowed to choose a book we have already read an arc of. And since we were very lucky this year with advanced copies, the pool to choose from was a tiny bit smaller. This is why you won’t see The Hollow Heart or A Marvellous Light, or Iron Widow here, to name just a few…

This is all to say that a ridiculous number of great LGBT books is being published this year, and below are six we (haven’t read yet and) are most excited about. And here’s what we were waiting for in the first half of the year!

July

Charlotte
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The River Has Teeth
Erica Waters
Release date: 20th July
Goodreads
Rep: sapphic mc & li
Genre & tropes: paranormal, mystery

Anna
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She Who Became the Sun
Shelley Parker-Chan
Release date: 20th July
Goodreads
Rep: Chinese & Mongolian coded cast, nonbinary lesbian mc, lesbian mc, gay mc, bi mc
Genre & tropes: historical, fantasy, retelling

August

Charlotte
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Edie in Between
Laura Sibson
Release date: 24th August
Goodreads
Rep: wlw relationship
Genre & tropes: fantasy, contemporary

Anna
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The Dead and the Dark
Courtney Gould
Release date: 3rd August
Goodreads
Rep: lesbian mcs
Genre & tropes: paranormal, mystery

September

Charlotte
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Obie is Man Enough
Schuyler Bailar
Release date: 7th September
Goodreads
Rep: trans mc
Genre & tropes: contemporary

Anna
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The Lost Girls
Sonia Hartl
Release date: 14th September
Goodreads
Rep: wlw relationship
Genre & tropes: paranormal fantasy, vampires, John Tucker Must Die retelling

October

Charlotte
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Jade Fire Gold
June C. L. Tan
Release date: 12th October
Goodreads
Rep: sapphic characters
Genre & tropes: fantasy

Anna

Payback’s a Witch
Lana Harper
Release date: 13th October
Goodreads
Rep: wlw relationship
Genre & tropes: fantasy, romance, witches

November

Charlotte

The Bone Shard Emperor
Andrea Stewart
Release date: 9th November
Goodreads
Rep: wlw relationship
Genre & tropes: fantasy

Anna
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Spin Me Right Round
David Valdes
Release date: 2nd November
Goodreads
Rep: mlm relationship
Genre & tropes: contemporary, time travel

December

Charlotte
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The Midnight Girls
Alicia Jasinska
Release date: 7th December
Goodreads
Rep: wlw relationship, lesbian mc, bi mc
Genre & tropes: fantasy, enemies to lovers

Anna
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Fools in Love
ed. by Rebecca Podos & Ashley Herring Blake
Release date: 7th December
Goodreads
Rep: lgbt cast
Genre & tropes: romance, short stories

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

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