Book Releases: August 2021

What do you guys think of our new layout for these posts? We do hope it’s easier to browse when books are at least roughly divided into categories! And when you have around 80 books in one place, it sure does that a while to look through them all…

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

CONTEMPORARY

🌈 Fresh by Margot Wood (bi mc, sapphic li, sapphic side characters) tw sexual assault
🌈 I Kissed a Girl by Jennet Alexander (Jewish lesbian mc, Jewish bi mc, gay side characters, sapphic trans side character) tw stalking
Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed (lesbian mc)
All Are Welcome by Liz Parker (f/f relationship)
🌈 Cheer Up! by Crystal Frasier & Val Wise (half-white Latinx trans sapphic mc, lesbian mc, f/f relationship, side nonbinary character)

🌈 Like a Love Song by Gabriela Martins (bi Jewish li, lesbian Pakistani American side character, bisexual Brazilian American side character)
🌈 Black Boy Joy ed. by Kwame Mbalia (lgbt short stories)
Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin (butch lesbian mc, Asian American sapphic li)
🌈 Everything Together by Benjamin Klas (m/m parents)
Busy Ain’t the Half of It by Frederick Smith & Chaz Lamar Cruz (m/m relationship)

You’ll Be Fine by Jen Michalski (sapphic mc, trans side character)
🌈 The Island Between Us by Wendy Hudson (f/f relationship)
🌈 Chemistry Lessons by Jae (lesbian mc, bi mc, f/f relationship, sapphic trans side character)
🌈 An Unexpected Kind of Love by Hayden Stone (m/m relationship)
🌈 Calumet by Ali Vali (f/f relationship)

🌈 Hot Days, Heated Nights by Renee Roman (f/f relationship)
🌈 The Marriage Masquerade by Toni Logan (f/f relationship)
Role Model by Rachel Reid (gay mcs, m/m relationship) tw mentions of rape, homophobia
🌈 Never Be the Same by MA Binfield (f/f relationship)
🌈 Shaken or Stirred by Georgia Beers (f/f relationship)

🌈 The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye (m/m relationship)
🌈 Kiss the Scars on the Back of my Neck by Joe Okonkwo (short stories; Black gay mcs)
🌈 The Reality of Us by Vanessa North (gay mcs, m/m relationship)
The Commitment by Virginia Hale (f/f relationship)
Out of Focus by Becky Harmon (f/f relationship)

🌈 The Origins of Iris by Beth Lewis (lesbian mc) tw abusive relationship
🌈 Both Sides Now by Peyton Thomas (trans achillean mc, gay li) tw racism, transphobia, homophobia, misgendering *
On Home by Becca Spence Dobias (sapphic mc)
🌈 For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes (trans mc)
🌈 Royal Fling by Rhys Everly (m/m relationship)

🌈 Anything But Fine by Tobias Madden (m/m relationship) (UK/US release in 2022)
Tobyn: The It Girl by Ashley Woodfolk (lesbian mc)
🌈 Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So (short stories; Cambodian cast, lgbt characters)
The Forever Place by J. C. Lillis (m/m relationship)
Julie and the Phantoms: Whatever Happens by Candace Buford (gay mc)

🌈 Looking for Trouble by Jess Lea (f/f relationship)
What We May Be by Layla Reyne (bi mcs, m/m/f polyam relationship)
🌈 Learning Curves Omnibus by Ceillie Simkiss (pan ace mc with ADHD, Puerto Rican lesbian mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 Fake It by Lily Seabrooke (sapphic trans mc, f/f relationship)
Sips of Her by Karmen Lee (lesbian mcs, f/f relationship)

FANTASY

The Wild Ones by Nafiza Azad (lesbian mcs, trans & nonbinary mcs) tw misogyny, child endangerment, abandonment, abduction, human trafficking, prostitution, abuse (physical, mental, emotional, verbal, sexual), rape (mention), infidelity, bullying (mention), suicide (mention), death (mention), grief, victim’s guilt, blood, violence
Edie in Between by Laura Sibson (f/f relationship)
🌈 The Sisters of Reckoning by Charlotte Nicole Davis (f/f relationship)
🌈 The Fruit by Na’amen Gobert Tilahun (gay mc, m/m relationship, lesbian, bi, trans, nonbinary characters)
After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang (gay Chinese mc with chronic illness, gay Afro-Chinese American mc, m/m relationship)

Burly Tales ed. by Steve Berman (short stories; m/m relationships)
Walk Between Worlds by Samara Breger (f/f relationship)
🌈 In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu (nonbinary characters) tw on-page suicide, mention of a suicide attempt, self-harm, body mutilations
Forestborn by Elayne Audrey Becker (m/m relationship)
The Witch Haven by Sasha Peyton Smith (side sapphic character)

The Devil Makes Three by Tori Bovalino (side f/f relationship)
🌈 Windfall by Shawna Barnett (bi mcs) tw attempted rape, domestic abuse, torture
🌈 Guardian by Jen Lawrence (f/f relationship)

HISTORICAL

The Perfume Thief by Timothy Schaffert (sapphic mc)
🌈 The Breath Between Waves by Charlotte Anne Hamilton (f/f relationship)
🌈 The Fiend in the Fog by Jess Faraday (f/f relationship)
🌈 Her Countess to Cherish by Jane Walsh (bigender mc, f/nb relationship)
Child in the Valley by Gordy Sauer (achillean mc)

Children of the Sun by Max Schaefer (gay mc; reprint)
The Fog of War by A. L. Lester (f/f relationship)

MYSTERY/THRILLER

🌈 A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee (lesbian mc & li)
🌈 Death Foretold by David S. Pederson (m/m relationship)
Once Upon a Crime by Robin Stevens (lesbian mc)
🌈 Blood Work by Josie Jaffrey (m/m relationship)
Talented Amateur by Maryn Scott (f/f relationship)

PARANORMAL/HORROR

🌈 The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould (lesbian mcs, f/f relationship, bi Latino mc, gay mc) tw murder, homophobia, homophobic violence, attempted drowning, child death
🌈 Quiet Village by Eden Darry (f/f relationship)
Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper (lesbian mcs)

SCI FI

🌈 Foxhunt by Rem Wigmore (bi mc, trans characters)
🌈 The Second Rebel by Linden A. Lewis (pan nonbinary mc, gay ace mc, bi mc)
The Devil You Know by Kit Rocha (bi mc)
The Left Hand of Dog by Si Clarke (aroace agender mc)

NONFICTION

🌈 Oh, What a Lovely Century by Roderic Fenwick Owen (memoir)
🌈 All In by Billie Jean King (memoir)
🌈 Center, Center by James Whiteside (memoir)
🌈 Missed Connections by Brian Francis (memoir)
Karol Radziszewski: The Power of Secrets by Michał Grzegorzek (nonfiction)

Intimate States ed. by Margot Canaday, Nancy F. Cott & Robert O. Self (essays)
Peculiar Places by Ryan Lee Cartwright (nonfiction)
Long Term ed. by Scott Herring & Lee Wallace (essays)

POETRY

🌈 Watering the Soul by Courtney Peppernell (poetry)

* Please note that since this was posted, it has come to our attention that the book in question contains uncontested racism (e.g. having a South Asian character use the n-word without being called out, prioritising (white) transness above discussing the issues of racism that arise in the plot) and antisemitism (e.g. having the main antagonist be a rich Jewish girl who is often described as manly and hairy).

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