Book Releases: September 2021

If you know publishing in any capacity, you probably know September is one of the biggest months in terms of output. Which means, after June (for obvious reasons), it’s the gayest month too, proven by the fact that there are over 125 books due out in this month (apologies to your wallets in advance). So, without further ado, let’s get going!

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

CONTEMPORARY

The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah-Kubi (trans mc)
Our Favorite Songs by Anita Kelly (m/m, bi/pan mc, gay mc) 🌈
My Sister Daisy by Adria Karlsson (trans mc)
Love and Lotus Blossoms by Anne Shade (f/f) 🌈
Love in the Limelight by Ashley Moore (f/f) 🌈

Suspecting Her by Mary P. Burns (f/f) 🌈
Jordan’s Kiss by Nanisi Barrett D’Arnuk (f/f; cw domestic abuse) 🌈
A Different Man by Andrew L. Huerta (m/m) 🌈
Iron Annie by Luke Cassidy (bi mc)
Sex Education: The Road Trip by Katy Birchall (Black gay character)

Tell Me Anything by Skye Kilaen (bi mcs, m/f; cw outing-related blackmail) 🌈
Act Cool by Tobly McSmith (trans mc) 🌈
The Night When No One Had Sex by Kalena Miller (f/f) 🌈
Obie is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar (trans mc) 🌈
The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun (m/m, Indian American gay mc with depression, gay mc with generalised anxiety disorder, OCD & a panic disorder, Chinese American bi side character, lesbian side character, Black ace bi side character with anxiety, gay side character, Muslim pan side character, Black bi side character) 🌈

How to Wrestle a Girl by Venita Blackburn (lgbt cast) 🌈
La chica de hielo by Andrea Tomé (bi mc) 🌈
Two Winters by Lauren Emily Whalen (f/f, bi mcs, sapphic side characters)
Before We Were Blue by E.J. Schwartz (Jewish sapphic mc with an eating disorder, sapphic li with an eating disorder; cw eating disorder)
Early One Morning by Lawrence Schimel (lgbt family)

Beginner’s Bet by Fiona Riley (f/f) 🌈
I Wished by Dennis Cooper (gay mc) 🌈
Dangerous Without You by Lexus Grey (f/f) 🌈
He Gets That From Me by Jacqueline Friedland (side m/m)
Higher by Roz Alexander (f/f, Jewish butch lesbian mcs) 🌈

Calculated Risk by Katherine Rupley (f/f)
Things We Couldn’t Say by Jay Coles (Black bi mc, bi li, m/m, sapphic side characters; cw racism, racial profiling, religious homophobia, parental abuse (verbal, emotional)) 🌈
Sidelined by Kara Bietz (m/m)
Would You Like to be a Family? by Koyama (m/m)
A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett (trans mcs) 🌈

Better to Trust by Heather Frimmer (sapphic mc)
Mechanics of Love by Meka James (f/f, bi mc)
The Lights on Knockbridge Lane by Roan Parrish (m/m)
Stars in Their Eyes by Jessica Walton & Aśka (sapphic amputee mc, nonbinary li) 🌈
Sailor Proof by Annabeth Albert (m/m) 🌈

MENAFTER10 by Casey Hamilton (Black gay mc) 🌈
Ciel in All Directions by Sophie Labelle, trans. by Andrea Zanin (nonbinary trans mc) 🌈
A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria (bi mcs, m/f, trans side character)

FANTASY

The Flames of Albiyon by Jean Z. Menzies (f/f)
Lord of Eternal Night by Ben Alderson (m/m) 🌈
Among Thieves by M. J. Kuhn (f/f, sapphic mc, lesbian mc)
No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull (bi mc, sapphic mc, bi ace trans mc, nonbinary side character)
Witch, Please! by Ann Aguirre (bi mc)

Witch Rising by Paige McKenzie & Nancy Ohlin (sapphic mc, Black trans mc, sapphic biracial (Black, white) mc, sapphic Latina mc) 🌈
A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell (fat bi mc, pan nonbinary side character, trans side character, ace side characters) 🌈
The Hollow Heart by Marie Rutkoski (f/f, lesbian mc, nonbinary lesbian mc, gay side character) 🌈
Passion Marked by Ophelia Silk (lesbian mc, bi demiwoman mc) 🌈
Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows (pan mc, ace mc)

The Bronzed Beasts by Roshani Chokshi (Filipino-Spanish bi mc, Haitian-French achillean mc)
Monstress, Vol. 6: The Vow by Marjorie M. Liu & Sana Takeda (sapphic amputee mc, sapphic characters)
Into the Dying Light by Katy Rose Pool (m/m)
Beasts and Beauty by Soman Chainani (gay mcs) 🌈
The Other Merlin by Robyn Schneider (bi mc) 🌈

The Insiders by Mark Oshiro (gay mc) 🌈
City of Thieves by Alex London (nonbinary character) 🌈
Under the Whispering Door by T. J. Klune (bi mc, Black gay li, achillean side characters) 🌈
Traitors of the Black Crown by Cate Pearce (f/f, bi mc, lesbian mc) 🌈
Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchinson (m/m, gay mc, achillean mc, sapphic side characters 🌈

Some Faraway Place by Lauren Shippen (sapphic mc & li; cw adult-minor relationship)
Dark Rise by C. S. Pacat (bi mc)
Wake of the Phoenix by Chelsea Harper (m/m)
Sisters of Shadow by Katherine Livesey (sapphic mc) 🌈
The Symmetry of Stars by Alex Myers (lgbt characters)

HISTORICAL

Late City Summer by Jeanette Bears (f/f) 🌈
The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist by Ceinwen Langley (f/f) 🌈
A Clash of Steel by C. B. Lee (f/f) 🌈
Eighty Days by A. C. Esguerra (m/m) 🌈
The Magician by Colm Tóibín (gay mc) 🌈

Peter Cabot Gets Lost by Cat Sebastian (m/m) 🌈
The Spectacular by Zoe Whittall (bi mc, trans li, f/m, lgbt side characters)
Between His Lover and the Deep Blue Sea by Merry Farmer (m/m)
The Pursued and the Pursuing by AJ Odasso (m/m, sapphic character) 🌈
Hugh by David Lawrence (gay mc)
The Piano Room by Clio Velentza (gay mc) 🌈

MYSTERY

All That Remains by Sheri Lewis Wohl (f/f) 🌈
The Movie-Town Murders by Josh Lanyon (m/m, gay mcs)
Major Detours by Zachary Sergi (m/m) 🌈
The Final Child by Fran Dorricott (f/f, lesbian mcs) 🌈
Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks (queer trans mc) 🌈

The Convincing Hour by Ann Roberts (f/f)
The Body on the Bed by Leonard Krishtalka (sapphic mc)
The Heron’s Cry by Ann Cleeves (gay mc)
Chain Reaction by Cara Malone (f/f) 🌈

PARANORMAL/HORROR

Baby Teeth by Meg Grehan (f/f)
The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh (bi mc) 🌈
A Touch of Ruckus by Ash Van Otterloo (sapphic mc, nonbinary li)
The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl (f/f, bi mc)
To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames (f/f, lesbian mc, bi li; cw animal death, death of a parent, gore)

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (m/m; cw suicide) 🌈
Suture by Nic Brewer (lesbian mc; cw gore) 🌈

SCI FI

Where Machines Redeem the Lost by Benjanun Sriduangkaew (f/f) 🌈
In the Deep by Kelly Jennings (bi mcs, polyamory)
The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw (sapphic mcs, nonbinary mc, genderfluid mc)
Oaths of Legacy by Emily Skrutskie (m/m)
The Actual Star by Monica Byrne (nonbinary worldbuilding)

First Light by Casey E. Berger (sapphic mc)
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Chinese-coded cast, bi mcs, polyamory; cw gore, murder, torture, mentions of rape, threats of rape, misogyny, femicide, suicide ideation, abuse, alcohol addiction) 🌈
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (sapphic trans mc) 🌈
Activation Degradation by Marina J. Lostetter (m/m, bi character)
The Kindly Ones by Cliff James (m/m) 🌈

The Horizon by Gautam Bhatia (m/m)
Home Within Skin by Jem Zero (m/m, disabled bi trans mc) 🌈

NONFICTION

The Family Way by Christopher DiRaddo 🌈
The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice by Shon Faye 🌈
One Life: Young Readers’ Edition by Megan Rapinoe 🌈
We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson 🌈
Other Boys by Damian Alexander 🌈

Allies: Real Talk About Showing Up, Screwing Up, and Trying Again ed. by Shakirah Bourne & Dana Alison Levy 🌈
The Emphatically Queer Career of Artist Perkins Harnly and His Bohemian Friends by Sarah Burns
Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures by Adam Zmith 🌈
The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation by Leslie Cohen 🌈
Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, and Genderqueer Youth by Ritch C. Savin-Williams (nb. reviews suggest this book contains not entirely accurate information)

POETRY

Why I Was Late by Charlie Petch 🌈
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson 🌈
Amanda Paradise by C. A. Conrad 🌈
Tenderness by Derrick Austin 🌈
Brocken Spectre by Jacques J. Rancourt 🌈

Passion by June Jordan (reprint) 🌈
A Quilt for David by Steven Reigns 🌈
Umbilical Cord by Hasan Namir 🌈
Villainy by Andrea Abi-Karam 🌈
808s & Otherworlds by Sean Avery Medlin 🌈

Phototaxis by Olivia Tapiero, trans. by Kit Schluter 🌈
Gumbo Ya Ya by Aurielle Marie 🌈
Ink Earl by Susan Holbrook 🌈
Cuíer by Sarah Coolidge, Caio Fernando Abreu, Angélica Freitas, Carol Bensimon, João Gilberto Noll, Wilson Bueno, Ana Cristina Cesar, Cidinha da Silva, Carla Diacov, Ricardo Domeneck, Cristina Judar 🌈

What are you most looking forward to?