Book Releases: November 2021

If you thought that the releases were slowing down as the year comes to a close, you would be wrong because today I have for you, 138 more releases for November! Okay, so I went through a few more lists with the intention of just double-checking that all the dates were right after a series of delays, and came out with… oh, just another 50 books. But hey! That just gives you another 138 books to look forward to in 2021!

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

CONTEMPORARY

Gia’s Gems by Toni Logan (f/f 🌈)
Marry Me by Melissa Brayden (f/f 🌈)
A Convenient Arrangement by Aurora Rey & Jaime Clevenger (f/f 🌈)
An Alaskan Wedding by Nance Sparks (f/f, bi mc 🌈)
Beulah Lodge by Cathy Dunnell (f/f 🌈)

Holiday Wishes & Mistletoe Kisses by M. Ullrich (f/f 🌈)
Love by Proxy by Dena Blake (f/f 🌈)
Pathway to Love by Radclyffe (f/f 🌈)
Sweet Surprise by Jenny Frame (f/f 🌈)
Loyalty, Love, & Vermouth by Eric Peterson (m/m 🌈)

Unexpected Goals by Kelly Farmer (f/f 🌈)
Fat Angie: Homecoming by E.E. Charlton-Trujillo (sapphic mc)
Going Viral by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc (sapphic mc, f/f)
Brickmakers by Selva Almada, trans. by Annie McDermott (m/m)
Just So Many Places by Jessica Stilling (lesbian mcs, f/f, bi mc 🌈)

Dirty Slide by KD Casey & Lauren Blakely (m/m 🌈)
Candidly Cline by Kathryn Ormsbee (sapphic mc 🌈)
I, Gloria Grahame by Sky Gilbert (gay mc)
The Geek Who Saved Christmas by Annabeth Albert (m/m 🌈)
Fool for Love by Rachael Sommers (f/f 🌈)

Calvin by Vanessa Ford, JR Ford & Kayla Harren (Black trans mc)
Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park, trans. by Anton Hur (gay mc)
The Last One by Fatima Daas, trans. Lara Vergnaud (lesbian mc)
Kennedy Is King by Cameron James (m/m, gay mc, trans li)
What We Pick Up by Stacy Brewster (achillean characters)

The Short While by Jeremy Sorese (m/m)
Opposed Desires by Katherine McIntyre (lesbian mc, bi mc, f/f 🌈)
Love, Violet by Charlotte Sullivan Wild & Charlene Chua (f/f 🌈; UK, US 4 Jan)
The Art of Running Away by Sabrina Kleckner (gay character)
Love, Accidentally by Aurora Rey & Jaime Clevenger (f/f 🌈)

Go Around by E. J. Noyes (f/f 🌈)
Labours of Stone by Emma Mort Harding (m/m 🌈)
The Golden Hour by Niki Smith (achillean mc)
The Awkward Truth by Lee Winter (f/f 🌈)
Here is Where by Morgan Omotoye (f/f)

The Life Revamp by Kris Ripper (m/m, polyamory)
Off Limits by Riley Hart (m/m)
Fall into You by Georgina Kiersten (bi mc, lesbian li, f/f 🌈)
Daring Truth by Adrian J. Smith (f/f 🌈)
Love for the Holidays by Arizona Tape (f/f 🌈)

The Best Time by Sienna Waters (f/f 🌈)
Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGinty & David Roberts (m/m parents)
Kiss and Tell: Selected Stories by John Sam Jones (gay mcs)
Four Minutes by Nataliya Deleva, trans. by Izidora Angel (lesbian mc)
In the Long Run by Haley Cass (f/f 🌈)

The Gunrunner and Her Hound by Maria Ying (f/f 🌈)
Lost Without a Claus by Kaya LaSalle (f/f 🌈)
That Winter Feeling by Emma Collins (f/f 🌈)
Humphrey’s Wedding by Harry Grant (m/m)
Bad to Be Noble by Andrew Grey (m/m 🌈)

A Divine Kind of Christmas by Deja Elise (f/f 🌈)
Silver Bells by Carol Wyatt (f/f 🌈)
The Full Scoop by Kitty Jones (lesbian mcs, f/f)
Cardinal Christmas by Elle Brownlee (m/m)
Bad to Be Merry by Andrew Grey (m/m 🌈)

FANTASY

The Scout and the Scoundrel by Barbara Ann Wright (f/f 🌈)
A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske (m/m 🌈; US, AUS 26 Oct)
Briar Girls by Rebecca Kim Wells (bi mc, sapphic li, nonbinary side characters, sapphic trans side character 🌈; cw gore, immolation, amputation, magic requiring blood/self-harm)
Faith: Greater Heights by Julie Murphy (bi mc)
The God of Lost Words by A. J. Hackwith (pan mc, bi mc, gay mc 🌈)

Blue Skinned Gods by S. J. Sindu (trans character, gnc characters)
Miss Claus by J. R. Hart (trans mc)
Swashbucklers by Dan Hanks (f/f)
World’s Edge by David Hair (lgbt characters?)
Revenge by Dani Hoots (bi mc 🌈)

Tidesong by Wendy Xu (lesbian aunts)
House on Fire by Jenn Burke (m/m)
The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart (f/f)
Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee (gay mc)
Wax and Wane by L. M. Bennett (f/f)

A Mage’s Guide to Human Familiars by A. J. Sherwood (m/m)
Unseen by Jordan L. Hawk (m/m)
The Godsfang by Y. R. Liu (m/m)
The Price of Silence by Elle Mae (lesbian mc)
De Cineribus: From the Ashes by Thomas Vaccaro (gay mc)
Someone Else’s Shoes by Aldrea Alien (f/f)

HISTORICAL

Parting the Veil by Paulette Kennedy (gnc bi mc)
His Lord’s Soldier by Renee Dahlia (m/m 🌈)
The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath (achillean disabled mcs, ace disabled mc)
A Winter’s Earl by Annabelle Greene (m/m)
Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong (m/m, trans mc)

Names for the Dawn by C.L. Beaumont (trans mc, m/m)
Chorus of Witches by Paul Buckland (gay mc; reprint from 1959 🌈)
Slow Reveal by Melanie Mitzner (bi mc, lesbian character, f/f)
The Spinster’s Swindle by Catherine Stein (bi mcs, m/f)

MYSTERY

The Red Monarch by Bella Ellis (bi mc)
Murder Most Actual by Alexis Hall (lesbian mcs, f/f 🌈)
The Undertakers by Nicole Glover (side m/m, trans side character, sapphic side characters)
The Disappearance of Lindy James by Catherine Maiorisi (f/f)
The After Party by A. C. Arthur (sapphic mc?)

She Never Left by C. M. Harris (lesbian character)
Lady Killer by Cara Malone (f/f 🌈)
The Pledge by Kathleen Kent (sapphic mc)
The Dinner Lady Detectives by Hannah Hendy (f/f)
Manhattan Mistletoe Mystery by Kyle Baxter (m/m)

Twelve Days of Murder by Jason Wrench (m/m)
The Chief by J. Calamy (bi mc, genderfluid mc 🌈)

PARANORMAL/HORROR

In Somnio: A Collection of Modern Gothic Horror ed. by Alex Woodroe (gay mc)
Nightmare in Savannah by Lela Gwenn, Chris Sanchez & Rowan MacColl (bi mc, ace mc, f/f)
Graveneye by Sloane Leong & Anna Bowles (f/f)
Dead Woman’s Pond by Elle E. Ire (f/f)
Hellfire by Richard Amos (m/m 🌈)

On the Water by Jerica Taylor (f/f)
Slug And Other Stories by Megan Milks (trans mcs 🌈; reprint)

SCI FI

The Edge of Yesterday by C. J. Birch (f/f 🌈)
Paper Girls: The Complete Story by Brian K. Vaughan (f/f)
The Demon Equilibrium by Cathy Pegau (f/f 🌈)
The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell by Kate Brauning (bi mc, f/f/m)
Ace Takes Flight by Cory McCarthy (f/f parents 🌈)

Echoes of Fate by Cheryl Campbell (f/f)
Even Greater Mistakes by Charlie Jane Anders (nonbinary characters 🌈)
The Old Love and the New by Alistair Caradec (m/m)
Robo Sapiens: Tales of Tomorrow by Toranosuke Shimada (lgbt characters)
Hope’s Last Refuge by Patrick Morgan (lesbian mc)

The Alien’s Veterinarian by Skye MacKinnon & Arizona Tape (f/f 🌈)
Awakening Hearts by Angie K. Love (f/f)
Out of Time, Into You by Jay Bell (gay mcs, m/m 🌈)
You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson (sapphic mc)
Survival by Rita Potter (f/f)

NONFICTION

Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora ed. by Saraciea J. Fennell (essays 🌈)
Solid Ivory by James Ivory (memoir 🌈)
This is My Real Name by Cid V Brunet (memoir 🌈)
The How by Yrsa Daley-Ward (essays 🌈)
Youngman: The Diaries of Lou Sullivan by Lou Sullivan (memoir 🌈)

The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass ed. by Anna Fishzon & Emma Lieber (essays 🌈)
Destination Pride by Andrew Collins (nonfiction 🌈)
Hear’s the Thing by Cody Alan (memoir 🌈)
Queer Men’s Narratives ed. by Jude Dibia & Olumide F. Makanjuola (nonfiction 🌈)
Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear by Michael J. O’Loughlin (nonfiction)
Queer Life, Queer Love ed. by Golnoosh Nour & Matt Bates (anthology 🌈)

POETRY

AUX ARK TRYPT ICH: Poppycock and Assphodel; Winter; A Night of Dark Trees by Cody-Rose Clevidence (poetry 🌈)
Against Silence by Frank Bidart (poetry 🌈)
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (poetry 🌈)
There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt (poetry 🌈)
Autowar by Assiyah Jamilla Touré (poetry 🌈)
Hieroglyphs of the Inverted World by Rob Halpern (poetry 🌈)

Please note: we are aware of a further release – All of Us Villains – but have elected not to include this, on account of one of the authors having a history of bullying authors of colour.

What are you most looking forward to?