Book Releases: Historical (January to June 2022)

It’s a new year and, since the number of book releases we know about per month is just tipping into unwieldy (June alone last year had 150 books to add to the post, not to mention the 50+ more we found later), we’ve decided to change up the way we’re doing releases posts. We started organising releases posts by genre around halfway through last year, so we’re sticking with that here. The major difference? Each genre gets its own post, which will eventually cover a period of 6 months. So, like with our various other releases posts (although those go up all at once, whereas here we’ll add each month), these are more easily edited and added to! Which means, even if we miss a book, we can better come back and add it to the post. A win for everyone!

In this post, you’ll find the collection of historical books that we know about from January to June of 2022!

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JANUARY

🌈 Wildflower Words by Sam Ledel (f/f)
🌈 Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes (Cuban American gay mc, Chinese American gay li, nonbinary side character; cw homophobia, teacher-student relationship, homophobic violence)
Call Me Cassandra by Marcial Gala, trans. by Anna Kushner (trans mc)
The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher (lesbian mc)
🌈 The Raven and the Banshee by Carolyn Elizabeth (f/f)

🌈 The Missing Page by Cat Sebastian (m/m)
Under His Lover’s Wing by Merry Farmer (m/m)
🌈 Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall (gay demi mc, gay li, sapphic side characters, genderfluid side character, achillean side characters)

FEBRUARY

The Luring of a Lovely Lady by Emma Locke (f/f relationship)
The Turning Pointe by Vanessa L. Torres (bi genderqueer li)
🌈 The Upside Down Tree by Alden Reimonenq (Black gay mc)
The Language of Light by Kathleen Brady (f/f relationship)
The Moonstone Girls by Brooke Skipstone (sapphic mc)

The Ballot Boy by Larry Mellman (gay mc)
The Lady’s Keeper by Coirle Mooney (sapphic mc)
When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O’Neill (sapphic mcs)
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson (Black lesbian mc)
Cheery Cak by Susan Sainsbury (sapphic mc)

MARCH

🌈 Her Duchess to Desire by Jane Walsh (f/f relationship)
🌈 Murder in Monte Vista by David S. Pederson (gay mc)
Travelers Along the Way by Aminah Mae Safi (sapphic characters)
🌈 Mother’s Boy by Patrick Gale (gay mc)
One Good Deed Deserves a Lover by Merry Farmer (m/m relationship)

Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle by William Keeling (gay mc)
One for All by Lillie Lainoff (lesbian character, bi character, ace character)
Daughters of the Deer by Danielle Daniel (Algonquin Two-Spirit sapphic mc, sapphic li, f/f relationship)
To Beg or Not to Beg by Cat Giraldo (bi mcs, m/m/f relationship)
An Affair for Aumont by J. A. Rock & Lisa Henry (m/m relationship)

🌈 The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson sapphic mc)
Once in Berlin by Jo Havens (f/f relationship, side m/m relationship)
🌈 Love Wasn’t Built in a Day by Renee Dahlia (m/m relationship)
The Darkest Sin by D. V. Bishop (gay mc)

APRIL

Pursued by Felice Picano (pan character)
Little Foxes Took Up Matches by Katya Kazbek (nonbinary mc) tw abuse
New to Liberty by DeMisty D. Bellinger (f/f relationship) tw rape, incest
🌈 This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke (genderqueer mc, polyam)
Other People Manage by Ellen Hawley (lesbian mcs)

No Stopping Us Now by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (sapphic mc)
Your Nostalgia is Killing Me by John Weir (gay mcs)
Knock Off the Hat by Richard Stevenson (gay mc) tw homophobic violence
Of Arrows and Anarchy by Morgan Perryman (f/f relationship)

MAY

🌈 Inherit the Lightning by Bud Gundy (m/m relationship)
🌈 The Dove in the Belly by Jim Grimsley (gay mc, m/m relationship)
Good Game, Well Played by Rachael Smith, Katherine Lobo, Justin Birch (trans mc)
🌈 Why In Paris? by Harry F. Rey (gay mc, m/m relationship)
The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (lesbian mc)

That Green Eyed Girl by Julie Owen Moylan (lesbian mcs, f/f relationship) cw for lesbophobia, blackmail, period typical homophobia, electroconvulsive therapy (as “cure” for lesbianism, treatment for unspecified mental illness)
🌈 Heathen: The Complete Series Omnibus by Natasha Alterici (f/f relationship)
Moldy Strawberries by Caio Abreu, trans. by Bruna Lobato (gay mcs)
🌈 A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall (trans mc, f/m relationship)
The Muse by Amy Ellis (pan mc)

A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera (sapphic character)
The Teachers’ Room by Lydia Stryk (lesbian mc)
🌈 Let the Mountains Be My Grave by Francesca Tacchi (achillean mc)
Capitol Punishment by K. D. McQuain (gay mc)
Slipping the Noose by Meg Caddy (gnc mc, trans character, genderqueer character)

JUNE

🌈 Liebestrasse by by Greg Lockard, Tim Fish, Hector Barros & Lucas Gattoni (m/m relationship)
🌈 The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian (bi mcs, m/f relationship)
Captain Ni’mat’s Last Battle by Mohamed Leftah, trans. by Lara Vergnaud (gay mc)
🌈 Glorious Poison by Kat Dunn (biracial Black lesbian mc, Black mc, bi mc, gay mc)
Tiepolo Blue by James Cahill (gay mc)

Valiant Ladies by Melissa Grey (Peruvian lesbian mcs, f/f relationship)
Briefly, a Delicious Life by Nell Stevens (bi/pan mc)
The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley (gay mc, m/m relationship) (UK; 26 July USA)
Dead Letters From Paradise by Ann McMan (f/f relationship)
Nettleblack by Nat Reeve (sapphic mc)

The Cloistered Lady by Coirle Mooney (sapphic mc)
Mother Ocean Father Nation by Nishant Batsha (Indian gay mc)
For Love Of God by Robin Reardon (gay mc, m/m relationship)
The Bluestocking Beds Her Bride by Fenna Edgewood (f/f relationship)
Structural Strain by Tabitha O’Connell (trans mc, m/m relationship)

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