Book Releases: Nonfiction (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 nonfiction books that we know about from January to June of 2022!

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JANUARY

🌈 Keeping It Unreal by Darieck Scott (media studies)
🌈 High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez (memoir)
🌈 Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz (memoir)
🌈 Sticker by Henry Hoke (memoir)
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson by Tara T. Green (biography)

Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind a Raisin in the Sun by Charles J. Shields (biography)
Vulgar Genres by Steven Ruszczycky (literature studies)
🌈 Secret Passages by Axelle Lenoir (memoir)
🌈 Open by Rachel Krantz (memoir)
And The Category Is… by Ricky Tucker (history)

🌈 Naked Nutrition by Daniel O’Shaughnessy (science)
🌈 Crazy, Cracked, Warm, and Deep by Susan B. Clarke (memoir)
🌈 Damn Shame by David Pevsner (memoir)
🌈 People Change by Vivek Shraya (essays)
Sissy Insurgencies by Marlon B. Ross (studies & theory)
🌈 The Love that Dares by Rachel Smith & Barbara Vesey (letters)

FEBRUARY

🌈 Black Love Matters ed. by Jessica P. Pryde (essays)
🌈 My Own Way: Celebrating Gender Freedom for Kids by Joana Estrela & Jay Hulme (picture book)
🌈 Please Miss by Grace Lavery (memoir)
Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature by Taylor Driggers (literature studies)
🌈 Queer Data by Kevin Guyan (nonfiction)

Out On An Island ed. by Franko Figueiredo-Stow & Caroline Diamond (history)
Woodsqueer by Gretchen Legler (essays)
🌈 Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis & Hannah Templer (biography)
Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist by Rosita Stevens-Holsey & Terry Catasus Jennings (biography)
There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life by Jafari S. Allen (studies & theory)

The Boy in the Dress by Jonathan Butler (biography)
🌈 Playhouses by Sherry Scott (memoir)
🌈 In Sensorium: Notes for My People by Tanaïs (memoir)
🌈 Girl, Transcending by A. J. Clementine (memoir)
The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas by Sandro R. Barros, Rafael Ocasio, and Angela L. Willis (studies & theory)

The Poetics of Cruising by Jack Parlett (studies & theory)

MARCH

🌈 Messy Roots by Laura Gao (memoir)
🌈 I Was Better Last Night by Harvey Fierstein (memoir)
🌈 Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place by Neema Avashia (memoir)
Outrageous! by Paul Baker (history)
🌈 Girls Can Kiss Now by Jill Gutowitz (essays)

Y’all Means All by Z. Zane McNeill (studies & theory)
🌈 How Do I Un-Remember This? by Danny Pellegrino (memoir)
OutWrite ed. by Julie R. Enszer & Elena Gross (history)
Queer Body Power by Essie Dennis (studies & theory)
🌈 Dear Queer Self by Jonathan Alexander (memoir)

🌈 Poetic Operations by micha cárdenas (media studies)
🌈 Body Becoming by Robyn Henderson-Espinoza (studies & theory)
🌈 Burning My Roti by Sharan Dhaliwal (memoir, essays)
🌈 Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby (memoir)
Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr by Margot Douaihy (history)

Queer Country by Shana Goldin-Perschbacher (music studies)
Conversations with People Who Hate Me: 12 Things I Learned from Talking to Internet Strangers by Dylan Marron (essays)
🌈 My Wandering Warrior Existence by Nagata Kabi (memoir)
Coming Out by Kyle Frackman (film studies)
Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature by Charlie Samuelson (history, literature studies)

🌈 Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s by Rox Samer (media studies)
Queer African Cinemas by Lindsey B. Green-Simms (film studies)
🌈 And So I Walked by Anne Gardner (memoir)
🌈 Body Work by Melissa Febos (memoir/essays)
Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision by Charles Elton (biography)

🌈 Broke the Bread, Spilled the Tea by Mitchell Kesller (studies & theory)
🌈 Every Good Boy Does Fine by Jeremy Denk (memoir)
🌈 Female Fortune: The Anne Lister Diaries, 1833–36 by Jill Liddington (letters)

APRIL

🌈 This Time for Me by Alexandra Billings & Joanne Gordon (memoir)
Len & Cub by Meredith J. Batt & Dusty Green (biography)
🌈 Fine by Rhea Ewing (studies & theory)
🌈 Deaf Utopia by Nyle DiMarco & Robert Siebert (memoir)
🌈 Burning Butch by R/B Mertz (memoir)

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful by Jack Lowery (history)
🌈 Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad by Hil Malatino (science)
🌈 The Meaning of Pride by Rosiee Thor, illustrated by Sam Kirk (history)
🌈 The Trans Guide to Mental Health and Well-Being by Katy Lees (self-help)
🌈 Burn the Page by Danica Roem (memoir)

Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South by Amy L. Stone (history)
🌈 Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life by Jonathan Van Ness (essays)
🌈 The Red Zone: A Love Story by Chloe Caldwell (memoir)
The Street of Wonderful Possibilities by Devon Cox (history)
🌈 An Accidental Icon by Norman Scott (memoir)

🌈 Sugar Cane by Brian Pearson (memoir)
🌈 Start Without Me (I’ll Be There in a Minute) by Gary Janetti (essays)
🌈 Abuela in Shadow, Abuela in Light by Rigoberto González (memoir)
Gay Liberation After May ’68 by Guy Hocquenghem, trans. by Scott Branson (history)
🌈 Reading Shakespeare Reading Me by Leonard Barkan (memoir)

The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight by Alexander Monea (studies & theory)
Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela by Moisés Lino e Silva (studies & theory)
Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America by Gregory D. Smithers (studies & theory)
Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art by Nicole Erin Morse (studies & theory)

MAY

🌈 If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It by Lil Miss Hot Mess & Olga de Dios Ruiz (memoir)
🌈 The Lesbian Detective Novel by Megan Casey (literature studies)
🌈 I, Rob Graves by Robert Graves (memoir)
🌈 This Has Always Been a War by Lori Fox (studies & theory)
🌈 Magic Season by Wade Rouse (memoir)

🌈 Here and Queer by Rowan Ellis (self-help)
🌈 Sink the Pink’s Manifesto for Misfits by Glyn Fussell (self-help)
🌈 Welcome to St. Hell by Lewis Hancox (memoir)
🌈 On Autumn Lake by Douglas Crase (essays)
🌈 The Women’s House of Detention by Hugh Ryan (history)

🌈 Glyn Philpot by Simon Martin & Alan Hollinghurst (biography)
🌈 Families We Keep by Corinne E. Reczek & Emma Bosley-Smith (studies & theory)
🌈 The Book of Non-Binary Joy by Ben Pechey (studies & theory)
🌈 Sexed Up by Julia Serano (studies & theory)
🌈 Ma and Me by Putsata Reang (memoir)

🌈 This Body I Wore by Diana Goetsch (memoir)
🌈 Queer Ducks (and Other Animals) by Eliot Schrefer (science)
Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Suffrage Movement by Wendy L. Rouse (history)
🌈 Brace for Impact by Gabe Montesanti (memoir)
Young Bloomsbury by Nino Strachey (history)

Fire Island by Jack Parlett (history)
🌈 A Union Like Ours: The Love Story of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney by Scott Bane (biography)
🌈 Bad Gays by Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller (biography)
🌈 Miss Memory Lane by Colton Haynes (memoir)
🌈 Gay Giant by Gabriel Ebensperger (memoir)

Secret City by James Kirchick (history)
🌈 Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf by Sina Queyras (memoir)
🌈 The Rainbow Parade by Emily Neilson (memoir)
🌈 Map by Audrey Beth Stein (memoir; reprint)
🌈 Don’t You Dare by Gayla Turner (memoir)

🌈 The Stonewall Riots by Archie Bongiovanni & A. Andrews (history)
🌈 Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories ed. by Adam Nathaniel Furman & Joshua Mardell (essays)
🌈 House Arrest by Alan Bennett (memoir)
🌈 Queers & Civilization: How Sexual Diversity Enlivens, Enriches, and Elevates Society by Byron Kennard (studies & theory)
Racism and the Making of Gay Rights by Laurie Marhoefer (studies & theory)

🌈 Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris (essays)

JUNE

🌈 Fred: An Unbecoming Woman by Annie Krabbenschmidt (memoir)
🌈 Asylum by Edafe Okporo (memoir)
Brown Neon by Raquel Gutiérrez (essays)
🌈 Boys and Oil by Taylor Brorby (memoir)
🌈 Virology by Joseph Osmundson (essays)

🌈 The 16th Second by Ted A. Richard (memoir)
🌈 My Greatest Save by Robin Roberts (memoir)
🌈 Moon in Full by Marpheen Chann (memoir)
🌈 Funny Gyal: My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica by Angeline Jackson & Susan McClelland (memoir)
The Awesome Autistic Guide for Trans Teens by Yenn Purkis & Sam Rose (studies & theory)

LGBTQ+ Icons: A Celebration of Historical LGBTQ+ Icons in the Arts by David Lee Csicsko & Owen Keehnen (biography)
🌈 Bi by Julia Shaw (studies & theory)
🌈 Trans Futures Now by Milo Stewart (studies & theory)
ABC Pride by Louie Stowell & Elly Barnes (history)
Pride, Pop and Politics by Darryl W. Bullock (studies & theory)
🌈 Voice of the Fish by Lars Horn (essays)

🌈 Drive All Day: Because I’m Too Old to Drive All Night by Jamie Anderson (essays)
🌈 I Spoke to You with Silence: Essays from Queer Mormons of Marginalized Genders ed. by Kerry Spencer Pray & Jenn Lee Smith (essays)
🌈 Before We Were Trans by Dr. Kit Heyam (history)
Queer Beyond London by Matt Cook & Alison Oram (history)

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