Book Releases: Fantasy (July to December 2022)

The end of June means a fresh lot of releases posts! You know the drill so far, I assume. We update each post with LGBT releases in each genre every month, and then, when we find more, we can come back and do so again! It’s a win for everyone I’m sure.

In this post, you’ll find the collection of fantasy books that we know about from July to December of 2022!

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JULY

🌈 Outland by Allisa Bahney & Kristin Keppler (bi mc, f/f relationship)
The Parsley Knight by Dan Ackerman (m/m relationship)
🌈 Young Men in Love ed. by Joe Glass & Matt Miner (m/m relationships)
🌈 Unfinished Business by Tim Susman (gay mc, m/m relationship)
The Scum Villain’s Self-saving System, Vol. 3 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (m/m relationship)

The Airless Year by Adam P. Knave, Valentine Barker & Frank Cvetkovic (Black sapphic mc)
Heaven Official’s Blessing, Vol. 3 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (m/m relationship)
Hooked by A. C. Wise (achillean mc, m/m relationship)
🌈 Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy by Sam J. Miller (m/m relationship)
🌈 Heat Wave by T. J. Klune (m/m relationship)

🌈 A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows (bi/pan mc, m/m relationship)
🌈 The Valkyrie’s Daughter by Tiana Warner (f/f relationship)
The Witchery by S. Isabelle (Black sapphic mcs, f/f relationship)
Violet Made of Thorns by Gina Chen (bi & lesbian characters)
🌈 Grounded for All Eternity by Darcy Marks (bi/pan mc)

🌈 Silk Fire by Zabé Ellor* (bi mc, m/m relationship)
The Trow of Duncaster by Melissa Polk (bi/pan mcs, m/m relationship)
The Pox Academy by Warren Mead (m/m relationship)
🌈 Moonlight Love and Witchcraft by Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea (bi mc, nonbinary mc, ace mc, f/f/nb relationship)
🌈 Cursed by J. P. Jackson (m/m/m relationship)

City of Blood by Jocelynn Drake (m/m relationship)
How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster) by Marie Cardno (f/f relationship)
🌈 Obsidian Island by Arden Powell (m/m relationships)
🌈 We Become Shadows by Lily Rooke (m/m relationship)
Crumbs by Danie Stirling (bi mc, f/m relationship)

Endless Quest by S. Y. Thompson (f/f relationship)

AUGUST

Perfectly Matched by Toni Logan (f/f relationship)
🌈 The Devouring Wolf by Natalie C. Parker (sapphic parents, trans character, nonbinary character)
A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair (bi mc, f/m relationship)
Dauntless by Elisa A. Bonnin (Filipino-inspired setting & characters, lesbian mc, bi li, f/f relationship)
A Curse of Illusions by Vivian Sader (f/f relationship)

The Gauntlet and the Burning Blade by Ian Green (lgbt characters)
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean (lesbian mc)
🌈 Into the Broken Lands by Tanya Huff (gay mc, m/m relationship, bi mc, bi side character)
Furysong by Rosaria Munda (gay mc, bi mc)
Kalyna the Soothsayer by Elijah Kinch Spector (bi mc)

🌈 The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia (Persian-inspired cast & setting, nonbinary aroace mc, trans character, queer character)
High Times in the Low Parliament by Kelly Robson (lesbian mc, sapphic lis, f/f/f relationship)
Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury (trans Mexican Canadian li, trans Trinidadian Canadian character, demi lesbian Trinidadian Canadian character)
The Jaguar Path by Anna Stephens (m/m relationship, bi female mc)
🌈 The Worthy by Anna K. Moss (f/f relationship)

🌈 The Nexus of Destiny by Kalob Dàniel (aroace mc, bi character, m/m relationship)
Grandmaster Of Demonic Cultivation, vol. 3 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (m/m relationship)
The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones (bi mc, f/m relationship)
🌈 The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri (Indian-coded cast & setting, lesbian mcs, f/f relationship)
A Flood of Blood to the Heart by Isis Molina (f/f relationship)

The Witches of Moonshyne Manor by Bianca Marais (bi mc, trans mc)
Fury by Jen Lawrence (f/f relationship)
A Shield of Fate and Ruin by Nicole Bailey (m/m relationship)
In the Shadow of the Throne by Kate Sheridan & Gaia Cardinali (Filipino gay mc, gay mc, m/m relationship)
🌈 Moon Dark Smile by Tessa Gratton (lgbt cast)

Felix Silver, Teaspoons & Witches by Harry Cook (gay mc)
🌈 An Archive of Brightness by Kelsey Socha (m/m relationship, f/f relationship)
A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland (Turkish-coded cast & setting, gay mc with depression and anxiety, bi mc, achillean side character, nonbinary side characters) tw violence, panic attacks
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez (m/m relationship)
Nightstrider by Sophia Slade (bi mc, lesbian character, transmasc pan character, gay character, sapphic character)

All of Our Demise by Amanda Foody & Christine Lynn Herman (bi mcs)**
🌈 Blood Curse by Rachel Ford (f/f relationship)
Unbound Oath by Ryann Fletcher (f/f relationship)
Royal Tea Service by Casey Blair (demisexual mc, bi mc, lesbian mc, transmasc character, nonbinary character, f/f relationships)
Without a Trace by Ariana Nash (m/m relationship)

The Ozarks Druid by Courtney Lanning (f/f relationship)
Transistor by Molly J. Bragg (sapphic trans mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 The Southern Magicks by Ashton K. Rose (trans mc, m/m/nb relationship)
Any Other Name by Alex Nonymous (genderqueer mc, f/gq relationship)
The Demon of the House of Hua by Maria Ying (f/f relationship)

SEPTEMBER

🌈 Vision of Virtue by Brey Willows (f/f relationship)
🌈 King of Immortal Tithe by Ben Alderson (m/m relationship)
🌈 The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas (Latine cast, trans gay mc, m/m relationship, sapphic, achillean & nonbinary characters)
🌈 Coven by Jennifer Dugan & Kit Seaton (sapphic mc, f/f relationship, side m/m relationship)
Doughnuts and Doom by Balazs Lorinczi (f/f relationship)

🌈 Moonflower by Kacen Callender (nonbinary mc)
🌈 Court of the Vampire Queen by Katee Robert (f/m/m/m relationship)
🌈 The Gingerbread Witch by Alexandra Overy (sapphic mc)
Monstress, Volume 7: Devourer by Marjorie M. Liu & Sana Takeda (f/f relationship)
Notorious Sorcerer by Davinia Evans (bi mc, m/m relationship)

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (f/f relationship)
In Pain and Blood by Aldrea Alien (bi mc, pan polyamorous mc, m/m relationship)
Other Ever Afters by Melanie Gillman (lgbt cast)
Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland (Black sapphic mc)
🌈 You Only Live Once, David Bravo by Mark Oshiro (Latine achillean mc)

Heaven Official’s Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu, Vol. 4 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (m/m relationship)
🌈 Bone Weaver by Aden Polydoros (bi li, f/m relationship, gay character)
How to Succeed in Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy (Black sapphic mc, bi li, f/f relationship)
My Name Is Magic by Xan van Rooyen (nonbinary mc)
🌈 The Unbalancing by R. B. Lemberg (nonbinary worldbuilding, lgbt cast)

🌈 The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang (nonbinary mc)
The Night and Its Moon by Piper C. J. (sapphic mcs, bi mcs)
Silk and Sword by P. S. Scott (f/f relationship)
Fragments of a Fallen Star by Viano Oniomoh (f/f relationship)
Garlic and the Witch by Bree Paulsen (f/nb relationship, gay character)

The Secret & the Stone by Kirksey Baker (f/f relationship)
Forestfall by Lyndall Clipstone (bi li, m/f relationship)
The Raven Key by Harper L. Carnes (gay mc, bi li, m/m relationship, lesbian side character)
I’m in Love with the Villainess (Light Novel) Vol. 5 by Inori & Hanagata (f/f relationship)
Thief Mage, Beggar Mage by Cat Hellisen (m/m relationship)

Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott (bi mc, f/f relationship, nonbinary character)
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (bi mc, f/f relationship, f/m relationship)

OCTOBER

Witch’s Brew by Sapphire Lesbos (f/f relationship)
The Laws of Magic by M. Ullrich (f/f relationship)
The Mage and the Monster by Barbara Ann Wright (f/f relationship)
The Second Death of Edie and Violet Bond by Amanda Glaze (side f/f relationship)
🌈 Imperfect Illusions by Vanora Lawless (gay mc, bi mc, m/m relationship, lesbian side characters)

🌈 Reforged by Seth Haddon (gay mc, poc gay li, m/m relationship) tw blood, violence, murder
🌈 The Story of the Hundred Promises by Neil Cochrane (trans mc, lgbt side characters)
Pétalos de papel by Iria G. Parente & Selene M. Pascual (bi mc, m/f relationship)
The Scum Villain’s Self-saving System, vol. 4 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (m/m relationship)
House of Badawi by C. J. Khemi (f/f relationship)

Will Do Magic for Small Change by Andrea Hairston (Beninese sapphic mc)
The Name Bearer by Natalia Hernandez (Latina sapphic mc)
Entangled With an Elf Prince by Amanda Ferreira (m/m relationship)
External Forces by Shannon Fay (bi mc)
🌈 Deadbeat Druid by David R Slayton (gay mc)

The Endless Song by Joshua Phillip Johnson (bi mc, f/f relationship)
My Aunt is a Monster by Reimena Yee (nonbinary character)
🌈 When Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb (Jewish cast, achillean mc, genderless mc, lesbian mc) tw antisemitism, violence
Poison Forest by Lauri Starling (sapphic mc)
Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater (bi mc, gay li, m/m relationship)

🌈 The Woodcutter and the Snow Prince by Ian Eagleton & Davide Ortu (m/m relationship)
The Magical Summer of Miranda Stone by A.D. Brazeau (f/f relationship)
🌈 Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo (nonbinary mc, sapphic mc)
The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake (bi mcs)
🌈 Dirt-Stained Hands, Thorn-Pierced Skin by Tabitha O’Connell (nonbinary mc)

🌈 The Scratch Daughters by H.A. Clarke (nonbinary butch lesbian mc, Black sapphic character, Chinese American bi character, femme lesbian character, achillean nonbinary side character, achillean side characters)
🌈 The Rogue Crown by A.K. Mulford (f/f relationship, nonbinary character)
A Rake of His Own by A. J. Lancaster (m/m relationship)
🌈 Lord of Silver Ashes by Kellen Graves (m/m relationship)
Kostya the Fallen Star by Melissa Polk (bi/pan mcs, m/m relationship)

The Husky and His White Cat Shizun, Vol. 1 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou (m/m relationship)
The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming: Book Two: Practice by Sienna Tristen (achillean mc with anxiety)
Katalepsis: Volume 1 by Hazel Young (f/f relationship)
Of Feathers and Thorns by Kit Vincent (m/m relationship)
Little Rock by Álex Beltrán (m/m relationship)

The Mermaid Hypothesis by Siri Caldwell (f/f relationship)
A Garter as a Lesser Gift by Aster Glenn Gray (bi mc, m/m/f relationship)
The Fae Queen’s Captive by Sierra Simone (f/f relationship)

NOVEMBER

🌈 The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix (lesbian mc, bi li, f/f relationship)
Sisters of Midnight by Katherine Livesey (f/f relationship)
🌈 Lady Night by Rita A. Rubin (gay mc, bi mc)
The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin (lesbian & gay mcs, trans side character)
Silver in the Mist by Emily Victoria (ace mc, nonbinary character)

🌈 Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Esme Symes-Smith (nonbinary mc, m/m parents)
🌈 Drifting by Lyn Hemphill (f/f relationship)
🌈 The Amaranthine Law by Gun Brooke (f/f relationship)
🌈 The Wicked Remain by Laura Pohl (lesbian mcs, sapphic demi mc, aroace mc, f/f relationship)
Still the Stars by Elayna Mae Darcy (sapphic mc)

🌈 A Restless Truth by Freya Marske (lesbian mc, bi mc, f/f relationship)
The Vermilion Emporium by Jamie Pacton (bi mc, f/m relationship, side f/f relationship)
Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk (f/f relationship)
Angels Before Man by rafael nicolás (m/m relationship)
Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn (bi li, m/f, Taiwanese American lesbian character, Venezuelan American sapphic character, bi, gay & nonbinary characters)

The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars Omnibus by Bryan Konietzko, Michael Dante DiMartino, Irene Koh & Killian Ng (bi mc, f/f relationship)
🌈 Pumpkin Spice by Cameron James (nonbinary mc)
🌈 At Midnight ed. by Dahlia Adler (Jewish sapphic mcs, f/f relationship)
🌈 Epilogues for Lost Gods by Cat Rector (genderfluid mc, bi mc)
The Legend of Korra: Patterns in Time by Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Heather Campbell, Jayd Ait-Kaci & Killian Ng (bi mc, f/f relationship)

Moonlight and the Magician by Evelynn Carver (bi mc, m/m relationship)
🌈 When the Glow Lights the Woods by Eule Grey (m/m relationship)
Dragon Fated by JB McDonald (m/m relationship)
🌈 The Solstice Cabin by Arden Powell (m/m relationship)

A Witch’s Familiar by A. R. Hall (f/f relationship)
Orpheus by B. J. Irons (gay mc)
Of Loyalties & Wreckage by Lou Wilham & Christis Christie (m/m relationship)
She Who Brought the Storm by Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea (sapphic mcs, nonbinary mc)
Polar Opposites by Ryann Fletcher (f/f relationship)

Blood of Torbatt by C. J. Merwild (m/m relationship)
🌈 Defenders of the Black Crown by Cate Pearce (bi mc, lesbian mc, f/f relationship)
The Lingering Dark by Jade Church (f/f relationship)
Loki by Melvin Burgess (achillean mc, trans character)
The Might of Monsters by Maria Ying (f/f relationship)

Deathwalker by Madison Nicole (f/f relationship)
🌈 The Aziza Chronicles: Awakening by TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter (lgbt cast)

DECEMBER

🌈 Lines of Love by Brey Willows (f/f relationship)
🌈 This Cursed Crown by Alexandra Overy (f/f relationship)
The Ivory Tomb by Melissa Caruso (bi mc, f/f relationship)
The Shattered City by Lisa Maxwell (f/f relationship)
Alessia in Atlantis: The Jellyfish Jailbreak by Nathalie Laine (m/m parents)

The Magi Manifesto by Kale Lawrence (m/m relationship)
Grandmaster Of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi, vol. 4 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (m/m relationship)
Heaven Official’s Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu, vol. 5 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (m/m relationship)
At the Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard (m/m relationship)
Woe in Total Darkness by Sem Thornwood (f/f relationship)

Black Queen by Serenity Snow (f/f relationship)
🌈 Water by L. C. Mawson (f/f relationship)
Beyond the Grove by Rachel C. Neale (f/f relationship)
Wolves’ Dominion by A. J. Mullican (f/f relationship)
A Knight’s Blood by Gwendolyn K. Blackthorne (f/f relationship)

🌈 A Little Blessing by R. Cooper (m/m relationship)
Ash Believes the Impossible by Kim Fielding (m/m relationship)
The Eyes Beneath the Water by Michael Hudson (f/nb relationship)
Valerin the Fair by Rien Gray (f/f relationship)

*Please note that Z. R. Ellor has been accused of lesbophobia and this book is noted as being orientalist.

**Please note that Christine Lynn Herman has a history of bullying authors of colour.

Please note: we have removed titles by Freydís Moon after on discovering they’re a pseudonym for Taylor B. Barton/Taylor Brooke who was accused of racism, bullying, & pretending to be Latine a few years back.

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