A list of achillean books written by achillean authors from second half of 2022. The term ‘ownvoices’ is used broadly, in the sense that some of those books feature gay protagonists & are written by bi authors, some are written by nonbinary achillean authors, etc. But none of them are written by women, straight or otherwise. And the term ‘achillean’ is used as a blanket label, so you will find here mlm books, but also mlnb books and books with achillean protagonists & no romance at all.
There are no rainbow emojis this time, for obvious reasons, but there are plant emojis for nonbinary and/or trans authors.
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See also: ownvoices achillean books of January-June 2022 & LGBT releases by rep
JULY
Blooming by Sean Ashcroft (m/m relationship)
This Way Out by Tufayel Ahmed (Bangladeshi Muslim gay mc)
A Champion for Tinker Creek by D. C. Robeline (m/m relationship)
Runaway Train by Simon Doyle (m/m relationship)
Unfinished Business by Tim Susman (gay mc, m/m relationship)
The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen by Gary Eldon Peter (gay mc)
Young Men in Love ed. by Joe Glass & Matt Miner (short stories; m/m relationships)
The King is Dead by Benjamin Dean (Black gay mc, Black gay li, gay li)
🌿 Grayality by Carey PW (achillean trans mc)
Past His Defenses by Andrew Grey (m/m relationship)
🌿 August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White (achillean mc, genderqueer li, m/gq relationship)
Other Names for Love by Taymour Soomro (gay mc)
Brother Alive by Zain Khalid (gay mc)
Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy by Sam J. Miller (m/m relationship)
Heat Wave by T. J. Klune (m/m relationship)
The Language of Seabirds by Will Taylor (gay mc)
🌿 Obsidian Island by Arden Powell (m/m relationships)
Seeing Strangers by Sebastian J. Plata (gay mc)
Hellbound by Richard Amos (m/m relationship)
Silk Fire by Zabé Ellor (bi mc, m/m relationship)*
People You Meet in Paris Series by Ryan Rios (gay mc, m/m relationship)
Surfside Boys by Daniel Elijah Sanderfer (gay mc)
Cursed by J. P. Jackson (m/m relationship)
AUGUST
Querelle of Roberval by Kevin Lambert, trans. by Donald Winkler (gay mc)
Marlo by Jay Carmichael (m/m relationship)
The Brink by Holden Sheppard (achillean mc) tw drugging, death
The Honeys by Ryan La Sala (achillean genderfluid mc, lesbian & gay side characters)
The Goodby People by Gavin Lambert (bi mc; reprint)
A Killing in Costumes by Zac Bissonnette (gay mc, lesbian mc)
The Nexus of Destiny by Kalob DÃ niel (aroace mc, bi character, m/m relationship)
I Asked the Moon by Paul A. Rayes (m/m relationship)
My Government Means To Kill Me by Rasheed Newson (Black gay mc)
The Sleepless by Victor Manibo (bi mc)
This Is Why They Hate Us by Aaron H. Aceves (bi Mexican American mc, Muslim bi Palestinian American li, m/m relationship, bi Afro Puerto Rican/Cuban character, bi Vietnamese American character, gay Mexican American characters)
You and I, Rewritten by Chip Pons (m/m relationship)
The Dreaming by Andre Bagoo (Trinidadian gay mcs)
The Foghorn Echoes by Danny Ramadan (Syrian gay mcs)
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez (m/m relationship)
Felix Silver, Teaspoons & Witches by Harry Cook (gay mc)
Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell by Tobias Madden (gay mc, m/m relationship) ANZ, 2023 for UK/US
SEPTEMBER
Timberdark by Darren Charlton (gay mc, m/m 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) tw bullying, violence, death, attempted ritual murder, blood, fire, classism
Destination Unknown by Bill Konigsberg (m/m relationship)
Desire Lines by Cary Alan Johnson (Black gay mc)
Lost and Found by Andrew Grey (m/m relationship)
Sapphire Spring by C. Travis Rice (m/m relationship)
Sacrificio by Ernesto Mestre-Reed (gay mc)
The Comedians by Philip Dawkins (m/m relationship)
Book of Dreams by Kevin Craig (gay mc)
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt (gay mc)
Leave Me Not Alone by Louis Flint Ceci (m/m relationship)
Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer (gay mc)
Love and War by Andrew Wheeler & Killian Ng (m/m relationship)
First Consonants by John Whittier Treat (gay mc)
The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers by Adam Sass (m/m relationship)
Fraternity by Andy Mientus (achillean mcs) tw internalised homophobia
Bone Weaver by Aden Polydoros (bi li, f/m relationship, gay character)
Night Tremors by Richard Amos (m/m relationship)
Jack’s on Fire by Owen Lach (m/m relationship)
OCTOBER
Last Night in Brighton by Massoud Hayoun (gay Jewish Arab American)
Reforged by Seth Haddon (m/m relationship)
You’re a Mean One, Matthew Prince by Timothy Janovsky (m/m relationship)
The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera (m/m relationship)
Death on the Pier by Jamie West (gay mc, m/m relationship)
Nikhil Out Loud by Maulik Pancholy (Indian American gay mc)
The Edge of Being by James Brandon (m/m relationship)
Deadbeat Druid by David R. Slayton (gay mc)
Lavender House by Lev A. C. Rosen (gay mc, Mexican lesbian side character, lesbian side character, gay side characters, Jewish bi side character) tw suicidal thoughts, murder, homophobic slurs, homophobic violence (ch 10)
Hugs and Cuddles by Joao Gilberto Noll, trans. by Edgar Garbelotto (gay mcs)
The Woodcutter and the Snow Prince by Ian Eagleton & Davide Ortu (m/m relationship)
Army of Lovers by K.M. Soehnlein (gay mc)
NOVEMBER
Corpus Calvin by David Swatling (gay mc)
In the Key of Dale by Benjamin Lefebvre (gay mc)
This is Our Place by Vitor Martins, trans. by Larissa Helena (Black gay mc, gay li, gay mc, achillean li, m/m relationship, lesbian mc, Black bi li, f/f relationship)
A Fractured Infinity by Nathan Tavares (m/m relationship)
Red Clay Suzie by Jeffrey Dale Lofton (gay mc)
Wicked Little Things by Justin Arnold (gay mc)
This I Promise You by Jordon Greene & Kalob DÃ niel (gay mcs, m/m relationship, gay, bi & pan characters)
DECEMBER
A Dash of Salt and Pepper by Kosoko Jackson (m/m relationship)
Felix Navidad by ‘Nathan Burgoine (m/m relationship)
A History of Fear by Luke Dumas (achillean mc)
Snowflake Kisses by Jordon Greene (m/m relationship)
*Please note that Z. R. Ellor has been accused of lesbophobia and this book is noted as being orientalist.
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3 Comments
rafa
mason has said about a million times now not to label their books as achillean
readsrainbow
thank you for assuming that we have an infinite supply of time on our hands and can therefore see and know everything about every single book & author, but alas! however, thanks for bringing this to our attention. i did double check with mason about this and took their book off the list.
– anna
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