Book Releases: Historical (January to June 2023)

New year, new LGBT books! Hopefully the rules of our releases posts are clear, but just to reiterate: we have 8 of those posts, for genres listed below, and we update each one every month with new books coming out (that we know about). Every post covers half a year.

In this one, you can browse the historical books from January to June of 2023!

Looking for the other genres?

Contemporary | Fantasy | Mystery/Thriller | Nonfiction | Paranormal/Horror | Poetry | Science Fiction

JANUARY

The New Life by Tom Crewe (achillean mc, m/m relationship, sapphic character)
One Night in Hartswood by Emma Denny (bi mc, gay mc, m/m relationship, lesbian side characters)
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon (m/m relationship)
For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told by Charles Warren Stoddard (gay mc; reprint)
What a Nobleman Needs by Merry Farmer (m/m relationship)
The Ashes of the Brothel by Katryna Lalock (f/f relationship)
Her Enticing Muse by Violet Cowper (f/f relationship)
Love, Leda by Mark Hyatt (gay mc, m/m relationship)
Burn the House Down by Kenna Jenkins (f/f relationship)
Capture the Colors by Elena Berrino (m/m relationship)
Rent Boy by Gary Indiana (achillean mc; reprint)
Decent People by De’Shawn Charles Winslow (Black gay character)
Their Marchioness by Jess Michaels (bi mcs, m/m/f relationship)
For Lamb by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Black lesbian mother)
World Made of Glass by Ami Polonsky (achillean parents)

FEBRUARY

The Disenchantment by Celia Bell (f/f relationship)
Up With the Sun by Thomas Mallon (gay mc)
The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes (sapphic mc)
The Secret Life of Spinsters by Renée Dahlia (f/f relationship)
In the Shadow of Truth by J. E. Leak (f/f relationship)
Blue Billy’s Rogue Lexicon by David Lawrence (gay mc)
Empty Theatre: or, The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty… by Jac Jemc (gay mc)
Their Duchess by Jess Michaels (bi mcs, m/m/f relationship)
Sanctuaries by Vince Sgambati (gay mc)
I’ll Take Everything You Have by James Klise (gay mc & side characters)
All Tomorrow’s Photos by S. S. Genesee (m/m relationship)

MARCH

To Meet Again by Kadyan (f/f relationship)
In Memoriam by Alice Winn (Jewish gay mc, gay mc, m/m relationship)
Marlo by Jay Carmichael (gay mc; US/UK publication)
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K. J. Charles (gay mcs, m/m relationship)
Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary (gay mc)
Solomon’s Crown by Natasha Siegel (bi mc, achillean mc, m/m relationship)
Daughters of Nantucket by Julie Gerstenblatt (sapphic mc)
The Daughters of Madurai by Rajasree Variyar (Indian sapphic mc)
Now the Wind Scatters by J. Donai (f/f relationship)
Their Countess by Jess Michaels (bi mcs, m/m/f relationship)
Boy Like Me by Simon James Green (m/m relationship)
Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood (bi mc, f/m & f/f relationships)
My Dear Henry by Kalynn Bayron (Black achillean mc, achillean li, m/m relationship)

APRIL

Harvest Dreams by Jacqueline Fein-Zachary (f/f relationship)
Spring in Siberia by Artem Mozgovoy (gay mc)
The Red Book of Farewells by Pirkko Saisio, trans. Mia Spangenberg (lesbian mc & characters)
The Prize by Kim E. Anderson (m/m relationship)
Something Spectacular by Alexis Hall (genderfluid mc, agender mc)
The Weeds by Katy Simpson Smith (sapphic mc)
Twelve Nights with Viola & Olivia by Lady Vanessa S.-G., ed. by Hannah Miyamoto (f/f relationship)

MAY

The Accidental Bride by Jane Walsh (f/f relationship)
Orphia and Eurydicius by Elyse John (bi mcs, m/f relationship)
Leeward by Katie Daysh (m/m relationship)
House of Longing by Tara Calaby (f/f relationship)
Glassworks by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith (genderfluid character)
Fiddle & Fire by Ariella Talix (bi mcs, m/m/f relationship)
The Man with Sapphire Eyes by Larry Mellman (gay mc)
A History of Burning by Janika Oza (Indo-Ugandan cast, lesbian mc)
Neon Roses by Rachel Dawson (f/f relationship)
American Arcadia by Laura Scalzo (gay characters)
An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera (f/f relationship)
They Ain’t Proper by M.B. Guel (Latine genderqueer mc, bi mc, gq/f relationship)
Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher (sapphic mc, Thai sapphic li, f/f relationship, British Iranian gay mc with depression, gay li, m/m relationship)
If I Should Tell My History by Lady Vanessa S.-G. (f/f relationship)
Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig (queer mcs)
Tales of the Suburbs by Justin David (gay mc)
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (m/m relationship)

JUNE

Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens (sapphic mc)
Killingly by Katharine Beutner (f/f relationship)
The Boy in the Rain by Stephanie Cowell (gay mc, m/m relationship)
Wild With All Regrets by E.L. Deards (gay mc with PTSD, gay side character) tw child abuse, domestic abuse, sexual abuse, prostitution, homophobic language & violence
We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian (bi mc with ADHD(?), gay mc, m/m relationship, lesbian & gay side characters)
Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth (lesbian mc)
Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine (f/f relationship)
Radical Love by Neil Blackmore (gay mc, Black gay mc, m/m relationship)
Parallel by Matthias Lehmann, trans. Ivanka Hahnenberger (gay mc)
The Road to Dalton by Shannon Bowring (sapphic characters)
Pedro & Daniel by Federico Erebia & Julie Kwon (Mexican American gay mcs)
Undressing the Duke by Erica Ridley (m/m relationship)
Glass Castles by K. York (m/m relationship)
His Lordship’s Blood by Samantha SoRelle (m/m relationship)
Emma: The Nature of a Lady by Kate Christie (f/f relationship)
Backmask by O. F. Cieri (lesbian mc)

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